lisakelsey's Profile

From: Pawling, NY U.S.A

Joined: December 31st, 2009

About me: I'm the art director of Family Circle and a food department groupie. I have been collecting cookbooks for years and now have a substantial collection of old and new titles which I am looking forward to entering and reviewing here.

Favorite cookbook: How to Cook Everything


Latest review:

April 20th, 2015

Aromatic Minced Pork, Shan Style from Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia

It's amazing how good this tasted considering I was missing a few of the ingredients. I used ginger instead of galangal and onion instead of shallots and squeezed on some lime juice instead of lemongrass.... read more >


recipe reviews (98)
book reviews (4)
useful review votes (31)

lisakelsey's Bookshelf

532 book(s). Click the title of a book to start adding your recipe and book reviews.

TitleTagsRatings & Reviews

How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food

By Mark Bittman, Alan Witschonke
Wiley - 2006


(41 recipe reviews)
owned by 174 my recipe reviews 0 book review

The Greens Cookbook

By Deborah Madison, Edward Espe Brown
Broadway - 2001


(5 recipe reviews)
owned by 18 my recipe reviews 0

Roasting-A Simple Art

By Barbara Kafka, Maria Robledo
William Morrow & Co. - 1995


(12 recipe reviews)
owned by 27 my recipe reviews 0

Soup: A Way of Life

By Barbara Kafka
Artisan - 1998


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 23 my recipe reviews 0

Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life

By Jamie Oliver
Hyperion - 2008


(9 recipe reviews)
owned by 75 my recipe reviews 0

Jamie's Dinners

By Jamie Oliver
Michael Joseph - 2004


(14 recipe reviews)
owned by 42 my recipe reviews 0

The Naked Chef

By Jamie Oliver
Hyperion - 2005


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 14 my recipe reviews 0

U.S.A. Cookbook

By Sheila Lukins, Carolyn Vibbert
Workman Publishing Company - 1997


(1 recipe review)
owned by 11 my recipe reviews 0

Japanese Hot Pots: Comforting One-Pot Meals

By Tadashi Ono, Harris Salat
Ten Speed Press - 2009


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 6 my recipe reviews 2

A New Way to Cook

By Sally Schneider, Maria Robledo
Artisan - 2003


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 20 my recipe reviews 0

Bruce Aidells's Complete Book of Pork: A Guide to Buying, Storing, and Cooking the World's Favorite Meat

By Bruce Aidells
William Morrow Cookbooks - 2004


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 6 my recipe reviews 0

The Classic Italian Cook Book:The art of Italian cooking and the Italian art of eating

By Marcella Hazan
Knopf - 1976


(5 recipe reviews)
owned by 17 my recipe reviews 0

Simca's Cuisine (The Cook's Classic Library)

By Simone Beck, Julia Child
The Lyons Press - 1998


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 7 my recipe reviews 0

Food and Friends: Recipes and Memories from Simca's Cuisine

By Simone Beck, Susanne Patterson
Penguin (Non-Classics) - 1993


(1 recipe review)
owned by 3 my recipe reviews 0

Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie

By Ken Haedrich
Harvard Common Press - 2004


(1 recipe review)
owned by 9 my recipe reviews 1

Recipes from an Ecological Kitchen

By Lorna J. Sass
William Morrow&Co - 1992


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 6 my recipe reviews 0

The 1997 Joy of Cooking

By Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, Irma S. Rombauer
Scribner - 1997


(23 recipe reviews)
owned by 141 my recipe reviews 0

Helen Brown's West Coast Cookbook (Knopf cooks American)

By Helen Evans Brown
Knopf - 1991


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 3 my recipe reviews 0

Simply Tuscan: Recipes for a Well-Lived Life

By Pino Luongo
Broadway - 2000


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 3 my recipe reviews 0

660 Curries

By Raghavan Iyer
Workman Publishing Company - 2008


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 5 my recipe reviews 0

Back to the Family: Food Tastes Better Shared with the Ones You Love

By Art Smith
Thomas Nelson - 2007


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 12 my recipe reviews 0

The Best Casserole Cookbook Ever

By Beatrice Ojakangas, Susie Cushner
Chronicle Books - 2008


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 18 my recipe reviews 0

Princess Tea

By Janeen A. Sarlin, Noelle Shipley
Chronicle Books - 2009


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 0

WeightWatchers Best Eats

By
- 2000


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 0

WeightWatchers Turnaround Program Cookbook

By
- 2000


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 0

Slice of Organic Life

By Alice Waters, Sheherazade Goldsmith
DK Publishing - 2007


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 4 my recipe reviews 0

Everyday Pasta

By Giada De Laurentiis
Clarkson Potter - 2007


(4 recipe reviews)
owned by 53 my recipe reviews 0

The Eating Well Diet

By
- 2000


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 3 my recipe reviews 0

Potluck at Midnight Farm: Celebrating Food, Family, and Friends on Martha's Vineyard

By Tamara Weiss
Clarkson Potter - 2002


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 6 my recipe reviews 0

Mediterranean Fresh: A Compendium of One-Plate Salad Meals and Mix-and-Match Dressings

By Joyce Goldstein, Dan Barber
W. W. Norton - 2008


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 13 my recipe reviews 0

Viennese Cuisine

By Peter Grunauer
Doubleday - 1987


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 0

Organic Marin: Recipes from land to table

By Tim Porter
Andrews McMeel Publishing - 2008


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 0

Victorian Ices and Ice Cream

By Barbara Wheaton
Macmillan Pub Co - 1985


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 0

Think Like a Chef

By Tom Colicchio
Clarkson Potter - 2007


(1 recipe review)
owned by 22 my recipe reviews 0

The Greenmarket Cookbook : Recipes, Tips, and Lore from the World Famous Urban Farmers' Market

By Joel Patraker, Joan Schwartz
Viking Adult - 2000


(1 recipe review)
owned by 5 my recipe reviews 0

The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen: Live Well, Laugh Often, Cook Much

By Serena Thompson, Teri Edwards
Hearst - 2009


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 4 my recipe reviews 0

Kitchen Seasons: Easy Recipes for Seasonal Organic Food

By Ross Dobson
Ryland Peters & Small - 2007


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 3 my recipe reviews 0

Back to the Table: The Reunion of Food and Family

By Art Smith
Hyperion - 2001


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 18 my recipe reviews 0

Cooking From the Hip: Fast, Easy, Phenomenal Meals

By Cat Cora, Ann Krueger Spivack
Houghton Mifflin - 2007


(1 recipe review)
owned by 11 my recipe reviews 0

The Cake Mix Doctor

By Anne Byrn
Workman Publishing Company - 1999


(5 recipe reviews)
owned by 24 my recipe reviews 0

A Mediterranean Feast: The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean from the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs, with More than 500 Recipes

By Clifford A. Wright
William Morrow Cookbooks - 1999


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 9 my recipe reviews 0

Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia

By Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid
Artisan - 2000


(1 recipe review)
owned by 46 my recipe reviews 1

The Ski House Cookbook: Warm Winter Dishes for Cold Weather Fun

By Tina Anderson, Sarah Pinneo
Clarkson Potter - 2007


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 0

Lidia's Italy: 140 Simple and Delicious Recipes from the Ten Places in Italy Lidia Loves Most

By Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, Tanya Bastianich Manuali
Knopf - 2007


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 19 my recipe reviews 0

Diary of a Tuscan Chef

By Cesare Casella, Eileen Daspin
Broadway - 1998


(1 recipe review)
owned by 3 my recipe reviews 1

Mario Batali Simple Italian Food: Recipes from My Two Villages

By Mario Batali
Clarkson Potter - 1998


(15 recipe reviews)
owned by 23 my recipe reviews 0

Cooking with My Sisters: One Hundred Years of Family Recipes, from Bari to Big Stone Gap

By Adriana Trigiani, Mary Trigiani, Lucia Anna Trigiani, Antonia Trigiani, Francesca Trigiani
Random House Trade Paperbacks - 2005


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 0

Pleasures Of The Good Earth (Knopf Cooks American Series)

By Edward Giobbi
Knopf - 1991


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 0

Marcella Says...: Italian Cooking Wisdom from the Legendary Teacher's Master Classes, with 120 of Her Irresistible New Recipes

By Marcella Hazan, Victor Hazan
William Morrow Cookbooks - 2004


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 23 my recipe reviews 0

The Festive Food of Italy

By Maddalena Bonino, Sally Maltby
Bulfinch Pr - 1991


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 0