kaye16

Pick a book you haven't used
Welcome, @awindyday! That's a great idea! I've sort of got my own project going to use one of my seldom (or never) used cookbooks once a week. (My cookbook space is getting full full full, and I need to start thinking about clearing out, b…

Comment by kaye16 August 2014 permalink
Searching my bookshelf
That's puzzling. This is what's working for me.

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Indexing Issue
Like button. :-)

Comment by kaye16 August 2014 permalink
Searching my bookshelf
Use Search in the red menu bar across the top. Fill in the title, then search. If there are several entries (as there can be, especially if it's a web site you're looking for, I find), the icon on the right tell you if it's on your bo…

Comment by kaye16 August 2014 permalink
Indexing Issue
Oh dear, it's looking like several little things have broken as the site got moved.

Comment by kaye16 August 2014 permalink
Searching my bookshelf
At least I'm not the only person having the problem! You can always do a "global" search for the book, rather than searching from your bookshelf. Flipping through your bookshelf takes too too long.

Comment by kaye16 August 2014 permalink
Errata
Somehow lost track of this conversation. Changing the 'chatter' tab to 'errata and substitutions' is a great idea. It gets the info right where it needs to be. Chatter doesn't seem to be used much afaics; that all stays in …

Comment by kaye16 August 2014 permalink
Football (Soccer) World Cup Challenge
I've had too many things going to participate in this challenge, but follow with interest -- it's such a fun idea. This morning I was reading (a bit belatedly) through a French cooking magazine (Vie Pratique Gourmand) and laughed to find a…

Comment by kaye16 July 2014 permalink
advice for cooking without a kitchen (during remodeling)?
Been mighty quiet for a while ... how is the renovation going? One of the benefits of our do-it-yourself approach was that we managed to keep the kitchen in working order, if sometimes a bit inconvenient. Even the days when the new sink and counte…

Comment by kaye16 May 2014 permalink
Pi day 2014
This is from Science News, not your regular recipe site. It's Janet Raloff's Chocolate Medicinal Mousse Pie. I've had big complements on this. https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/food-thought/chocolate-therapies-recipe-janet’s-chocolate-…

Comment by kaye16 March 2014 permalink
Pi day 2014
Louise Hagler's Tofu Cookery has a recipe for Lemon Pudding, to be eaten as pudding or put in a baked pie shell. Blend in a food processor or blender until smooth and creamy: 1 lb tofu 1/4 cup oil 2/3 cup sugar 1/8 tsp salt 6 tbl lemon juice 1…

Comment by kaye16 March 2014 permalink
How do you sort your cookbooks?
I recently gathered cookbooks scattered through the house and discovered that I'm basically out of space for cookbooks. No more new ones for a while. :-(

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I finally got a bookcase for my cookbooks
Lovely! I use IKEA's Ivar. It's practical and adjustable and not too ugly.

Comment by kaye16 March 2014 permalink
Pi day 2014
How about baking the leftovers in a pie?

Comment by kaye16 March 2014 permalink
The New Future of Cookbooker
We went through the kitchen thing last year so I know a bit what you're going through. Our sink and its counter were on wheels with long flexible plumbing for well over 6 months so they could be moved in and out from the wall as needed. Shelvin…

Comment by kaye16 February 2014 permalink
Quintet of Cuisines (Time-Life Foods of the World)
Welcome to Cookbooker, SLTE! Apparently the newer editions of these books do have ISBNs; mine certainly don't. See http://cookbooksforchefs.com/home/foods-of-the-world-time-life-editors/ But it's still unclear to me from this if there i…

Comment by kaye16 February 2014 permalink
The New Future of Cookbooker
@queezle, I think you'll see a Delete "button" in the heading of each message (next tot he name), where we didn't see this before.

Comment by kaye16 February 2014 permalink
Quintet of Cuisines (Time-Life Foods of the World)
I wish I coud figure out how to make sense of this stuff. I've cooked a handful of recipes from Quintet, and will be doing more from the other books. It would be nice to be saving reviews here. I suppose I could just add yet another entry for t…

Comment by kaye16 February 2014 permalink
The New Future of Cookbooker
Now if those new MasterCook folk would make MC available on Mac again, I'd have all my eggs in one basket, so to speak! :-)

Comment by kaye16 February 2014 permalink
Big Mac Dessert
The English breakfast dessert is great! :-) Yours is pretty impressive too! My stock is Albert Heijn brand (AH). It's been 2 years since I've been there, so maybe it's gone? ... No, found these on the AH webwinkel site: http://webwin…

Comment by kaye16 January 2014 permalink
Big Mac Dessert
Wow! Don't think I'll ever do anything like that, but wow! I made spinach pasta recently. It was quite pretty, but there wasn't any spinach flavor that we noticed. I have made a mushroom pasta with dried 'shrooms powdered up that…

Comment by kaye16 January 2014 permalink
Big Mac Dessert
I do hope you'll post some picture for this dessert! :-)

Comment by kaye16 January 2014 permalink
Big Mac Dessert
I'm still into the lettuce/pasta idea. How about leaves of lasagna? You could cook the noodles about 3/4 of the way done, then drain and trim to lettuce-leaf shapes, maybe two per noodle, and maybe even carve some veins. Then finish cooking in …

Comment by kaye16 January 2014 permalink
Big Mac Dessert
Shopping list includes: - many jars of AH stock (gevogeltefond, paddestoelefond, wildfond, visfond, vleesfond) At least according to the label (when last seen) these don't have much in the way of artifical flavoring. I make chicken stock, but …

Comment by kaye16 January 2014 permalink
Big Mac Dessert
The Lebkuchen look interesting. Can you get them in NL? (We'll be making a visit soon and it might be something for the list. French cookies are pretty boring, not much variety.)

Comment by kaye16 January 2014 permalink
Big Mac Dessert
I'm thinking the tagliatelle might work, green or white, cut into shortish bits like shredded lettuce. Then make a simple syrup/caramel sort of thing, with some green food color. It would be a bit crunchy like lettuce. Or maybe handmade pasta,…

Comment by kaye16 January 2014 permalink
Big Mac Dessert
I made chocolate pasta once for dessert. Don't know I'd do it again, but it was interesting. Green chocolate would be difficult.

Comment by kaye16 January 2014 permalink
Big Mac Dessert
Or some green tagliatelle (or linguine) cooked, cut into shorter bits (lettuce shreds), and coated in a sugar syrup, maybe with some green food color to make it greener?

Comment by kaye16 January 2014 permalink
Big Mac Dessert
Or massage some green food coloring into "spijs" and then flatten into leaves? That's almond and cinnamon, and not too sure about that either.

Comment by kaye16 January 2014 permalink
Big Mac Dessert
Could you find some kind of green mint-flavored "lettuce"? Although I'm not too sure about mint and cinnamon as a flavor combo.

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