A Cookbook Update (July 2024)

An Update on my Cookbook Project - Extra Food Chat with Kath

Welcome to another edition of Extra Food Chat with Kath!

I last checked in with you about my cookbook project in April, and now somehow it’s July so I suppose it’s time for another update! If you missed my news earlier in the year about beginning to write and recipe develop a new cookbook you can catch up here.

When I was thinking about what I could update you on regarding my cookbook, I sort of thought there probably wasn’t that much.

Then I looked at my phone camera roll and realised actually I have done some things!

In my last cookbook update I mentioned that my next upcoming photoshoot for the book was going to be for some scones. When I had the scones all ready and the shoot was all set up, I turned my trusty camera of almost 10 years on, to find it would no longer work!

Scone shoot set up - I took a photo with my phone as I was so disappointed my camera had died!

After much to and fro, and close to two months, it turned out I had to buy a new camera. So between being camera-less and having lots of client recipe development work to do since my last cookbook update, I felt like I was getting behind in my cookbook work (add to that doing a weekly newsletter and a mostly twice monthly paid newsletter, and another two day a week job, plus chronic illness, I often wonder how I ever thought doing another cookbook was ever going to be feasible!).

New camera - same a before as I couldn't handle even the idea of researching something new AND buying new lenses (plus I’ve always liked it and never felt the need to change to anything else).

After all that, and now looking through my camera roll, I did get a few recipes tested and I did manage to take the photos of the scones! I don’t know if I’m 100% happy with the scone images (pictured at the top of this email) and I may re-shoot. I think I felt like I hadn’t done much as no recipe is completely finished - all are still in some kind of test stage, or waiting for me to be able to take photos of them and fully tick them off the list.

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