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From: Salt Lake City, UT USA

Joined: March 29th, 2010

About me: I enjoy cooking, and my favorite internet COOKING community is the one here at cookbooker. If you want to connect about my other non-academic passion, you can find me as QueezleWeaver on Ravelry, and mostly Warped Weavers. But I've miss you cookbooker, and so here I am again, and happy to contribute.

Favorite cookbook: Savory Way

Favorite recipe: roasted anything (most recently grapes)

Stuffed Zucchini with spiced beef or lamb from Zaitoun

When it is zucchini time, it can be difficult to find something interesting. But this was both different and a total delight! Zucchini are scraped out and roasted. The "meat" from within the zucchini... read more >

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Perfect Recipes for Having People Over

By Pam Anderson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - 2005

This book appears to have reliable recipes, but its unique attribute is that it helps you entertain. Each recipe is accompanied by a side bar that includes headings such as "when should I serve it" (eg buffet parties); "what should I serve it with" (easy menu planning, with the accompanying recipes being in this cookbook); "how far ahead can I prepare it"; "what about leftovers?"; and "how can I vary it".

The index of this book is good, it has some nice photographs (but not every dish is pictured), and the recipes are diverse.

Entertaining is also considered in a broad sense, not just dinner parties, but also outdoor meals and breakfast for company.

I have borrowed this book from the library, but its excellent and I would be happy to have it on my cookbook shelf.