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vermont v
True Blue Farmgirl
194 Posts
Victoria
Chester
Vermont
USA
194 Posts |
 Posted - Jan 04 2009 : 3:39:11 PM
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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. |
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KJD
True Blue Farmgirl
402 Posts
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Posted - Jan 04 2009 : 7:01:14 PM
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| 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... |
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vermont v
True Blue Farmgirl
194 Posts
Victoria
Chester
Vermont
USA
194 Posts |
Posted - Jan 05 2009 : 12:00:11 PM
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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. |
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KJD
True Blue Farmgirl
402 Posts
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Posted - Jan 05 2009 : 5:27:45 PM
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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 - |
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vermont v
True Blue Farmgirl
194 Posts
Victoria
Chester
Vermont
USA
194 Posts |
Posted - Jan 05 2009 : 6:24:07 PM
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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. |
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KJD
True Blue Farmgirl
402 Posts
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Posted - Jan 05 2009 : 6:35:17 PM
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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 - |
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carolbrigid
True Blue Farmgirl
263 Posts
Carol
Glen Burnie
Maryland
USA
263 Posts |
Posted - Jan 06 2009 : 12:25:54 PM
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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 |
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carolbrigid
True Blue Farmgirl
263 Posts
Carol
Glen Burnie
Maryland
USA
263 Posts |
Posted - Jan 06 2009 : 12:27:55 PM
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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 |
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Jan 06 2009 : 12:58:50 PM
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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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KJD
True Blue Farmgirl
402 Posts
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Posted - Jan 06 2009 : 3:42:47 PM
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| 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... |
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peachy
True Blue Farmgirl
593 Posts
Melissa
Fennville
MI
USA
593 Posts |
Posted - Jan 07 2009 : 12:02:08 AM
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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! |
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