I know that the people I live with have given me that "look" when they see me late at night in bed reading a cookbook, some times a cookbook that I have read through a couple times already. Beside my bed I have a stack of novels that I have on the go, as well as a couple cookbooks - all of which have bookmarks in them to remind me where I've left off. Sometimes I read cookbooks but go from the back to the front - why? because I tend to start at the start then never finish, then pick it up again and start from the start and never finish again. So this time I started at the back instead. Yes, I know, weird. Before I moved I purged a lot of my cookbook collection. Basically I have a kitchen stand with 3 shelves on it - that's the only space I will allow myself for cookbooks (or I will become a hoarder), I was running out of space so I went through them and passed many on to other people who will hopefully love them.
I'm really a sucker for old cookbooks and cookbooks put out by churches and schools by regular people - I even have a couple copies of one that I helped make. My most used cookbook is a copy of Company's Coming - Casseroles it was my ex-mother-in-laws, it's a interesting book, it has a few recipes that call for MSG, and some recipes that even just reading them you think who would eat that, and the names for some the recipes is funny. I've made a bunch of the recipes from that book and some I still make 11 years later and some have the title scratched through with a sad face and the words "never again" written.
I also have many years worth of Krafts What's Cooking - I love these recipes because they are usually simple to make, and have ingredients that I am able to buy in our small town - but they all include a picture!! Just going to add in here that I hate that I no longer get this magazine in the mail for free anymore - I looked forward to this coming to me, and I haven't read a copy of it since the last free one came in the mail - and yes that makes me sad, but not sad enough to buy it.
Pictures are a must - every cookbook should have a picture for each recipe. I need something to base what I'm making off of - even though most times it looks nothing like the picture anyway, I still want a picture.
Which leads me into the next thing - blogs - personal everyday people's blogs. I am that person that reads them. I love when someone decides to cook or bake their way through a cookbook. I love that they are trying to do their own take on Julie & Julia. A lot of the time I google the cookbooks name if I don't see anyone's blog come up in the search - I hit images and that's where I find pictures of what someone has made from that cookbook and then I can see their blog and I read their blog from start to finish. It kills me when the blog just ends, I'm going to guess here that Julie & Julia happened in 2011 or around there because that's when a lot of these blogs where started and ended as well. I just looked it up the movie came out in 2009, so 2011 isn't that far off.
This is how I found the More-With-Less blog - the cookbook has zero pictures, not a one - only the cover photo of the grains and beans bird that's it. It's also how I came across the Betty Crocker Cooky Book blog called Nostalgic Nosh - Cooky just cracks me up, why is it cooky when did it change or is the rest of the world just still spelling it wrong? I love that this woman took pictures and honestly told us if the recipe sucked or not. It was like my cookbook high crashed when I came to the last post, I know there are tons of recipes in this book I've read the amazon description I want more, finish baking your way through the book because there is someone else out there loving what your writing and sharing - I know that sounds weird too. I just love reading those kinds of blogs. I really wanted to see the carrot cookie cause that one just seems ridiculous to me, and I bet it tastes like dye and sugar.
If you have any other blogs like that send me the links!
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| Amazon's Picture of the cover - see the carrot cookie! |
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