catlover19
. Do you have a crock pot/slow cooker? There are lots of easy recipes for them. :nod:
I used to have over 1000 books, mostly classics and novels and scifi stuff. When I moved , again, I decided it was time to trim down on the books, it was just too expensive and time consuming to pack and then ship them all. l went through them at least three times before it was to a reasonable number, it just hurt to give up a single one of them. I brought them all to the local library and dumped them into their night deposit. It took me several nights to do that, I had packed them into paper grocery bags so I could carry them. I still have too many books and will have to go through them again, keeping only those that I think my children will want after I go, or those that actually have value (not many, just a few really antique ones, over 100 years old). I need to do that with the cook books too. I have an ancient Better Homes and Gardens, The Joy of Cooking and a Good Housekeeping, plus many others including one from Montana with recipes for venison, and one that says "Great Rice Dishes of the World". Also one from Austria and one "For the Germans in America" written about 1875, both of these in German, yes, I do read that, including "Fraktur", the old German print. My kids won't want any of the cookbooks, so where will they end up? Probably in the trash.
Well, cookbooks have to do with food, which also has to do with dinner, so.......
At last count I had over 1,000 cookbooks. My main ones are in the bookcase in the computer room. The healthy (low-cal, low fat, light) cookbooks are on the hutch in the kitchen. I have cookbooks in boxes in closets and under the bed. I won't get rid of them; I just can't. There are single-subject cookbooks (cookbooks on just mushrooms, on pizza, on cookies, breakfasts, appetizers, ice cream), tons of cookbooks from Taste of Home, from America's Test Kitchen, from some of the cooks on the Food Network (Alton Brown, Ina Garten, Sara Moulton, for example). Tons of baking books. Ton of books on just cookies. Add in all the church cookbooks, hospital cookbooks, Grange cookbooks, Amish and Mennonite cookbooks, cookbooks from B & Bs, cookbooks from restaurants and eateries, and well, I love them all.
My first cookbook was given to me by Rick's sister and it was an old, circa very early 70s McCalls. Followed by lots and lots of Betty Crocker cookbooks (cookies, pies, Working Woman, you name it) given to me by Rick's mom. I swear she was scared to death that he would starve and I think she made it her personal mission in life to make sure her son would be OK.Since then, when I see a cookbook that I just have to have, I buy it. Or Rick will be somewhere, see a cookbook, check it out, and if there's a neat cookie recipe in it, he'll buy it for me. Everybody buys me cookbooks.
I also have several 3-ring binders for recipes that I find online, on my food board, in the newspaper, in magazines, and such. Some are printed, but some are simply cut out and tucked in the binder. I just found a recipe in our local newspaper for a Bourbon Maple BBQ Sauce......am I really going to pass that by? Nope. I cut it out and stored it away. Whenever I go to Penzey, I pick up a bunch of recipe cards with ideas that I may want to try. It's very addicting, if you like to cook.
I'll take a good cookbook to bed and read it from cover to cover.
Peaches, thank you for the recipe! Yeah, I have a definite problem with sour cream, but I might be able to swing it, mixing it with the mayo. Or use more more mayo and less sour cream. Thanks!
Yeah, I do but I always forget about it. I also really hate cleaning it.@catlover19. Do you have a crock pot/slow cooker? There are lots of easy recipes for them.
I started cleaning out my cookbooks and donated some also. I never finished going though them though.
Tonight was a salad with homegrown lettuce, celery, cucumbers, peppers, zucchini, fat free feta and grilled chicken.
Oh my, you must really have an old one. Or a really tiny one. I have not seen one that did not have the removable pot in ages. I bet you could get a nice new one from Amazon. I think it might be worth the price just to get rid of the frustration and bother to clean the one you have.
Yeah, I do but I always forget about it. I also really hate cleaning it.I wish they sold the crock pot liners here.
We had ribs, potatoes, corn and lemon cream cheese crumble pie tonight.
In the trash? That's a shame. But I understand. My son has ordered me not to sell or give away anything in the kitchen, including the cookbooks, until he's had his chance to go through stuff. I know there are things he'll want to keep, simply because they're old family "treasures"; nobody else would want them anyway. I have some old cookbooks that I found at public sales and places like that, but I'm the only one who will want them and I don't cook from them...I find them interesting to read sometimes.
Mine is removable, but it is AWFUL to clean. Everything sticks to it and I usually have to let it soak for a while and then scrub really hard to get it clean. I want to get an actual Crock Pot brand one. I have a Bravetti slow cooker. We got one as a wedding gift and hated it (it gets too hot and because it's hard to clean). My husband accidentally dropped it and broke the pot inside so we were going to buy a better one. Less than 2 months later at Christmas, my mom bought us a new one...the exact same one we hated.
Oh no, LOL! I have to laugh, that would be my luck too.
Now what you do is to get the one you want and then you "accidentally" break the one you hate. Or you can say you had it at a potluck and it disappeared from there. Rival is the original one and mine is ages old, when I broke the liner I actually found a replacement at a thrift shop.
Consider a cooking appliance as just another dish you are washing. Once it's out of the box and used once it's not new anymore. You wash it, if it belonged to someone else and you are concerned about possible health issues you can sterilize it with bleach. Would you use your grandmother's treasured whatever? Her china or silverware? Probably, I would say. No different from what someone donated. Liquidation stores have a lot of new stuff that's just not in pristine condition, maybe the box is dented or dirty, or it was a display item, or someone got two for a wedding gift and returned one etc. I think you are too squeamish. Too much stuff ends up in the landfill, wasting resources. Reconsider. And the money you save-------------!
That's too funny - I've seen lots of crock pots at thrift stores and liquidation stores. For some reason, the thought of a second hand cooking appliance throws me off so I haven't taken the plunge to buy one. I'd love to have a crock pot though - then I can guarantee I'll have dinner made after work instead of assuming the boyfriend has cooked when more often than not, he hasn't.
Tonight I'll be having lunch leftovers. Made a ton of spaghetti and meat(less)balls with mixed vegetables.
