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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Culinary Expressions

By Normand J. Leclair
Normand Pub - 2002

Do you buy those great big packages of chicken breasts and then wonder what to do with them? Maybe you always buy the salmon and are ready for something different than teriyaki or pesto? There are so many chicken and salmon recipes, all of them cook in 20 minutes. I have found it fun to see what I can make from ingredients on hand, and then to collect the ingredients for some of the other recipes that sound delicious. This is a book much beloved in RI where patrons of the former restaurants of the author, love these recipes. There are many layers to this cookbook. This man poured his whole life into this book. He wrote earlier smaller cookbooks, but this has everything – pearls of wisdom, cleaning hints and hilarious stories from his years running restaurants that will have you laughing so loudly, you will disturb those around you. The bread crumbs that are in most of the chicken recipes are really a mixture of breadcrumbs and other ingredients. Many of those ingredients are in Panko breadcrumbs and seasoned Panko breadcrumbs are a great substitute. He also has large appetizer and dessert sections including lots of fruit desserts.