The second recipe I tried, from Delia’s Frugal food, was the one for oat crunch bars. (Version of it here. (Although that recipe used two types of oats, whereas the one from the book only has one.)
Colleagues ate it all up. And it was tasty.
Still weeding this cookbook from my collection as the two recipes I tried, were also the only ones I wanted to try in there.
Second cookbook in the «I should clear out some of them from the cabinet»-challenge is Delia Smith’s Frugal food, that I purchased in summer 2009. (After just having finished my education and started my first job.)
The first recipe I tried out was the Spanish tortilla. Recipe
I’m unsure about how authentic the recipe actually is; and I used red pepper instead of green, and substituted fuet sausage for the chorizo.
But honestly, it was pretty delicious. Even as leftovers on the second day.
From the 5 Ingredients cookbook, was the orange and chocolate shortbread.
And… it tasted relatively bland on its own. There’s no salt in the recipe. (I feel like just by using a salted butter, you could make it more flavoursome.)
I ended up drizzling it with Maldon-salt, after testing it without. And then I brought it to work, where they ate it, and complimented me.
Although I got compliments, I feel pretty sure that they might like something from another cookbook better. I am rather MEH about this cookbook.
Summa summarum: the 5 Ingredients cookbook will be weeded from my collection.
So, I’ve been wanting to do something with the “gazillion” of cookbooks occupying a cabinet in my kitchen.
For one thing, I keep buying them, and will eventually run out of space. I guess.
I made myself a challenge, to cook my way through them, to see which I want to keep and which I want to discard. My one rule for this “challenge” is that I have to cook two recipes from each cookbook before I decide its fate.
That means, I have to find two recipes in each cookbook that I *want* to make.
The first cookbook I picked, is the “5 ingredients” (Amazon affiliate link) cookbook by Jamie Oliver.
I see that I bought it on Amazon in July 2018. I had not opened it before this week, when time came to pick the first recipe.
The recipe was the Pasta with pears and gorgonzola.
I made a single portion.
Mine did not look as good as Jamie’s. Not by a long shot. But it did taste very good, was quick-ish to make without a lot of faffing about. So good that I made it again the next day.
pasta with pears and gorgonzola sauce