Breaking the book buying rules - again!!

I have a new addition to my cookbook stash – so much for all those lectures I have delivered to myself about not buying any more books!!.

Nordliving, a local shop full of wonderful Scandinavian goods, has changed hands and at the weekend, the previous owner had a ‘garage sale’ in the shop. There were many boxes of books and there was one that took my fancy; a recipe book.

An Australian recipe book, written by an Australian for Australians and therefore eminently suited to Ausfood blog purposes. It is Stephanie’s Menus for Food Lover’s, written by none other than the redoubtable Stephanie Alexander. A birthday gift, it is a copy of the 1986 edition, in pristine condition and with the birthday card still affixed to the inside cover. Sofia didn’t want to remove the card as it might have damaged the book, so now I share, by default, a micro-moment in the lives of two other people. I like this idea; it adds another dimension to the book.

You might be thinking a cookery book, with recipes for dinner menus for six, is a little ambitious for a food blog in the hands of a basic cook using basic ingredients. You might be right in your thinking. It’s fanciful on my part to think I would ever turn out any of the menus that appear in this book.

However it is not just about fine food; it is also about organisation in your kitchen– a page that seems to fall open every time I open the book – plus lots of good advice about making use of every part every single ingredient that might come through the kitchen door.

And then I read the very first menu; it fired up and fed my imagination, setting up a train of thought for another post.