Random Recipes – something a little different

Recently there has been a lot of sport on TV and so I've spent the evenings browsing the web.  The other night I struck gold and found Dom's blog at Belleau Kitchen.  Dom has been running a "Random Recipe" challenge each month where you (randomly) select a recipe from one of your cookery books and you have to cook it.  The aim is to get people to steer away from their usual cookery books and recipes and try something new.  A fantastic idea.  Then I read the challenge for this month which has a bit of a twist.  Instead of randomly selecting a cookery book and page, you're asked to photograph your cookery books - it's a genius idea!  Anyone who knows me knows that I love to sneak a peek at other peoples' kitchens and cook book collections (not in a creepy way obviously!).  There couldn't be a better month for me to start this challenge.  I've already had a little peek at other peoples' posts and I realise that I'm not alone in my cook book habbit, so, here we go...


Strangely, I don't have any cookbooks in the kitchen, although on the beams dividing the kitchen and the sitting room are a couple of shelves full, and to the right of those, another three shelves full, although these aren't quite so tidy...  Both these sets of shelves "should" be sorted by author or cookery type, baking, region etc.  Bottom right of the second picture are Mr Joe's tiny collection.

 
I then have some recent purchases which haven't found a home yet as all the shelves are full.  And some thought that limited shelf space would curtail my habit!

By the bed there are some of my Sunday morning lie-in reads.

In my little studio I have my vintage collection which I find fascinating to read through even if some of them are a little battered;

and my Where Women Cook magazines which are read slowly with a cup of tea and biscuits and then neatly put on my desk for future reference, with more tea and biscuits.

Finally, there are the bakery books which were my Grandad's (who sadly I never met). He was a master baker.  They include all sorts of information on running a bakery as well as recipes from the era.  I'm working on scaling the quantities of some of the recipes down so I can give them a try.

So there you have it - My name's Cat and clearly I'm a bit of a cookbook addict.  Thank you Dom for the challenge.