Saturday Six: Hello, my name is Dawn and I can't stop buying used cookbooks...

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dawnnys

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We just came from our book and bake sale at the library, and there are always so many good cookbooks there (and money raised goes to a good cause). I stopped myself at 6 (Wolfgang Puck, pot-lucks, corn-only, cupcakes, crockpot cooking, and make-ahead and freeze), which are all ones I can use, but arggghh!!!

'Never did get around to making the head-first Wicked Witch of the East cupcakes. I had good intentions, but I'll have to make them before Halloween for us instead. Fondant legs, chocolate shoes, etc. They are so cute! (see link for picture)

We saw Jersey Boys the other night and it was great (but why is "Frankie's" voice so shrill?!).

Off to buy more Silver Queen corn (I'm afraid we are near the end of the season for it here), now that I have the "just-corn") cookbook... lol Edited: it's gone :eek:(

Making stuffed cabbage in the crockpot right now. I'm adding some red wine to the pasta sauce, should be good. Edited: Reduced leftover (leftover?!) dry red wine to about 1/2 volume, added a little butter, and added in minced mushrooms and simmered about a minute more.

Stuffed (with homemade cornbread stuffing) tilapia for dinner tomorrow. Friends coming over to watch a DVD, so it will be a mini pot-luck (hey, I bought a cookbook for those, too) with good sides I hope! If not, there is always red chard still growing here.

Making feta, dried tomato, and dill quiche for breakfast tomorrow. I'm in pie-crust-making mode.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/holidays-and-parties/food-network-magazines-halloween-cupcakes/pictures/page-4.html

 
I resemble your comment...

I enjoy cooking with a couple groups of ladies on-line. Madhur Jaffrey is the cookbook author of the current 6 month term. I can't imagine being restricted to cooking weekly Indian dishes from merely 1 book over the next 6 months...so I've added 6 new-to-me cookbooks by said author! So far, the journey is enchanting!

 
Here you go. Adapted from a friend's recipe mad in the oven. REC Crockpot Stuffed Peppers

12 tablespoons of rice (what's that, about 6 oz?!)
1 lb ground beef (or beef-pork mixture)
About a dozen leaves from a large head of cabbage
freshly ground pepper to taste
1 Tbs (or to taste) onion powder or 1/2 onion, chopped
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp dried basil leaves
1 clove garlic, minced
1 can condensed tomato soup
1 can hot water
1 1/2 cups crushed tomatoes

Lay out cabbage leaves and place first 2 ingredients inside. Roll up, folding ends in as you go. Roll loosely, as rice will expand as it cooks. Place in bottom of crockpot.

Pour remaining ingredients over the top, cover, and cook on low about 7 hours. Top with Parmesan cheese if desired (we like it this way).

Freezes well.

 
How do you know it's mad? Does it "boil"? Please forgive me

Dawn....I can't help myself. ;0)

 
OMG - you just reminded me our library sale is this weekend

But they have played back and forth with running it on Sunday and I can't remember if they have it through Sunday now or not. Not sure whether to cross my fingers it's open or closed.

But I am in the same boat and DH says I am destroying our home and one of our largest assets with the weight of my cookbook collection. Next time I build a house, it's going to be built like a library/archives!!!

 
Saturday Six... (Also, I hear you, Dawn. Cookbooks on Half.com are my main vice.)

1. Bribed my brother to come help us move baby furniture this morning by offering brunch: pains au chocolat, fruit salad, 24-hour wine-and-cheese omelet, crudités. I like the omelet, but it's not as good as my mom's chile-egg puff and comes out sort of flat.

2. Visited the absolute Mecca of frozen yogurt on Friday w/ SandrainNY. My pick: thin-mint yogurt that tastes like someone cajoled a Girl Scout into giving up the Thin Mints recipe. And about 400 toppings to choose from. Extremely good!

3. Saturday morning, made challah French toast topped with cream cheese and an impromptu cranberry sauce from fresh cranberries. I think I'm sold on challah for French toast--somehow it just turns out better than when I use a baguette or Italian bread.

4. Made potato-and-leek soup on Friday night. Tried not to think about the immersion blenders I saw on sale a block away... I should've just dumped it into our regular blender, but I'm leery of doing that with hot soup...

5. Husband is up around 72nd at the Apple Store... I was going to go up there with him, because Trader Joe's is close, but then I realized that they don't have all their holiday stuff in yet. And also that I would rather pluck all my eyebrow hair out than go to TJ's on a Sunday afternoon. Anyone know when their holiday things appear?

6. Against my better judgement, decided to do Thanksgiving. Now to simply persuade my brother NOT to bring 12 pounds of mashed potatoes and the sweet-potato-and-marshmallow dish from 135th Street on the subway...

Happy weekend. smileys/smile.gif

 
As it should be... And if you see any of those Time Life cuisines of the world, let me know, I'm...

still missing a few volumes smileys/smile.gif

 
Ha ha,cute, and what a great idea to use candy sticks as the socks!

I was a little nervous about piping the stripes on her legs, which is the main reason that I didn't attempt them with the little time I had left to make them. Thanks!

 
oh what fun! I've marked 8 easy ones. can't wait to try them

my choices were 4,5,18,25,26,33,37,41
I have a bag of green chocolate melts to use up! will be making the witch legs cupcake too from the other post.

 
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