All New Delicious Slow Cooker Recipes By Simon & Alison Holst (Hyndman Publishing, RRP $25): I have a couple of slow cookers and am a big fan of the easy meals that can be produced with the help of these great little kitchen staples. I bought my first one way back in the mists...
New Zealand’s Hottest Home Baker With Dean Brettschneider (Penguin, RRP $35): Baking is one of those retro things that has suddenly become cool again and television has jumped on the bandwagon with New Zealand’s Hottest Home Baker, which isn’t quite as dodgy as the name might suggest. No, this show doesn’t involve scantily clad...
4 Ingredients Christmas By Kim McCoster (Random House, RRP $35) I hate to be the bearer of bad news folks, but Christmas is just around the corner. Really, it truly must officially be the festive season because a certain large coffee-selling corporation broke out their special Christmas cups last week. Christmas is a busy...
Granny’s Kitchen Baking (Penguin, $19.99): I’m sure everyone out there has a favourite recipe for a never- fail sponge, awesome bikkie or spectacular scone that has come from a mother, grandmother, aunty or friend. It is those recipes that are handed on from friend to friend, and generation to generation, that always seem to...
Simple Cafe Food By Julie Le Clerc (Penguin, RRP $32): This is a reprinted, repackaged and updated version of Julie Le Clerc’s 1999 book by the same name and I have to say, the recipes still stack up well as good cafe food 12 years down the track. Food trends come and go and...
Allyson Gofton’s Recipe Journal By Allyson Gofton (Penguin, RRP $35): We all have our favourite recipes and have collected favourite recipes from family and friends over the years so this book is something I’m sure every home cook would find useful: it’s a collection of more than 40 recipes from the author herself, compiled...
The Modern Pantry By Anna Hansen (Ebury Press, RRP $69.99): Chef Anna Hansen may have been born in Canada, but we’ll do what we poke the borax at the Aussies for doing, and claim her as our own since she grew up in our fair country. She has made quite a name for herself...
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