a former room mate used to joke that my bedside table looked like a "book cake", with its tower of magazines, text books + recipe books haphazardly displayed like a collective word sculpture--teetering on the edge of collapse.
those were the days when i used to voraciously 'read' cook books. and had willing room mates to eat the experiments that ensued. i spent my spare change on magazines. and every evening before falling asleep i would read a page or two of a novel.
i no longer have room mates, but i still have the habit of precariously stacking books willy nilly (the willy nilliness tidied up for this glimpse) on my bedside table. it is my husband who now benefits from the food experiments. the magazines still accumulate and i still read a page or two of a novel or short story collection every evening. the other difference being i now need to wear reading glasses.
the current tiers of my book cake----
i'm especially excited about cooking up something from Vij's At Home (Relax, Honey)---have already made the cauliflower steak (no steak is involved, just huge chunks of cauliflower) a few times to rave reviews. thinking about trying the ground fennel seed curry next. maybe i'll make both and cook up some saffron rice to go with.
the fabric flower brooch sold me on the Homemade title, it is based on crafting + making seasonally--it is a lovely book printed on nice thick paper.
i'm planning on making a chocolate loaf cake from Baked Explorations (it may even have been taste tested by the time you read this).
there is also the new MS Weddings (the DIY issue!)--the cover colors are beautiful.
Sibella Court's etcetera that i never tire of flipping through when i need a visual pick-me-up. i am also waiting for her latest tome to arrive.
not in the stack but very worth mentioning is my favorite on-line magazine..... Covet Garden.....have you read it? The current issue just came out a few days ago and be sure and check out all of the back issues too while your'e "over there". i love the concept of an issue just featuring one home, a real home, with their furniture-not props brought in to make it look like a home and then removed after the photo shoot is over...if someone's home is being considered for a magazine one would think that it has something to do with the way that it already looks, no? but i digress. go have a look, you'll see what i mean.
do you have a book cake awaiting to be devoured at bedside?
