I have a 1963 edition of Mimi Sheraton's 'The Seducer's Cookbook', subtitled 'Helpful and hilarious hints for 20 situations into which men may lure women, and vice versa'. Extremely dated, of course! The line illustrations by Paul Coker are also quite amusing.
H-D minibars are just the thing for those of us who require a tiny perfect treat. (I'm not dieting but it doesn't take much to satisfy my craving for sweets.) My bf buys me the dark chocolate mini-bars: dark chocolate ice cream dipped in dark Belgian chocolate. If you're into chocolate--who isn't?--this is it.
I've been following discussions of food prices and shopping local vs supermarkets & I have to jump in here. I live in Toronto (Canada). Every summer/fall I shop at local farmers' markets & the prices are *always* higher than the grocers', sometimes close to twice as high: last year strawberries from the farmers were $5.00-$7.50/qt vs $4.00/qt in supermarkets; corn was $3.50/6 vs $2.00/12 in supermarkets at the height of the season. I still shop farmers as much as I can, but it's not as often or as much as I'd like to or as I have in the past. I know people say 'shop local/organic' at any cost, but one has to weigh practicalities against ideology. Unless Alice Waters wants to pick up my tab, I'll have to compromise somewhere along the line.
I have at least 3 different kinds of chocolate bars in the pantry at all times; a tablet or two after dinner is the best, matched with an appropriate tea.
I have to add a big congrats to you, Ed and to echo jaf's comment about Edy's Ice Pops. Low fat, low calorie and big fruit flavor. I have an ice pop probably 3-5 nights per week.I love the lime, tangerine and lemonade varieties and as an occasional treat, the coconut is amazing.
I'm waiting on my blood test results...5 months on diabetes meds...30+ pounds lost and 20 to go. The Ice Pops are a really big help!
I have a few cookbooks, but I think the most "fun" one I have is Retro Desserts: Totally Hip, Updated Classic Desserts from the '40S, '50S, 60s and '70s by Wayne Brachman. I made the grasshopper pie and it was pretty tasty. The pictures are fun to look at, too.
Easily the most entertaining cookbooks yet published in the English language are Beat This and Beat That by Ann Hodgman (are you reading this, Ann?)
I regularly re-read these - and by regularly, I mean weekly. And the recipes all work.
I have one called "Miss Ruby's Down-Home Trailer Trash Cookbook"...mostly just comedic value, but some of the recipes are actually pretty good. Comes with recipes from all her trailer park neighbors, and the ones from the "barfly" neighbor always contain half a can of flat beer from the night before. Hysterical.
i am a cookbook freak, so much so that there is much less space than there should be on the counter to actually COOK :-),but my favorite one is the one i got as a gift when my youngest son was in sixth grade. as a science project (?) the whole class brought in their favorite recipes from home and made a book out of them...laminated and everything. between the handwriting, spelling errors, very odd sounding directions and a healthy dose of our Southern country culture, it was, and still is, belly laugh funny. and today he turns sweet 16 and you can best believe he wishes i would lose that thing now!
My husband gave me a copy of David Letterman's Mom's Cookbook - I thought is was going to be a nice doorstop, but it turned out to have the best burger recipe that I use for every cookout.
An old Jell-o cookbook. There is a recipe for ham "loaf", ham, eggs, peas in lemon Jello paradise. I've never been brave enough to try a recipe, but I wouldn't part with it for the world.
I still have my copy of the 1965 Betty Crocker kid's cookbook. Love it and will never part from it, at least until I get some grandchildren! Jane and Michael Stern's "Square Meals", a 1984 book about meals and/or parties that may have been (or not). Much of the copy is hilarious. I actually made the Enchanted Broccoli Forest when my daughter was about 3. We had fun eating it.
My most recent acquisition is the "Tempting Kosher Dishes" published by Manischewitz in 1930. The writers (anonymous) really didn't know how to write a recipe so it becomes a challenge to the semi-adventurous cook to use it. Great Manischewitz wine/walnut cake....about the best use for that wine I've ever experienced!
Amy Sedaris' I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. A brilliant blend of quirky humor, possible insanity and recipes (mostly Greek) presented in earnest. She is the anti-Martha.
Mollie Katzen's The Enchanted Broccoli Forest -- beautifully hand-lettered and with quirky, hand-drawn illustrations throughout!
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