Category: Cookbook Review

  • Black Beans with Garlic and Chipotle on a TLC Book Tour for Resurrecting Rain

    Black Beans with Garlic and Chipotle on a TLC Book Tour for Resurrecting Rain

    Resurrecting Rain by Patricia Averbach is partially set in Santa Fe. This novel gave me a great excuse to pull out my Santa Fe School of Cooking Cookbook and find an authentic recipe that could have been served up in the novel.

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  • Live-Longer Granola

    Live-Longer Granola

    I recently reviewed The Blue Zones Kitchen and have really been using this cookbook since.   It’s been hard lately cooking from a cookbook because I am not running to the store for needed ingredients.  If we don’t have it, we make something else (or totally revamp the original recipe). Having recently eaten the last of the granola…

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  • French Bread (and an essential outing)

    French Bread (and an essential outing)

    After a successful hunt for bread flour, I found this recipe in an old cookbook passed on to me by my grandmother. Here’s a comforting (and easy) recipe (and another Cookbook of the Week post).

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  • Blackberry Cobbler in a Skillet

    Blackberry Cobbler in a Skillet

    Here’s a very versatile and easy cobbler recipe that works with most any fruit. It’s my latest Cookbook of the Week installment.

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  • Flatbread Pizza with Grilled Chicken and Peanuts

    Flatbread Pizza with Grilled Chicken and Peanuts

    Here’s a recipe I made in early March and another Cookbook of the Week feature. Hope you enjoy!

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  • Carrot Salad with Olives

    Carrot Salad with Olives

    One more Cookbook of the Week post. I seem to be on a roll! This is a keeper of a salad.

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  • St. Louis Days, St. Louis Nights:   Cookbook of the Week

    St. Louis Days, St. Louis Nights: Cookbook of the Week

    Artichoke Prosciutto Linguine is on the menu. Check out this recipe and the beginnings of my Cookbook of the Week posts.

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  • Healthy Minestrone:   Welcome to the Blue Zone

    Healthy Minestrone: Welcome to the Blue Zone

    The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100 is the current stop on the TLC Book Tour. I’m also including it in my Cookbook Highlight of the Week. Want to live a long and healthy life? Read on.

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  • I am a cookbook-aholic.

    I am a cookbook-aholic.

    Announcing a new direction: Cookbook of the Week. Follow my new themed posting vow—to highlight all the cookbooks in my vast (and growing) library.

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  • “In My Kitchen” February 2020

    “In My Kitchen” February 2020

    I always feel like there’s really not a lot happening in my kitchen until I reflect back to write an “In My Kitchen” monthly post. Dig in here for some home grown citrus from Texas and some new jelly recipes. I also threw in a few cookbook reviews for good measure! Welcome February!

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