Weekend Cooking: Chef Anne Burrell’s Bucatini all’Amatriciana

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When it’s time for a family party, I’m usually assigned the role of “soda girl”, a task requiring little more than making my way through the aisles of the grocery store, loading a cart with assorted 2-liter bottles.  Honestly, this is for the best, as even my most casual acquaintances know that cooking is not [...]

Featured Book: The Cookiepedia by Stacy Adimando

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Title: The Cookiepedia: Mixing, Baking, and Reinventing the Classics Author: Stacy Adimando (photos by Tara Striano) Genre/Pages: Cookbook/160 Publisher: Quirk Books Release Date: September 6, 2011 Source: Publisher From the indie publisher who brought us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children comes a dedicated cookie cookbook that will set [...]

Weekend Cooking: On a Stick by Matt Armendariz

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With my love of everything miniature, it’s only natural I’d love a cookbook featuring 80 recipes for mini meals and treats impaled on a variety of sticks.  Matt Armendariz’s On a Stick appeals to readers on so many levels: there are whimsical recipes, food photographs that will leave you salivating, and clear, simple recipes that [...]

Review: Table of Contents by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp

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Title: Table of Contents Author: Judy Gelman & Vicki Levy Krupp Genre/Pages: Cookbook/304 Publisher: Adams Media Release Date: November 30, 2010 Source: Publisher Nat’s One-Sentence Synopsis: From the women who created BookClubCookbook.com comes a cookbook chock full of recipes and chatty anecdotes from best-selling authors. Though I profess to being generally inept in the culinary [...]

Raid My Larder (More suggestive than it sounds…)

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Last week I was talking up home cooking and meal plans as time and money savers.  I borrowed cookbooks from the library and found two new recipes to add to my limited culinary oeuvre. On Sunday morning, I stumbled into my kitchen at the virtually pre-dawn hour of 7am to commence my day of meal [...]