"How to be the Perfect Housewife": Entertain in Style (Perfect Housewife) is the new book by Anthea Turner and it's available from Amazon at half price.
Obviously Mrs Turner can hardly be described as a telly chef - but this book does have some useful advice on taking the stress out of organising a dinner party and the like.
The new book is a follow up to this one which proved popular and has had good reviews:
Tuesday 29 April 2008
Monday 28 April 2008
Tefal ActiFry
Channel 5's Gadget Show tested the Tefal ActiFry on their show and I think they quite liked it. It is currently on offer at at Amazon with a £28 reduction.
Most of the reviews at Amazon aren't too bad either which is not surprising because it's healthier and safer than the traditional way of frying chips.
Most of the reviews at Amazon aren't too bad either which is not surprising because it's healthier and safer than the traditional way of frying chips.
Friday 25 April 2008
Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite
Gordon Ramsay's new book Healthy Appetite is available from Amazon for £9.99 which is a 50% discount. Click on the link below to read more and buy it if that's what you want to do.
Saturday 19 April 2008
The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi
The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolengnhi and Sami Tamimi is released next month (On the 1st May according to Amazon.)
You can pre-order the book from Amazon for the price of £16.50 which is cheaper than anywhere else I've seen.
Ottolenghi's culinary mini empire is based in the posher parts of London. There are three delis in Belgravia, Kensington and Notting Hill (two of which offer a limited service as a cafe) and there is a restaurant in Islington which the Observer rated as being one of the best places in London to get breakfast. The food seems to be mostly drawn from east Mediterranean cuisine (both authors are from Jerusalem) but is also open to drawing on other region's cuisines. Finally, and I'm never really sure how important this is in cookbooks, the design looks really lovely. (You can see some of the page layouts at Amazon)
You can pre-order the book from Amazon for the price of £16.50 which is cheaper than anywhere else I've seen.
Ottolenghi's culinary mini empire is based in the posher parts of London. There are three delis in Belgravia, Kensington and Notting Hill (two of which offer a limited service as a cafe) and there is a restaurant in Islington which the Observer rated as being one of the best places in London to get breakfast. The food seems to be mostly drawn from east Mediterranean cuisine (both authors are from Jerusalem) but is also open to drawing on other region's cuisines. Finally, and I'm never really sure how important this is in cookbooks, the design looks really lovely. (You can see some of the page layouts at Amazon)
Monday 14 April 2008
Delia Smith's How To Cheat At Cooking. A Review.
Something I want to do with this blog is to try and review some of the telly chef's cookbooks and the best way to do that is by trying the recipes. So I'll start with "Delia's How To Cheat At Cooking," which you can get from Amazon with a 55% reduction.
This review will be an on-going process as I try different recipes but the first thing to say about the book is how well it is designed. The copy I have has a plastic cover which is brilliant idea - as most of my cookery book's covers are creased and stained and ripped.
As for the recipes - well, for a book that is about cheating at cooking I did not find the ones I have tried that straight forward. For example the recipe for Greek lamb baked with garlic and lemon is described as simple, which it is, but there was garlic to sliver and fat to remove and parsley and lemon to grate and blend and chop. It was lovely to eat - and enjoyable to cook - but at no point did I feel like I was cheating.
The book does have a lot of cheats - jarred sauces and the like and a lot of these do seem to be good idea. However I don't think that the cheats take anything away from any enjoyment you might get from cooking a meal. So tomorrow I'm going to try the sizzling scallops with garlic butter crumbs. The scallops are frozen and the breadcrumbs are prepared - but the recipe is not super straightforward and I'm looking forward to trying not to cock it up almost as much as I am to eating the end result.
This review will be an on-going process as I try different recipes but the first thing to say about the book is how well it is designed. The copy I have has a plastic cover which is brilliant idea - as most of my cookery book's covers are creased and stained and ripped.
As for the recipes - well, for a book that is about cheating at cooking I did not find the ones I have tried that straight forward. For example the recipe for Greek lamb baked with garlic and lemon is described as simple, which it is, but there was garlic to sliver and fat to remove and parsley and lemon to grate and blend and chop. It was lovely to eat - and enjoyable to cook - but at no point did I feel like I was cheating.
The book does have a lot of cheats - jarred sauces and the like and a lot of these do seem to be good idea. However I don't think that the cheats take anything away from any enjoyment you might get from cooking a meal. So tomorrow I'm going to try the sizzling scallops with garlic butter crumbs. The scallops are frozen and the breadcrumbs are prepared - but the recipe is not super straightforward and I'm looking forward to trying not to cock it up almost as much as I am to eating the end result.
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