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

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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The Tea Drinker's Handbook

By Francois-xavier Delmas, Mathias Minet, Christine Barbaste
Abbeville Press - 2008

This is not a cookbook and there are no recipes. But if you a tea drinker and want to understand more about how tea is grown, picked, processed, and how best to brew, evaluate and enjoy, this is a great book. I looked a long time to find a book like this and the pictures of each tea type and particularly of the tea landscapes, cultures of the people growing the tea and also of how to brew tea are beautiful, informative and enjoyable. This would also be a great gift for a tea lover.