If you put a thousand different candy bars in an industrial sized blender and then added your own body weight in white sugar plus several truckloads of glucose syrup and then blended it all together the resulting formula would still only be a FRACTION as sweet as my friend Amy. Amos is a writer and sub editor who enjoys perpetuating insane celebrity conspiracy theories, anything miniature, anything cute and Mr Shu from Glee. She also writes one of my all time favourite blogs Pretty Pretty Yum Yum. These are her three favourite cook books.
"I had never heard of London’s Hummingbird Bakery (“a sweet tooth’s delight” with “legendary” cupcakes, according to Gwyneth Paltrow) until I came across this gorgeous cookbook in Paddington’s Ariel bookstore. The bakery opened in 2002 on Portobello Road, after owner Tarek Malouf spent a Thanksgiving in North Carolina and developed an appetite for American pies, brownies and cakes. The cookbook serves up recipes for bake-sale classics such as red velvet cupcakes and banana cream pie, as well as the Hummingbird’s signature creations, like their raspberry cheesecake brownie. It’s a great compilation cookbook of OTT American yumminess.
My favourite recipe: Raspberry cheesecake brownie
Gooey brownie + cheesecake + raspberry cream, this dessert isn’t just a pretty face – it’s one of the most irresistible combos I’ve ever tried. The triple-layered treat is easy to make. It just takes a bit of time – first make the dark-chocolate brownie base, then the creamy cheesecake layer, and finally the raspberry whipped cream. The standard reaction from friends when presented with this dessert: “OMG."
Meals I want to cook for my boyfriend
This was a gift from my friends Hon and Mads when we lived in Japan. I couldn’t read the title so I was happily flicking through, looking at all the cute pictures when they started laughing and said, ‘Do you want to know what the cookbook is about? It’s meals to cook for your boyfriend! Haha!!!’ So I guess all the recipes have one thing in common – apparently they make men very happy. I love this cookbook because it has only-in-Japan café-style recipes like Hamburger Steak, Taco Rice, Omu-rice and Oyako-don, and super-kawaii styling. I can’t read all of the directions but I use my Japanese dictionary to work out all the ingredients and go from there. It’s a great way to practice Japanese.
My favourite recipe: Ethnic Mixed Rice
This is the tastiest, speediest weeknight meal: minced chicken stir-fried with garlic, ginger, capsicum, green beans, chilli, oyster sauce and fish sauce, served with rice, a fried egg, coriander and peanuts. It makes a great bento box for the next day’s lunch, too.
Bourke Street Bakery: The ultimate baking companion
This hardcover volume is of Macquarie-dictionary proportions and I imagined it to be one of those cookbooks you spend hours drooling over but never actually make anything from (the beautiful photography makes the baguettes, pastries and pies look even more mouth-watering than in real life ~ sigh). I thought, ‘it’s got to be easier to walk over to the Bourkery than make puff pastry from scratch (the recipe is four pages)’. But you can take a bit of liberty with the recipes when you’re short of time… Like making the sausage rolls with puff pastry from the store or the lemon curd tarts (my boyfriend’s favourite recipe) with ready-made pastry shells. In 370 pages, the cookbook reveals the secrets to every Bourke Street favourite: from chocolate sour cherry biscuits to ginger brulee tarts to lamb and harissa sausage rolls. Mmmmmmmm.
My favourite recipe: Pork & fennel sausage rolls
As you are sautéing the ingredients, the aroma of pork, garlic, onion, celery, carrots and fennel fills your kitchen and you almost feel like you are walking towards the store, smelling a fresh batch of sausage rolls. It is pretty awesome that they have provided the recipe for their most legendary offering."
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