Book review: Heirloom Beans: Great Recipes for Dips and Spreads, Soups and Stews, Salads and Salsas, and Much More from Rancho Gordo I’m really loving cooking my own beans! And I’ve been learning more about wonderful heirloom beans. There’s a well-known highly regarded California heirloom bean company named Rancho Gordo. They sell their beans locally [...]
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If It Makes You Healthy By Sheryl Crow Cookbook Review
I borrowed the new Sheryl Crow cookbook If It Makes You Healthy: More Than 100 Delicious Recipes Inspired by the Seasons from the local library. I always thought Sheryl Crow was healthy, I mean just look at her! Killer body, great hair/skin, gorgeous. That’s why when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, it was so [...]
Gwyneth Paltrow “My Father’s Daughter” Cookbook Review
I borrowed a copy of Gwyneth Paltrow’s new cookbook “My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness” from the library. I was a bit skeptical, not that I wasn’t a fan, but I just figured it was one more celebrity cook book. And in a way, it is “same ole same ole”, but [...]
Vegan? Me? Yes! Thinking About Veganism
I’ve been listening to the audio book “Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World” (by Kathy Freston) and it’s actually starting to influence me! No, I can’t see myself living a full time vegan lifestyle, but I’ve been leaning into reducing our meat consumption more and more. Just this week, we ate several meatless [...]
A Cook’s Journey to Japan – Cookbook Review
I found the most wonderful book at the library, and it’s started up a new obsession with Japanese cooking! The book, “A Cook’s Journey to Japan: Fish Tales and Rice Paddies 100 Homestyle Recipes from Japanese Kitchens” is awesome! I’ve borrowed a couple Japanese cookbooks previously, and none of them struck me so profoundly as [...]
The Essential NY Times Cookbook
I love finding cookbooks that open up a whole new world of food, recipes, chefs and authors to me, and that is what the book The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century did for me! Except for an occasional Mark Bittman’s “The Minimalist” column, I never bothered to read much [...]
Slow Cooker Cook Book Reviews
There are so many slow cooker cook books! I just borrowed a bunch from the library! I wanted to jot down some notes for a few of them. Better Homes & Gardens Ultimate Slow Cooker book Better Homes & Gardens Ultimate Slow Cooker book – see my more detailed review on this book. Bottom line, [...]
Better Homes & Gardens the Ultimate Slow Cooker Book
I found a copy of the Better Homes & Gardens The Ultimate Slow Cooker Book at the local library. The book includes 400 recipes, and 200+ great photos. Each recipe contains prep time, cook time, & serving information, along with nutritional data, which I really appreciate. The book is paperback, but does not easily lie [...]
Food Rules (Michael Pollan) Book Review
Michael Pollan is one of my heroes! His book “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” was a huge inspiration to me when I started on my healthy lifestyle change. Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants is his simple mantra. Those words of wisdom define the three parts of Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual. [...]
How To Cook Everything iPhone App – Free Version
Just saw that there is a FREE version for the Mark Bittman “How To Cook Everything” iPhone App. It’s called “How To Cook Everything Essentials“. The app includes 103 basic recipes that Mark Bittman considers “Essential,” plus reference information and features from the complete app. Timer, shopping list, etc I was lucky enough to purchase [...]
