Cooking programmes and cookery books - Please stop

[DJKillaQueen]

Oooh I happily spend time with her ;-)

[katie1997]

I love cooking, I love reading cookery books and I collect them wherever I go. Haven't counted them, they are all like old familiar friends in some way. Although I don't strictly follow recipes and make up my own.

Elizabeth David is a lovely food writer esp on Meditteranean and French food. Weirdly, I hated that Simon Hopkinson book that came out a few years ago that 'everyone' was raving about (Roast chicken and other stories. Loada pants.)

I agree that there's a load of cr@p cookery programmes too but you cannot diss the wonderful Michel Roux jnr, oh no.

PS Mick Mac - this is your best thread yet, thanks ever so much.

[katie1997]

hibbs Wrote:

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> Yay Quids is back!

> x

B)

[citizenED]

I like cookery books with pretty pictures in them. Nice to browse through when you are sitting on the sofa with a pre-dinner beer, contemplating what to make. Reading books in the kitchen though just doesn't equate so it looks like beans on toast again!

[Mick Mac]

Best thread yet katie ?

You are joking aren't you....

[Narnia]

What's up next Mick? Flower arranging?

[Annette Curtain]

katie1997 Wrote:

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Weirdly, I hated

> that Simon Hopkinson book that came out a few

> years ago that 'everyone' was raving about (Roast

> chicken and other stories. Loada pants.)

>

> I agree that there's a load of cr@p cookery

> programmes too but you cannot diss the wonderful

> Michel Roux jnr, oh no.

>

> PS Mick Mac - this is your best thread yet, thanks

> ever so much.

Oh, so bl**dy true...

I hated that book, in fact i'm wearing it right now as a thong.

*turns page*

"OWCH"

Nette::o

[hibbs]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Best thread yet katie ?

>

> You are joking aren't you....

Honestly Mick Moc, the girl pays you a compliment and you just throw it back in her face, shame on you,

[RosieH]

Are you two kidding me? A great book, and a nicer man you'll not meet. Pah.

Narnia, I'm quite envious of your recipe book: my mum used to have an excellent collection of 1970s Good Housekeeping recipe magazines and Robert Carriers, whence came the inspiration for many a black forest coupe, coronation chicken or tournedo rossini. But alas they are no more.

And Quids, the Nigella thing is simple, surely - she looks filthy.

[Narnia]

Narnia Wrote:

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> What's up next Mick? Flower arranging?

or maybe this.........a great night out!

[KalamityKel]

citizenED Wrote:

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> I like cookery books with pretty pictures in them.

> Nice to browse through when you are sitting on the

> sofa with a pre-dinner beer, contemplating what to

> make. Reading books in the kitchen though just

> doesn't equate so it looks like beans on toast

> again!

Oooo pictures!

I'm soooo wiv ya CitzED.

[karter]

A recommendation of mine is Practical Cookery by Ceserani and Kinton. It's used by trainee chefs and dished out by the head chefs (get it?).

[katie1997]

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> Oh, so bl**dy true...

>

> I hated that book, in fact i'm wearing it right

> now as a thong.

>

> *turns page*

>

> "OWCH"

>

> Nette::o

Don't tell me - you're on the Beef chapter?

anyway, I said pants, not thongs :))

[Narnia]

I think that was a slip of the thong by Annette, who I have to say I suspect is not all (s)he seems!

[DJKillaQueen]

Really!? She seems like a lovely laddy to me...

[Annette Curtain]

I'm VERY offended.

( cheeky buggers )

* swishes off *

:-SA.

[bookhopper]

RosieH Wrote:

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> And Quids, the Nigella thing is simple, surely -

> she looks filthy.

Couldnt have described her better!