Recommended Resources

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What are your favorite recipe books? I mean, what are you tried-and-true faithful resources for finding a satisfying casserole, an amazing bread recipe, an hors d’oeuvres everyone will remember?
Comment with titles, authors, magazines, websites, whatever you use on regular basis.

Election Day 2008

Rebecca and I share a love for election day, and we agreed that we should make a holiday of it. So after we each voted, we loaded up the young ones and headed first to Runza, where Liv added an “I ate at Runza today” sticker to her “I voted today” sticker (what would [...]

Butter-Baked Masterpiece

Via Bad Banana Blog.

Culinary Literacy

The James Beard Book Awards Committee has named the following 20 cookbooks as essential for building a culinary library:
American Cookery (BBS Publishing Corporation, 1996), James Beard
Authentic Mexican: Regional Cooking from the Heart of Mexico (William Morrow Cookbooks, 2007), Rick Bayless
Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook (Better Homes and Gardens, 2004)
Classic Indian Cooking (William Morrow Cookbooks, [...]

Regarding Chicken

A lot of people seem to love the chicken I make, whether it’s grilled or fried or whatever. Here’s the secret, though it’s not one for any of the hypochondriacs out there: I simply undercook it. Not by a lot mind you, but if you cook chicken too long, it — surprise! — gets tough [...]

In a hurry

This only occurred to me recently, so I thought I’d share in case it may be useful to someone else. Although rice is super cheap and fairly easy to make at home, it takes some planning ahead, which sometimes I neglect. Whenever I find myself running out of time (or energy) to make rice, I [...]