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From: Nanaimo, BC Canada

Joined: February 2nd, 2009

About me: I'm a busy mom with two young girls...who likes to garden when possible (my husband made two delicious pumpkin pies from my two sugar pumpkins that made it to adulthood.) I like to do a lot of comfort food cooking in the fall and winter.

Hummus from How to Cook Everything (Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition): 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food

It's amazing how easy it is to make this - and it tastes better than the usual store-bought hummus. I would suggest using a food processor, as I nearly gave my blender a heart attack. It can be quite... read more >

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C is for Cooking: Recipes from the Street

By Susan, M.S., R.D. McQuillan, Sesame Workshop
Wiley - 2007

This is a great cookbook for kids to look through and get ideas. The photographs and drawings of the Sesame Street characters are really great. I get my two kids to look at it every once and a while. The chocolate birthday cake recipe is wonderful.

Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food

By Jessica Seinfeld
Collins Living - 2007

How to get your kids to eat their veggies! Actually...it's good idea for adults, too.

I've only made one recipe from this cookbook, so I can't recommend it properly, but I must say that based on design and content, this is a very well put together cookbook. It is also hardcover and SPIRAL BOUND - why can't all cookbooks be like this?! (Probably too expensive to print that way.) I shall update my review of this book when I do more recipes, but my sense is that it has already been well-researched and test-driven already.