I never really though about how many cookbooks I call by their authors' first names, but apparently that's a thing I do. Irma, Craig, Marcella, Fannie...
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Nov 11, 2011 9:32:17 am PST #6054 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
JZ - Nov 11, 2011 9:33:57 am PST #6055 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I see that Ron Paul has designated this an important day. It's UFO Reveal Day
Well, damn. At first, glancing, read, I thought that RuPaul had designated this UFO Reveal Day, which was just deliciously surreal and charming. Two descriptors which are just never really applicable to any declaration by Ron Paul.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 11, 2011 9:34:34 am PST #6056 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I grew up with the Betty Crocker cookbook- the one that was all about adding cans of mushroom soup to things! I mostly made cookies, though.
Jesse - Nov 11, 2011 9:34:39 am PST #6057 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
RuPaul > Ron Paul any day of the week.
DavidS - Nov 11, 2011 9:34:52 am PST #6058 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Did I get it?
Well done, Mr. Rot! Once in a century a man nails that post date and time.
Strix - Nov 11, 2011 9:34:59 am PST #6059 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I have a few speciality cookbooks, but the thing I refer to most often is a book my sister handmade for me for Xmas several years ago.
She handwrote and collated all of my grandma's most cooked recipes, and gave one to me and one to my mom. I love it.
She had a time of it, because when she was asking Grandma for measurements, grandma would be all "I think a teaspoon?" She cooked from memory, and I find that with many of her recipes, I do as well. THIS is enough cinnamon, salt, butter, etc.
Of course, nowadays, I have lots of recipes just bookmarked or printed off from the Internet. Epicurious and the Food Channel are favorites, as well as Cooks.com.
DavidS - Nov 11, 2011 9:36:06 am PST #6060 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
RuPaul > Ron Paul any day of the week.
I'm just going to keep substituting RuPaul for all Ron Paul hereinafter. It's better that way.
Sort of like substituting Joey Ramone for all the things named after Ronald Reagan.
bon bon - Nov 11, 2011 9:36:44 am PST #6061 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Of course, nowadays, I have lots of recipes just bookmarked or printed off from the Internet. Epicurious and the Food Channel are favorites, as well as Cooks.com.
Yeah, I have a two-inch thick file of recipes printed out, hundreds of bookmarks, and just find cookbooks exhausting.
Ginger - Nov 11, 2011 9:40:29 am PST #6062 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I have two versions of Betty Crocker, too, and the early Betty Crocker is what my mother cooked out of most (and still does). It's excellent for cakes and cookies. One of the cookie categories is "Beau-Catchers (and Husband-Keepers)." The later editions are more enthusiastic about processed foods.
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2011 9:46:03 am PST #6063 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
just find cookbooks exhausting
But the narrative! Seriously. Recipes are to cook from, cookbooks are to read. It's like my Cake Bible. I learn so much more about baking from the cookbook than I would from individual cake recipes from different people.
I wish I cooked more, so I could justify my CI paper subscription, because I love the articles and the talking about cookery. But instead I just flip to their website and rarely click on the collateral links, and later feel like I missed out.