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I am well excited for my mole chicken and I've made LOADS of my favourite avocado and sweetcorn salsa which I could just eat by the bowlful by itself tbh.

I poached the chicken thighs so threw some carrots and leaks in there too, so I've got some such for tomorrow too. Thighs now shredded and awaiting lovely sauce, then will heat the tortillas quickly in the pan. I love this meal!
 
The Good Housekeeping Cookery Book is brilliant for learning to cook and also as a general reference book too. I started out cooking with an ancient copy that my mum got from her mum and I still use it all the time. It has actual recipes but also loads of other information about ingredients, cooking methods, how to work out stuff like cooking times for joints of meat or adjust ingredients for different sized cake tins, troubleshooting e.g. common baking problems... All really clear and easy to follow. Think they're still bringing out new editions every so often although I've not seen one so couldn't say how it completely to mine.
 
Well shit, I went to have a nap at 6pm intending to get up at 7pm, go shopping for spuds and broc to have with my beef, have a swift pint in the pub opposite (which is as close as I get to a night out these days), then home and cook dinner - woke up at nearly 11pm, too late for shopping or pub, thought fuckit and went back to bed. So that is an evening wasted and I didn't have any dinner and I'm now hungry and wide awake at 4am.

iona said:
The Good Housekeeping Cookery Book is brilliant for learning to cook and also as a general reference book too. I started out cooking with an ancient copy that my mum got from her mum and I still use it all the time. It has actual recipes but also loads of other information about ingredients, cooking methods, how to work out stuff like cooking times for joints of meat or adjust ingredients for different sized cake tins, troubleshooting e.g. common baking problems... All really clear and easy to follow. Think they're still bringing out new editions every so often although I've not seen one so couldn't say how it completely to mine.
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Ah yes I was thinking of that last night too in relation to the convo here, because my mum had one, very tatty and well used! I couldn't remember exactly what it was called though but yeah that's the one. Excellent for baking techniques iirc.
 
Epona said:
Ah yes I was thinking of that last night too in relation to the convo here, because my mum had one, very tatty and well used! I couldn't remember exactly what it was called though but yeah that's the one. Excellent for baking techniques iirc.
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Mine looks like this :D It's known as The Bible. I have a spare copy now that's in much better nick despite being found in a bin, but it doesn't fall open to the right pages or surprise me with my granny's handwritten recipes. Great for baking, yeah.

Old book with no cover and falling out pages with food stains
 
iona said:
Mine looks like this :D It's known as The Bible. I have a spare copy now that's in much better nick despite being found in a bin, but it doesn't fall open to the right pages or surprise me with my granny's handwritten recipes. Great for baking, yeah.

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That's the one, in a similar state with stains and splotches of stuff and pages falling out and written on. That's how you know a cookery book is useful, when it ends up like that and is still cherished :)

(It's also the reason why I still for some baking recipes think automatically in lbs and oz and fl oz - because I learned them from that book).
 
Also the case that although I use Copy Me That (browser tab on PC synced with the app on my phone) for compiling my own electronic library of recipes, I still prefer physical cookbooks, and the multiple notebooks where I have jotted down my own recipes over the years.

The upset when I misplaced one of my older recipe notebooks a few years ago was very real, it also had odd stuff that wasn't to do with cooking - pencil sketches of my cats, notes about other things in it too - I was really quite devastated when it wasn't where it usually lives. I thought it might have fallen into our recycling bin and got taken out with the cardboard/paper recycling, I dragged OH down to the communal recycling bin and had him help me get into it so I could search through all the cardboard but to no avail.

I found it several months later, it had fallen down the back of the freezer, was so relieved and happy to see it!
 
Speaking of mexican food, am I likely to be able to find tomatillos outside of specialist grocers in large cities? I've a recipe which calls for some but I've drawn a blank in sourcing them (fresh at least) so far...
 
We're having open cheese and tomato sandwiches, with basil and oregano. Might have some anchovies and olives on them.

We thought we'd have pizza, but that's for Friday nights, and you don't want it two nights, do you?
 
killer b said:
Speaking of mexican food, am I likely to be able to find tomatillos outside of specialist grocers in large cities? I've a recipe which calls for some but I've drawn a blank in sourcing them (fresh at least) so far...
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No, they're quite hard to find. I get mine tinned from mexgrocer.com. Tinned is fine.
 
iona said:
The Good Housekeeping Cookery Book is brilliant for learning to cook and also as a general reference book too. I started out cooking with an ancient copy that my mum got from her mum and I still use it all the time. It has actual recipes but also loads of other information about ingredients, cooking methods, how to work out stuff like cooking times for joints of meat or adjust ingredients for different sized cake tins, troubleshooting e.g. common baking problems... All really clear and easy to follow. Think they're still bringing out new editions every so often although I've not seen one so couldn't say how it completely to mine.
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I have an early 80s edition with fancy illustrations. Got given it when I left home, still refer to it.
 
I was going to do my joint of beef tonight (the one I didn't get around to cooking yesterday) but I'm feeling really fucked off and grumpy and tired and I also have to make myself a packed lunch for tomorrow and get an early night (volunteering, but not enough hours to get free food unfortunately!) the beef will be fine tomorrow night and I won't feel rushed to cook and eat.

So I think tonight I am going to do myself some gigli pasta with courgettes, peas, lemon and feta and a salad on the side, I can make enough of that to have leftovers cold for lunch tomorrow so that sorts out both meals in one go.
 
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