My Cookbook Order

[chubbyalaskagriz]

[quote=shipscook;16514]I think you will love Ina's book also. I read cookbooks like novels and her's are so nice. Barefoot in Paris makes me reach for my passport.QUOTE]


I love Ina's books too, Nan. I've got them all EXCEPT 'Barefoot in Paris'. Can u believe that? The Good Cook doesn't have it as an option any longer but I see it's available used from Amazon for $14.50, so I'll have to order it.

[jglass]

Originally Posted by chubbyalaskagriz

Ina is one of my FAVS! I like her mellow mood, her intuitive process, her fun hints & habits and just her general cooking style.

I'll be curious to hear what u think of the Deen Brothers' "Ya'll Come Eat Cookbook". I have friends who LOVE these boys and I'd like to buy copies for them for upcoming birthdays...

The book has a lot of family stories in it and tons of pics.
The pics of Paula Deen's grandson are the cutest.
I like the book alot. Some of the recipes I have made and liked are..


Hoecakes
Brooke's Homemade Meatloaf
Egg Salad in Toast Cups
Chicken Salad Stuffed Tomatoes
Three In One Bean Salad
Pepperoni Cheese Bread
Mini Cheeseburger Puff Pies
Mama's Spaghettie Casserole With Baked Garlic Herb Bread

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Wow Jg you really impress me with how many of the recipes you have made!
You go girl!

Hoecakes YUMMY I LOVE 'EM!!! What did you think of them?

[jglass]

My Mom always made something like that we always called fried cornbread lol.
We always had it with a big plate of leaf lettuce and green onions with some hot bacon grease on top. I always like apple cider vinegar with mine.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

The other night I made up a nice iron skillet of cornbread, it was so good Janie!!! I had mine dripping with butter & tupelo honey oh my goodness it was so good, better that cake! I never had the wilted greens w/ hot bacon grease but I have heard of it, I love bacon grease but only sparingly, I feel sometimes my x-ma in law over used it and ruined some dishes (all you could tatse was grease).

[jglass]

Nothing like cornbread made in an iron skillet. In this area we never put sugar in cornbread.
I like mine with some I can't believe its not butter and honey lol.

I like to save bacon grease and use to grease the skillet I make my cornread in. I have to go easy with stuff like that because of my gallbladder. I still love lettuce and green onions with cornbread but I make a nice vinaigrette out of white wine vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper to go on mine. My Mom used to get those huge buckets of lard every month and everything we ate swam in it. Probably the reason I have a bad gallbladder now lol.
I remember my Mom and her sisters picking wild greens and Mom used to pick me something they called wild lettuce when it was little in the spring that was really good.

I always thought we were as country as you get til I got a cookbook called White Trash Gatherings..now thats country.

[chubbyalaskagriz]

I agree jglass... that fun White Trash Cookbook makes folks from the show "Cops" look like snooty Antebellum-dwellers... & makes Nascar look like Monte Carlo card-playing! Hee-Hee!

[jglass]

lol Exactly.

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Hey Gang,

I was tickled when the mail-gal delivered my new-member box of five freebies from "The Good Cook" today! This is about my millionth membership!

My box included a new copy of 1.) "Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen" (left old one w/ Arturo in Alaska) 2.) "The Deen Bros. 'Ya'll Come Eat' ", 3.) Susan Spicer's "Cresent City Cooking", 4.) Patty Pinner's "Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations with Pie", and 5.) Martha Hall Foose's "Screen Doors & Sweet Tea".

Although I'm exctied about all the books- I am particularly thrilled about the last two, as both promise to be not only cookbooks w/ awesome recipes and pics, but they also appear chock-full of essay-writings, kinda in the vein of Maya Angelou's "The Hallelujah Table".

(If I ain't showin' up much here in the next couple days it simply means that I'm side-tracked with the new books- and the new job at State Farm, which starts-up tomorrow! (notice the "new job"- though exciting, is in the shadows of, and plays second fiddle to the NEW COOKBOOKS!)

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Very best wishes on your new job, I do so hope you will like it. First day on the job is always akward but you will do just fine! State Farm oh brother how could you? Hee-hee!