Comments on The Green Phone Booth: Cookbook Roundup!

My two old standby's are "The Joy of Cook...

2010-02-22T08:59:24.255-08:00

My two old standby's are "The Joy of Cooking" and the BHG. My favorite soups actually come from a diet book, "Dr. Kushner's Personality Type Diet." Sounds strange I know, but the chicken-barley chili on p. 224 is especially tasty and can be used as a base for a lot more than just chicken.

Then there's "The Wellness Encyclopedia of Food and Nutrition." It's published by UC-Berkley and while it's not a cook book it tells you just about everything you ever wanted to know about food. It's tag line is "How to Buy, Store, and Prepare Every Variety of Fresh Food."

A new acquisition is "The Flexitarian Diet," Dawn does a great job of introducing both grains and beans and about half of the book is recipes. I haven't had a chance to try many of them yet, but they sound wonderful and the couple I have tried are really good.

I'll be honest, 9 times out of 10 we make meal...

2010-02-05T19:26:51.790-08:00

I'll be honest, 9 times out of 10 we make meals on the fly. But if I need a basic starting point, like how to roast a chicken, I'll turn to BH&G cookbook. It was my first cookbook in college, and my mother in law gave me a tattered one from the 60s she picked up at a garage sale. Between the two of them, I can find most substitutions or basics I need. Haven't really tried the recipes, though! :-)

My 2 boys that cook and live away from home (and e...

2010-02-05T18:17:34.803-08:00

My 2 boys that cook and live away from home (and eat meat) were both given copies of the Joy of Cooking. They both also have a copy of their dad's favorite bread cook book: The Tassajara bread book:)
I love my vegan japanese cookbook: Japanese cooking Contemporary and Traditional: Simple, Delicious and Vegan by Miyoko Nishimoto Schinner. I like How the World Vegan and Garden of Vegan.
Don't use it much now but Pita the Great by Virginia T. Habeeb is a fabulous book for making pita breads.
I do mostly look for new recipes these days online but I have vegan cookies invade your cookie jar out of the library just now:)

We never really use cookbooks (or cook that much, ...

2010-02-05T17:32:55.679-08:00

We never really use cookbooks (or cook that much, to be honest) but somehow ended up with a boat load of cookbooks (all low cal and bleh!)

The only two ever used around our house are a Better Homes and Gardens "New" Cookbook (from around 20 years ago) and the Vegetarian Bible.

The BH&G cookbook is used for one recipe, and it's the cheesecake recipe my grandma wrote down and shoved in the dessert section of the cookbook.

The Vegetarian Bible was a new purchase (I had a gift card... spent it wisely at Ross). We don't cook veggies around here (except from a can) and I'm not big on meat. This book is like a how-to for people who grew up on fast food and want to know what to do with a carrot besides dipping it in ranch dressing.

My go-to books are always Joy of Cooking and Fanni...

2010-02-05T16:16:08.705-08:00

My go-to books are always Joy of Cooking and Fannie Farmer. I can find everything in there!

I also love Joy of Canning and Preserving.

By the way, I've given you ladies from the Green Phone Booth an award because you brighten my day! Stop by and check it out :)

My battered copy of Joy of Cooking is always a go-...

2010-02-05T15:41:10.873-08:00

My battered copy of Joy of Cooking is always a go-to for me. My most recent fave is Simply in Season. It's another one by the Mennonite Central Committee, makers of the More With Less Cookbook and it's full of tasty, seasonal recipes.
I also love my Moosewood cookbooks.
Judy

Sorry for the dis--and I did recommend the book! A...

2010-02-05T13:36:42.347-08:00

Sorry for the dis--and I did recommend the book! And I will go ahead and modify the original post to add the "IMO" concept.

I do find Susan P. way too kitchy and markety, and even now it looks like her mantra is more about "fat calories are worse than other calories" and I'm concerned that her whole "fat formula" thing overshadows the at-least-now-fairly-accepted idea that it's not about carbs vs. fat, it's about good carbs and fats vs. bad carbs and fats.

But if what she does works for you, awesome!

I find the dis on Susan Powter really interesting ...

2010-02-05T11:42:26.375-08:00

I find the dis on Susan Powter really interesting especially since the rest of the world is finally catching up with what she's been talking about and living for 15 years. Have you seen her? Check out her site, she still looks fantastic and she was always a proponent for complex carbs like brown rice, not white bread.

My "go to" cookbooks are the 3 Moosewood...

2010-02-05T11:35:48.438-08:00

My "go to" cookbooks are the 3 Moosewood cookbooks that are so used, the covers are falling off. Another great one is the Tassajara Bread Book and recently I have become enamored with 12 Best Foods Cookbook. I use the internet a lot also.I definitely want to try some of these one mentioned in your blog.

Linda of Citizen Green

my favourite cookbooks are recipes from people i k...

2010-02-05T10:35:41.103-08:00

my favourite cookbooks are recipes from people i know... kitchy... yes. but at least i "know" that these people don't have crazy fancy stoves or ingredients that i won't ever find around home.

My favourite favourite go-to is a cookbook my late aunt wrote and signed to me before she passed away from cancer. I love that book and it's filled with recipes that she used along with her favourites from the community. I love seeing "Tante Margarite's White Bread" or "Rosie's Gingerbread cookies" along with some traditional Acadian French recipes.

Sigh. it makes what I cook more special. :)

When we moved into a temp location, I put most of ...

2010-02-05T09:22:35.623-08:00

When we moved into a temp location, I put most of my cookbooks into storage. The three I could not live without, though, were:

Alice Waters: The Art of Simple Food (I love this book -- it is more instruction on how to cook than a bunch of recipes)

More-With-Less Cookbook (an old Mennonite cookbook, beloved by many)

The $1.98 Cookbook by Carl Japiske (I bet no one's even heard of this one, but it includes recipes on how to make from-scratch anything. It is woefully short on spices, so add your own.)

I also took with me a very thick binder of recipes I've collected from all over.

Sort of embarrassingly, Joy of Cooking is a consta...

2010-02-05T08:10:57.399-08:00

Sort of embarrassingly, Joy of Cooking is a constant reference to get me started! Also Julia Child's "How to Cook", another reference. My favorite for cool recipes, tho, is Moosewood Lo-Fat Cookbook. I gotta say, tho, that the internet is great for putting in a list of ingredients you want to use and seeing what comes up.

I mostly get recipes from favorite blogs, but I al...

2010-02-05T06:49:56.018-08:00

I mostly get recipes from favorite blogs, but I also love:
Veganomicon (http://www.theppk.com/nomicon.html)
The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics (http://www.hipchicksmacrobiotics.com/)
Super Natural Cooking (http://www.101cookbooks.com/supernatural/)
Raw Food Real World (https://www.oneluckyduck.com/product-details.php?id=87)

Enjoy!

Uh, these sound amazing! I too love the Moosewood...

2010-02-05T06:31:54.020-08:00

Uh, these sound amazing! I too love the Moosewood cook books and recently discovered the amazing Crock Pot cook book. We just got a crock pot and this cook book has produced some incredible stuff. We also tweak recipes and use additional seasoning, etc. For the most part though, I'm a big fan of the "look it up on the internet, choose the best one, and feed off what the other recipes say too...."