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Storm

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Barked: Thu Mar 1, '07 8:19am PST 
...are there any other cooking nerds out there?

Recipe sharing is always fun. smile
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Meridian

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Barked: Thu Mar 1, '07 9:46am PST 
Count me in on the cooking nerdery! Do you use any of the recipe sharing websites? I'm on Recipezaar. It's awesome.
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Gio

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Barked: Thu Mar 1, '07 5:03pm PST 
I'm more of a baking nerd ... cooking meals scares me ... but I'm all over baking!!
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Sabrina- 2000~2012

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Barked: Sun Mar 4, '07 12:07pm PST 
I love cooking and baking! And now since I have such a restricted diet it's a good thing I like cooking!

Every other weekend I make 2 litres of my salsa and fresh peanut or other nut butter, every weekend I make my famous cookies (my backup plan if I drop out of grad school), once a month or sometimes more often I bake yested bread, and every week I usually make at least 2-3 home cooked meals, some from recipies and some experimental.

My favorite recipie right now is my "free" cookies-- vegan, refined sugar free, gluten free, organic:

1 1/2 c chunky peanut butter (or other nut butter)
1 1/2 c maple syrup
2 1/2 c spelt flour
1 t baking soda
1 t salt
2 t vanilla
1 to 2 c refined sugar free chocolate chips.

If you didn't just make the peanut butter (I make mine in my cuisinart fresh every time) you'll need to stick it in the microwave about 30 sec or so to get it soft and easy to work with. Meanwhile, mix the flour, salt and soda in a bowl. Add the peanut butter, vanille and maple syrup and stir. Stir in the choc chips. Drop by teaspoonfulls onto a greased cookie sheet (I use my cookie scooper and silicone coated paper) and press cookie down slightly. Bake 350 12-15 min.

If you're allergic to peanuts I've tried it with almonds and it works well. I keep meaning to try with cashews but haven't yet. I bet any nut butter would work though!
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Meridian

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Barked: Sun Mar 4, '07 12:46pm PST 
Mmmm... Sounds yummy. I haven't made cookies in forever. Maybe it's time!
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Snowy

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Barked: Sun Mar 4, '07 4:47pm PST 
erm.. can't really cook but I can't help myself buying recipe books. hehe. does that count?
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Meridian

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Barked: Tue Mar 6, '07 12:52pm PST 
Hah, Snowy! I think that's fine. Maybe you're just not ready yet. When you are, you'll have the resources you need!

I think recipe following is overrated. I use them as inspiration and guideline. Seems whenever I follow a recipe to the letter my husband says, "Mmmph. It's OK I guess. You followed a recipe, didn't you?" I guess I'd rather have it that way than the other way around!
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Brody

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Barked: Wed Mar 7, '07 2:36pm PST 
I'm the same way Snowy! I love to buy recipe books but rarely, if ever, make anything in them. I don't like to touch raw meat so I never make anything with meat (unless its for Brody - somehow I can get over it) and so that leaves me with vegetarian meals. Most of the vegetarian meals include weird ingredients. So I just like to look at the pictures I guess. Who knows.

Most of my recipes include garlic, spinach, rice, black beans, and salsa or some kind of tomato-ey sauce. I pretty much don't know how to cook anything else.
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Storm

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Barked: Fri Apr 13, '07 8:17am PST 
I'm kick-starting this thread!

Question: what is your favorite cookbook? I'm learning that some people have very particular preferences.

I'm a Betty Crocker fan myself, but it has to be a particular publish date. See, all of the kids on my dad's side of the family got their first BCs on their 18th birthdays; so, when my 18th rolled around, I got the latest edition. Unfortunately, the recipes were all radically different from the 1970s version - my dad's 18th b-day gift - that I was used to cooking with. Sure, I tried some of the newer recipes, but I liked how the older ones turned out.

When my parents separated I no longer had access to the 70s version. However, my mother found a copy for me and gave it to me for Christmas one year! I was so happy.

Now that my eating habits have changed dramatically (and I've learned some tricks) I'm going back and seeing what recipes I can alter. I'm having some good luck with my old 70s BC!


Veronica (and other vegan chefs out there) - thus far I've only tried to alter a biscuit and a pumpkin muffin recipe, but they've both turned out incredibly well! I'll pass it along if you like.
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Gio

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Barked: Fri Apr 13, '07 8:30am PST 
I prefer the older cookbooks as well. I find that they use REAL food, not fancy stuff I have to buy at specialty stores. I hate when I want to do some baking and the only recipes I can find would require a few trips to different stores to get all the ingredients. I want to make one trip to the grocery store, find everything I need to make the recipe, and do it all for a reasonable price.

My favorite cookbooks have been handed down from my mom's mother and great aunt. Like all good cookbooks, they have been HEAVILY used over the decades and unfortunately most are missing their covers, so I couldn't say where they are from, what they are, or even how old they are. There are some that I would guess come from the 50's and 60's and a few more recent than that. I've tried to purchase some new cookbooks in recent years, but I'm never really impressed with them and always go back to my favorites without the covers big grin
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