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I spent the entire day in the kitchen preparing meals for the month (again!) and wanted to share a particularly easy and yummy recipe with you as part of Beth Fish Reads Weekend Cooking Challenge. A few weeks back, a spiral-bound cookbook caught my eye at a tag sale, and I snapped it (and two [...]
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 [...]
As my summer winds to a close and hectic, long school days loom on the horizon, I’ve been thinking about putting together weekly menus with easy, new-to-me recipes–Molly is my inspiration! I already own several Martha Stewart and other more traditional cookbooks, but the recipes are labor intensive and too fancy-schmancy for our everyday use. [...]
I’ve made (and posted about) these cream puffs before–they are always a crowd pleaser. Though a bit time consuming (baking the shells, cooling the shells, piping in the filling), they are worth the effort. In a fresh twist for my nephew’s birthday yesterday, I made a chocolate ganache (chocolate mixed with heavy cream) to cover [...]
*FYI: This post takes a circuitous route to a wonderfully simple recipe for tomato sauce. Visit Beth Fish Reads, host of this challenge, for more Weekend Cooking fun!* For many people, making tomato sauce for pasta is as effortless as twisting the lid off of a jar of Prego. Not where I come from. My [...]
Welcome aboard, I'm Natalie! I'm 37, married to a dream boat, and live in New Jersey. It's all about books here! I read, recommend, review, and revel in them. Have a book you'd like me to review? Visit my Review Policy for details. Want to drop me a line? May 31, 2012
From the Outside Looking Indian
by Rupinder Gill
Courtesy of Berkley/NAL Penguin Group
June 12, 2012
Between You and Me
by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
courtesy of Engelman & Co.
July 3, 2012
The Next Best Thing
by Jennifer Weiner
courtesy of Engelman & Co.
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