August guarantees Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club members even more trusted recipes in Liz Harfull’s Tried, Tested and True, and I announce the new selection.
Our June Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club exploration of Belinda Jeffery’s In Belinda’s Kitchen is at an end, but never fear – there’s even more trusted recipes in our future.
Our August selection, Tried Tested and True by Liz Harfull is full of them! In this book Liz explores the world of Australian community cookbooks – the modest, often hand-printed and hand-stapled little books that were put together by volunteers to raise money for their communities. You won’t have heard of these cooks, but these are their own recipes that they shared and, in the process, raised millions of dollars for causes ranging from small local churches to international movements like the Red Cross.
This is home-cooking, often country cooking, at its best and most reliable. It’s not fancy food, just the kind of tried and true dishes that appear on tables around this country every day. If it’s trusted recipes you are looking for, then August is definitely your month in the cookbook club.
But first – let’s take a quick look at what our members cooked up from Belinda’s latest publication.
Roasted Chicken Thighs with Lemon, Smoked Paprika & Green Olives from Carolyn Miles
Quick chicken, tomato and spinach curry rom Karyn Hearn
Potato salad with bacon and egg from Gerry Tudorovic
Flourless Torta Caprese from Robyn Tamke
Burmese chicken curry was a particular favourite – this one is from Sherry Mackay
Our September cookbook club selection is quite special. Pomegranates and Artichokes by Saghar Setareh is the story of her own culinary journey from Iran, where she was born, to Italy, where she lives now, and the places in between.It’s a very personal cookbook – Saghar took all the photos herself, and shares her own insights and memories generously.
In this cookbook Saghar describes the many parallels that link Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food cultures. As a result of centuries-old world trade, these cuisines share ingredients in many cases – becoming transformed along way, but often with a shared culinary heritage.
I know this cookbook will have broad appeal as it offers a kind of two-for-one culinary opportunity. I know many of you love and enjoy cooking both of these cuisines and, given that Saghar runs cooking classes across Italy, I think we can be assured that these are trusted recipes too.
So, recapping 2023 so far –
Our whole year “cookbook” for 2023 will be delicious. – either the magazines or anything from their website.
August – Tried, Tested and True by Liz Harfull
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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