I have – in the last year or so -acquired several bread recipe books and from them, on Wednesday, I decided to try a recipe for German Salzbrezen. These remind me of my youth, when I lived in Germany, and had access to fairly decent bakeries. We do not do bakeries well in this country. [...]
In 1995, when I was living in Brittany, someone introduced me to a French Christmas tradition. It was the serving of a cake on 6 January, the feast of the Epiphany, and the cake was called Galette des Rois. Mostly it comes with a little bean or figure in it called the feve, and a [...]
Shortbread made from butter, some sugar and a lot of flour, and because I felt evil, quite a lot of ground ginger. Then I used a heartshaped cookie cutter to make them. If you use the smaller heartshaped cutter, you wind up with far more cookies than the recipe says you will.
Think they look quite [...]
Donal Skehan’s television series is about 4 deep at this stage. I have the book for a while and have done a couple of things out of it. It’s coming to be a very, very useful cookbook. I think I’ve done two things out of it at this stage.
I bought it and Jamie Oliver’s 30 [...]
Last week, in Easons, probably on a premenstrual shopping spree, I bought a book called Gifts from the Kitchen. There are nice things in it and for starters, one of my friends had a go at the home made hazelnut chocolate spread. It turned out really nice.
So I decided to have a go. You need [...]
So I don’t buy cookbooks any more because I own 35 of them at least. This means if I want any new ones, we’re talking presents of the birthday and Christmas variety and this is how I come to own Sunday lunch by Gordon Ramsay. It is my first Gordon Ramsay book although to be [...]
Normally this should have been done over the weekend but I was too busy getting to know the staff in the cardiac care unit in Cork University Hospital, or the Regional Hospital in Cork as it will forever be known to my childhood memory. So this got delayed.
On Friday, I decided not to drive to [...]
Way back in the earlier windsandbreezes.org days, I used occasionally open a cookbook and try something new. It’s how I learned to eat new stuff that was easy to prepare and additionally, easy to prepare for one.
Anyway, I started down the road of bringing lunch to work and having decided that girl cannot live on [...]