I’m getting hitched in October of next year and I need to start planning food. This is alot harder than I thought it would be. First I’m expecting 250-300 people (my family is way to large). I want to do a buffet and I think I’d like to do a tapas style buffet with different [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Wedding Food Planning
Posted in General, tagged Recipes, wedding on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m getting a pressure cooker/canner!!!
Posted in General, tagged canner, pressure cooker on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yeah! Just spoke to my mom and she asked me what I wanted for my birthday. I’ve had my eye on the Presto 23-Quart Pressure Cooker/Canner. I told her is she found one used that would be great because, hey I’m budget conscience. But alas, my mother told me she would buy it [...]
La Bonne Cuisine de Madame E. Saint-Ange: The Original Companion for French Home Cooking
Posted in Reviews, tagged cookbook, French food, La Bonne Cuisine, Madame E. Saint-Ange on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is probably the best book I’ve ever read on cooking, not just French, but in general. I’d be hard pressed to say that it is a recipe book. Sure there are recipes in it, but what I found to be most helpful were the clear explanations on technique. Not only did Madame E. Saint-Ange [...]
Recipe Revamps
Posted in Recipes, tagged italian sausage, Recipes, squash on August 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So every now and then I have produce on hand that I’m not sure what to do with. This happens with CSA shipments sometimes. So last week I had a box of produce I received from a friend who went out of town for a week. Amongst other things in the box there were five [...]