Favorites???
June 2nd, 2012 | 
Author: Just wondering what your favorite cooking magazine and cookbook of all times are. I’m having a hard time deciding as there are so many. I really like the Pennsylvania State Grange Cookbooks a lot and have gotten a lot of good recipes from the Taste of Home magazines over the years…. I’ve somehow misplaced my favorite Grange cookbook that I have all marked up. Ugh! That’s what got me thinking about this in the first place….Just wondering????
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I have so many cookbooks, but not nearly as many as I had before I purged. I like my old Good Housekeeping Illustrated cookbook and especially like cookbooks put out by local organizations or churches. I have every Southern Living annual cookbook from 1979 to 2002.
But my favorites are the 4 3-ring binders full of recipes I’ve printed off cooking sites like Mimi’s. But cutting/pasting and using 10″ font, I can usually get 3 recipes per page. I store them in Word by category–beef, pork, seafood, poultry, salads, etc. and when I have 4 or 5 pages, I print them and put them in plastic sleeves and put them in the binders. I have a 5th binder than has only carb free recipes from when DH was on Atkins. I’m about to get rid of some of those recipes to make room for all my new ones LOL!
Oh–I also do like you do, Sherry. After I make the recipe I write comments on the side, like “this was great” or “Nada”. Also changes I’d make next time. Sometimes I write what the occasion was I made the dish for. It helps a lot when I’m trying to decide on a meal.
*I also have tons of cookbooks that I’ll never live long enough to work my way through, but I’m trying! I’ve considered purging but thus far have not been able to decide what to let go. That Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook is really good, and I learned to cook from my old Betty Crocker. Good ‘ol Betty! She helped me discover that gravy will not thicken no matter how much thickening one puts in unless you turn the heat on! It was in my young head that milk should be used instead of water or broth and flour….after about a quart of milk, a pile of flour and no heat, then adding heat…..well, I could have sliced that gravy in wedges to serve! I also have a bunch of large binders with recipes categorized like you do. Those things are a godsend for planning and finding the recipes! They are saved on the computer too, but I like to hold those things in my hands yet….my age is showing!!!!
*I have put all my favorite recipies on my Recipe Circus site. They come from here at Mimi’s, other sites, family members, magazines, and friends. I have printed them all out and now keep them in 4 large loose leaf binders.
I would say my favorite cook book is The Joy of Cooking, and my favorite magazines are the Taste of Home magazine. However I am letting the original Taste of Home lapse but will keep the Simple and Delicious and the Healthy Cooking magazines. Also like Cuisine at Home. Have given away most of my cookbooks to family members and friends.
*Oh, I hope I have managed to really get back on this site!
Nalani, in the REcipe Circus is your site under your name or if not, how do I find those recipes?
When i first set up my Recipe Circus I used Shastadc (Shasta Daycare) as my name.
My Favorite cookbook is a fundraiser from the high school and is made of home economic teachers favorite recipes. I use it and others they published and sold. Also love the MADD fundraider books…and then there is Pinterest!
*Paula, it is under Nalani
*PS: this time I just am using my first name and not the whole Paula Anderson from before.