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Cooking Light
October 12th, 2010 (edited 12th October 2010)Cookinglight.com
I adore the "Community" forums (aka: CLBB--see link to them below**) at CookingLight.com. People share reviews/recipes/chat (can be books/recipes from any source not only Cooking Light).
See somebody posting there about a great recipe? Just post back, asking for that recipe, and somebody usually posts the recipe or puts up a link to it. If you like books and recipe reviews, you gotta go there!!!!
PS: Down at the bottom of the webpage page, you can set it up to show you posts going back for years. Additionally, if you see a thread you want to follow into the future, you can 'subscribe' to the thread!
Get ready to copy a whole bunch of yummy recipes from CLBB members reviews of books/mags/recipes or talk to others about your pets or diet or anything else that is on your mind. :)
** HERE ---->>>> http://community.cookinglight.com/index.php -----<<<< is the main address of the community pages (and Great Food--the one at the top of the list--is the area where you will probably want to go first). Have a ball, y'all!! :)
(Thanks Cooking Light staff, for providing us foodies that wonderful website and forums and letting folks talk about any cookbooks or mags or websites we want to. xxxooo)
Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery + Cafe
By Joanne Chang, Christie Matheson
Chronicle Books - 2010
Looks like a good book BUT the print is so faint and small. Very hard to read and my scanner fights it. I doubt it will copy-machine well either. Bummer. If a person has young eyes, maybe no problem. I doubt I could COOK from it. SO... I am trying to scan book when I have time...with settings maxed out all the way. Little by little I am getting some done and loaded in my Mastercook, where I can enlarge the font, print large, etc. Otherwise, the recipes look good...nothing fancy..but good. Haven't cooked from it yet.
Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America
By Maricel E. Presilla
W. W. Norton & Company - 2012
I'm cheating. I just bought the book...could NOT resist.
Haven't made a thing from it.
Got it from library first, but such a long waiting list for it, couldn't keep it...so I went to Amazon and did something I don't normally do: bought expensive...$30. (I seldom go above $20 and even THAT very rarely).
This book is HUGE and MORE HUGE.
One recipe that stands out for me to make is my own beef broth and HERE IS WHY: NOT BONES! Instead, FLANK STEAK.
I'm squeemish about meat anyway and the idea of buying a big bag of misc cow bones (as most recipes call for--for beef broth) really sounds unappetizing. Instead, this author's recipe for beef broth, using just a cut of beef (no ribs/no bones), looks YUMMY to me. I can't wait to make some of the recipes in this book!
Huckleberry: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes From Our Kitchen
By Zoe Nathan, Matt Armendariz, Laurel Almerinda, Josh Loeb
Chronicle Books - 2014
Hopefully this book will be edited/corrected for errors. See reviews at Amazon. Some reviewers suggest that if you bake from the book, do NOT use the metric measures; instead, use the cup measurements.