Ethnic Cooking

I love food from all over the world and I love to try and cook all different kinds of food too. Two helps to my cooking has been these cookbooks. For Chinese cooking I like Yan-kit's classic Chinese cookbook. Brent and Anna introduced me to it and it is fabulous. The recipes are great and they even show pictures of the ingredients that are more unusual to help you find them at the store.

The other cookbook is Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking. I love Indian food and this has given me some great recipes. I'll have to admit though that it's not the easiest to follow. It uses litres and grams instead of cups and pounds. So I always end up guesstimating exactly how much I am supposed to use. For that reason I have only tried a limited number of recipes in this book, but it sure is good food.

I have to tell you before you rush out to buy these cookbooks where my favorite place is to get cookbooks from is. The Library! I actually don't own my own copy of the Chinese cookbook yet (but that is soon to come). You can get lots of cookbooks at the library and then decide how much you really want to buy it instead of ending up with yet another cookbook in your cupboard that you only actually use two recipes out of. Lets hear it for the Library!