Paul Hollywood is an English celebrity chef and television presenter, widely known as a judge on The Great British Bake Off since 2010. Hollywood’s latest cookbook, Bake: My Best Recipes for the Classics, brings together recipes that Hollywood “perfected.”
Diane and I tried one of the recipes, Chocolate Orange Banana Bread (p. 18), and the result was fabulous!
Of course, my favorite section of Bake is Pizzas and Doughnuts! If you’re looking for a cookbook full of tasty recipes, Bake includes a full array of treats! GRADE: A
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
A Passion for Cooking — 6
Cakes — 14
Cookies and scones — 54
Breads and flatbreads — 86
Pizza and doughnuts — 154
Pastry and pies — 184
Desserts — 250
INDEX — 296
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS — 302
I better not show this to my wife or just look at it, trying to stay at 90 kilos or rather return to it.
My wife also likes baking (and cooking of course) and we have a joke that if if she cooks too much and I reach 100 kilos I’ll be ready for slaughter. Today our young ones will come over from Budapest and my wife should have some free time to talk with her family so we’ll order pizza and I’ll make a mixed salad.
From yesterday we still have Fennel soup – a shot of Greek Ouzo doesn’t hurt.
PS:
Pizzas and doughnuts seems a bit of a strange combination to me???
Wolf, Paul Hollywood writes (on p. 157) “If I were to choose my last meal on Earth, it would very difficult not to include a good pizza and a doughnut. They are some of the best thing to eat in the world.”
The bread looks delicious! I love the Great British Bake Off and eagerly await which baker will receive “the Hollywood handshake” during each episode. Alas, baked goods and keeping my A1C down don’t really go together, so I don’t do much baking these days. However, Victoria (my baking daughter and also a huge GBBO fan) will be all over this.
Deb, like you I have to carefully monitor my A1C. But once in a while, I’ll try something like Paul Hollywood’s delicious Chocolate Orange Banana Bread. Yummy!
Paul Hollywood?
Never heard of him. I guess you see how out of touch with baking shows I am. It does look delicious.
Jeff, Diane and I watch a few baking shows. Diane loves THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF because the participants are actually friendly with one another and are willing to help a fellow contestant who is struggling. Many of the U.S. bake shows feature a lot of hostility and a “win-at-all-costs” mentality.
We used to have dozens of cookbooks and used them a lot. But I cook so simply now, I rarely pull one out. Usually I google baked chicken and get a thousand recipes that way. Cooking for one is not rewarding.
Patti, Diane likes to bake and when she does, the widower guys at the Pool benefit. When I bring them Diane’s baked delights, those guys go wild!
That’s nice of you, George.
Jackie says she is of Patti’s school of cooking currently.
Of course, we eat out fairly often – though way less than we did a few years ago – and get a lot of take out.
Jeff, Diane and I have Take-Out once a week or so. Diane has a lunch in a restaurant with her friends or family about once a week. I usually take Diane to a restaurant about once a month for dinner. Both Diane and I know our way around a kitchen so eating at home is fine with us.
I haven’t watched a cooking/baking show since Julia Child roamed the earth, and even then it was because I just loved watching her and listening to her talk, with no real interest in what she was doing. I find the recent mania over these shows extremely puzzling. Just give me a burger and a Coke.
Michael, coincidentally I had a burger and a sangria for dinner last night! I suspect the Pandemic fueled the audience for baking shows like The Great British Bake Off.