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Random Recipes #7 – Back to Basics – and a book give-away

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as July slips languorously into August like a weary hill-climber slips into a warm bath, so Random Recipes slips into its seventh month..!

and it looks as though I will be without my kitchen for at least another two weeks although we’re coping quite well, with many friends and neighbours offering up their kitchens for our use, plus I always have the Gunby kitchen to fall back on… but I still can’t bloody wait!

so this month, because I’m going back to basics with my new kitchen, plus I had many comments from new and old followers alike saying that you had no time last month and you’d love to take part this month,  so I thought we’d all go back to the beginning of the challenge and go with the original classic challenge…

… line up ALL your cookbooks

… give them a shuffle

… close your eyes and pick one book randomly

… close your eyes again and open the book at a random page

… cook that exact dish

… DO NOT CHEAT (you’re only cheating yourself etc.. blah blah blah)

obviously you can do any of the above in any which way you choose… I know a lot of you have too many cookbooks to take down from the shelf but come-on, surely they’re all due for a good dusting and re-shuffle anyway…?

and this month i’m giving away a fabulous prize to the MOST random of recipes… the lovely people at Pan Macmillan have given me a new copy of the recently re-published classic The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan, this is the ultimate bible on Italian cooking and is globally praised by many food writers and chefs… the new cover art is beautiful, well worthy of a place on any of your shelves… oh and this giveaway is open internationally, so no excuses!

usual rules apply, email me at dom@thepersuaders.co.uk with a link to your recipe, include a link back to my blog in your post as well as the Random Recipes logo…. and yes, you have to take part to be in with a chance of winning the book.

eat and of course, enjoy!

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Comments

  3. Alice says

    Ooooh, I can't wait! It'll have to wait until I return from Italy in a couple of weeks. But that prize sure does look wonderful!

  4. Victoria says

    done and done and no cheating this time!! i was cleaning up the kitchen today anyway…so perfect excuse to shuffle up the books! 🙂

  6. StephenC says

    When we moved 6 months ago we left behind most of our dozens of cookbooks, among them Hazan's. We never used it and used to joke that she was so fussy that the first direction for a tuna dish was “Charter a fishing boat.”

  8. Chele says

    Excellent!! I've not been able to take part the last couple of months but I'm really keen to try and make it this month.

  9. Aveen says

    Oooh, I really REALLY want a copy of that book! It's been on my Amazon wishlist for ages and I keep stalking Ebay looking for a cheap copy. Can't believe it's been seven months already, that's gone really quickly 🙂

    I have to admit I will be cheating and using a random number generator. But I know you'll forgive me, because there isn't actually a room in my house big enough so I could line up all my cookbooks!

  13. Aveen says

    Oh god… I got number 125 which is The Victory Cookbook by Marguerite Patten. Haven't chosen a recipe yet but I'm not eating spam for anyone!

  15. freerangegirl says

    Is it unethical to charity shop some of my cookbooks before selection begins! Might have to, just in case we end up cooking Nigellas Christmas turkey!

  18. Shu Han says

    I love this challenge but I can't take part because I don't own a cookbook. I have a grand total of one which my sisters gave me for my birthday last year but it's in london. in singapore I have none because the way my mum cooks, it's really by gut feel and instinct and she learns by trial and error/from her mum– she finds it amusing when I copy recipes from the net. haha. all the same, i can't wait to see the entries(: