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| K-Falls Farmgirl |
Posted - Jan 01 2009 : 4:28:39 PM
I have several but yesterday I bought yet another one..I love Italian food..( it shows, I just caught a glimpse in the mirror of my backside..ouch.). Well it wont go away today, and Giada de Laurentiis has agreat muffin recipe I have to make for dinner.."Garlic and sun drie tomato corn muffins.. Im serving it with a nice healthy Bean & ham soup. yummy!
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Cheryl #309
Farm girl sister
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." Maya Angelou |
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| peachy |
Posted - Jan 07 2009 : 12:02:08 AM
I love Paula Deens cookbooks and Giada's but can't afford them right now...I do love my Better Homes and Family Circle (old) that my gram handed down and my Get Smakelijk from my other gram...I go from extreme dutch heritage to extreme Italian~~~ LOL!!! No one ever knows what to expect out of me!! I also love Gooseberry Patch.
Melissa
Farmgirl Sister #360
Life isn't about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain! |
| KJD |
Posted - Jan 06 2009 : 3:42:47 PM
I love your cream sauce story! I, too, cooked for my to-be husband the first time from Fannie Farmer - the lasagna. I think that's what did it... |
| FebruaryViolet |
Posted - Jan 06 2009 : 12:58:50 PM
We are all like minded, it sounds. I love my cookbooks--I have about 30 or so, last count, and even when I TRY to pare down, I simply can't.
My favorites:
The Victory Garden Cookbook (published in the early 1980's). It's a great resource for not only cooking veges and herbs, but how to plant, harvest and store them as well. Each vege or herb comes with about 10-15 different recipes, along with their favorite "types" to grow.
Fannie Farmer (the same reasons everyone else has said)...I made the bechamel sauce from this that won my husband over. He tells people that he married me for my cream sauce 
Prairie Home Cooking by Judith Fertig: It's full of wonderful recipes that travelled to the midwest with our ancestors, and how they've changed/evolved over the years. Also, great pantry guides, and how to make your own cheeses, butters, cordials and wines from orchard fruit as well. Wonderful narratives written with the recipes.
And I too, love all the church fund raising cookbooks. I have many, and each one is special in their own way. Such great, easy recipes--everytime I make something from one, folks always rave. Those church-adies know how to cook!!!!
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| carolbrigid |
Posted - Jan 06 2009 : 12:27:55 PM
Farrah, You're right - I too love the spiral bound local cookbooks. My church has a really good one, and I just checked out an Amish cookbook from my library! Can't wait to actually sit down and look through it.
Farmgirl Hugs,
Carol
Farmgirl Sister #222
Member, Crafty Bay Farmgirl Chapter |
| carolbrigid |
Posted - Jan 06 2009 : 12:25:54 PM
Hi Dawn! I'm a Farmgirl sister in Glen Burnie, Maryland! I'm just like you, lugging home tons of cookbooks from the library! I think my favorate one (currently, LOL, it changes) is Paula Deen's first cookbook, The Lady and Sons.
Farmgirl Hugs,
Carol
Farmgirl Sister #222
Member, Crafty Bay Farmgirl Chapter |
| KJD |
Posted - Jan 05 2009 : 6:35:17 PM
Thank you so much - this is a much anticipated trip. We "tried" to go last May, but our plane had several technical difficulties. After 18 hours in the airport, and a couple of taxi's out to the runway with returns to the airport, they gave up the "ship" and said this flight could not go. We took that as the Lord saying "no", for wahtever reason, and just went home. We rescheduled for January, as all our arrangements could be re-scheduled, but not re-funded...we shall see if it's a "go" this time - we are looking forward to the trip, but are OK, if it doesn't happen at this point...
We've never been to HI, but think it will be a very fun trip for us and our 3 boys - ages 22, 20 and 14. My sister and her husband are going with us also - |
| vermont v |
Posted - Jan 05 2009 : 6:24:07 PM
Dear KJD,
You will enjoy that trip I'M sure!I will ask my sis about good Hawaiian Cook books. I used to live near Downtown Honululu and enjoyed every minute of it. |
| KJD |
Posted - Jan 05 2009 : 5:27:45 PM
Victoria -
We are flying into Oahu - will stay at Waikiki, do Pearl, then fly to Maui for the following week...will take a ferry to Lanai one day for golf and hotel/pool time, but don't think we'll see Kaui - I'm sorry we'll miss your sister. If she can give me hints of good books in any case, I'd be grateful!
Thank you - |
| vermont v |
Posted - Jan 05 2009 : 12:00:11 PM
Dear KJD,
This is a little off topic but if you are going to Kauai stop at my sister and brother in laws fruit stand for Frosties, nuts, fruits honey and other locally made and grown products. Its called Banana Joe's and its right off of the highway through Kilauea.!My sister could recommend a good cook book I'M sure. |
| KJD |
Posted - Jan 04 2009 : 7:01:14 PM
Wow! Cookbooks - definitely my favorite reads! #1 is all the Barefoot Contessa - she is wonderful and makes you a genius - I cook almost exclusively from her books. Another great one is the big yellow Gourmet cookbook that came out a year or so ago. Ruth Reichel edited and I agree with the person who mentioned her food essay books. Also, Susan Hermann Loomis - great books - Farmhouse Cookbook as Chessie said, and the French Farmhouse and the Italian Farmhouse. And her book, On Rue Tatin that someone mentioned is one of my all-time favorite books - I have read it over and over again! Tyler Florence has a couple of really good books, as well as Sara Foster. Fannie Farmer was my first cookbook when I got married 25 years ago. I also buy cookbooks when I travel. Going to Hawaii next week, so will look forward to new finds there... |
| vermont v |
Posted - Jan 04 2009 : 3:39:11 PM
Dear Kelley,
I really like the Yellow Farm House Cookbook too!I used to get the Cooks Magazine but I cut down on my subscriptions in last few years. Chris Kimball is fun to read ; he always has stories to go along with his recipes. |
| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Jan 04 2009 : 3:03:42 PM
Kelly - I didn't know Christopher Kimball had cookbooks out - are they under his own name or the Test Kitchen? I love Cook's Country Magazine
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" |
| KellyA |
Posted - Jan 03 2009 : 2:26:58 PM
Ahhhh...cookbooks! They are my most favorite books in the whole world...as my kitchen (and computer room) bookcases will attest to! I love all the cookbooks Christopher Kimball has published, with an emphasis on "The Yellow Farmhouse" cookbook...great bedtime reading! I have a soft spot for Rachael Ray (she is also from upstate New York), so I tend to buy hers. I went to the Culinary Institute in Hyde Park for a class, so I have a few of theirs...love them!!! Then there are the Joy of Cooking, Betty Crocker, and Better Homes and Gardens, which are my standards. That doesn't even touch my collection, but they are my favorites!
Kelly
When a cookbook is in hand, life is good! |
| keeperofthehome |
Posted - Jan 03 2009 : 1:40:52 PM
I love cookbooks as well. I like the Gooseberry Patch ones, Southern Living ones, Nourishing Traditions, my Mom's Better Homes and Gardens, and I adore the small church and Amish spiral bound ones.
Blessings!
~Farrah
http://oldfashionedhomekeeper.blogspot.com
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| Lucys daughter Tina |
Posted - Jan 03 2009 : 10:50:25 AM
I love the Gooseberry Patch cookbooks. I have a Fannie Farmer cookbook, it was my moms. Given to her as a wedding present. |
| owwlady |
Posted - Jan 02 2009 : 8:58:31 PM
My very favorite book is "Bread Winners" by Mel London. It has over 200 bread recipes from bread bakers all over the country and stories of the bakers themselves. I bought it years ago through the Organic Gardening book club. I've never made anything yet from it that hasn't been wonderful. Dilly casserole bread, cheese bread, herb bread, pumpkin cider bread...yummmmm! |
| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Jan 02 2009 : 8:10:24 PM
My favorite cookbooks for cooking basic comfort foods tend to be community/church cookbooks. One in particular called "cooking along the Ladies Line" that is recipes from people who lived along a particular railroad line in North Dakota - my grandpa worked on that railroad and my grandma's family is from North Dakota - anyway, lots of basic home cooking.
I love reading cookbooks - I have lots of vintage ones, the Farm Journal Pies and Canning cookbooks, a Parish cookbook from Missoula in the 30's - you can tell who had electricity and who didn't from the baking instructions. Also cookbooks featuring cuisine from other countries and cultures.
I am hoping to start enjoying trying new recipes again - when my 3 stepkids moved in with us unexpectedly 3 years ago cooking became a chore and even though we are back to a family of three I haven't got the spark back yet.
Karen/Chessie - I was excited to see the Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Loomis on your list. I just read her book "On Rue Tatin" which is about the house she and her husband bought and restored in France, has some recipes in it too. I really enjoyed her approach so was thinking about checking out some of her other books, now that one is recommended I definitely will.
Cheers,
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" |
| Celticheart |
Posted - Jan 02 2009 : 4:29:29 PM
Oh....I love cookbooks and have lots of them, but the ones I reach for most often are my Betty Crocker Cookbook that I got as a wedding gift(1972), the pages are falling out and stuck together but it's the best. I have two of the free cookbooks that Costco puts out each year. Those are quite nice. I do quite a bit of cooking from my Everyday Foods magazines. Those little things are the greatest and I haven't made anything yet that wasn't perfect. I also have a local Grange cookbook from the 1930's that's interesting.
"Nature always has the last laugh." Mrs. Greenthumbs
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| vermont v |
Posted - Jan 02 2009 : 3:32:02 PM
Paula Deen and Ina Garten are my girls; as for Giada they say never trust a skinny cook! |
| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jan 02 2009 : 1:18:06 PM
I love Giada and I love the Barefoot Contessa.
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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| chessie |
Posted - Jan 02 2009 : 11:46:00 AM
Dawn-
Aha. Guilt. I know it well. If, as my friend told me, "Worry is a prayer for something you do not want" - very profound that - then maybe "guilt is a motivation for doing something you do not intend". I don't know, maybe...
Keep up the good work, your kids & hubby are blessed to have you cooking for them, even if it is your "same old standbys (which sound delish to me!)
Cheers, Karen
www.edgehillherbfarm.com "where the name is bigger than the farm, but no one seems to mind"
blog http://edgehillherbfarmer.spaces.live.com/default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
happy farmgirl #89 |
| vermont v |
Posted - Jan 02 2009 : 11:14:00 AM
I am a cookbook aholic especially when our local Flea market often has them for one to two dollars a piece for good Vintage cookbooks. One of my most useful finds has been Farm Journals Country Cookbook Circa 1972. It has great basic recipes when it was'nt politically incorrect to cook with butter cream and bacon.I liked it so much when I saw another I picked up for a friend who is also a full fat cook! |
| 4forMe |
Posted - Jan 02 2009 : 10:55:42 AM
quote:
Originally posted by chessie
Dawn - Remember -You do not have to feed them something else.
Karen, I know, but guilt gets the better of me.....
Sewing, knitting, gardening mom of 4. |
| Bellepepper |
Posted - Jan 02 2009 : 07:40:13 AM
When we travel, I always buy a cookbook from the region. Then I read it from cover to cover like a novel. There is always one or two recipes that become my favorite. But what I cook from mostly are cooking magazines. Everyday Food (Martha S) Rachel Ray and Taste of home and Penzey One. When a new issue comes, I put a sticky page tab on the recipes that I want to try. Most of the time I get them all cooked before the next issue comes. If it is a real keeper, I make a recipe card and put it in my "use it every day recipe book". The book is a photo album with plastic sleeves that are just the right size for a recipe card. I have three of them, Full! |
| chessie |
Posted - Jan 02 2009 : 07:34:43 AM
Dawn - Remember -You do not have to feed them something else.
www.edgehillherbfarm.com "where the name is bigger than the farm, but no one seems to mind"
blog http://edgehillherbfarmer.spaces.live.com/default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
happy farmgirl #89 |
