Food

Cuzza looks fantastic. #rep

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Curry-Fragrant-Thailand-Malaysia-Indonesia/dp/1405315725/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

This is an awesome curry recipe book.

bah! using recipes is like asking someone for directions. downright un-manly.

For veggie stuff 'Plenty' and 'Plenty More' by Ottolenghi are excellent. I picked up the Honey & Co book last year and I cook out of that all the time. Online the Thomasina Miers series on the Guardian is superb.

I used to like Nigel Slaters stuff but I find it a bit dull these days.

I'm more of a triple d guy..

aww yiss

guilty/not-so-guilty pleasure in our house

+1 for Jerusalem

I've never sampled your Caribbean repertoire, do u even?

Spanish food is IN MY BL00D!!!

I'm with @greenhell on this one, recipe books are generally rubbish... Apart from Antonio Carluccio's classics, obvs...

The Nigel Slater ones are good as they don't have massive ingredients lists. Nothing ground-breaking but nice to flick through and pick something out. Real Fast Food and The 30 Minute Cook.

In Nottingham for a work trip so off to Sat Bains tonight. Somehow think I won't be able to swing it on expenses.

I defer to my mother on the caribbean cooking front, though I can just about muddle through fish cakes, but I'm not one to use a 5 litre pot of oil to deep fry them in though...

Thing is though if I hadn't read Slater's 30min Cook and Real Fast Food, I wouldn't have had the foundation to mix and match stuff like I do now.

@greenhell may think they're rubbish, but why doesn't he go out and write a good one to put the rest of them to shame?

Most of the cook books I've got sit in the kitchen unused, and its a real effort not to buy more (I'm making notes of the ones mentioned above and adding them to my ever expanding amazon wishlist), but there are times when I want to try something different and I'm unsure about the hows and why's of cooking something or what to have with it, and then the cookbooks come into their own..

@mashton I have the veggie Fearnley Whittingstall book, but haven't made anything from it yet, will be doing so over the coming weeks, trying to cut down on me meat intake..

on a cookbook related note, I've got the wagamama cookbook this one
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wagamama-Cookbook-Hugo-Arnold/dp/1856269647/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432115487&sr=1-3&keywords=wagamama+cookbook

are there any other japanese cookbooks with an emphasis on ramen/noodle dishes out there, that I should look to add to my cookbook collection.?

i got yr cookbook. i got yr cookbook RIGHT HERE!

etc.

anyway. i'm fucking off to portugual in a week. where should i go?

speak to your iberian bandmate, he knows all the portuguese...

that's true. tho he'll just tell me to eat a fucking octopus. A FUCKING OCTOPUS.

/shudders

#porthulugual

Don't eat the snails... #snotinashell

And when the waiter tantalisingly slips a plate of something delicious you didn't order onto your table , D0N'T EAT IT! It isn't a gift, they'll charge you... Unless you want it, obvs...

They also make you pay for each individual miniature butter, pate, whatevz you consume... Bit weird... Everything I ate there was delicious, even the first half of that plate of snails...

These two are excellent:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008566.Fresh_Flavors_of_India

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9382846-the-new-tastes-of-india

Both by Das Sreedharan, the owner of RASA restaurants, and between them, they cover most of the food RASA does. I learned to cook with them, perhaps a little like Corny learned with Nigel Slater.

Was there last weekend, only got time to check few places:

The Bird
http://www.thebirdinberlin.com/
Great american hamburger (recommended here too: https://goo.gl/yi95GS)

Hermanas wine bar
Warschauer Str. 81A

You can find good recommendations on the book above, I usually check it when travelling, it doesn't just list starred restaurants, but anything from a street stall or dirtiest restaurant to the most starred one, it's just where food is good.

Speaking of cookbooks, in my mind these are books where they teach you how to cook, hence the bible I use:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Professional-Chef-Culinary-Institute-America/dp/0470421355

If you're after recipes you can find them in whatever recipes book you like, I prefer those with images, at least of the result, so that you know what to aim for. But seriously you can get inspiration from whatever you want.. If you want I have my own list of my recipes you can replicate: https://snapguide.com/gioele-nunziatini/

No mention of Mrs Beaton? Or Delia.....

I promise you the only way to show full appreciation is to be half cut when you arrive, take a bite of bread and shout Sat Bains at the bread guy, showering him with bread.

Don't ask how I know this.

Eat the fucking octopus. I'm going next month and plan on eating my weight in octopus, and pork and clams.

I promise you the only way to show full appreciation is to be half cut when you arrive, take a bite of bread and shout Sat Bains at the bread guy, showering him with bread.

Don't ask how I know this.

I lol'd

#repNH

Need new frying pans... nonstick. Seeing as teflon ones die after about a year, do I go ceramic, anodised steel, or something else?
Old housemate had Circulon pans and they were pretty good.