Books We Got for Christmas
Here are the books we got for Christmas. I received two art books and two cookbooks, all of which I will pour over.
Cookbooks
Good New Cookbooks
For those of you giving gifts to cooks, I thought you might want to know what new cookbooks I have been enjoying lately…
Cookbook Recommendation: Breakfast
This would be a lovely gift for a wedding shower, for Father’s Day for those breakfast-making-dads, or check it out from the library for yourself!
Two Great Cookbooks: Plenty & Plenty More
These two cookbooks are wonderful and I give them five stars. I am sad they are due back at the library and I have to return them!
Book Review: Fifty Shades of Kale
I’m not terribly keen on kale, but this beautiful cookbook is doing its best to change that.
Moosewood Restaurant at Last!
One of the things that has been on my bucket list for a long time has been to visit the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, NY, since for over three decades I have made their recipes.
Recipe: Ricotta Maple Nut Protein Muffins
If you are looking for something that satisfies hunger and keeps working for you for a whole chunk of your day, these are what you are looking for.
Nigel Slater’s Tender Vegetable Tips
This book is a tome, with over 400 recipes and extensive gardening tips for growing vegetables, it has 624 pages of dense, but insightful, easy-to-read information.
Mollie Katzen’s New Cookbook
When I became a vegetarian 35 years ago, there weren’t many cookbooks relevant to me, which is why Mollie Katzen’s soon-to-be-classic Moosewood Cookbook became a standby. I grew up as a cook by her side, so to speak, and who would have imagined all those years ago that we’d become actually acquainted over something called … Read more
Recipe: Tomatillo Sauce
This is my last cooking project from the garden this year. It is the first time we grew tomatillos. I initially wanted them for our Tomatillo Soup. However, with an end of season bumper crop I had to do something additional with them, so I made this Tomatillo Sauce, which I found in the Moosewood … Read more
Book Review: Sophie Dahl’s Cookbooks
Thank goodness for inter-library loan! When I read on my food blogs about these cookbooks, I had them shipped in from around the state and have been hogging…
Book Review: A Homemade Life
I really enjoyed this book and give it five stars. Officially, it is a book of essays preceding wonderful recipes, but it reads more like a sweet novel or a…
Book Review: My Cooking Class Series
– This series of cookbooks is wonderful. I love the saturated color on every page, and the bird’s eye view photography of the ingredients as well as each and every step. If you are looking for a cookbook for someone who resonates with pictures more than text, this is your solution. My library had the … Read more
Book Review: Scallops
– I don’t often review cookbooks, but this specialty one just on scallops is exceptional in every way. I’ve renewed it so many times from the library, now I’m accruing fines just to keep it around for a few more days! I often order scallops from restaurants when I have the opportunity, and this book … Read more
Book Review: Real Food Has Curves
Okay, ignoring the stupid title, I really liked this book and give it five stars. I renewed it three times from the library – wangling one more than allowable as I was loath to give it up. It is about how and why to get processed foods out of your life and actually enjoy what … Read more
Book Review: Backpack Gourmet
This is a wonderful book of how to make delicious food to dehydrate in your drier to be reconstituted and reheated for camping. This approach will not only be less expensive for our (fast approaching) camping trip out west, but quicker and easier while there, while definitely more delicious than store bought options. Many of … Read more
Book Review: The Rodale Whole Foods Cookbook
I don’t usually buy cookbooks, unless I find ones I want at library sales. Usually I check out cookbooks from the new books collections of libraries and find a couple recipes worth trying, which I copy into my ever-expanding collection. Similarly, I checked out this book, but before I had looked at one quarter of … Read more