I don't know where all this is coming from - all of these thoughts about on going features.
Sometimes I think to slow the breaks down over here at Life Is Still Sweet.
Than other days I get non stop ideas, and pictures, and food to cook and share.
I guess I'll just go with this flow and new ideas and features.
This is the last feature post idea, I promise.
I'm going to call it Cooking the Books (I can only imagine the disappointment people will have when that Google search leads them here).
No, no accounting loop holes to learn here.
I'm talking cookbooks.
Many cookbooks are waiting for me. I love checking them out of the library. No long term commitments.
However, there are a couple that I cook from ALL THE TIME.
One of my favorites, that contains at least 3 recipes that I covet is Jamie Oliver's Happy Days With the Naked Chef.
It's one of his older books, but absolutely amazing on many levels.
The other night I was making his Parsnip and Bacon pasta from the book, I noticed how many more recipes I had marked to try. The little tags sticking out the top are ridiculous.
I make at least 3 recipes from this book constantly (I'm not even sure why I still pull it out when making this, I have it memorized). But I realized that there are so many more fantastic recipes waiting for me in this book. The mark of a really good cook book to me is how often you remake a recipe or how many times you pull it off your shelf even just for inspiration. By that measure, this book rates VERY high.
My goal is to cook at least 15 more recipes from this book (and share them all with you), and to start checking out some other books on my list and share those too.
I'm not going to make this a set weekly or monthly feature, but it will be recurring for sure.
I'll go into more about his book soon, but really it's simplicity in the recipes (like parsnips, bacon, pasta, and cheese) that makes this book brilliant.
What are you favorite cookbooks, or are there any you've been thinking about?
2 comments:
That looks like a good pasta dish.
I don't use very many cookbooks. The Joy of Cooking is my standard, and Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook was what got me into baking extravagant things. I love looking at her older entertaining books, but I don't use them very much.
I also have an old book on handmade pasta that I pull out more than most other cookbooks. I received 'The Cracker Kitchen' for my birthday - it's time to make something Southern out of that !
I'm going to have to take a gander at 'The Cracker Kitchen'. My husband would laugh at that title and make some sort of white person joke. I think I'll have to check it out of the library, leave it laying around, and see what he has to say. That's my sociology study for the year.
Oh, a quick Google search has lead me to see that they ARE referring to cracker in the sense that my husband would laugh at. AWESOME! Now I really must check this book out.
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