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I second the Ree Drummond cookbook, I love it.

@larkspurKC, I just made some BBQ Almonds last night using Bacon Salt as one of the ingredients and they turned out really well. Some people at work were telling me I should make them as gifts for Christmas.

I think FN is kind of divided into two groups, the shows that appeal to people who enjoy cooking (an endangered species) and the people who see cooking as a task they have to do. So Ina Garten, Giada and a very few others appeal to people who just love to cook, they don't care how long something takes, etc.. Then the rest of all the junk on the network appeals to people who see cooking as just something to get through with (I'm looking at you Rachel Ray). Or worse yet, cooking is seen as so foreign it becomes a circus act like with all these cake shows. I think that's why people who truly enjoy cooking have gone elsewhere to watch cooking shows like American's Test Kitchen, etc.. It's obvious the people on those shows enjoy cooking.

I also use the Tollhouse choc. chip cookies recipe, it's probably the best I've found for choc. chip cookies. I also found a recipe for Chicken Pesto Pizza on a package of pizza crusts which is very good.

I think alot of this changing recipes around by sneaking vegetables in and substituting applesause for oil, etc. is based on people thinking, "if I cut the fat and calories I can eat tons more of it". I rather just eat a small amount of something with the actual fat in it than eat stuff that has been watered down in the name of a diet. I guess I'm more quality over quantity.