Week 33 of the Cookbook Challenge with the theme of Seafood. I decided to try my first oven baked fish, which I have been wanting to try for a while now, foil wrapped and all. I recently gave into new cookbook temptation and bought my second Nigella Lawson cookbook, Nigella Express – this recipe is from this book. Ingredients: 2 sea bass, approx 900g each, gutted and prepared (I couldn’t find sea...

Week 27 of the Cookbook Challenge, gosh I’m so behind in posting all my recipes! For this challenge the theme was Insect. Now I’m not really keen on using actual insects in my cooking, I’m not that adventurous, so decided to go with the “insects of the sea” – prawns. I used my good old reliable curry cookbook, the aptly named “Best Ever Curry Cookbook”. Ingredients: 675g...

Cookbook Challenge week 22, the theme is Red. When I think of red I think of beetroot, strawberries, tomato and paprika. Fortunately I couldn’t find a recipe that combined all of those ingredients (!) so I decided to have my main ingredient as paprika. I have a beautiful Hungarian cookbook, Culinaria Hungary. My mum bought me this book when it became apparent that I wasn’t very good at learning...