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White Asparagus
http://www.finecooking.com/item/29833/asparagus http://www.finecooking.com/item/5046/asparagus These may be helpful -- I have never cooked with the white asparagus, but I generally find the FC articles useful when I am working with a new ingredien…

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April/May 2011 Challenge: Smitten Kitchen
Andrew -- so glad you were able to line up an interview with Deb from Smitten Kitchen! I am finding this a really fun challenge. Also, for those who are interested, here is a link to a Serious Eats posting on how to get the best results in food p…

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April/May 2011 Challenge: Smitten Kitchen
Andrew, I posted a note to Deb at Smitten Kitchen about the challenge here and she responded -- so she knows what we are up to over here. I saw the thread about increasing traffic here-- when I first discovered Cookbooker I thought -- he has built …

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April/May 2011 Challenge: Smitten Kitchen
I am so pleased to see this challenge as it brings my two favorite food websites together -- I have so many SK recipes printed off and sitting in a basket in my kitchen just waiting to be tried.

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Future Challenges
I'd love a Smitten Kitchen challenge at some point -- Deb has a cookbook coming out next year.

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Modernist Cuisine
http://alineaathome.typepad.com/ Carol at Alinea at home posted her thoughts on the book -- thought others might find it interesting.

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Modernist Cuisine
I am not really interested at all in cooking from this book although I suppose I might have been if I'd ever eaten at WD-50 or Alinea or E Bulli. I am interested in it as an artifact however -- I think, as books go (and I am a book person), it…

Comment by aj12754 March 2011 permalink
Site improvements & suggestions
@lazy lurker -- I enjoy your reviews as well -- this is easily the site I check the most often during breaks in my work day to see if there are new reviews posted. @Andrew -- I know so little about website stuff,the fact that all this stuff works …

Comment by aj12754 February 2011 permalink
Site improvements & suggestions
I wondered about that too -- LL, even though you said in another post that you had posted some recent reviews, I don't believe I have seen them even when browsing recipes.

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Cabbage Club - Cooking with Winter Vegetables and the New York Times
Now this looks like the kind of cabbage soup recipe that might erase the memory of the sugar rush one in the NYT. From the current issue of Bon Appetit and available online. http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Potato-Green-Cabbage-and-Lee…

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Cabbage Club - Cooking with Winter Vegetables and the New York Times
A nice cabbage and leek and bacon tart in the latest compilation issue, "Breakfast", of Fine Cooking. It's easily halved and I found it a tasty way to use up a half cabbage left over from making another recipe (probably that abysmal …

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Looking for easy romantic dessert
Panna cotta with Balsamic Strawberries? (Barefoot Contessa at Home) -- also a good-looking caramel pecan sundae in this one. Or a coeur a la creme (sp?) from Barefoot in Paris although this one requires a special heart-shaped mold. If his girlfrie…

Comment by aj12754 February 2011 permalink
my personal cookbooker challenge
LL -- I meant to ask ... do you have a strategy for achieving your goal? Are you going to focus on one cookbook per week and cook three recipes from it in that week? Or some other approach. I sat down yesterday to think about how I wanted to appro…

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Future Challenges
P.S. Welcome Iw8tablZ -- love your moniker!

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Future Challenges
I love having an excuse to buy Moosewood -- not sure why it never made it onto my shelves before since so many of my friends cook from it and love it.

Comment by aj12754 February 2011 permalink
my personal cookbooker challenge
I like the idea of taking a more structured approach to cooking from my cookbooks (I have about 250 plus many many issues of cooking magazines I cannot bring myself to recycle). I admire your ambition LL -- and like the approach ... think I'll…

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Site improvements & suggestions
I would like the ability to ask questions of other cooks, particularly when I want to try a dish someone has reviewed, but I may be unfamiliar with an ingredient or technique used.

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New Feature: Cover Uploads
I LOVE the new look of my bookshelf.

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Cabbage Club - Cooking with Winter Vegetables and the New York Times
LL -- a little late to the party but Joy of Cooking has a couple of good sprouts recipes. Andrew -- finally found the cabbage soup recipe from Best American Recipes 2004-2005. It was originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle and I tried t…

Comment by aj12754 January 2011 permalink
Site improvements & suggestions
No problem Andrew -- I'll delete the personal cookbook and wait to see what you come up with. Posting to a blog is a good idea friederike -- I hadn't thought of that -- probably because I don't develop my own recipes very often -- and…

Comment by aj12754 January 2011 permalink
Site improvements & suggestions
Andrew -- whatever makes sense for you works for me. I was really only thinking about how to store my experiments so they are easily accessible if I decide to make changes or try something slightly different with one of them. But if a "person…

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Site improvements & suggestions
Andrew -- a while back you asked about how we use this site and this morning, I came up with another way I will be using the site. This morning I realized I had on hand a set of "use 'em or lose 'em" ingredients -- and have deci…

Comment by aj12754 January 2011 permalink
Cabbage Club - Cooking with Winter Vegetables and the New York Times
I have a great (IMHO) recipe for a French cabbage soup from one of those Best American Recipes anthologies -- I will track it down if you like and post here -- it may even be available online. I love the idea of wintry cooking -- it is below zero h…

Comment by aj12754 January 2011 permalink
Newest Challenge: The Zuni Cafe Cookbook
LL -- no need to feel badly on my account -- even on my best days I am not very competitive. I'd probably accomplish a lot more if I were! But I have really enjoyed reading everyone's reviews and have kale in the fridge right now to make t…

Comment by aj12754 January 2011 permalink
Newest Challenge: The Zuni Cafe Cookbook
I enjoyed this challenge as well although I still have a list of Zuni recipes to try and post. I was not as industrious as I'd hoped I'd be. Somehow, I never realized that winning a cookbook was at stake ...

Comment by aj12754 January 2011 permalink
How do you store and organise your herbs and spices?
I think I am more likely to toss dried herbs once a year --I guess I am less likely to toss spices as I don't notice as much of a falling off in flavor.

Comment by aj12754 January 2011 permalink
User name
Will do -- and if you ever make it up my way, I'd love to meet up with you and do a "foodie field trip" around here -- lots I haven't seen even after four years. I sign up for a couple of cooking classes a year around here -- I …

Comment by aj12754 January 2011 permalink
Linking recipes
When I review recipes from Fine Cooking, which often appear on their website as well, I put the link in the body of the review. I think the addition of field for adding links would be a "nice to have". More generally -- if I know the r…

Comment by aj12754 January 2011 permalink
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Southerncooker -- I do occasionally make it down to NC since one of my closest friends is in Raleigh and my husband loves to golf down there. Would love to meet up and compare notes so I'll keep you posted about travel plans ... I see you are …

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User name
I am funny about using my real name on-line so I have been AJ since just about the first I went on line some 15 or so years ago. At that time I had a cat named AJ so I borrowed her moniker and added a date that was meaningful to me that I knew I�…

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