Baking and Books discussion

This year has been a difficult year for me personally and I haven't had time to devote to Goodreads. I've been struggling what to do for the focus of this group and without the time to really put towards working at coming up with anything, things have remained pretty static here.

I originally wanted the group to have a focus on cookbooks, since I felt they were not very well represented in groups. I had an alternative suggestion that we take baked goods from fiction books we were reading or liked that had food somehow figured in them and post recipes for those.

I liked both the original idea and the suggestion, so what I think I would like us to do both. I'll be posting cookbooks I purchase or read with a sample recipe from the book. The cookbooks will have an United States slant, because that's where I am, though I will post some from a few other areas. I encourage others to make suggestions or post ones from their area of the world.

As to the fiction books, I think it will take a bit of time to work out exactly how to do this, so it will be an ongoing project.

Suggestions are always welcome.

Hi jute,
I like both plans. I have had fun trying to create the foods served in the Harry Potter books. That caramel book sounds awesome, I will check to see if my library has a copy.

Leslie wrote: "Hi jute,
I like both plans. I have had fun trying to create the foods served in the Harry Potter books. That caramel book sounds awesome, I will check to see if my library has a copy."

What kinds of foods have you created from Harry Potter? It sounds like that would be fun!