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Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
My dad always called it a hole-in-one.
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Key lime cookie with salted caramel filling.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
Chowing down on pork ribs at family picnics.
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Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
My first cookbook was the Southern Living Cookbook. I don't cook from it very often now, but whenever I need a crowd-pleasing casserole or dessert recipe, I'll open it up.
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
My dad always called it a hole-in-one.
Valentine's Day Giveaway: Macarons from Itzy Bitzy Patisserie
Key lime cookie with salted caramel filling.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
Chowing down on pork ribs at family picnics.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Southside Market Sausage
Pleasant's BBQ on the Mississippi Coast.
Cook the Book: 'The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook'
Quinoa with peas, walnuts, and parmesan cheese.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Edible Chocolate Box from Charles Chocolates
Old-fashioned chocolate sheet cake slathered with chocolate icing.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters
Dim sum and a pot of tea.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks
My favorite is fillet!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
I'm Southern, so I have lots of pork memories to choose from. I guess I think most fondly on the times my mom and I would roll up rumaki. I felt very debonair and grown up slathering chicken livers and bacon with soy sauce.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: D'Artagnan Boneless Heritage Ham
Spicy whole-grain mustard, crisp red lettuce leaves, and a nice slice of Gruyere.
A Zingerman's Education: Exclusive Student Care Packages
The one item a senior deserves: Béquet Caramels. These combine the familiar (caramel) with the unfamiliar (chipotle pepper and sea salt). Plus, the students can share - an important consideration in the dorms or apartments. After four years, the kids deserve something sweet.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
I tried to make a batch of petits fours in a dilapidated apartment kitchen with an ancient and unpredictable stove. I spent hours working on the stupid things, and wound up eating dry white cake crumbs with grainy icing. I know now why a petit four can run you $3 a piece. It's worth that not to have to make them.
Cook the Book: 'A Platter of Figs'
Honeycrisp apples, sliced thin & served with room temperature brie, walnuts, and honey. (It's good baked, too, but nothing can beat the crunch of a cool Honeycrisp.)
Cook the Book: 'A Platter of Figs'
Honeycrisp apples, sliced thin & served with room temperature brie, walnuts, and honey. (It's good baked, too, but nothing can beat the crunch of a cool Honeycrisp.)
Cook the Book: New South Grilling
Pear salad. At every fancy dinner, my dad and I were in charge of making the salad course. My mother always expected us to grow up and make an elegant salad with baby greens and a homemade vinaigrette. That never happened. To this day, my dad and I always make pear salad. Put a leaf of iceberg lettuce on a plate, plop half of a canned pear (not a fresh one - the horror!) on top of the lettuce, fill the pear with Blue Plate mayonnaise, add grated cheddar cheese and a maraschino cherry.
Cook the Book: The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper
John Currence. "How do you think you can best challenge a culinary audience and keep them engaged?"
Cook the Book: 'Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking'
Rugelach or brisket. Please don't make me choose.
Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway
Hot cross buns! Totally worth waking up early for.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'The Fortune Cookie Chronicles'
"Your personal finances will be greatly improved." Not so much.
Cook the Book: 'Roast Chicken and Other Stories'
I'm a huge fan of roast chicken. When my husband and I first started dating, he caught the flu. In a desperate attempt to impress him and make him feel better, I made my pot chicken - roast chicken with lots of soggy vegetables to soak up the chicken fat. He got better. We got married. Connection? Perhaps.
Cook the Book: Win a Copy of 'Cook with Jamie'
Mostly my mom. She is a wonderful cook. I didn't cook much for a long time, but now I get in the kitchen every day, and every time I have a culinary success or failure I'm reminded of cooking with my mom.
Egg in Toast: What Do You Call It?
A Hole in One!!!! My grandfather used to make these for me when I was a very little girl, visiting him in Lancaster, PA. He was not a golfer. He was first-generation American of Swedish descent, who had grown up in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
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Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
I received The Joy of cooking as a wedding present. garrettsambo@aol.com
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
my first cookbook was one i got from school...it was with all the students favorite recipes...
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
It was a Strawberry Shortcake cookbook that had recipes for sandwiches and other easy recipes.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
it's actually kind of sad. My freshman year of college I worked at the corporate HQ of Fanny Farmer candy shops and for our Xmas bonus we all got a copy of the new Fanny Farmer cookbook ..... so my first cookbook was the Fanny Farmer cookbook.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
Better Homes And Gardens, but I grew up with my mom's Betty Crocker cookbook.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
My first cookbook was Betty Crocker's. It had all the basics and I still own it today.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
A collection of recipes that my mom made based on my observations
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
My first cookbook was one from our church. I know, not top quality. I rarely turn to cookbooks as a new cook because of the vast information on the internet. I would enjoy having a few cookbooks in my collection, though.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
My Mother in Law got me a 5 ingredient cookbook that had horrible recipes which basically combined 5 canned foods into one dish meals. Revolting.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
mom's ratty old Joy of Cooking!
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
The first cookbook that I ever received was a book of photocopied recipes my grandfather made for me of all the traditional Italian recipes that my great grandma used to make for her family. There are some wonderful recipes in there too. From homemade tortellini, to antipasto that has to sit jarred for a year before you can eat it (to let the flavors meld).
The sad bit is that I rarely use it because so many of the recipes are so labor intensive and large.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
My now-husband bought me the New York Cookbook when I started college, which turned me on to so many of my favorites today!
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
When I was small, I used my mother's Betty Crocker cookbook. When I married, she gave me one of my own and I use it still, although a host of other cookbooks have joined it on the bookshelves.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
My first cookbook was Betty Crocker's Cookbook that was a 5-ring binder.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
My first cookbook was the Company's Coming Kids Cooking cookbook - Company's Coming is really big where I'm from (Alberta, Canada), but even when I venture to another province, no one's heard of it! I don't think I made too much from it... there was a pretty good fudgesicle recipe though :)
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
My Mother gave me my first cookbook which was Betty Crocker's and I still have it today. I also gave one to my son when he moved out on his own. It's a great basic cookbook that anyone can use.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
We had the Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book growing. Plus a binder with tons of 3x5 cards neatly written by my mother and grandmother. My favorite was cooking from recipes on my mom's index cards.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
I remember looking through cookbooks, many of them, off the shelves when I was a kid. No one stands out.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
There was pretty much only one cookbook in the house growing up in my Chinese household (which my mother never cracked open) and it was the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook. The first recipe I ever made was probably tuna casserole one Thanksgiving when my sisters and I decided to do as the Americans do and add to our standard hot pot feast. How things have changed!
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
My first cookbook was the Little House on the Prairie Cookbook. I didn't cook anything out of it, but it recreated the recipes from the books I loved.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
Unfortunately, I can not remember the name of the Cook Book Given. But I do know who gave it to me. My Aunt Sandra gave me the cook book for my Baby shower 24 years ago. She wished me a long and happy life. Aunt Sandra died 4 years ago..and although I cannot find the cookbook through many moves I do treasure the sentiment
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My first cookbook was the Southern Living Cookbook. I don't cook from it very often now, but whenever I need a crowd-pleasing casserole or dessert recipe, I'll open it up.