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Making Fresh Pasta
BTW, If someone gets a dedicated yard sale thread going, I bet we'd all have a great chat!

Comment by Cooksbakesbooks February 2012 permalink
Making Fresh Pasta
I have the old Atlas hand-crank pasta roller and it does a good job. I am getting ready to make pasta again after a long hiatus. I have rolled pasta dough out by hand on a large counter, with a rolling pin and it worked fine, too, really. Fresh pas…

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Kitchen Disasters
When I was about 8, my aunt and I planned to make Thanksgiving dinner for our large extended family. We got all kinds of things ready for the big dinner, and just left the turkey in the oven for several hours without checking it or basting it. When …

Comment by Cooksbakesbooks February 2012 permalink
Skim milk or whole milk that is the question
Thanks for working this out, guys! I will remember this formula.

Comment by Cooksbakesbooks February 2012 permalink
10,000 reviews and counting!
Cookbooker is my favorite social media site! Thank you for creating a venue that speaks so fully to my interests, cooking, baking, cookbooks, sharing, interaction with authors, reviewing. It's really all I could hope for!

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Classification Question
This is my favorite social media site! It's my treat to myself to participate when I have the rare spare time to do it!

Comment by Cooksbakesbooks January 2012 permalink
How do you start a cookbook club?
I was in a cookbook club for about five years. A local book store held it, partly to drum up sales, but it was very low key that way and we were happy to support a local business anyway. We chose a book to buy every 3-5 months and we all got a copy …

Comment by Cooksbakesbooks January 2012 permalink
Question about challah
This is a belated answer for you, bhnyc, but I recommend Mollie Katzen's Racheli's Deluxe Challah from Still Life with Menu. Many libraries carry that book, so you may be able to test the recipe without first buying the book. She lists rai…

Comment by Cooksbakesbooks September 2010 permalink
Essential Cookbook
I use the Joy of Cooking more than any other book. None of the editions is a perfect book, but like my Australian colleague said, it just has recipes for foods that I grew up with, that are American standards, that I can adapt as needed, etc. I also…

Comment by Cooksbakesbooks September 2010 permalink
What is your favorite cookie recipe?
My very favorite cookie recipe (and this is so hard, because I love so many kinds, and so many recipes) has to be Maida Heatter's Petits Trianons. I make them more often than any other cookie, and they are simply perfect, perfect, perfect. They…

Comment by Cooksbakesbooks September 2010 permalink
Importing your library
I imported my cookbook records from LibraryThing today! How fun that was! The Cookbooker site gave me a list of all of the books in my LibraryThing database, whether they were cookbooks or not, if they did not match a book already in the CB-er datab…

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