Welcome to October Cooking in the Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club

Our Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club selection this month is guaranteed to jazz up your October cooking – join us as we bring dinner to life!

Welcome to October cooking – and the increasing sunshine and hay fever that comes along with it.

This month the Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club will be cooking and sharing from Rosheen Kaul’s Secret Sauce, the very clever collection of a bunch of vibrant, deeply flavourful condiments that will add life to all of your dishes. We all loved Rosheen’s Chinese-ish, and I’ve no doubt you’ll be excited by her new work. The novel creations she’s come up with are going to help you get past the tiresome decisions of what to do for dinner. With these tools in your kitchen kit you can take whatever you might have to hand, add a clever sauce or condiment and utterly transform it.

And with this cookbook your October cooking won’t be short on inspiration either. In the front of Secret Sauce she includes sections on the best condiments to accompany meat, poultry, fish, salads and vegetables, pasta or noodles, grilled foods and fried foods. Then she offers suggestions for which sauces to make for gatherings, weeknight meals, solo meals, veggie-centric dishes – and this is all before you even get to the actual recipes!

The more than 50 delicious recipes are divided into colours (I know, quirky, right!), and include 50 ways to make the most of them. The flavour profiles cover and combine a huge range of cuisines – a recipe for make-your-own Kewpie mayo, a tahini sauce that has Chinkian (black) vinegar, a richly flavoured Kalamata and Chinese olive vegetable butter, a Chinese-ish version of the Middle Eastern favourite, tarartor. Your October cooking is truly going to knock your socks off – you’ll never look at grilled chops the same way again.

But what did we cook in September?

Our cookbook club members embraced the advent of spring and Boustany, Sammy Tamimi’s beautiful tribute to Palestinian food, and specifically vegetable dishes. Here’s a few pictures. Head to the Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club Facebook page for many more.

 

So – what’s happening in November?

Last year we had a month dedicated to one cookbook author (the late Bill Granger) and that’s something I’d like to explore at least once a year. Selecting just one author is no easy task, and I’ve probably taken the easy way out with my selection – I’ve gone for everyone’s favourite, Ottolenghi. The Ottolenghi effect is quite a phenomenon, but it’s not hard to understand why his food is so very popular. His bold, fresh herb-driven flavours and casual free-form approach make his food incredibly accessible, and his collaborations with people like Helen Goh and Sammy Tamimi means that it’s also delightfully varied. November should be a distinctly delicious month.

But first, lets all get excited about our October cooking, and the many, many ways we are going to jazz it up with Rosheen Kaul’s Secret Sauce.

IF YOU HAVEN’T JOINED THE LAMBS EARS COOKBOOK CLUB YET, YOU WILL FIND ALL THE DETAILS HERE.

SO, 2025 IS LOOKING LIKE THIS SO FAR

Your whole-year cookbook will be any ONE cookbook from your own collection

October – Secret Sauce by Rosheen Kaul
September – Boustany by Sami Tamimi
August – Slow Cooking by Olivia Andrews
July – citrus recipes from ANY of your own cookbooks
June – Some of My Best Friends are Cookies by Emelia Jackson AND The Bakers Book by Ruby Goss
May – Everything Is Indian by Justin Narayan
April – Too Easy by Donna Hay
March – What’s for Dessert by Claire Saffitz
February – RecipeTin Eats Tonight by Nagi Maehashi
January – Salad for Days by Alice Zaslavsky

 

PLEASE NOTE, AUSTRALIAN ONLINE BOOKSELLER BOOKTOPIA IS BACK IN BUSINESS. IF YOU PURCHASE ANY OF THESE COOKBOOKS FROM MY LINKS, YOU WILL GET A GREAT PRICE, AND I WILL GET A VERY SMALL COMMISSION.

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