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June 25, 2008
Invest in a new cookbook
Challenge Yourself for: 24 Hours
Sure you can browse recipes online, but there’s nothing like a well-loved cookbook cracked open next to your stove. Is your current collection full of old standards, or are there some new and more health-conscious ones on your shelves? Today, evaluate your cookbooks and decide if it’d be a good idea to invest in an updated healthful addition.
(Here are some cookbooks we think are great: The Healthy Kitchen, Isabel’s Cantina: Bold Latin Flavors from the New California Kitchen, Super Natural Cooking, and The Vegetable Dishes I Can’t Live Without.)
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I didn’t count this challenge as progress because I basically didn’t do anything any different than I had written about in my previous post. I like this method the best and I don’t like purchasing cookbooks and only use 1/3 of the recipes in it when I can go online and pick out the ones I know I will use, print them off, and make my own cookbook.
I had so many cookbooks that I would forget which cookbook to go to for a certain recipe. Also, I found alot of great recipes online. So what I did was create my own recipe book. I have a 3 in. 3 ring binder and index dividers and made my own cookbook. The recipes I used the most I would put in this cookbook. And as I found new recipes, if we like them, I would file them in this cookbook as opposed to putting them in one of the other cookbooks. So, now I have acquired enough that I have had to split the cookbook into 2 different cookbooks. I have 1 for drinks, dips, main dishes, vegetables, etc. and the 2nd for cakes, candies, cookies, frostings, etc. I have found alot of “copy cat recipes” from restaurants that I have filed in my cookbook so I don’t have to always look them up on my computer. This has worked great for me. I told my sister about it, and now she is doing the same thing.
The Food You Crave by Ellie Krieger is my favorite.
http://www.healthylivingwithellie.com/publicsite/funnel/recipes.aspx
Super Natural Cooking by Heidi Swanson is a natural foodies dream! She also has a blog which features her recipies called, http://www.101cookbooks.com/
My favorite cookbooks are by Ina Garten and Giada DiLaurentis. The meals are easy and most are basic. I just bought the new one from Giada, and found out that Ina has one coming out in October. I guarantee it will be great!
My mom has a vegetarian cookbook that I love, and I want to write down the recipes from it. Another great cookbook is one my brother brought back from the Moosewood Inn in New York state. It’s fantastic and full of great soup and salad recipes. It even has a creamless “cream” of broccoli soup!
Cookbooks I love them but now dedicate my time to my food and cooking website www.inyourkitchen.com. You can still read the recipes but every recipe also haves a video of a chef cooking the dish so you can watch and cook along with your favorite chef.
My friend challenged me to try Thai cooking with a new cookbook complete with Thai music I can play while cooking!
What is a Veganomicom?
I got Veganomicon for Mother’s Day. I love it.
I have compiled a cookbook from recipes I use from other cookbooks. My sister also emails me healthy recipes to try — and they’re actually good.
I like looking through cookbooks, but then again, I don’t because I start feeling hungry… and I never actually cook what’s in the books.. they seem to take to long LOL!!
I love cookbooks,could spend hours looking through them
I enjoy picking up cookbooks every week at the public library. I just can’t stick to one.
I have “The Essentials of Eatingwell Cookbook” and “Essentials of Healthful Cooking”.
i think that there is nothing more special than old family cook books. mabey call mom and ask her for one of your childhood favorites.
Will be picking up The Bread Baker’s Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Rienhart on the way home from work. A suggestion to other people would be More-With-Less Cookbook (World Community Cookbook) by Doris Longacre. Very helpful and very healthy recipes.
All for it, anyone have any good cookbook suggestions?