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RE: Cookbook challenge anyone? - 8/11/2008 9:58:58 PM
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MrsTracy72
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Aubin, someone posted one of those in another thread not too long ago.
Ok, I have to admit. I have not cooked from a cookbook yet. The last thing I made from a cookbook was before this thread. And it was from a tavern cookbook I got in Colonial Williamsburg.
I made Chicken and dumplings, biscuits, and sweet potato muffins. Everything was great but the biscuits. They were heavy and crumbly.
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RE: Cookbook challenge anyone? - 8/18/2008 10:39:20 AM
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Auben
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Who says you have to finish? lol
This weekend we made grilled zucchini/summer squash. It was so good! Very simple recipe. Toss (thick) sliced squash with olive oil infused with a few pieces of fresh basil and oregano. Throw on grill. 5 minutes on first side. 4 on second. Salt. Don't let them get mushy.
Dh and I ate them up. A few boys liked them but not all.
This is the only way I actually like zucchini (green). I don't even like that sauted or in baked goods. Dh hates zucchini but loved this. Great recipe from The Vegetarian Grill.
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RE: Cookbook challenge anyone? - 8/18/2008 7:52:04 PM
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MrsTracy72
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Ok, tonight I used a breakfast cookbook to make oatcakes for dinner. That is the only recipe from the book because I made scrambled eggs (which I suppose are in the book), bacon, and toast with cut up fruit, pecans, and syrup. YAY!!!!!!!
I am getting an exchange student who likes to cook, so when he gets here, I am going to be in my cookbooks daily.
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RE: Cookbook challenge anyone? - 8/18/2008 8:22:45 PM
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I tried Five Spice Tenderloin Steaks with Creamy Polenta out of The Healthy Beef Cookbook.
The recipe calls for pan frying the steaks with the 5-spice powder and removing them from the pan. Cook time on the steak was perfect for a medium rare steak. Using the same pan, you make a sauce out of hoisin sauce, ketchup, and rice vinegar and other assorted Asian spices.
In another pan, you make the polenta by boiling veggie broth & water and adding cornmeal. After it has finished cooking, you add sour cream and sesame oil to make it creamy.
The recipe took about 35 minutes to make and only about 15 of that was cook time. Most of the time was spent in preparing the sauce because it took 9 ingredients. It was only 443 cal per serving. It has a fair amount of sugar from the hoisin sauce, ketchup, and honey.
The overall taste was good. The only thing I will change next time is to add less vinegar to suit my taste. That's something I commonly have to do in Asian recipes that call for vinegar in a sauce, so I think it's my taste that's off, not the recipe. Generally, I don't like veggie broth, fennel seed, and anise seed so I didn't expect to like this recipe as much as I did. I was also surprised at how easy polents was to make. I will definitely make it again.
In the past I have tried a chili recipe, Thai Noodles with Beef and Broccoli, Stir-Fry Orange Beef Lettuce Cups, Beef Kabobs with Roasted Red Pepper Coulis, and Tenderloin Sandwich with Balsamic Caramelized Onions. The chili recipe has become my chili recipe and I will make all the other ones again. I plan to make Beef Paprikash on Friday as my second recipe for this challenge, changing the noodles to whole grain pasta. The date may change, but the recipe won't. 
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RE: Cookbook challenge anyone? - 8/19/2008 2:01:45 PM
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MrsTracy72
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Ok, so in doing this, I had to find all of my cookbooks. After weeding through the books I know I won't use, I still have almost 50 books. But some of them are Taste of home magazines and some are the small books you get at the grocery store in the checkout line. I have gotten some of my best stuff from those books. So anyway are we supposed to use ALL of our books and magazines, or just true cookbooks?
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RE: Cookbook challenge anyone? - 8/19/2008 2:33:47 PM
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MrsTracy72
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You know, when this is all done, we should do a cookbook exchange. Like if we have books that we didn't like, someone else might. I already have a pile of books that I am not planning on keeping. But I would save them if that sounds like something people might want to do. Kind of like a swap.
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