Thoughts on the cookbook_challenge

I'm pretty terrible at following recipes. I'll take the elements of a recipe and approximate amounts, or turn it into a pie or a pastie, or use pasta instead of rice, or replace a herb in the recipe. That said, I have a fairly extensive pantry when it comes to little bits and pieces. The trick is - as always - using up what I have before it all goes off.

Also, I have a crazy number of cookbooks. Some inherited from my mum and stepdad, some...acquired by mysterious means of IDEK.

And this isn't even half of them!

Anyway, I'm going to make a monthly post with ideas, then refer back to it. There will be far more recipes in the post than I plan to make, but hopefully that'll make it easier for me to find recipes I like the idea of in the months either side of the specific month.

Finally, an interesting thing that I've discovered: Australian cookbooks are not big on corn. As in, corn is rarely an ingredient, although it's a commonly-referenced accompaniment to, for instance, BBQs. I imagine that it's much much bigger in, say, the US...

mask up!

Mandatory masks indoors in 'Greater Sydney Area' (includes Wollongong and parts of south coast) as of today, with fines to begin tomorrow.

This includes shopping centres, places of worship, public transport, theatres and entertainments, hairdressers and beauty salons.

There's been some whinging here and there on social media, but they pretty soon get told to shut up and wear an effing mask.