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My Cookbook Order

shipscook said:
I think you will love Ina's book also. I read cookbooks like novels and her's are so nice. Barefoot in Paris makes me reach for my passport.QUOTE]


I love Ina's books too, Nan. I've got them all EXCEPT 'Barefoot in Paris'. Can u believe that? The Good Cook doesn't have it as an option any longer but I see it's available used from Amazon for $14.50, so I'll have to order it.
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chubbyalaskagriz said:
Ina is one of my FAVS! I like her mellow mood, her intuitive process, her fun hints & habits and just her general cooking style.

I'll be curious to hear what u think of the Deen Brothers' "Ya'll Come Eat Cookbook". I have friends who LOVE these boys and I'd like to buy copies for them for upcoming birthdays...
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The book has a lot of family stories in it and tons of pics.
The pics of Paula Deen's grandson are the cutest.
I like the book alot. Some of the recipes I have made and liked are..


Hoecakes
Brooke's Homemade Meatloaf
Egg Salad in Toast Cups
Chicken Salad Stuffed Tomatoes
Three In One Bean Salad
Pepperoni Cheese Bread
Mini Cheeseburger Puff Pies
Mama's Spaghettie Casserole With Baked Garlic Herb Bread
 
My Mom always made something like that we always called fried cornbread lol.
We always had it with a big plate of leaf lettuce and green onions with some hot bacon grease on top. I always like apple cider vinegar with mine.
 
The other night I made up a nice iron skillet of cornbread, it was so good Janie!!! I had mine dripping with butter & tupelo honey oh my goodness it was so good, better that cake! I never had the wilted greens w/ hot bacon grease but I have heard of it, I love bacon grease but only sparingly, I feel sometimes my x-ma in law over used it and ruined some dishes (all you could tatse was grease).
 
Nothing like cornbread made in an iron skillet. In this area we never put sugar in cornbread.
I like mine with some I can't believe its not butter and honey lol.

I like to save bacon grease and use to grease the skillet I make my cornread in. I have to go easy with stuff like that because of my gallbladder. I still love lettuce and green onions with cornbread but I make a nice vinaigrette out of white wine vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper to go on mine. My Mom used to get those huge buckets of lard every month and everything we ate swam in it. Probably the reason I have a bad gallbladder now lol.
I remember my Mom and her sisters picking wild greens and Mom used to pick me something they called wild lettuce when it was little in the spring that was really good.

I always thought we were as country as you get til I got a cookbook called White Trash Gatherings..now thats country.
 
I agree jglass... that fun White Trash Cookbook makes folks from the show "Cops" look like snooty Antebellum-dwellers... & makes Nascar look like Monte Carlo card-playing! Hee-Hee!
 
Hey Gang,

I was tickled when the mail-gal delivered my new-member box of five freebies from "The Good Cook" today! This is about my millionth membership!

My box included a new copy of 1.) "Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen" (left old one w/ Arturo in Alaska) 2.) "The Deen Bros. 'Ya'll Come Eat' ", 3.) Susan Spicer's "Cresent City Cooking", 4.) Patty Pinner's "Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations with Pie", and 5.) Martha Hall Foose's "Screen Doors & Sweet Tea".

Although I'm exctied about all the books- I am particularly thrilled about the last two, as both promise to be not only cookbooks w/ awesome recipes and pics, but they also appear chock-full of essay-writings, kinda in the vein of Maya Angelou's "The Hallelujah Table".

(If I ain't showin' up much here in the next couple days it simply means that I'm side-tracked with the new books- and the new job at State Farm, which starts-up tomorrow! (notice the "new job"- though exciting, is in the shadows of, and plays second fiddle to the NEW COOKBOOKS!)
 
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Very best wishes on your new job, I do so hope you will like it. First day on the job is always akward but you will do just fine! State Farm oh brother how could you? Hee-hee!
 
Kevin I want the 1st copy....

Autographed of-course!!! And I shall be your biggest fan, well next to Fannie Flagg's bigest fan:D

You know how you were saying you liked quotes, well I read this one and I thought of you (cause you like quotes), then MamaM (cause she is a true rebel), then KYH (cause he places good ole' common sence over Fed. reg,'s & guidelines:D), and me just cause:rolleyes: at times it is so very true!

It is by Robert Frost: :"And were an epitaph to be my story
I'd have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

Isn't that a cool one!!!

By the way check out this web-site and see if the painting you are looking for was done in this style :Cynthia Kelly Paintings I just feel she was the one who was the artist that painted the image you are looking for.

And I will forgive you for being a traitor (State Farm I just can't believe you!) if I do get that autographed copy!!!
 
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I like the Robert Frost lines a lot, Cathy- thanks for sharing!

Thanks also for the link to Cynthia Kelly's work... what a talent she is! I particulularly like her "Grape Study" and "Heaven" watercolors- so lively and LOVELY, too.

Although I love her style- the piece I'm looking for isn't her's... I discovered this just this morning when per your recommendation I googled her and did some looking around... in fact, I may not have expressed this well enough early on, but the piece I'm on the lookout for isn't actually a painting, rather, it's a resin/molded piece to hang on the wall- copied to look an original wood carving or 2-dimensional "relief", measuring a bit over a foot wide, by not quite 2 feet in height- and it's 2-dimensional effects protrude outward from the wall it's hung on by 2 to 4 or 5 inches in some parts, and it's a dark "walnutty" brown in color. I wish I could somehow better convey the memory I have of it in my head... sure would like to find it, but I never will if I can't even describe it well enuf! Dang it, anyway! But, my search continues...
 
I think you described it well, I just interpreted it wrong is all, I imagined it sort of as a painting glued to a resin carved board made to look like wood, not as an actual carving. I bet MamaM will come thru for you, plus I will ask my Mom just in case her memory is better that mine. I also found the new web-site for S&H I was wondering if in their business archives they could let you know what the exact product is that you are looking for; of-course you could always track down the culprit in your family that made off with it Ha-Ha! I would give anything just to see some of their old product booklets! I used to save them when I was a very young newly-wed and mother and the budget was so tight & I loved trading them in on stuff it felt like Christmas to me!!! They discontinued them shortly after, what a sad day! Well I didn't mean to digress.....I believe one will show up for you!
 
Best wishes in your new job, Chub. Great to see you here, by the way!

My newest cookbook acquisitions are David Lebovitz's Perfect Scoop and Great Book of Chocolate. Delicious. I'm now obsessed with ice cream.
 
Thanks Cathy! In addition to Mom's finds with trading S&H Green Stamps, I also remember her getting kitchen tea towels from boxes of Breeze Laundry Detergent, and then of course a lovely colored drinking glass with a fill-up at the gas station!

Sticky Pirate- thanks for the welcome- it's great to see u here too! I joined about a week ago and love everything about the place- mostly the friendly warmth! Looking forward to more w/ you!
 
By chance, has anyone seen a copy of the newest edition of Edna Lewis' "A Taste of Country Cooking"? I have a 1970's paperback copy, but around the time of her death recently a revised hardcover edition came out and is currently offered at "The Good Cook". I prefer to have hardcover copies of cookbooks, but I'm wondering if that alone is reason for me to get the new one? Are there other additions/improvments that would warrant the purchase?
 
I ordered a few more cookbooks.
THE COMFORT TABLE
CIAO ITALIA SLOW AND EASY
HOMETOWN RECIPES FOR THE HOLIDAYS
SOUTHERN LIVING HOMESTYLE COOKBOOK
LIDIA'S ITALY
TASTE OF HOME: THE COOKBOOK

I have gone from gadgets to books.
 
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BETTY CROCKER ULTIMATE BISQUICK COOKBOOK
BEST OF THE PILLSBURY BAKE-OFF COOKIES & BARS
EASY EVERYDAY FAVORITES
PILLSBURY BAKE-OFF WINNERS
BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS EASY EVERYDAY COOKING
I am not a fan of Martha Stewart but I needed one more book to fill my order.
THE MARTHA STEWART LIVING COOKBOOK: THE ORIGINAL CLASSICS
 
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These are the "freebies" I just opened another new, fresh membership with. Getting ahead of the game with some early Christmas shopping! The cool thing about cookbooks is they come in nearly all colors and sizes- and stand a chance of pleasing nearly everyone! (Can you tell my family are big fans of country music? Now, as soon as I open a new CD Club membership and get my 8 freebies there- my holiday shopping will be half-way done!)
1.) "Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen: Recipes from My Family to Yours" -Trisha Yearwood
2.) "You're Cookin' It Country: My Favorite Recipes and Memories" -Loretta Lynn
3.) "Naomi's Home Companion & Cookbook" -Naomi Judd
4.) "Dolly's Dixie Fixin's" -Dolly Parton
5.) " The Presley Family & Friends Cookbook: A Cookbook and Memory Book from Those Who Knew Elvis Best" -Edie Hand
 
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