I decided that I should build up my cookbook repository and so last Thursday (took the afternoon off), I bought not one, but THREE cookbooks from Kinokuniya and Borders with the book vouchers I received for my birthday.
I was having a hard time deciding which ones to get. Was it going to be something by Nigella Lawson, Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Nigel Slater, Ken Hom, Chef Wan, Kylie Kwong, Sam Leong, Mrs Lee’s Cookbook, etcetc. So very mind-boggling. In the end, I settled on the following.


Gordon Ramsay Makes It Easy by Gordon Ramsay

I flipped through it and true to its title, many of the recipes were written in brief, concise English, and only made up of a few steps. It looked simple enough. Plus it had many colourful pictures. I hate cookbooks without pictures and I’d never buy one without pictures. Yes, I’m a sucker for pictures and I’m willing to fork out money for paper cost which publishers pass on to readers.


The Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater

Filled with lots of pictures and anecdotes by one of Britain’s top food writers, the book contains many recipes which don’t look too difficult. But we shall see.


tossed

I like eating salads and I’m thinking I want to bring my own salad for lunch at work. I’m sick of eating the oily food being sold near my office, plus I’m kinda getting bored with the food around my workplace. There’s a cafe nearby which sells good salads but it’s too expensive to eat there every day. So the next best solution is to make my own! This book features 200 recipes for salads.
My resolution for the new year is to cook more often. That sounds easy enough to do. And with these books, I don’t have any excuse!