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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Mediterranean Harvest: Vegetarian Recipes from the World's Healthiest Cuisine

By Martha Rose Shulman
Rodale Books - 2007

At first I did not find this paperback book without color pictures very appealing. But then I found I was cooking quite a few recipes. It is a very practical and usable cookbook. For example, I love buying big bags of pea pods, but would like to have them any other way but raw once in a while. Pasta with sugar snap peas and cottage pesto filled the bill. Many years ago I discovered the best French recipe for grated carrot salad, and then lost it for years. Here it is in this cookbook, very nice! Most of these recipes are simple with a minimal number of ingredients. This was a fun book to cook from and it was not noticeable to my family that the recipes were vegetarian or "healthy". It also was helpful in my goal to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into our daily diet. However I do notice that some of these recipes (like the cherry clafoutis) are in her other cookbooks as well.