What to Read While You Eat Copious Quantities of Food This Fall
Leaves change colors. Days get shorter. Children fill pillowcases with candy while you season and re-season large dishes for your extended family. Browse some of these books for the minutes in between meat thermometer checks and during the hours saved by reheating leftovers.
No Apron Required
I’ve always loved browsing cookbooks and daydreaming about delicious dinners. So when I heard that CLP – Squirrel Hill’s cookbook club program was expanding across multiple locations for this year, I was very excited.
Makin’ Bread!
Recently, however, I’ve felt the urge to get back to making things myself…especially bread. I wasn’t 100% sure where to start getting back into it, but after a few questions to some friends who know their way around a kitchen, I became aware of the remarkable book by Ken Forkish called Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza.
Cookbooks for Summer Eats
Summer means lots of different things to lots of different people, but me, well, I spend summer how I spend all other seasons: thinkin’ lots about what I’m going to cook and eat. Here are some tried-and-true cookbooks you can check out for some A+ summertime recipes.
Throwback Thursday: Recent Adventures in Library Cookbooks (Vol. 1)
Tired of making the same few recipes over and over again? In this post, I give a quick and dirty run-down of my recent adventures with cookbooks I checked out of the Library! From peanut butter pie to autumn crostini, I’m sure you will find something enticing to try.
Vegetarian Cookbooks
In March of this year I became a vegetarian. It happened by accident at first. I went a week without eating meat by chance and decided to run with it. Now, I didn’t have a problem with cooking without meat, hence the happenstance week without meat, but I have been exploring different vegetarian cookbooks since then, and I’ve found some excellent titles at the library! Take a look!
Fall is for Foodies
I love autumn. I love the crisp breezes, the rustling of the leaves, and the rich smell of the earth. Autumn always puts me in the mood to cook, too, … Continued
Greek Food Festival Season
I love spring and summer, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this happens to be the time of year when my favorite events start popping up: Greek Food Festivals. I think we should just call this time of year Greek Food Festival season.
50 Cakes Project Update
Remember when I said I wanted to bake 50 cakes in one year? This ridiculous undertaking is still going on, but here’s my progress so far along with my favorite cookbooks.