I think I made an unconscious resolution to cook more from my cookbooks. I have a lot, it's an addiction, but it has been far to easy to just hop on Google to look things up. So far the round up this week has been:
Vegetable Literacy by Deborah Madison. This book was a birthday gift from my sister-in-law. It is a beautiful book. I made the carrot cake recipe.
It even looked like the picture! Not everyone enjoys carrot cake here but everyone tried it and loved it.
Another winner:
Shell pasta with cauliflower and red pepper flakes. I am the only one who likes cauliflower and everyone had this and liked it. My husband said, "It's the best way to choke down cauliflower."
More of a common sense recipe I made was pan fried potatoes from this book, another gift from my sister-in-law:
The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone also by Deborah Madison.
Last night I made this in the slow cooker:
From:
Art of the Slow Cooker by Andrew Schloss.
It was good but over cooked due to user error not the recipe. Even though I increased the recipe my slow cooker runs hot and I have to remember to adjust times not only for this fact but I did not use bone in chicken thighs. I do look forward to making this again.
I have had the first two cookbooks for months and the the slow cooker book for well over a year and hadn't cooked from them. I seem to make more from my bread books.
Vegetable Literacy by Deborah Madison. This book was a birthday gift from my sister-in-law. It is a beautiful book. I made the carrot cake recipe.
It even looked like the picture! Not everyone enjoys carrot cake here but everyone tried it and loved it.
Another winner:
Shell pasta with cauliflower and red pepper flakes. I am the only one who likes cauliflower and everyone had this and liked it. My husband said, "It's the best way to choke down cauliflower."
More of a common sense recipe I made was pan fried potatoes from this book, another gift from my sister-in-law:
The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone also by Deborah Madison.
Last night I made this in the slow cooker:
From:
Art of the Slow Cooker by Andrew Schloss.
It was good but over cooked due to user error not the recipe. Even though I increased the recipe my slow cooker runs hot and I have to remember to adjust times not only for this fact but I did not use bone in chicken thighs. I do look forward to making this again.
I have had the first two cookbooks for months and the the slow cooker book for well over a year and hadn't cooked from them. I seem to make more from my bread books.
Hey there-- I kept trying to comment while traveling but no luck. Glad to see you've returned to the blogosphere. You were missed! One good thing about cookbooks: you can use 'em when the lights go out!
ReplyDelete...Merry Christmas Miss Aggie, sure hope You get this...sure miss you guys...GodBless
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