From Tracey Medeiros, author of Dishing Up Vermont and The Vermont Farm Table Cookbook comes a new cookbook showcasing delicious recipes from our state. The Vermont Non-GMO Cookbook is a collection of profiles of over 70 local food folks and groups from all over the state including chefs, food producers, and certified-organic farms who are committed […]
Baking For Two, A Cookbook Review
Baking For Two is the first cookbook by Tracy Yabiku, creator of all the deliciousness on her blog Baking Mischief! This cookbook is available to buy on Amazon now. Follow this link to grab your copy! I first connected with food blogger Tracy Yabiku over some shared “nerdy” interests that she merged with culinary creations. On her blog, Baking […]
Chocolate Biscuit Puffs Recipe Review for Taste of Home Tuesdays
Today I join fellow Taste of Home Volunteer Field Editors and share a review of a recipe from the Taste of Home website! The theme for this Taste of Home Tuesday recipe review is chocolate. I could hardly let the opportunity to try something chocolate pass me by. I found this recipe on the T.O.H. […]
Maple: A Sweet & Savory Cookbook
Maple is a book of beautiful sweetness and sumptuous photography. The author Katie Webster is a Vermont photographer, blogger, chef and food stylist. She is also a contributing editor to Eating Well Magazine. In Maple she has compiled recipes covering breakfast, dessert and everything in between, all with a generous helping of pure Vermont maple syrup. This book […]
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime. A Cookbook Review
for the January meeting of The Cephalopod Coffeehouse Book Club There are several new cookbooks in my kitchen this new year. I’m like a kid in a candy store when I get to hunker down with a pile of new cookbooks! (Other cookbook fixations of mine include The Thug Kitchen Cookbook and Talking with My Mouth […]
Hungry Enough To Eat This? Book of Recipes
Hungry Enough To Eat This? A book of family recipes from a good friend I recently received a lovely gift from a good friend. Natalie is a teacher at the school where I work and I had the pleasure of helping in her classroom last year. When not distracted by… whoops, I mean helping students, the […]
Detective Burgers
In my post about the Creative Blogger Award, I shared as a fact about me that I am collecting old copies (matte with black band on spine) of the Nancy Drew series. I also aim to find a copy of the Nancy Drew Cookbook, which contains a recipe for ‘Detective Burgers’. Who could resist such […]
Thug Kitchen Cookbook
I hope that I will inspire you to check out this amazing cookbook! (Caution: coarse language ahead! But that’s what makes it fun.) My selection for this month’s Cephalopod Coffeehouse Book Review Club is the Thug Kitchen Cookbook, which was published last October. I first heard of this cookbook when my friend Christine shared this […]
Zippy Beets! & New Thrills of Freezing with a Frigidaire Food Freezer
It is the final day of the A to Z Challenge and we have reached the Letter Z! Congratulations to all my fellow A to Zers on a blog challenge well done! For my last post on Vintage Cookbooks & Recipes I am sharing one of each. Zippy Beets… my DJ name in college? No! […]
War Time Cake, from Your Share: Daily Helps for Wartime Meal-Planning and Cooking
This cookbook was published under the Betty Crocker imprint by General Mills in 1943. (We just watched Captain America:The First Avenger two nights ago, and it takes place at about the same year!) During World War II Americans at home-made sacrifices in an effort to send all the support possible to the armed forces. […]
Quick Tortoni, from Wonderful World of Cooking: Italian Recipes
This little cooking booklet was published in 1965 by Harwood & Tjaden. The recipes were created and compiled by Ruth Conrad Bateman, “professional home economist and foods writer.” Bateman had a few other cookbooks published in the 60’s and 70’s as well, and according to the writeup in this one there were supposed to be two […]
Frozen Strawberry Squares, from the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Cookbook
My fabulous mother-in-law Pati bestowed upon me her copy of The Vermont Symphony Orchestra Cookbook. It was published in 1984 by the Rutland (VT) Area Chapter of the Friends of the VSO to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Orchestra. All of the recipes were submitted by the Friends of the VSO. It is […]