From: Pawling, NY U.S.A
Joined: December 31st, 2009
About me: I'm the art director of Family Circle and a food department groupie. I have been collecting cookbooks for years and now have a substantial collection of old and new titles which I am looking forward to entering and reviewing here.
Favorite cookbook: How to Cook Everything
Aromatic Minced Pork, Shan Style from Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
It's amazing how good this tasted considering I was missing a few of the ingredients. I used ginger instead of galangal and onion instead of shallots and squeezed on some lime juice instead of lemongrass.... read more >
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Cooking Dinner: Simple Italian Family Recipes Everyone Can MakeBy Rima Barkett, Claudia Pruett, Michael Collopy
MEGA - 2009
Some will find this book unremarkable but I love it because it reminds me of the simple Italian food my mother made for us every day back in the 70s. After all, sometimes you just need a time and a temperature an ingredient or a measurement.
