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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
cdziuba@aol.com I love Jersey Girl Cooks.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
It has to be Pasta Fagioli.
Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking
Pumpkin Cheesecake from my "The Joy of Cheesecake" cookbook.
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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
cdziuba@aol.com It has to be my classic Spaghetti Sauce and meatballs. I often make Braciole too. I don't think I could make better sauce, it's legendary.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
cdziuba@aol.com I love Jersey Girl Cooks.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
It has to be Pasta Fagioli.
Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking
Pumpkin Cheesecake from my "The Joy of Cheesecake" cookbook.
Cook the Book: 'The Craft of Baking'
cdziuba@aol.com A slice of Red Velvet Cake from the Bubble Room in Captiva, Fl.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
cdziuba@aol.com My first cookbook was that big red Betty Crocker cookbook I sent away for using Betty Crocker coupons/points. I still have it.
Cook the Book: 'Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon'
cdziuba@aol.com I love bacon because it smells so good and because I so seldom eat it that when I do, it's a taste explosion.
Cook the Book: 'Dishing Up Vermont'
cdziuba@aol.com Jersey Tomatoes.
Cook the Book: 'Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book'
cdziuba@aol.com Sticky Fingers (it's a chain, but a GREAT one) on Hilton Head Island, SC. I dream of that sweet sauce.
Cook the Book: 'Bite-Size Desserts'
cdziuba@aol.com I had a tiny cupcake from a bakery in NYC. It was Red Velvet Cake with white frosting. Out of this world.
Cook the Book: 'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'
Whipped butter on graham crackers.
Cook the Book: '100 Best Vegetarian Recipes'
Pasta Fagioli...Italian pasta with white cannelini beans.
Cook the Book: '660 Curries' by Raghavan Iyer
My first encounter has been my sole encounter. It was a small restaurant in a strip mall in NJ. I told the waiter I was a newbie at Indian food, and the chef made everything mild for me, and I sincerely loved the food. It's so far from our house that we haven't made it back yet.
Cook the Book: 'Canal House Cooking, Vol. 1'
I like my New Jersey tomatoes, sliced, basil leaves from my garden topping the slices, fresh mozzarella slices on top, drizzled with olive oil, then sprinkled with cracked pepper and sea salt.
Cook the Book: 'The Barcelona Cookbook'
It was a place in Orlando on International Drive, and there was some type of chicken tapas that had us swooning. I could eat them every day for lunch and dinner and never tire of them.
Cook the Book: 'Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries & Shakes'
It's on Sanibel Island, Florida, in a place called Cheeburger Cheeburger. It's a small chain, and we've been to them all, and this one blows the rest out of the water. INCREDIBLE burger, I'm planning a trip back to Sanibel mainly to eat there again.
Cook the Book: 'L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook'
My favorite is the big one in Bird-in-Hand, Pa. It's in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, and the veggies, herbs, flowers, and fruits are amazing.
Cook the Book: 'Seven Fires'
Probably Empanadas, I'm easy to please.
Cook the Book: 'Rustic Fruit Desserts'
It has to be my teen daughter's Blueberry Buckle. She took a cooking class at a local supermarket, and that was one of the recipes. It's amazing.
Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling
It sounds gross, but my mom made the most incredible creamed tuna, rice, and peas. I dream of it to this day.
Cook the Book: Eugenia Bone's 'Well-Preserved'
I'd love to learn how to can tomatoes, we get a ton every year.
Cook the Book: 'Bottega Favorita' by Frank Stitt
I like Linguine and Clam Sauce, the way my husband and I make it.
Book Giveaway: 'Clean Plates NYC'
Sweet Tomatoes.
Cook the Book: 'Serious Barbecue' by Adam Perry Lang
I would say my greatest triumph was steak kabobs. I was watching a grilling show, and the guy said to use two kabob sticks for each kabob so the food wouldn't spin when turning. Great advice. My kabobs rocked.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Our favorite family dinner is Homemade Lasagna with a green salad and homemade yeast rolls.
Thank you so much for the chance to win.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
spaghetti and meatballs
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
We called it "chicken and glop", but it was chicken and rice. How did my mother put up with us?
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
It depends on the weather for me, but at this time of year it's roast chicken, mashed potatoes, peas (homegrown, please; frozen peas from the store are inevitably overripe), green salad, and pie.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
meatloaf and mashed potatoes!
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
My favorite family dinner would have to be posole. We have it every christmas eve with fresh tamales and it is sooo good.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Gosh, my favorite family dinner!? That's hard . My family is full of great cooks so I guess it has more to do with the atmosphere. So then I would have to go with Christmas eve dinner. 14 cousins plus 16 Aunts and Uncles all eating and drinking and being merry. Usually there's a goose (which doesn't hurt) and floating islands for desert. super yummm, it warms my heart just to think about it.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
ribs. lasagna. soup. anything my mom makes
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Our favorite comfort food is mapo tofu - spicy and warming - over rice with some sauteed greens. Something about one bowl foods you can hold in your hand do it for us...
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Pasta with meat sauce and bread!
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Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Boring but comforting - an overly stuffed tuna salad sandwich, on wonderful crusty rye bread, a slight smear of mayo, crisp iceberg lettuce, juicy tomato, cut in half please.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Irish Coddle. A big pot, almost stew but with not quite enough liquid, of potatoes, bacon, sausage and onion. Gets you fattened up for hibernation season.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
barbeque salmon and broccoli slaw, mom's favorite summer specialty
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
One of my favorite family meals is banh xeo. They're savory, yellow crepes and having all sorts of people in my family through marriage, some being born in Vietnam, some being born here, etc., my mom gets a lot of different requests as to what to put in them. First she makes the vegetarian kind for those folks then regular Americanized ones then the hardcore ones.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
(I posted this in the wrong place earlier today--so this is a "re"post!) A general comment about all the "Cook the Book" posts and recipes: The publishers are very smart to provide five free copies to SE because your write-ups have caused me to go online and buy many many cookbooks that I never would have known about otherwise! Sometimes I enter the giveaway with a comment, but I know my chances of winning are slim, so I go ahead and order the book in a frenzy of impatience. The Mark Peel cookbook is an example; it will be winging its way to me today because I love the cover photo and the recipes for green bean salad and mashed potatoes--and I can't wait to receive it! This has been true for several other cookbooks, too. (One time I actually won the cookbook in the SE giveaway, and had to give that second copy to my son. He was Seriously Happy!)
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
My favorite family dinner that I make for my roomies is pulled pork sandwiches! Maybe a side of spicy thai cole slaw.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
Homemade pizza! Usually 3 different varieties... last time it was alfredo sauce, fresh mozz, marinated artichoke hearts, baby spinach, leftover grilled chicken; marinara, fresh mozz, diced fresh pineapple, julienned canadian bacon, and oregano; and marinara, shredded mozz, and pepperoni for the kids. Everyone gets to help and everyone gets what they want. Then a big caesar salad w/homemade croutons and dressing.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
fried chicken & mashed potatoes!
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
I would have to say that my favorite has always been a tie between my grandmothers beef roast and fried chicken. The roast was always cooked with carrots and potatoes that was grown in our garden, served with green beans that we canned our self, and cabbage slaw made with Italian dressing. The fried chicken was always served with mashed potatoes, fried squash from our garden, fried okra from our garden, and green beans. Their was always rolls to go with it, slathered with jelly she had canned. She always makes gravy, brown from the roast, or light white gravy from the fried chicken. It's always better when my grandmother makes it, even if my mother tries to replicate it.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
My mother's fried chicken, green salad with Italian dressing (and lemon juice and celery salt), potato salad, dirty rice, and iced tea. Standard Sunday lunch growing up.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
I love bbq ribs with corn muffins, macaroni and cheese, and collard greens as a favorite family meal. So delicious!
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
I always remember having a homemade pizza being a great family dinner. It gets the whole family together for prep and everyone can have their own input...I am excited to be able to use pizza as a bonding experience when my children are ready for it.
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
I think of evenings at my grandmothers house when she would make a big pot of Japanese style curry (in the cubes they sell at Asian food stores) served with chicken katsu, rice and homemade pickles. mmmmm
Cook the Book: 'New Classic Family Dinners'
When I think of family dinners I think of meatloaf and mashed potatoes. That probably stands out in my mind because I enjoyed mixing it together with my hands!
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cdziuba@aol.com It has to be my classic Spaghetti Sauce and meatballs. I often make Braciole too. I don't think I could make better sauce, it's legendary.