http://107cookbooks.com Cooking my way through 107 cookbooks by June 30, 2010 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:46:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en sour cream carrot cake The Classic Carrot Cookbook is a 1982 production of the Arizona Federation of Garden Clubs. It's plastic-comb bound (orange comb and cover, of course) and set in Courier type that may have been printed from a word processor, but may have been produced on the small-type ball ... http://107cookbooks.com/?p=1307 I took a hard look at my remaining row of cookbooks and realized that there is no chance that I will cook something from all of them by the end of Labor Day weekend. And it wouldn't be sensible anyway. It would be too much food for the two of ... http://107cookbooks.com/?p=1305 soy sloppy joes We're in the dog days of August, and I've been falling behind on the cooking. There are a few reasons for this. It's too hot to cook, for one thing. We've been making salad and pasta, or eating leftovers. And we had a few leftovers from Lidia's Italy ... http://107cookbooks.com/?p=1296 smothered eggplant and summer vegetables, Anna's spaghetti and pesto Trapanese Lidia's Italy is another cookbook I bought through a club and hadn't used until now. Lidia Bastianich is a cookbook author, TV personality and restaurant owner (most notably New York's Felidia), and it is clear she knows her way around Italian ... http://107cookbooks.com/?p=1276 Cheez-It souffle Yes, you read that right. Tonight's cookbooks is The Kellogg's Cookbook, and that means recipes with things like Cheez-Its, Rice Krispies and Special K. When I wrote this up for Recipes of the Damned, I made fun of a recipe that involved sauteed shrimp and Corn Pops. To be ... http://107cookbooks.com/?p=1259 amarillo (thick yellow mole), frijoles negros colados, arroz con tomatillos, basic corn tortillas I've had The Food and Life of Oaxaca for a number of years, but have never cooked from it until now. This is partly because when I lived in Portland, I wasn't sure where to find the authentic ... http://107cookbooks.com/?p=1216 Today was supposed to be the final day of the 107 Cookbooks effort. By the end of the day I had intended to cook at least one thing from each of the 107 cookbooks in my collection. I didn't do it. With my writeup of Saturday's whiskey experiment, I have ... http://107cookbooks.com/?p=1214 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="230" caption="photo by Harris Graber, used with permission"][/caption] how to make Canadian type whiskey I'm at a loss how to classify Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices. Grizzled loner? Disgruntled former employee? The book, by George Leonard Herter and Berthe E. Herter, was published by the Herters ... http://107cookbooks.com/?p=1189 birthday cake cones If you've been reading this blog you've probably noticed that I'm kind of a snob about scratch cooking. I don't think that every kind of processed food out there is an abomination, but I think a lot of them are, and their chief failing is that they provide ... http://107cookbooks.com/?p=1176 chunky kernel spread I picked up A Man, a Can, a Plan from the discount tables at the Strand Bookstore a couple of years ago. It has so much to make fun of: thick cardboard pages of the kind usually found in babies' picture books; "recipes" that involve mixing together the ... http://107cookbooks.com/?p=1165