The Kitchen Diaries

Everytime I make a recipe from one of the cookbooks we own, and we enjoy the result, I mark the corresponding page with an index Post-it marker. Some books end up having a lot more markers than others, but the winner is clearly The Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater.

The idea behind the book is very clever, and I suppose it was this precise book that prompted us to start our own food diary. Nigel is a brilliant food writer, it is amazing how he can write about food in a such simple yet utterly cativating way. And the recipes work, one after the other. He clearly writes as a home cook to home cooks, and not as chef to amateur cooks.

This time it was "A frosted marmelade cake" and "Pork ribs with honey and anise". Here's a (not particulary flattering) picture of the ribs: