My computer has been down for the last few days. It suddenly froze, and then after I turned it off, it wouldn't turn back on. So I had a friend walk me through a few things, and let it rest, and it seems to work just fine now.
Meanwhile, Danny was sick yesterday. It is odd, I have gotten used to his independence, but yesterday all he wanted to do was be held and cuddled with while we sat on the couch. Needless to say, I didn't get much done yesterday. I couldn't wait for Scott to get home, cause then he could hold him while I moved around. My body doesn't like sitting all day long.
When there isn't alot of things on during the day, you find some interesting shows. I watched the Food Network most of the day, and gained a new zest for cooking. My favorite shows were Paula Dean and Rachel Ray. Rachel's was very fun, and what I like - 30 minute meals! Meanwhile, I find Paula Dean absolutely adorable. She loves food, and doesn't hold back on the butter, it is beautiful!
As soon as the computer started working last night, I got online and started looking up cookbooks. I haven't actually purchased any yet, but I have a few in my shopping cart that I am considering. If there are any cookbooks that you have found amazingly useful, please let me know.
6 years ago
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I don't buy books anymore, I just look them up on food network and get them from there. But have fun cooking!
My favorite cookbooks have been the little 5"x7" magazine like books that you can find near the checkouts at walmart. We have four now and that's what we use, plus there's pictures of every recipe. Also get signed up on kraftfoods.com for their food and family magazine that they send for free. There's lots of great recipes in there.
HTH
Taste of Home is a magazine from Reiman Publications. They have lots of different magazines you can get. The simple & Delicious is excellent. They either had one called Fast Cooking, or they turned that into Simple & Delicious. I gout the magazine for years, and then found that I preferred the cookbook which came out once a year and contained everything the magazine the previous year had. Once I was on their list to buy the book, I cancelled the subscription and get the book automatically. This company has the best quality production I've seen.
Crock Pot anything. Actually, the best crock pot info is found free online. Actually, I always go online first before I wade through my stack of cookbooks. Well, first I check my own "book" as described below.
Cookbooks are interesting in that they don't even follow the 20/80 rule (use 20% of something 80% of the time) I found that in a cook book I might find a handful (If I'm lucky) of things I'd be willing to make, and then maybe a few of those are liked by enough in my family to add to my list. The best thing I ever did, was take my cookbooks, go through and pull out the recipes we really liked, and type them into my word processor. I could then manipulate them as I pleased. And I ended up with my own book that had JUST what I'd want to fix and others would probably eat instead of going through dozens of cook books anytime I got creative.
Um. Jaw droppingly wonderful blog face darling! Where did you get it? It's totally you!
P.S.
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book. Big classic. I use it all the time.
Racheal Rays' Kids Food. Best recipes EVER.
allrecipes.com -- you can't beat free. I'm making my own recipe book.
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