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Right now: none. Some day: all.
Weekend Cook and Tell: Vintage Recipe Redux
I just made this lentil soup: http://thebarefootkitchenwitch.typepad.com/the_barefoot_kitchen_witc/2008/03/a-mess-of-potta.html. (btw, that is not my blog.)
It's from a 1975 cookbook and calls for 3/4 of a cup of milk powder, which I had on hand because of a pancake recipe I love. My husband and I loved the soup. There's just something about a cocktail of corn syrup solids, sodium saseinate, dipotassium phosphate, and propylene glycol monosterate that just hits the spot. Sometimes.
What's your food therapy?
Um, I eat. When my phone broke this morning it was uncooked oats with milk and lots of brown sugar.
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Cook the Book: 'Good Eats: The Early Years'
My mom made really good gravy. I think I was in second grade. I was so excited about it, I got up in front of my class and told them about it. Not much of a story unless you know my mom and her cooking repertoire.
SE Contests - If you don't win it, how often do you buy it?
Right now: none. Some day: all.
Weekend Cook and Tell: Vintage Recipe Redux
I just made this lentil soup: http://thebarefootkitchenwitch.typepad.com/the_barefoot_kitchen_witc/2008/03/a-mess-of-potta.html. (btw, that is not my blog.)
It's from a 1975 cookbook and calls for 3/4 of a cup of milk powder, which I had on hand because of a pancake recipe I love. My husband and I loved the soup. There's just something about a cocktail of corn syrup solids, sodium saseinate, dipotassium phosphate, and propylene glycol monosterate that just hits the spot. Sometimes.
What's your food therapy?
Um, I eat. When my phone broke this morning it was uncooked oats with milk and lots of brown sugar.
Cook the Book: Chocolate Sheet Cake
Okay, I just made this in a smaller Pyrex pan and I should have used my normal size one, the 9 x 13. It's still really good, though.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
My favorite food blog is David Lebovitz, but PW Cooks is a very close second.
Cook the Book: Chocolate Sheet Cake
I halved this recipe and made it in a smaller ish pan (I don't know the measurements, but it was smaller than a normal Pyrex. Ya, real helpful, I know). It was amazing. I think I might just have to make it right now. Dang, I just cleaned the kitchen.
Weekend Cook and Tell: More Than Just Beer Nuts
No beer for me, but this Cook and Tell did inspire me to have a root beer float. Thanks. :)
What desserts do you crave?
Chewy chocolate chip cookies that just a bit crispy around the edges. I haven't had a perfect one in a long time so maybe that's why I'm craving it.
Bake Sale Ideas
I totally agree with the idea of making something savory. I usually pass on bake sales because I'm not in a sugar mood.
Spanakopita would be great, but what a pain to make.
Roasted almonds or other nuts?
Finger sandwiches, maybe?
This is likely not very useful, but whenever I see someone selling doughnuts and hot chocolate on a cold day, I always wished it was tomato soup and hot grilled cheese sandwiches.
Any food you could eat daily til' you kick the bucket?!
Water is the only thing I could consume every day for the rest of my life. I love variety and when something becomes common it loses its worth. Why eat something you ate yesterday when you could eat something different today? :)
How do you control your food cravings?
Wow, I can finally post comments.
Anyway, I have to make a plug for the book "Intuitive Eating." The book recommends keeping all the foods you could possibly crave on hand so that when you do have a craving, you can just eat that food and then move on.
It's actually a lot of work to figure out what you really want to eat and then focus on enjoying it. But it does make eating a pleasurable experience, which is new to me.
Another benefit: my pre-pregnancy clothes fit, which saved me a lot of money.
Cook the Book: 'The Craft of Baking'
Peach pie with unbaked peaches.
Did the Internet Kill 'Gourmet' Magazine?
I'll take davidlebovitz.com, 101cookbooks.com, and seriouseats.com over some random twitter post any day. And I think they all make money off my visits. Yes, the good still rises to the top.
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 87: Do Weights Help You Lose Weight?
I love P90X. I don't do the food part, though. But the workouts are great.
Mixed Review: Williams-Sonoma Cookies and Cream Cake
Cookies and cream? Please. It's got to be spumoni.
Cook the Book: 'Gourmet Today'
Rachel Ray. I gave it away.
What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?
The lunches in rural Utah elementary schools were actually quite good, if you like down home cooking. And I did. I loved the fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy, the hamburger gravy with mashed potatoes (sick, I know), the taco salad, and the sloppy joes. But I usually just opted for the baked potato bar or the salad bar. It was pretty great.
Then, I moved to Georgia. The minute I caught sight of the carrot raisin salad and smelled the boiled cabbage, it was peanut butter and jelly for me.
What Should I Make to Accompany Mac and Cheese
I vote chicken fingers and fruit.
Whatever you do, don't bend over backward. Guys like it if they have to work for you, not the other way around ;)
Breakfast, the most important meal of the day? Really?
If I eat a healthy breakfast, I eat healthy all day. If I eat a pastry, the next thing you know I'm devouring Snickers and fries. For me, that's why it's the most important meal.
Serious Green: Freeze It Now, Eat It Later
This is a very inspiring post. Thank you.
Uh, inspiring in a "I need to get off my butt and freeze some stuff" kind of way, not a "I need a tissue" kind of way.
Cook the Book: 'Good Eats: The Early Years'
Every other Thanksgiving we visit my grandparent's ranch in south Texas. Eating the traditional dishes that my grandma makes is a great annual activity. We usually end up with lots of extended family over, including a couple that owns a vineyard and brings their wine with them. They always arrive with the air that they've been tasting it already...
Cook the Book: 'Good Eats: The Early Years'
We have a big family and cook 3 turkeys to feed the crowd. One of them is cooked outdoors since we run out of oven space. The first time I fried a turkey on my own I couldn't seem to get the oil hot enough. After a while, I finally noticed the probe wasn't far enough in the oil. After a frantic attempt to now cool down the pot (setting it on bricks in the grass and hosing the outside with water - not too smart), it finally cooled down enough and when we finally checked the bird, it was perfect.
These days I now cook the bird on my Weber. It's way more predictable!
Cook the Book: 'Good Eats: The Early Years'
Every year I grab whomever is in my unit at Dland to treat them to a Thanksgiving dinner. The reason being that for about 4 years I had to work on Thanksgiving and Xmas and know what its like trying to find somewhere to eat on that day. So it has become a tradition to invite all the guys who had to work that day and couldn't go home.
Cook the Book: 'Good Eats: The Early Years'
My story is; I was born on Thanksgiving. No one had dinner that fateful day!
Cook the Book: 'Good Eats: The Early Years'
Story, story, story, story. I wish I had a good one for you. All I know is that the best food always was done by my Grandmother. Southern cooking and all. She learned from the best. Her dumplings are legendary.
What's your food therapy?
I like to reduce onions to sugar in a skillet of butter. Add mushrooms and I am slap happy.
SE Contests - If you don't win it, how often do you buy it?
@bananamonkey, I don't always believe publisher's blurbs, and that's why I love the recipes that SE posts from the cookbooks. If there are five that I really want to try, then it's a good bet that the rest of the book will have even more that's appealing. And then I browse the book at the bookstore, too. But generally, if I'm psyched to win a book, then I'm more likely to look at it at the store than the other ones that I haven't "sampled" online.
I have to admit that I do enter for some cookbooks that I'm not sure if I really want or not. That is, I might not be willing to pay, but if I won, I wouldn't hate the book. If it's something too weird or a cuisine I'd never cook, or I have too many of that type of book already, then I don't enter. But honestly, it would be hard for me to turn down any free cookbook...even if it's just to read.
SE Contests - If you don't win it, how often do you buy it?
I'm Canadian, so, correct me if I'm wrong, can't win the contests... Boooo....
I ignore all the contest posts, though occasionally take a peek at the recipes. HOnestly, I much prefer recommendations that come in the talk topics from you fine folks, rather than publisher blurbs...
SE Contests - If you don't win it, how often do you buy it?
i won a book once-it was the most exciting day of 2008-'Shark's Fin & Sichuan Pepper' by Fuchsia Dunlop.
i don't want to be a prize pig, so now i only put in for things i really want....like that turkey! gimme gimme!
i've checked cookbooks out of the library, including shopsin's, which i did eventually buy for my brother as a gift-.i wish he'd return the favor-i love that book!
SE Contests - If you don't win it, how often do you buy it?
I've only entered the olive oil and the turkey contests, even though I've already ordered an organic turkey from vermont. So in that case I probably will not go out and buy or order a D'Artagnon turkey any time soon. Although, having my inbox flooded with all of the responses, I'll probably remember the name for a long time. I've turned off the email notification feature for the time being too.
SE Contests - If you don't win it, how often do you buy it?
I enter ones that I want to win, but also never win any. I've made a little rule for myself about not buying a cookbook unless I've already borrowed it and used it enough to warrant actually buying it. I should start a list of featured books that I like but don't win (*mope*) and look for them at my library ...
SE Contests - If you don't win it, how often do you buy it?
Now that doesn't make any sense, does it. I mean if I could just google recipes I wouldn't hang around here getting new ideas, etc.
SE Contests - If you don't win it, how often do you buy it?
I enter only the ones I really want. Failure of imagination - it never occurred to me to enter all of them. =0)
I've occasionally gone to the bookstore and looked through the cookbooks I haven't won, but like Nezrite I keep telling myself I can get what I want online. But if that were true I probably wouldn't spend as much time on this site!
Weekend Cook and Tell: Vintage Recipe Redux
My mom believed( a head of her time) that pleasing us kids was fun. Some of the dishes she would make for us were clever, cute, and tasty for a kid. I quess my father was okay with them, she babied him ,too, most of the time. She used to make tug boats(mashed potato's with weiners cut in half and stuck in the potatoes. She made us chipped beef, with white sauce on cute little toast triangles, every form of jello known to mankind, and we always had a desert. She was actually a fabulous cook and had great stories, from her farmgirl days. Since, she passed on, I have enjoyed reminiscing with all her old recipes and I love cooking them still to this day. I love retro food and even ordered my everyday cooking book from e-bay so I could get one like she had in the 60's. My favorite dishes are Country Captain Chicken(not the modern version but the one with roasted slivered almonds and currants, and Hamburger Cheesebake, fabulous dishes. Old but the "BEST". coco
Weekend Cook and Tell: Vintage Recipe Redux
I've just started a series on my blog for 50s/60s recipe makeovers! It's a brand new blog and my recipe is in honor of the blog name. Please let me know what you think!
Here's my Peas and Carrots
Weekend Cook and Tell: Vintage Recipe Redux
I blogged about a retro cookbook and recipe at http://thekitchwitch.blogspot.com/2009/08/white-trash-motherlode-shipwreck.html
Weekend Cook and Tell: Vintage Recipe Redux
We're making a ton of sushi tonight (which is decidedly not retro), but we are using hearts of palm in one of the rolls, which is in a salad that Don orders in one of the season 2 episodes.
@MMinNYC: Sadly, my mother still sometimes makes the Jello molds with lemon and carrot in them for showers--I've never dared to taste one because they gross me out.
Weekend Cook and Tell: Vintage Recipe Redux
I love vintage cookbooks also. I made a salad from a 1967 church cookbook. I thought it was one of the more "normal" among the congealed salads and aspics, but I really disliked the addition of the Durkee Sauce, which I had never used before. Maybe I should have tried the one with lime jello, pickle relish, canned peach slices, and celery!
I blogged about my salad at http://sagetrifle.blogspot.com/2009/11/cook-and-tell-vintage-recipe-redux.html
What's your spice aversion?
CUMIN... after 3 weeks in India a few years ago, i developed an aversion to cumin after a whole week straight of eating food seasoned with cumin. Everything tasted the same.
Now, I can't even smell it at the supermarket.
Cook the Book: Chocolate Sheet Cake
I did it. It was AWESOME! A little more like an hour, but I'm slow. My wife, not really a fan of cake, loves it as well. Make sure you eat it when the icing is warm/room temp. I must admit, having a total of nearly a pound of butter and as much sugar as this recipe has certainly helps! ;)nom nom nom!
Cook the Book: Chocolate Sheet Cake
I haven't made this recipe, but I've used some of Pioneer Womans other recipes and I have always enjoyed them. Yes, sometimes too much butter or too much sugar, but that's the joy of dessert!
Cook the Book: Chocolate Sheet Cake
I made this over the weekend and it didn't come out very cakey. Wondering if high altitude would affect the outcome? The flavor was amazing, but the sugar content was rather extreme for this girl. I'm looking forward to adjusting this to suit my taste buds. Loved how quick and easy the recipe is.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Hard to choose. I started out in food blog land with I Was Just Hungry.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
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My mom made really good gravy. I think I was in second grade. I was so excited about it, I got up in front of my class and told them about it. Not much of a story unless you know my mom and her cooking repertoire.