September/October: The River Cafe Cookbook by Rose Grey and Ruth Rogers
The next book in our series is still based in the Mediterranean, however we are branching out from breads and baked goods and heading into an Italian inspired cookbook called The River Cafe Cookbook by Rose Grey and Ruth Rogers. Having spent many years living and cooking in Italy, the authors took their experiences and opened the River Cafe in 1987 on the banks of the Thames in London. Many of the ingredients were grown in their own garden, being unavailable in London at the time. Although this has probably changed over the years in London, and also for us here in Australia, I hope that this book should give us an opportunity to delve into Italian cooking a little further. This book was nominated by Debi at My Kitchen Witch to be a part of our cookbook book club.
As always, I’m looking forward to seeing what we create for ourselves as part of The Cookbook Guru for September/October.
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On a side note I should also just share a little reminder in that Baby G is due sometime in the middle to late of September so please accept my apologies in advance if there is a delay in your recipes being shared onto the blog. Please make sure that you comment below with your link to remind me about your post and I’ll get to it as soon as I can. Here’s hoping bubs likes Italian food so I get to contribute to our posts for this series.
Happy Reading and Happy Cooking,
Leah
An excellent choice. This book is interesting in that, on the surface, it looks simple and quotidian. But to get things right, to get that true Italianita` is another thing.
Francesca is right! It is deceptive in its simplicity. One of their secrets is that they use only fresh seasonal ingredients – some of which are imported to London from farms in Italy. Not everyone has the luxury of doing this. I also find that sometimes their proportions are a bit off. Best way to discover how it suits you is to cook from it and test the results.
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Hi Leah, just posted a recipe from the book: https://americanfoodieabroad.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/the-last-of-the-summer-tomatoes/
Awesome. For some reason I’m not finding the reboot button on my phone app but I’ll get this shared today 🙂
Hello, I will be posting soon. I had a difficult time deciding what to make. The recipes are simple, but yet…not really. I know, doesn’t make sense. I think that cooking and cookbooks have changed a LOT since 1987.
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Hi Leah, I’m glad to be joining in this month. Here is my post:
https://spadesspatulasandspoons.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/october-in-the-kitchen-pollo-spago/
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hi leah
I have finally -with a few days to spare -got around to doing my post for this month’s book!:)
here it is: http://sherryspickings.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/coffee-walnut-hazelnut-cake.html
I realised afterwards that this recipe comes out of their river cafe easy book so i hope that is ok.
cheers
sherry
Hi Sherry, I’m so sorry I forgot to post this with everything going on. I’ll share this in the morning. Apologies for the delay. Leah 🙂
no worries leah!