Favorite Cookbooks 09

  • Jane Lawson: The Spice Bible: Essential Information and More Than 250 Recipes Using Spice, SpiceMixes, and Spice Pastes

    Jane Lawson: The Spice Bible: Essential Information and More Than 250 Recipes Using Spice, SpiceMixes, and Spice Pastes
    This book was on my Christmas list. The layout breaks out each spice and provides recipes that capture the spice's essence. I am excited about this book. There are lots of exotic recipes and it will help me stretch further into preparing world cuisine. My first attempts will be Chicken Mole, Seafood Paella and Caribbean Jerk Pork.

  • Ina Garten: Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again

    Ina Garten: Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again
    I enjoy the Barefoot Contessa cooking show. She does a wonderful job of highlighting a food's natural flavors with accent ingredients. I've adapted her Shrimp & Orzo pasta salad which now has become "Jeannette's salad" for summer parties. Her chocolate cake with chocolate frosting is yummy!

  • Elisabeth Prueitt: Tartine

    Elisabeth Prueitt: Tartine
    This book is magical! Every recipe I have tried from this San Francisco bakery gem has been melt in your month scrumptious. This is one cook book I do not lend out recipes from. I am thrilled with the flaky pie dough recipe version utilizing a food processor. Favorite recipes include Almond Breakfast Cake, Brownies, Pecan Maple Pie and Trifle of Summer Fruit. The recipes can take time and multiple steps, but you can't argue with the results. Superb!

  • Emeril Lagasse: Emeril's Delmonico: A Restaurant with a Past

    Emeril Lagasse: Emeril's Delmonico: A Restaurant with a Past
    I bought this cook book one Christmas for Chuck as he spent hours watching Emeril during his treatment phase to try and find his appetite. The restaurant's history and famous recipes are explored here. The biggest hit I have made out of this book is "Rosemary-Gruyere Bread Pudding" as a holiday side. It rocks!

  • Sheila Lukins: Celebrate!

    Sheila Lukins: Celebrate!
    We received this cook book as a wedding present. It has menus and meals for all the special occasions that life has to offer. It's one of the first books I turn to for inspiration.

  • Mollie Katzen: The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking)

    Mollie Katzen: The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking)
    My favorite of Chuck's stash is this charmingly illustrated vegetarian cookbook. It contains helpful tutorials throughout about baking bread, souffles, beans and grains. I love the enchiladas and zucchini spice bread recipes.

  • Leslie Mackie: Leslie Mackie's Macrina Bakery and Cafe Cookbook: Favorite Breads, Pastries, Sweets and Savories

    Leslie Mackie: Leslie Mackie's Macrina Bakery and Cafe Cookbook: Favorite Breads, Pastries, Sweets and Savories
    Macrina Bakery is a Seattle treasure. Chuck & I spent many a weekend morning in the warmth of the Queen Anne shop. I'm going to use this to delve into my bread baking initiative. Favorite recipes for Lemon Curd Tart and Sweet & Spicy Nuts.

  • Tessa Kiros: Twelve: A Tuscan Cook Book

    Tessa Kiros: Twelve: A Tuscan Cook Book
    A beautiful celebration of each month's bounty. My favorite recipe is for baked fennel - which reminds me of a meal I had in Siena. True Italian cooking inspiration.

  • Ernest Matthew Mickler: White Trash Cooking II: Recipes for Gatherin's (Vol 2)

    Ernest Matthew Mickler: White Trash Cooking II: Recipes for Gatherin's (Vol 2)
    This is the one that started our travel collections. Chuck & I found this in a little deli on the CA coast during our 1st vacation. It brought laughter to the rest of our trip and our lives together. Chuck always threatened to make me "Weenies and Tortellinis". The book is filled with fun stories of white trash living and awesome photos. My favorite recipe for Holiday Fruit Salad instructions are as follows: "Put it all in a bowl. Use your own amounts." Beside you never know when you will be called upon to make Deviled Pig Feet, Fancy-Schmancy Tuna Casserole or Post Grape Nut Lorraine.

  • Alice Waters: Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook

    Alice Waters: Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook
    This treasure was one of Chucks original entries. You can tell which ones came from him as they usually are more serious without many visuals. The restaurant from which this cookbook hails produces a different 5 course meal each evening. What I love about this cookbook is it's layout. It breaks down the recipes in menu types - special occasion, themes and variations, uncomplicated. The end section gives dozens of the restaurants most memorable menus. It is a great resource for inspiration.

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July 11, 2009

Sick Day

Today is an official sick day.  Self-quarantined to the condo. R&R is on my to-do-list. My parents & aunt have been visiting this past week while I've been ill. The doc said the VIRUS word yesterday, meaning just waiting it out. And applying Vitamin C liberally. 

My day has consisted of sleep, snuggle with a kitty or 2, little tv, leftovers, light reading...REPEAT. All pre-existing plans for parties, farmers markets and estate sale perusing out the window. 

There's something so luxurious about spending a Saturday with your feet up and no Agenda. Hopefully, today will recharge the batteries enough to kick start back to stellar health.

Posted at 05:59 PM in Random Thoughts |

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