My Books. A selection of books from my personal bookshelf!

Good books, bad books and the simply average!


A disorganized cataloguing of my personal book collection, and a work in progress...

Honey A Taste of Honey

...pleasures from the hive

Honey A Taste of Honey. Anecdotes, quotations and curious facts, interspersed in a fascinating honey survey. Charmingly illustrated with nostalgic pictures, memorabilia and sumptuous colour photographs. Mouth-watering array of over 50 recipes, as well as natural remedies and beauty lotions, demonstrate the incredible versitility of one of natures's best-loved ingredients. Features a tasting guide to the world's treasure trove of honeys.

Herbs Cultivation and Use

...from the garden to the kitchen

Herbs Cultivation and Use. 59 herbs described and illustrated with details of history, cultivation and application in cooking, gardening, medicine, cosmetics. All the herbs are identified in a colour section arranged alphabetically by botanical names. A book for the cook as well as the gardener and the naturalist.

30 minute quick meals

...comprehensive and quick

Cookbook Readers Digest Quick Meals. 30 minute hardcover cookbook. 300 quick delicious recipes for family meals. Great food in minutes, fast techniques, time-saving equipment, the clever shopper, ingredients from around the world, fast finishing touches, making use of left overs. Fruity starters, sandwich fillings, fresh from the can, stylish sauces from the frying pan, original omelettes, ice cream with a twist. Recipes... soups, starters and snacks, salads, fish and shellfish, beef lamb and pork, poultry and game, pasta and grains, vegetable main dishes, side dishes, desserts cakes and biscuits. Menu planning.

Cooking Encyclopedia a practical guide

...480 pages of recipes and more

Cooking Encyclopedia Recipes practical guide. Hardcover cooking book 488 pages. Choosing, preparing, carving, cooking, slow-cooking, decorating. From hors-d'oeuvres to desserts, this book provides a range of recipes for amateur chefs cooking for their famililies.

Entertaining with Style

... from two to two hundred or more... from casual to formal... with Prue Leith and Polly Tyrer.

Entertaining with Style from Prue Leith and Polly Tyrer. Hardcover book. Catering in quantity. Bistro night for twenty. Chinese pancake dinner for six. St. Valentine's Day dinner for eight...

Desserts with Canderel

...lower sugar sweets to tempt the weak

Desserts Canderel. Sweet Thoughts. A Fresh Approach to the Dessert Course with Canderel. Hardcover recipe book. Shows how to make a variety of delectable desserts the Canderel way. This collection of light, fruity, sweets is ideal for those who cannot resist a sweet dessert to end a perfect meal. Indulge yourself with mousses, ice creams, pancakes, fruit compotes and more.

Delia Smith Winter Recipes

...a seasonal take on cooking

Cookbook Delia Smith Winter Recipes. Never-fail recipes and brilliant flavour combinations Delia Smith's Winter Collection may well become your well-thumbed kitchen companion in the cold winter months. Whether you're cooking for yourself, your family or entertaining friends, Delia is unlikely to let you down...

Low Fat Cooking ... Recipes with 5g or less fat

...healthy eating

Low Fat Cooking. Recipes with 5g or less fat. Hardcover cookbook. Over 120 recipes for those who would like to enjoy a healthy, low-fat diet. Each recipe has been nutritionally analysed, with the information displayed for easy reference. Colour photos illustrate many of the recipes. The tips that accompany each of the recipes provide hints on preparation, and give variations and helpful advice on low fat cooking.

Wine course with Jancis Robinson and the BBC

...for budding wine aficionados

Wine Course Jancis Robinson BBC. Accompanied BBC TV series. Hardcover book. Book is divided into four sections: winemaking and handling wine; how wine is made; the major grape varieties; and the world of wine. Covers topics such as tasting, choosing wine to suit specific occasions, buying, vintage wines, grape varieties and their growing regions, the vineyard calendar, fermenting and transporting wine, and how wines are made from a range of individual grape varieties. Also discusses the specific flavours, characteristics and ethos of the wine-growing regions of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and other countries.

Oriental Cooking

...quick and easy stir fries and other dishes from the Far East

Oriental Cooking.Oriental Express: Quick and Easy Stir Fries and Other Dishes from the Far East. Hardcover cookbook. Stir-fries and other dishes using ingredients and flavours from the Far East. Over 100 recipes with clear, easy to follow methods, which can also be adapted to suit different tastes. Includes glossary of terms, dual measurements, helpful hints and colour photographs.

Recipes Keith Floyd A Feast of Floyd

...we will miss him! One of a kind... uniquely Floyd...

Recipes Keith Floyd Feast. A Feast of Floyd with Keith Floyd. Hardcover cookbook. 'To hell with fashion, trends and gastronomic one-upmanship! Cooking as well as eating should be fun.' Around 400 recipes with annotations.

Hot Wok Cookery with Ken Hom

...one pan wonders

Wok Cookery Ken Hom. Ken Hom's Hot Wok. Hardcover book from the BBC. Collection of 150 wok recipes, with explanation of simple techniques for stir-frying, deep-frying, boiling and steaming. Recipes encompass starters and appetizers, fish, seafood, poultry, meat, vegetables, rice and noodles, and even desserts.

Salvador Dali

...the Essential Dali

Dali Essential Artist Hardcover Book with Pictures. Salvador Dali had an enormous impact on twentieth-century painting and was revered as a great artist for most of his long and prolific career. Although he embraced Surrealism briefly, he never stopped experimenting with new painting techniques, theories, media and images. looks in detail at all aspects of the art of Salvador Dali, with detailed commentary on 120 examples of his work.

Picasso

...the Essential Picasso

Picasso Essential Artist Hardcover Book with Pictures. Covers all aspects of Picasso's art, with detailed commentary on 120 of his works.

 

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Blaze Mills and Boon... books on my bookshelf. (UK)

Mills and Boon Books... books on my bookshelf.

A collection of older romance books including those by popular romantic fiction authors such as Emma Darcy, Anne Mather, Diana Hamilton and Charlotte Lamb. (UK)

Gardening Books... books on my bookshelf.

A small collection of gardening books including RHS books and organic gardening. (UK)

A disorganized cataloguing of my personal book collection, and a work in progress...

Good books, bad books and the simply average!


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