Cookbooks

What Have I Been Reading?

December 2, 2010

Cookbooks of course! We love going to the library and one of my favorite things to get at the library is cookbooks. It is a fun and frugal way to find new recipes. This week I found some very good cookbooks at the library and I spent part of yesterday going through them. I found [...]

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Top Secret Recipe Cookbooks

October 28, 2010

Some of my favorite things to cook are copycat versions of our favorite restaurant foods and store bought items. Over the years I have made Panera Broccoli Soup and Panera’s Potato Soup. I have made homemade Orange Julius and homemade taco and enchilada sauce. Some of my other favorite make at home recipes like cornbread are [...]

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Cooking Lecture and the Chemistry Behind Food

October 11, 2010

I love the science behind cooking. There is so much science behind cooking that we do not realize. Last week my husband and I attended a lecture given by Shirley O Corriher. She is the author of CookWise and BakeWise and is also the food scientist from the Alton Brown show. We both really enjoyed her talk. [...]

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Best of the Best State Cookbooks

September 14, 2010

Several years ago I picked up a cookbook at a used book sale called The Best of the Best from Texas: Selected Recipes from Texas Favorite Cookbooks. I instantly love this cookbook. It reminded me of the church cookbooks that many of us own. It even looks a lot like the church cookbooks that so [...]

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Herbs and Spices: The Cook’s Reference

August 6, 2010

Last week I got to spend a whole afternoon shopping by myself. If you are a mom like me, than I am sure you understand why shopping all by yourself is a treat. I was mainly grocery shopping, but I did have a few other errands to do. One of which was to stop by [...]

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The Complete America’s Test Kitchen Cookbook

July 23, 2010

It is no secret how much I love America’s Test Kitchen and their cookbooks. I really like how they explain the science behind food. Their new cook book The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook is fast becoming my new favorite cookbook. I checked this cookbook out from the library a few months ago [...]

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Taste Of Home

June 18, 2010

I have mentioned many times how much I love cookbooks. I have quite a collection of cookbooks, and I use them all the time. Today I want to share with you not just one cookbook that I love, but several cookbooks that are in my collection. I have mentioned before how much I love Taste [...]

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Magazine Deals

April 12, 2010

I have posted several times how much I love Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food magazine and Taste of Home’s magazine. I have subscribed to both over the years and love them. Right now Best Deal Magazine has them both for a great price. Taste of Home is $4.69 for a year and Everyday Food is $5.95 [...]

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Paula Deen Cookbooks

March 30, 2010

I love Paula Deen recipes. I first learned about Paula Deen from watching her on the food network. I instantly loved her down home southern style food. Now, not all of her food is southern style, but most of her recipes definitely have a southern feel to them. I grew up in Oregon, which is [...]