Cookbook Hoarders United
CHUsday Tips to Take You Back to the Kitchen
This week while leafing through old magazines, I found a tip I can’t believe I’ve never tried. It’s so obvious and simple. Chop onions, peppers, celery, or carrots and freeze on a cookie sheet, then pop the frozen veggies into plastic bags. When an ingredient is needed for a recipe, break off a chunk. Well, of course. Celery regularly wilts…
Read MoreCHUsday and Soup Weather’s Here
Tina, who posted a comment on the CHU blog, Bread’s Baking in the Oven, is October’s CHU giveaway winner with a recipe she tried from The New American Plate: Recipes for a Healthy Weight and a Healthy Life. The recipe, Roasted Red Pepper and Corn Soup, was a hit at her house. Tina says “it’s…
Read MoreCHUsday and the One That Got Away
I hate wasting food. Which is why my husband and I smiled over burned salmon last week and pretended to smack our lips. Truth is, neither of us was willing to throw away a pound of wild caught salmon, even if the glaze, for which I’d held out so much hope, was now a layer…
Read MoreCHUsday with an Ethnic Twist
My hometown, Gulfport, Florida, has a wonderful Cuban restaurant, Habana Cafe. Last year when I attended the Novelist’s Inc. conference on St. Pete Beach, a group of us visited the restaurant for a delicious, reasonably priced dinner. I ordered the lechon asada, which is a fabulously roasted pork topped with grilled onions. I was hooked. I…
Read MoreCHUsday: What’s Your Favorite Food Blog?
I don’t know about you, but in addition to a LOT of cookbooks, I also have a LOT of links to cooking blogs and recipe sites. This month, in hopes that you do, too, if you make a new recipe from an online site, you can comment here or on any Cookbook Hoarders United blog from…
Read MoreCHUsday: Flexitarian, Vegetarian, Vegan and Carnivore
So, do you know what kind of “eater” you are? Or have you ever even wondered. Maybe you grew up with fried-green tomatoes, ham biscuits and red eye gravy. Maybe you grew up with brown rice, tofu and bean sprouts. Or maybe your family was eclectic and ate a little of this and a little of…
Read MoreCHUsday: What Will You CHUse To Make This Month?
Congratulations to Nancy Badertscher, who won last month’s CHU giveaway by trying a vegetarian broccoli quiche to feed her visiting vegetarian children. Nancy used a recipe from Pillsbury’s Easy Vegetarian Meals, and I’m providing the link to the same quiche, as well as the cookbook.
Read MoreCHUsday and Bread’s Baking in the Oven
If you’ve tuned in for the first time, you can read all about CHUsday and my monthly giveaway here. Or go to Cookbook Hoarders United under categories and see what we’ve been doing. The comments have slacked off, so if you’re pulling out old cookbooks, you’re not telling me and entering the giveaway. Why not…
Read MoreCHUsday: Where Do You Go When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking?
Let’s get the biz part over fast. In an effort to make use of some of those MANY cookbooks lining your shelves, some (most?) of which you haven’t opened in a year, we’re doing a fun giveaway here called Cookbook Hoarders United. Just try a recipe from one of your orphaned cookbooks (one you haven’t…
Read MoreCHUsday’s Winner and Herbed Oven Crisp Chicken
We completed August with some great entries in the CHU giveaway. Random.org chose Lee Ann’s entry–which was actually the first–a selection from the cookbook, Adventures In Cooking, from the Sunnyside Presbyterian Church in South Bend, Indiana and submitted by a Mrs. G.V. Swigart. The book came to Lee Ann from Great-Grandmother “B,” and Lee Ann chose…
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