I [heart] cookbooks
You know it's a perfect cookbook when you start planning a meal before you even buy it. You know it's even more perfect when you get home and you actually have all the ingredients for a tasty-sounding recipe without having to go to the store. You know it's a perfect cookbook when it only cost you $7.99.
I haven't bought a new cookbook in ages. Today I have two new ones; Canadian Living Everyday Favourites and The Total Wellbeing Diet. Okay, the second one is technically a diet book, but the recipes are fabulous (at least they look that way). Both have recipes that totally fit eating the South Beach way. And they were cheap, cheap, cheap.
I am making chicken breast with roast tomato and mozzarella from Total Wellbeing tonight and as soon as I find some decent salmon, I am making Salmon with Lentil Pilaf from Everyday Favourites. Yay! for new ideas for food.
I haven't bought a new cookbook in ages. Today I have two new ones; Canadian Living Everyday Favourites and The Total Wellbeing Diet. Okay, the second one is technically a diet book, but the recipes are fabulous (at least they look that way). Both have recipes that totally fit eating the South Beach way. And they were cheap, cheap, cheap.
I am making chicken breast with roast tomato and mozzarella from Total Wellbeing tonight and as soon as I find some decent salmon, I am making Salmon with Lentil Pilaf from Everyday Favourites. Yay! for new ideas for food.
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posted by allison | 5:24 PM
4 Comments:
I [heart] cookbooks, too. I've been on a mad spree of cooking and baking lately, inspired to new experiments every time I see a chef do something wild on Iron Chef America, which we watch most evenings at 9:00.
However, for all that I love trying out a wild new technique, or trying a new pairing of ingredients, the cookbook I've found the most yummy meals, desserts and breads in lately has been the Fannie Farmer cookbook. It's one of those big 1200-page compendiums, where if you think of a dish, it's listed in the index. But what's cool is, the recipes actually work, and they don't depend on endless use of pre-fab stuff, like some of the 1200-page every-recipe-known-to-humankind cookbooks I've seen in the past.
This evening I even tried the book's recipe for Mulligatawny. While it might not have had quite the authenticity of my usual hours spent clarifying butter to make my own ghee and grinding my own spice from scratch, it was a damn good recipe, and only took a little over an hour, with the only intensive part being a lot of dicing veggies up front.
Yes, I'm smitten with the Fannie Farmer cookbook.
Jim
I, too, am in love with cookbooks. Nothing makes me happier then a new (or new to me, from the used book store or library) cookbook.
I've been eying up the Canadian Living Everyday Favourites; I received The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook as a wedding present, and it is incredible; I've made at least half of the recipes, and they've all been great. Some of them, like the carrot cake, and the scalloped potatoes, are now my most reliable dishes.
One of my favourite "basic" cookbooks is Julia Child's The Way to Cook. I love having master recipes that I can play with and Julia provides. If you don't have it in your cookbook library, I strongly recommend it.
It's amazing how much more fun cooking and eating are when you have new recipes to play with.
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