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| knewslady |
Posted - Jan 07 2008 : 05:40:57 AM
taken a favorite cookbook and made every dish in the book?
One of my all time weaknesses is buying cookbooks, I literally just do not look at them anymore.
Anyway, one of my goals for the year is to take one of my favorite ones and cook every dish in it (not one of those though that lists 33 recipes for green bean casserole though.)
My kids used to just roll their eyes and groan whenever I put a new dish on the table. Since they have all left home though the rest of the family will have to be my guinea pigs.
Kathy
Will always be a farmgirl at heart
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jan 08 2008 : 10:00:44 AM
I weeded out my recipe box the other day, and it was a little trip down memory lane! There was my mother's handwriting, and my mother-in-law, both gone now. There were little stories about how I received each recipe and what year it was....and even things like "Barbecue Sauce by hubby made on the week-end of Hurricane Elena 1981." I ended up throwing away very few recipes, because they were a little time capsule in the box! OH well......
Farmgirl Sister # 31
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| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Jan 08 2008 : 09:49:01 AM
I love cook books too. I have tons of them. I keep my all time favorites in a kitchen cupboard and refer constantly to them. I have had great luck with the Ina Garten, "Barefoot Contessa" books and have used almost all of her recipes. I plan my weeks menu the night before I go to the grocery store. I make up two lists. One list contains the recipes, cookbooks and page numbers of what I'm making (broken down in categories, main dishes, vegetables, desserts). The other list is the items I will need to buy. I then sort out any coupons that might be useful too. I found doing this the night before I go shopping keeps everything fresh in mind as I shop.Then the important part, I put my list and coupons in my purse so I don't forget them!
Good luck organizing your menus and using your cook books!
Dawn in IL |
| windypines |
Posted - Jan 08 2008 : 04:38:28 AM
I started to do that with a cookie book I have. Made quite a few, before I just kind of stopped. Or maybe life got in the way. My weakness is chocolate, so that c.c. cookie recipe is one I remember, so that gets made alot.
I have hopes of planning menu's for the week, but never get it done. Any helpful hints on doing that? I know I just need to sit down and do it. Maybe today?????
Michele |
| Hideaway Farmgirl |
Posted - Jan 07 2008 : 11:21:25 AM
I sort of follow Aunt Jenny's method, I will grab a cookbook and read through it, selecting several recipes from that book for the coming weeks. If it meets with approval, it will get written up on a recipe card and put into my recipe box. I've tried cleaning otu recipes I don't use or know that I will never use; like Jonni says, there are just so many choices. We do love repeats though, so when I hit upon a great recipe it definitely gets added to the list of regular favorites.
Jo
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| FarmGirl~K |
Posted - Jan 07 2008 : 10:24:56 AM
I like cookbooks too & clipping recipes. I started to have too many, so all of my clippings I put on pages & put them in 3 rign binders. I too like you plan on trying all of them one day. Finally I started to go through them again & weed out what I knew I wouldn't make. I will need to do that again.
Place all your favorites in a separate binder so they don't get mixed in. Once you have tried recipes in your books & if there are only a few you like, photocopy them & place them in the binder. Then you can get rid of the book & free up some room.
I have even started putting my favorites or family ones passed down onto the computer & adding stories as to wy they are our favorites or where they came from.
Have fun cooking & let us know how your new recipes are received.
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow." ~Benjamin Franklin~
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jan 07 2008 : 07:55:45 AM
I havn't done that exactly...but since I try to make up a menu for the coming week on Sunday night..what I HAVE done (and should some more) is use one cookbook for all the dinner entries and stuff for that week..for instance I may have a farmgirl cookbook week..it is a fun way to try the recipes in that book that I have been meaning to try. I remember doing that years ago with a Dom Deluise cookbook and the kids were shocked since I don't like pasta. But the sauces and all were so good. I still use alot of recipes from that book.
I need to go through my cookbooks and weed some out I suppose..hard to do for me though!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
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| AliShuShu |
Posted - Jan 07 2008 : 05:56:22 AM
i'm not sure i can stick to just one cookbook & work my way through it, but thanks to your posts, i'm setting my intention to try a new recipe from one of my many many cookbooks at least twice a week. i too have lots of cookbooks that look really pretty on the shelf, but some i've never even cooked one dish from! shameful!
thanks for the inspiration!
Alison
I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. ~F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Jan 07 2008 : 05:46:02 AM
I'm guilty of having too many cookbooks, Kathy, and only cooking one or two things from them. Some things just aren't to my taste, or some things are too time consuming...whatever. I love all of them, though, and I rarely make the same thing twice--why would you? There are just SOOO many options out there!!!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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