Confession time - what's your weakness? Spices? Kitchen toys? Me, I'm a cookbook junkie...

Community cookbooks

Any time we travel, or if we are at a fair, I look for recipes in community cookbooks published by locals. Really great ones from Wisconsin, Louisanna, Tennessee.

 
Hee hee,, I need a 12 step program for.....

Cookbooks ,wire whisks, and tongs.
Keith could understand the cookbooks, and the tongs to some degree, but the wire whisks, he could not get a handle on.
I think ( insert guilty look here) that I have 48 at last count.

 
Curious, I did the same thing with forgetting, and now have 2 bottles of TJs truffle oil. smileys/smile.gif

 
I broke myself of the magazine and cookbook habit, but I just can't stop with printing recipes from

the 'net, and this place in particular.

I have a huge stack of them in a cabinet near my stove. DH made me a very nice binder to put them in. He formatted some of the ones I had on my hard drive and added them to the binder before giving it to me. Isn't that nice?

Now, do you think I've added another recipe to that binder? :-o

hangs head in shame and walks out of the thread

 
Spices, cookbooks, Williams Sonoma, and good kitchen ware...

including pots and pans. Love some gadgets, but not the cheap "State Fair" ones.

 
I'm a bona fide "LDP"r. A lot of times I mess up my categorized big binder-clipped

recipes such as poultry, pork, beef, fish, etc. when looking for something to make. Right now, I kid you not... I have a stack exceeding 1 ft. high!

 
We had a salad, at a restaurant, this past weekend that was>>>

REALLY WOW!! It was simply arugala, a few tomato sections & warm sliced portobella mushrooms, dressed with truffle oil. YUM!!!!

 
Hello, my name is Susie and I'm a cookbook junkie! I just bought 5 cookbooks >>>

from Barnes and Noble clearance table yesterday. Southern Desserts, pasta, Southwestern....I told myself I can use them for gifts!

Yeah, right. Gifts. HA!

 
I have it all, also......

Cookbooks, gadgets, appliances, ingredients, spices (just ordered more vanilla beans on eBay), dishes (6 sets and gave my oldest DD one sets), teapots, coffee/espresso/tea stuff. (and all the extras that go with that: brewers, hotpots, syrups, servers, cups, stirrers).

I am trying to stay out of TJ Maxx, Marshalls and off of websites that have great bargains!

My DH is retiring soon and I HAVE to get rid of a bunch of stuff. Have given my DD's some, eBayed some, will garage sale some.

Okay! Set PRIORITIES, Gayle!!!! I have been totally out of control!!!

 
I have a chicken tamale recipe that calls for annato. I have to buy a new package each time

because I can't find the old one, so somewhere in my cupboard there are half a dozen half-used packages.

 
You win! My stack isn't quite 1 ft high, but if I printed out all my saved recipes from here, it

might exceed your 1 ft pile.

 
Strange as it may seem, my favorite part of my Womans Day magazine...

is not the recipe section, but is the page of "Menus for the Month"... I have some great recipes, but I always love new ideas to remind me to make some of the less-tried ones.

I go on autopilot a lot, and like IDEAS, sometimes even more than just reading the whole recipe. Maybe just lazy - lol.

 
Cookbooks, printing recipes and my step-daughter gave me

a gift certificate to Williams Sonoma for Mothers Day so I can hardly wait to buy something I don't need.

 
Sometimes it's a good thing to live in a place with no WS or TJs or Whole Foods etc smileys/smile.gif

 
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