Posted on Dec 21, 2007 in Read | 5 comments

Christmas Cookbooks – Part 2

Super Natural Cooking: Five Ways To Incorporate Whole and Natural Ingredients into Your Cooking by Heidi Swanson (Ten Speed Press) Blogger, photographer, graphic designer and passionate cook Heidi Swanson demystifies unfamiliar health shop ingredients in Super Natural Cooking, a cookbook that drags the world...
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Posted on Dec 19, 2007 in Cookery Books, Read | 0 comments

Cookbooks for Christmas – Part 1

Although I’ve been immersed in study, there is (somehow!) always time for reading cookbooks. Here are a few recommendations for Christmas. Cook Simple by Diana Henry (Mitchell Beazley) I’m a fan of Diana’s Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons and last year’s Roast Figs, Sugar Snow so I was...
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Posted on Dec 17, 2007 in Do | 4 comments

Christmas Pressies for Foodie Friends

Christmas is coming/The goose is getting fat… and it’s more than time to have your Christmas lists made and almost completed. This year, between living out of the city and being completely immersed in the Ballymaloe Cookery Course, it’s almost crept up on me – and I know that...
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Posted on Dec 7, 2007 in Ballymaloe Cookery School | 5 comments

Ballymaloe Cookery Course: Week 12: Friday – Final Day

Practical exam over since Wednesday – not very happy with it but delighted that it is over – and two of our three final papers also done. It’s the final countdown to 3.30pm, the end of exams and the end of cooking school. Tonight there’s a class dinner at Ballymaloe House then...
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Posted on Dec 4, 2007 in Ballymaloe Cookery School | 8 comments

Ballymaloe Cookery Course: Week 12: Tuesday

Yesterday we had our last day of cooking in Kitchen Three. It’s hard to believe that we’re into the final few days of the course already. At least I got to murder my first lobster before we finished up, for yesterday’s Lobster with Cream and Fresh Herb lunch. The other dish I made was a...
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