Last week we had a brief purge of the recipie books - we have a lot but actually only use a fairly small percentage regularly. That doesn't mean that I will get rid of all the frequently unused ones - some of them are well loved. For example Julie Buiso's Long Italian Lunch doesn't get used a lot, but the thought of having long italian lunches in Italy makes me very happy! And the recipies I have used from the book have all been good. Which makes lunch in Italy even more appealing...
The work horses in the collection are "Meals without Meat" and "Meals without Red Meat" by Alison Holst. They are slowly turning into sticky books that fall open on particular pages. Everything that woman writes works so well. And I don't need to do special shopping to get fancy ingredients, but it tastes like I did. The new work horse is the Crock Pot cooking book written and published with the aid of Sunbeam. I can't remember the author, but she understands the crock pot Ccept of chuck things in, go away for several hours and come back to good food. Some authors are wanting me to brown things, and do half the cooking in pots which negates the whole point of using the crock pot.. but I could winge about that for ages, so will just shut up.
the other idea that occurred to me was writing about a recipie for a happy life. I'm not an expert, but I have a happy life, so must know at least a little about it. But all the things I would say would have the ring of platitudes and be a bit irritating all in a row, so I desisted! And besides what I am expert in is how to give Toni a happy life. What works for me may be a totally unique collection of platitudes, that would fail all others.
Posted by Toni at November 6, 2003 08:42 AM