The Great Salsa Book
This may be the most obscure and tenuous Friday Five I’ve done so far, but couldn’t let the return of Strictly, especially on a Friday, go unmarked. X Factor passes this house by, but everything halts for Strictly Come Dancing. I think I’ve even recovered from being photographed between two of the world’s most photogenic people to come back and watch it again this year!
So here are 5 little numbers to whisk you around the kitchen floor, to have you hot to (fox)trot so you waltz off with compliments from all diners present!
1. The Great Salsa Book - possibly the easiest, but this hot little number will get you spicing up the action in unexpected ways.
2. Fig Jam and Foxtrot – here’s a surprising one! Never imagined would find one with foxtrot in the title! This is an intriguing pairing that could produce a few surprises. Not quite the beauty and the beast pairing, but a combination of fact and fiction, with over 80 recipes intertwined with the tales of six women from around the world.
3. Cook, Eat, Cha Cha Cha!: Festive New World Recipes - this is the book of a restaurant, famous for its Sangria. That would certainly get you whizzing around the dancefloor. Or possibly it really would be murder on the dancefloor! Good sounding recipes that would get things hot and spicy.
4. Slow: A Quick-step for Relaxed Eating - ah, can’t beat the old slow, slow, quick, quick, slow! I love a bit of slow cooking, and could certainly produce a slow cooked masterpiece an awful lot easier than I could master a quickstep. Like cooking braising steak, I don’t believe my feet were meant to go that quick!
5. Secret Kitchen: An Argentine Cooking Book - tango with your tastebuds in honour of the Argentine tango with this unusual book. I would imagine that it will involve beef, be deep and tempestuous and get passions aflame!
So bring on the sequins, pass the fake tan, and let the dancing commence! Appropriate eating is optional. Just watch out for these two hanging around a bar near you. The one in the middle is okay, but the other two shouldn’t be allowed to be photographed with mere mortals!
People not to be photographed with
What I want to know, is do you actually OWN all these books, or just find them online. If you own them, I INSIST that you invite me round so I can spend hours reading them.
That is all.
I wish! A combo of own, browse in the shops and scribble notes/wishlists or just use Google well! Just bought a very unusual book on cooking with flowers, trying to work out a theme around that one!