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When you cook ( not bake), do you usually... |
follow a cook book as a rule. |
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follow a cook book as a sugestion. |
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who uses a cook book! |
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:12 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:18 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:28 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:04 pm
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Well, probably the best standard is Joy of Cooking. It not only has recipes but also general instructions on the principles of cooking, quite helpful to the new cook. Some people like Fannie Farmer's cookbook as a basic one. Both of these are old fashioned cookbooks, general in nature.
I also love ethnic cookbooks, and local cookbooks. I love Armenian food, and there are many cookbooks out there -- google for them. I adore lamajun, a sort of flatbread with spices and a thin layer of ground lamb (or beef) that is then dressed with fresh bibb type lettuce, sliced onions and tomatoes, rolled up and eaten like a burrito. It's often called Armenian pizza, but it's nothing like pizza, nor burritos either. Delicious.
I also adore Ethiopian food. Based on the use of injera, a type of soft flat bread used as the plate (usually on top of a pizza pan, which gives you an idea of it's size), it includes a number of stews some quite spicey, which are deposited in small amounts around the edge of the injera and one in the middle. You usually pick six different dishes (good Ethiopian restaurants here). Meats used are chicken and goat (and beef), and lentil stews. Beside this are served several folded pieces of injera which are torn with the hands and used to pick up the food. They serve as the utensils. When finished with the meal, the flat bread used as a plate is full of the juices of the various dishes, and is eaten. Oh, my, it is my favorite food. A good cookbook by D.J.Mesfin is "Exotic Ethiopian Cooking", but wherever there is an Ethiopian community there will be other cookbooks. Strong Ethiopian communities exist in D.C., New York and I'm not sure where else.
Julia Child for "The Art of French Cooking" of course.
I know I had more favorite cookbooks, but I lost a number of them in a move, and besides I have a very inconvenient kitchen now (I live in a bunkhouse).
There's always Wendys.
heh
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:03 am
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MustangDragon Well, probably the best standard is Joy of Cooking. It not only has recipes but also general instructions on the principles of cooking, quite helpful to the new cook. Some people like Fannie Farmer's cookbook as a basic one. Both of these are old fashioned cookbooks, general in nature. I also love ethnic cookbooks, and local cookbooks. I love Armenian food, and there are many cookbooks out there -- google for them. I adore lamajun, a sort of flatbread with spices and a thin layer of ground lamb (or beef) that is then dressed with fresh bibb type lettuce, sliced onions and tomatoes, rolled up and eaten like a burrito. It's often called Armenian pizza, but it's nothing like pizza, nor burritos either. Delicious. I also adore Ethiopian food. Based on the use of injera, a type of soft flat bread used as the plate (usually on top of a pizza pan, which gives you an idea of it's size), it includes a number of stews some quite spicey, which are deposited in small amounts around the edge of the injera and one in the middle. You usually pick six different dishes (good Ethiopian restaurants here). Meats used are chicken and goat (and beef), and lentil stews. Beside this are served several folded pieces of injera which are torn with the hands and used to pick up the food. They serve as the utensils. When finished with the meal, the flat bread used as a plate is full of the juices of the various dishes, and is eaten. Oh, my, it is my favorite food. A good cookbook by D.J.Mesfin is "Exotic Ethiopian Cooking", but wherever there is an Ethiopian community there will be other cookbooks. Strong Ethiopian communities exist in D.C., New York and I'm not sure where else. Julia Child for "The Art of French Cooking" of course. I know I had more favorite cookbooks, but I lost a number of them in a move, and besides I have a very inconvenient kitchen now (I live in a bunkhouse). There's always Wendys. heh
I think I might have to go pick up that ethiopian cook book. I love ethiopian food as well, but the closest place that serves it near me is over an hour away.
Have you ever tired a Pupusa? It is from El Salvador. It sounds similar to the lamajun you were talking about. It is a dough with double grouned meats and then flattened and cooked like a flat bread and then topped with a cabage relish and a salsa and it is yummy.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:58 pm
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nicolklm I think I might have to go pick up that ethiopian cook book. I love ethiopian food as well, but the closest place that serves it near me is over an hour away. Have you ever tired a Pupusa? It is from El Salvador. It sounds similar to the lamajun you were talking about. It is a dough with double grouned meats and then flattened and cooked like a flat bread and then topped with a cabage relish and a salsa and it is yummy.
We have a lot of Central and South Americans in this area. So, yes, I have had papusas. I'll have to admit, I don't really like them. The pure cornmeal used for the pancake/flat bread is sort of tasteless to me, and that kinda ruins the overall dish. But they are *very* popular here, with pupusa vans everywhwere, lines of peole waiting their turn. I was in a Salvadoran restaurant one Sunday afternoon, and the place was just starting to clear out. The owner told me that it is a custom in their country to go to church and then come still dressed up to a pupusa restaurant. He said the women and children had a few pupusas, but the men ate enormous numbers of them. hahahaha I had wondered, because I had noticed for a long time that very dressed up families went to that restaurant early Sunday afternoons. They did serve other very good dishes, like smothered chicken (smothered in sauteed, softened onions).
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:06 am
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:43 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:25 am
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Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:25 am
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:20 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:42 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:52 am
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:25 am
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Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:48 pm
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