aj12754's Profile

From: Montclair, NJ USA

Joined: November 22nd, 2009

About me: I can't be the only person who starts thinking about what to cook next while I am doing the dishes for the meal I just finished eating ... right?

Favorite cookbook: I flirt with all of them. But I am a sucker for good writing and great pictures.

Favorite recipe: Pretty much any combo of good bread and great cheese.

Slow-Roasted Tomatoes from One Good Dish

A dish that could not be simpler to make, and absolutely delicious. Topped the cooled tomato with a room temperature slice of mozzarella drizzled with EVOO and some ribbons of basil. A real treat. read more >

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The 1997 Joy of Cooking

By Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, Irma S. Rombauer
Scribner - 1997

This recipe is a perfect example of why Joy rules. It simply has virtually every dish in the repertoire of American cuisine that you might want to make. Joy recipes are classics and it is because they work...and this is no exception. Quick, tasty, and open to your own variations on the coleslaw theme.

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Joy really is the old reliable. After several years of making whatever the latest version of cranberry sauce is per Bon Appetit or Gourmet or Fine Cooking, I decided to go for the classic this year. I did and it was perfect for my very traditional Thanksgiving menu.

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This recipe saved me -- a non-baker as noted before on this site -- a trip to the grocery store on a rainy dreary day when I had everything to make mushroom toast but the bread. It truly was very fast and made a fine-textured sandwich loaf that toasted up very nicely.

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Easy ... but pretty bland even for spice wimps like us.

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