June 2010 Weddings
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Poll: Cooking
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):
Re: Poll: Cooking
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.
Planning Bio - Woefully out of date
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.
It's almost here! Weeeeeeee!
my read shelf:
43/70 books read
Back in June 2010...
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!).
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
Blog: Pioneer Woman. I
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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.
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!
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.
My Planning Bio
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.
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.
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