Oh dear. While I am writing about cookery, can I have a little word about Elizabeth David?
I KNOW that we are meant to love Mrs David. I do… sort of… that is, until I pick up one of her cook books to COOK WITH.
Yes. It’s probably just me. But I need a bit more help with my recipes. I love cooking, I really do. But from time to time, I need to be told what to do – I think, after all, that is the point of a recipe isn’t it?
On Thursday last week, Valentina and I cooked “Veal larded with Ham” from ‘Italian Food’. I can’t quite remember the details, but it went something along the lines of ‘take a leg of veal. Form an incision across the length, then a second above and and a third below. Insert Prosciutto and add some carrot slices at intervals. Bind with string. Brown the meat, then braise until cooked’.
HELP!
It tasted sort of delicious, but I think I prefer Delia. Sorry.
Oh I so know what you mean…my Elizabeth David books are embarrassingly dusty for that very reason..some vague notion of timings and quantity would be useful I have thought to myself!…I have just this very minute discovered your unbelievably wonderful website…it actually made me feel sick with excitement!, it is so good…and I am finding this blog just gorgeous and quite amusing…think I may become addicted.