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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Light Basics Cookbook: The Only Cookbook You'll Ever Need if You Want to Cook Healthy

By Martha Rose Shulman
HarperCollins Publishers - 1999

This is a great cookbook for novices as like the name implies, there are a lot of basic cooking instruction. The version I had was spiral bound and laid flat. I found many recipes that I just couldn’t wait to try. There are no pictures, but the margins are filled with calorie and nutritional content, and helpful hints. Most of these recipes had a nice twist on an old favorite (like lentil soup with goat cheese garnish). For each recipe they tell you what equipment you will need, what of the prep to do in advance and also the nutritional info including fat, calories, carbs and protein per serving. This is definitely a cookbook for those who want to learn how to cook with a large introduction instruction section with easy basic recipes to start out on like tomato sauce and tossed salad with vinaigrette. There are also a lot of good recipes if your are not interested in the basic instructions. However many of these recipes are also found in her other cookbooks. This would be a great gift for someone who wants to learn how to cook, but does not know where to begin.