Re: I am soooooooo beyond those step programs....

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

Oh geezzz, if there was a 12 step program for cookbookaholics, it wouldn't work, haha. I am resistant. I just dug out Nathalie Dupree's new cookbook (several months ago) BISCUITS. I actually used the cookbook too! Mostly, I read them! . Her recipe for 2 ingredient cream biscuits was a killer. I can't believe I actually made them myself! Of course I had to order a boat load of White Lily flour. That stuff is amazing.

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

I have at least a 300 cookbooks, some packed in boxes in garage.I have cookbooks I bought since the 1960's, and also inherited from 3 people. But, I use just a few! I use this old WWII Officers wives cookbook. I love it for baking. The other books I use over and over, are Barefoot contessa At Home Cookbook, Foster's Market Cookbook 1 and 2, Pioneer Woman first cookbook, Gweneth Paltrow's first cookbook, a church cookbook I worked on and an old Frugel Gourmet. For bread's I use Bread Machine Cookbook by Donna Rathmell German. These are so used, the pages are curled, there are dots of food here and there. We really eat the recipes in them. My style food, and easy to convert to organic.

I go to the old WWII cookbooks when I am low on ingredients, and want to make a good side dish or entree. Or sometimes my meal is light,plain and simple, but I want to make a make a side or dessert to dress it up. Because they were written during wartime rationing there are omitions of sugar, milk and such. The use of fruit and vinegar and other igredients really make for a tasty homemade dessert or baked good! Can't beat these books for ingenuity.

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

Trappy · ‎07-02-2010

${#emotions_dlg.laugh}$ I have to lol I thought I was the only nut on cookbooks, I bet I have 2,000 I have gotten rid of alot to goodwill and still have a zillion more, and I keep buying them also,I quit smoking about 7 years ago, don;t drink or due drugs so this is my thing, so glad I am not alone, I also belong to cooking groups on the interent, and we share rescipes and things we do for the day, heck let us just enjoy them, we could trade,I am in texas and also collect state cookbooks,my Favorite are Gooseberry,Taste of home, church and OMG tons of QVC cookbooks from David,and many other kind.