Look at Rocco’s gorgeous hair! Any opinions on Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone? That’s the book that taught me to cook. I don’t really ever look at it anymore but I have a lot of recipes memorized from it.
Would love to hear why--I don't usually like foodie people's memoirs and I have semi-issues with memoir as a genre, but it's now on my library hold list :)
I wish I could remember now! I found a copy at a house I was staying at on vacation and remember being really cross about it, but none of the details have stayed with me, only the vague memory of having been annoyed. So maybe I didn't have very good reasons to dislike it at all!
The Vegetarian Epicure was a regular feature in my childhood and I recognized that rice pudding instantly, though I have long since entirely given up on oven-baked rice pudding with eggs. The stovetop version (without egg) is so much more delicious *and* it's easier and less fussy.
Popovers and minestrone were other perennials from that cookbook, but I'll have to look through a copy (recently trucked from the house I grew up in to my own home) to remind myself of what else I might want to bring back into rotation.
Same as Teri, but in the late ‘90s, early 2000s. I even visited the farm to make sure it was all it claimed. However, the insanely pungent and frequent farting of four people in the same house put an end to that.
Growing up, I had access to one of the old, chatty editions of The Joy of Cooking with the infamous "how to prepare a squirrel" section. It's wonderful and deranged.
People peel celery? That's news! Lovely column and yeah, I've also done the bean-chickpea mistake and thought I could just cook it. **Now** we know, eh?!
I had a cow share several years ago and the farmer was meticulous about the health of the herd and the cleanliness of everything. I never got sick. And to be frank, that milk was the best milk I ever tasted—creamy and sweet, like a milkshake. That said, I wouldn’t buy raw milk from a store. Sadly, regulations (including regulations for small butchers) got to be too much and they ended up selling the farm.
Loving the recipes and food chat!
I once interviewed Sally Fallon and she is, in fact, a nut. Or fanatic? But still nice.
Look at Rocco’s gorgeous hair! Any opinions on Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone? That’s the book that taught me to cook. I don’t really ever look at it anymore but I have a lot of recipes memorized from it.
I should check it out! I absolutely hated her autobiography, An Onion in My Pocket, but she writes some undeniably great recipes.
Would love to hear why--I don't usually like foodie people's memoirs and I have semi-issues with memoir as a genre, but it's now on my library hold list :)
I wish I could remember now! I found a copy at a house I was staying at on vacation and remember being really cross about it, but none of the details have stayed with me, only the vague memory of having been annoyed. So maybe I didn't have very good reasons to dislike it at all!
The Vegetarian Epicure was a regular feature in my childhood and I recognized that rice pudding instantly, though I have long since entirely given up on oven-baked rice pudding with eggs. The stovetop version (without egg) is so much more delicious *and* it's easier and less fussy.
Popovers and minestrone were other perennials from that cookbook, but I'll have to look through a copy (recently trucked from the house I grew up in to my own home) to remind myself of what else I might want to bring back into rotation.
Baby Hairlines are the Best Hairlines and that is a Very Good Baby Hairline.
Same as Teri, but in the late ‘90s, early 2000s. I even visited the farm to make sure it was all it claimed. However, the insanely pungent and frequent farting of four people in the same house put an end to that.
Growing up, I had access to one of the old, chatty editions of The Joy of Cooking with the infamous "how to prepare a squirrel" section. It's wonderful and deranged.
"As clean as an old bone in a Georgia O’Keeffe painting, is how clean I like my sink to be."
A perfect sentence.
People peel celery? That's news! Lovely column and yeah, I've also done the bean-chickpea mistake and thought I could just cook it. **Now** we know, eh?!
This is exactly what I needed to read today, thank you!
Agreed. Sooo over “brothy miso beans”!!!!
I had a cow share several years ago and the farmer was meticulous about the health of the herd and the cleanliness of everything. I never got sick. And to be frank, that milk was the best milk I ever tasted—creamy and sweet, like a milkshake. That said, I wouldn’t buy raw milk from a store. Sadly, regulations (including regulations for small butchers) got to be too much and they ended up selling the farm.
Don't even think of using more than a 1/2 cup of rice.