The Cookbook Guru for December…Our Greatest Hits
December is a month of madness in (and out of) the kitchen for us all and as a consequence here at The Cookbook Guru we are spending the month sharing some of our greatest recipes from the year and giving us all a month off from focusing on a new cookbook.
The year of 2014 has had us exploring cuisines from different eras and cultures. Some books have struck a chord and produced a bounty whilst others have been less thrilling, but still interesting, to explore. Each month has brought with it some new skills, beautiful photo’s and interesting tips. Each blogger has applied their own tone to the recipes and shared not only the book itself, but how it fits into their lives, their impressions of the recipes and how they’ve adapted the recipe to suit their palates and dietary restrictions.
The Books of 2014
Falling Cloudberries by Tessa Kiros
The Complete Asian Cookbook by Charmaine Solomon
Cooking At Home by Karen Martini
The New Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden
Mrs Beaton’s Guide to Good Housekeeping
English Bread and Yeast Cookery by Elizabeth David
Cooking From Your Cookbook Shelf
The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan
Saha by Greg and Lucy Malouf
Gourmet Traveller Magazine
I’ve loved the foodie conversations that have ensued on each person’s posts as we discuss not only the post but also the book, the flavours and talk about different ways of improving or changing what we’ve created. It is the essence of what I envisaged The Cookbook Guru to be when I started it over 12 months ago. We have grown slowly as a group, but with a core group of bloggers who embrace each month as an opportunity it’s been a great experience I hope everyone has enjoyed as much as me. I would like to thank the dedication and passion with which our members have been a part of this little group and shared the cooking from their kitchens.
To the wonderful food bloggers who have participated in my crazy and fun concept, thank you for all your hard work and participation.
I hope you enjoy our retrospective from this year as much as we enjoyed sharing it as it happened.
Have a fabulous silly season and may Santa bring you some new cookbooks for 2015.
Leah and The Cookbook Gurus
Hi Leah,
Thank you soooo much for all your hard work putting everything together every month. There has been some amazing cooking and baking going on from many amazing people. I’ve had a great time going through a new book every month and finding new things to cook And enjoying reading everyone else’s kitchen adventure.
Hope everyone enjoys the holiday season coming up.
Keep Safe and keep cooking…
Lona
Thanks Lona! Seasons Greetings! Hope you enjoy the trip down memory lane this month 🙂
Leah,
Really loved participating, cooking from many of the cookbooks you selected. You’ve certainly put a lot of work into keeping us all organised. Thank you! Hope Santa brings you and all the other CBG bloggers stacks of interesting cookbooks for 2015.
Debi
Thank you Debi. I’m so glad youve enjoyed our monthly challenges, thank you for your passionate and informative contributions. I hope you enjoy the little retrospective for the month of december.
Seasons Greetings,
Xx leah
It’s been fun Leah, I’ve made recipes I’ve previously just flicked over from books i had previously ignored and i’ve revisited old favorites too. I know it been an effort on your part keeping us all organized, I really appreciate it. Hugs from me xxxx
Ih in glad youve enjoyed it. Ive lived pur foodie cobversations about the books we’ve been cooking out of. The cookbook guru has given me new skills and new confidence in cuisines I’d been rather intimidated by. I hope 2015 is as equally as fun and pleasurable 🙂 xxx
I’ve loved visiting here. I discovered you in Marcella’s month. I’m still going with her book (81 recipes ticked and smiley-faced!) but have enjoyed venturing into some of the other books along the way. I look forward to the suggestions for 2015. Thanks for all your work.
Thank you! I’m glad that you’ve enjoyed your membership to The Cookbook Guru. I admire your persistance to cook your way through one cookbook. I attempted it mid last year and got 30 recipes down and gave up. I needed more variety in my meals 🙂
30 from one book is still very good! I do venture into other books as well. Though with Marcella’s I’m finding there’s quite a good variety of types of food – enough to keep surprising me as I flick through the pages.
Hi Leah, Thanks so much for organising the club. I have enjoyed participating.
My pleasure Glenda. Thank you for your wonderful contributions. I look forward to seeing what 2015 produces from our kitchens.
Seasons Greetings,
Xx leah
I am looking forward to participating in January. This is such a wonderful idea.
We look forward to having you be part of our little blogging collective too. Seasons greetings, Leah