Peckish Sister's Profile

From: Central, FL USA

Joined: December 11th, 2010

About me: I have always liked to cook, particularly breads, fruits, vegetables, vegetarian, poultry and lamb dishes. After marriage we cooked together progressively more difficult dishes with him doing the meat, grilling and frying, and I did the "dough" and the same type of things I had before. After children we started cooking more simply. After discovering the cause of my frequent migraines was an evolving long list of chemicals and odd ingredients, I began getting back to cooking from basic ingredients, and found I could be well again. I also try to cooking from what I can get in season at the ever present fruit and vegetable stands.

Favorite cookbook: America's Test Kitchen / Cooks Illustrated Books

Latest review:

May 20th, 2020

Manchester Stew from Skinny Instant Pot & Slow Cooker Cookbook

I switched up the vegetables and canned beans to reflect what I had on hand. It was my very first use of the Insta pot and I was skeptical of the 3 minute cooking time since I had increased the amounts... read more >

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Peckish Sister's Reviews

Cookbook Reviews

Moosewood Cookbook

By Mollie Katzen
Ten Speed Press - 1992

March 20th, 2011

This is a great vegetarian cookbook with a surprising wealthy of various recipes for all courses. These recipes have a big reliance on dairy-based ingredients like yogurt, cottage cheese, milk and different cheeses. The index is very useful if you are trying to find all possible recipes for a particular ingredient like zucchini or buttermilk. If you want to look up a particular soup or cake recipe, you may have to go to that section of the book to find it. Breads are the smallest of all of the categories, but soups, appetizers and main courses are well represented. Most recipes turn out quite well. With the emphasis on adding more fruits and vegetables to your diet, cooking from the Moosewood Cookbook is an easy way to accomplish that.