Poll: Cooking

ms nobody

You all are about to feel the full-on wrath of my hobbies now that we're married!

i'm in the market to buy a few new cookbooks and to find a couple good cooking blogs for inspiration. the internet is great and all, but i just don't trust recipes "created" by every baby wannabe martha stewart who thinks they are a domestic goddess because they made marinara or chocolate chip cookies "from scratch," but still use store-bought pie crust. /snobbery 

Favorite Cookbook(s):

Favorite Cooking blogs(s): 

JBs_Bride

Favorite Cookbook(s): http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Cooking-Two-Just-You/dp/0875964486

Favorite Cooking blogs(s): http://smittenkitchen.com/

 

Ask and you shall receive, darling nobs.

sunnysnow44

I don't have any cooking blogs, but I have a couple favorite cookbooks.  One is the Rachael Ray 30 minute meals, and the other is any crockpot recipe. I love crockpot meals, fix it and forget it!

BrittBritt22

ms nobody:

Favorite Cookbook(s): I love my Better Homes & Garden cook book it has good recipes for basics - bread, pie crusts, etc, as well as a really helpful index of baking times and conversions.

I'm also a sucker for anything Rachel Ray - as long as you start a recipe knowing it will take you way longer than 30 minutes, lol.

Favorite Cooking blogs(s): Not so much a blog, but I have gotten a lot of good recipes from the Pioneer Woman's website

BrittBritt22

Ohh, one more - this is one of my favorites, my parents picked it up on a trip years ago but it has some of my favorite recipes.

Kniblet

I have a few from Rachael Ray, the 30 Minute ones.  And a pasta one by Giada.

Most bookstores have a mass of Food Network books with all of the most popular chefs.

zora51

The cook book I use the most is called "The Mennonite Cook book".. haha I went to a Menn. school growing up (my Gram left the Menn church when she [OMG] married a protestant boy) and they cook some mm mm good home-cooked food! I use the book especially for my baked goods, and for soups, but it has everything. I wonder if you can even find it outside of Lancaster County area.. hahaha.... But I also have a better homes & gardens one which is pretty reliable.

 I use the net a lot too, but I look at like 2 or 3 recipes at least to see which I like best or if they look the same or to make it my own (which I usually do!).

lca315girl

I'm a slut for the Top Chef Quick Fire cookbook. The paella...OH MY SWEET GURKINS! It is the mothafuuckin sh*t!

Midgette

I also like Rachel Ray 

Or Recipes.com  i like to use too

 

Most of the time i just open the cabinets and experiment lol

For the shower someone got us 365 Easy Pasta Recipes!

Really? Pasta for a year can u imagine! lol 

msmoore80

I have a Betty Cocker cookbook from years ago. lol I usually get my recipes from Food Network.com or Eat Better America. I wouldn't call myself a chef and my husband is the one who usually does things by scratch. I do enjoy eating yummy food though so if you need a test subject...

andyandhillary

Blog: Pioneer Woman.  I her.

Books:  I haven't been able to test them yet but I have several Giada ones I got from the wedding, a family church one, and then "Get Saucy".  I love sauce and I personally find that many cooks don't use them.  I need some kind of sauce situation on just about everything.  

meganandmatt62010

Betty Crocker has always been my go to cookbook for basics.  When I am feeling brave I watch the Food Network or visit allrecipes.

I just discovered Annie's Eats (http://annies-eats.com/).  I haven't actually tried any of the recipes yet, but I can't wait to!

burnsbaby

When I cook, I usually just make things I've been taught how to cook.

 When looking for recipes, I go on prevention.com for low calorie recipes or allrecipes.com.

 

26summer

I love my Fix It and Forget It cookbooks (crockpot cookbooks).  I also like the original Betty Crocker Cookbook and Rachel Ray's 30 minute meals.  As for cooking blogs-I like going to the What's Cooking Board on here and looking at the ladies blogs-some of them have some amazing ones!

Mrs.B.Rad

Cookbooks:

Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet by Padma Lakshmi

Blogs: Not so much but I do like Recipezaar.com because most of the recipes are rated by other users so you can tell which ones suck and which ones rock.

 

Jane_Birkin

the joy of cooking-- current version and a version from the 1980s that has the recipe for peach pie that was dropped in later versions. YUM.

i actually don't like the Betty Crocker cookbooks. H's mom has given us several and they are all loaded with cheese and grease. if you ate out of that cookbook all the time, you'd have crazy-high cholesterol and high bloodpressure. with the exception of the vegetarian roasted vegetable stew, which i make all the time in the winter. 

no food blog recs.

 

marisaocho

The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook is awesome.  We use it all the time.  Most of the recipes will make 4-6 servings but the leftovers have always held up nicely for lunch/dinner the next couple of days. I don't read cooking blogs so sorry I can't help you there.