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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)
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!
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.
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.