If it’s truly reliable essential recipes you’re looking for, then July is definitely your month in the Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club.
So, June is a wrap in the Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club. Shockingly, it’s the end of the financial year already, but we will be in safe hands for July’s cookbook selection with some essential recipes from Belinda Jeffrey from In Belinda’s Kitchen.
June was a learning curve for many of us (me especially) as we got to grips with our pressure cookers using Modern Pressure Cooking by Catherine Phipps, and learned the true meaning of fast food. I’ve been astonished at the quality and variety of dishes that this hitherto ignored appliance of mine can produce.
We couldn’t have done this without the very active and hugely generous participation of Catherine. She was with us every step of the way, answering our questions and warmly encouraging the members to give pressure cooking a try. As a result, our clever members shared a diverse range of pressure cooked dishes. Here’s just a few of them –
Pasta with feta and cherry tomatoes from Carolyn Miles
Roast beef in 6 minutes, from Shirley Harring
West Indian chicken curry, from Sabine Drilling
In Belinda’s Kitchen is our July cookbook and is a compilation of the essential recipes that she makes time and again herself. Belinda is noted for testing her recipes exhaustively, so I just know that you will be happily and successfully turning out some cracker dishes from this book.
And speaking of recipe reliability, that’s what I’ve opted for in August. We will be cooking from South Australian journalist and author Liz Harfull’s Tried, Tested and True – a collection of updated essential recipes, and the stories behind them, from the wealth of Australian community cookbooks.
Before cookbooks as we know and love them today became a thing, most Australian home cooks relied on the experience and wisdom of the everyday cooks who contributed to inexpensively produced community cookbooks. These books were often put together by hand, by volunteers, and were sold to help raise funds for community organisations.
The recipes in them were the food that was enjoyed by Australian families, and many of them became familiar standbys. In this book, Liz has collated and updated everyday essential recipes, and she serves them up with a good dose of Australian food history. First published in 2018, this one has obviously been around for a bit, so will be easily available through libraries. It is also available as an Ebook, and on Kindle.
So, recapping 2023 so far –
Our whole year “cookbook” for 2023 will be delicious. – either the magazines or anything from their website.
July – In Belinda’s Kitchen by Belinda Jeffery
June – Modern Pressure Cooking by Catherine Phipps
May – The Italian Home Cook, by Silvia Colloca
April – Strong, Sweet and Bitter by Cara Devine, or First, Cream the Butter and Sugar by Emelia Jackson
March – Maggie’s Harvest by Maggie Beer
February – Salamati by Hamed Allahyari
January – More Fish, More Veg by Tom Walton
YOU CAN BUY ANY OF THESE COOKBOOKS AT ALL GOOD BOOKSHOPS, OR ONLINE AT BOOKTOPIA USING THE LINKS IN THIS POST. (IF PURCHASED VIA THESE LINKS, YOU WILL GET A GREAT PRICE AND I WILL RECEIVE A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF THE COST.)
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