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 [...]
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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 [...]
Jamie Oliver’s Butternut Squash (or Sweet Potato) & Chorizo Soup Recipe
I borrowed a bunch of Jamie Oliver books at the library, and am currently reading the Jamie’s Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals and it’s a winner for sure. The book is full of simple rustic recipes. I found so many ideas and inspirations! I decided my first recipe from the [...]
Peter Reinhart’s Transitional Whole Wheat Bread – Using a Bread Machine
I’ve been experimenting with bread dough, and have found that a long slow fermentation makes the most flavorful, delicious bread! I experimented with my own recipe, but wanted to keep exploring. I’m all about whole grains, so reading Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor seemed like the next logical step! I’m really [...]
This Weeks Crush is Jamie Oliver
So this week I’m crushing on Jamie Oliver! I just borrowed a bunch of his cookbooks from the library! I love his basic, free style of cooking, and he’s got a warm personality! I don’t really remember hearing much about Jamie Oliver until I watched him on his TV series “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution“, but [...]
Organizing Recipes with Evernote – Online, Offline & iPhone
I’ve been busy as a bee, organized the mountain of recipe web pages that I’ve been saving during the last year or so. Back a few months ago, I originally tried saving each recipe page as a pdf file on my hard drive in a categorized folder. It was very cumbersome, and although I could [...]
First Soaker and Biga!
Well it was my first try at a soaker and biga. Whoo hoo! I followed a recipe from Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor I followed the Multigrain Stuan recipe on page 102. Actually I shouldn’t even be calling them recipes, (thanks Pen!) they are actually called “formulas” I started out very [...]
Influx of iPhone Cooking Apps
Wow, I’ve noticed that there are a lot of new cooking iPhone apps! Everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon. Cook’s Illustrated (free) Gordan Ramsay Rachel Allen Mario Batali – on my wish list! MasterChef Academy Free version – How To Cook Everything Apple Recipes Plus the ones that have been around for a little while: How [...]
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 [...]
