...is to sort the damn things and donate most of them?  I mean, how many cookbooks does a person need?  ;)

@griff - 

@monster - you speak craziness.  I love my cookbooks.  There are some weird church ones I may dump, though.  And I have more on my to buy list.  I don't have a strategy for sorting them that I like.  So, haphazard they stay - lol

My Favoritest cookbook is "The Hebe"  (Hebe is pologirl's name).  I found it on a "vanity" ebay search.  It was produced in the 70s by the wives of the employees of the Hercules Tire company.  It's basically a load of bored housewife cheats adding a special ingredient -usually booze- to a packet mix  Freaking hilarious.  Almost nothing from scratch and the closest things to "scratch" recipes mostly involve a can of mushroom soup.   and a shit-ton of recipes involving jello and described as salad.

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When Mr. Clod was born, the hospital did this weird thing where they gave each new mother a booklet of recipes gathered from hospital staff. Kind of cute, I guess, but each recipe lists who contributed it and what their job was at the hospital--and the discrepancies are wildly obvious, practically to the point of satire. A nurse recipe will be like processed cheese and potatoes, then a doctor recipe will be for pheasant, then a nurse recipe for meatless spaghetti, then a doctor recipe for coq au vin with a side of caviar...

monster wrote:

...is to sort the damn things and donate most of them?  I mean, how many cookbooks does a person need?  ;)

Sacriledge.
As many as I can store properly.

I make deviled eggs for just me and Mr. Clod. I love them. Could eat them every day forever.

Undertoad wrote:

don't forget this one

No men here

@bbro:
Here ya go.

I picked just the first three that caught my attention.  I've made dishes from all of these cookbooks, some more than others.

Here we go!

First up, a cocktail, shall we?


I've been making mead for many years, and if you like honey, it's *delicious*.  And as you'll see in a minute, there are other things you can feed my friend and yours, yeast, like fruit juices, #methegelin.

Let's take a look at the table of contents.


The book is good, pedantic, authoritative, detailed, worthwhile.  And I have a local honey producer/retailer, Stedmans.  And I have some that's been aging for about ten years.  I wish could share it with you. It's DELICIOUS! 

Ok, now for some more, ole timey cookbooks.  Please, don't laugh.




Here's the introduction, it's like this all the way through, very, very homey.




Which recipes have I made?


Pot
Starter
Hotcakes
Bread.

As I've said elsewhere, Yeast is my friend.


What about food that isn't alcohol or bread?

Ok, what about fermented food?


Not sure if I mentioned this earlier, but yeast is my friend and yours, I heart yeast (poop). DON'T JUDGE ME!
Here's the table of contents.  Which have I made? 



A few, here's the one I liked the most. Seriously, it's by god the simplest recipe EVER,  cabbage, water, salt and time. wtf ppl?  I used red cabbage and it's PEPTO BISMOL PINK but still de freakin licious.



Ok, that's it for now.

Back to the kitchen/library!


 

It's a Simpsons reference now, as well.



 

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bbro wrote:

I've seen the Simpsons one.

I had a thought to actually make a cocktail tomorrow instead of just drinking wine all day or whiskey straight.  I have 2 cocktail books. 

The Dead Rabbit Drinks Manual has lots of very complicated recipes with ingredients that I don't even know what are.  I'll try that again when I have more time to plan and find everything.

My brother got me Mr Boston when I turned 21, but I haven't used it before.  I was able to find some decent sounding drinks with limited ingredients using Irish whiskey (my fav)

I also realized that I don't have rolls tomorrow (or Friday - whenever I decide to cook the turkey) and I am NOT going to the store again.  I am now looking for a recipe I can prep tonight or doesn't need much time

ETA - and I just realized I don't have eggs either (facepalm).
ETA2 - I don't have any fucking flour - looks like I'm either going to the store or my apartment tomorrow. Fuck.

Oh bbro.

I also have a copy of Mr Boston.  It's in the rules somewhere, but that's about the extent of the usefulness of that book.  I MIGHT be able to find it... but there's have to be a big pile of money in front of me or a big fire behind me for me to try to find it.

Meanwhile....

Cocktails, they're great, I love 'em.

But now rolls... on thanksgiving?  

Oh.

No eggs?


uh oh.. no flour?

NO PROBLEM.

Turns out, you can substitute whiskey for all that shit.

See you Monday!!!!@!!!

Ok, so the scalloped/gratin potatoes turned out AWESOME
Cookbook


Recipe: I made the scalloped, but topped it with cheese (definitely not needed)


I made them in a muffin tin!  Used a lot less half and half than it normally would have which was good for the mashed potatoes I made - lol


Next up is the cocktails!
We all know the book


The first one (The Dubliner)


I didn't have the proper glass, but to get the middle size of Grand Marnier, I had to buy the package with glasses.  I just used those


Next one (Rory O'More)




And last, but not least, the rolls.  I was at a disadvantage because I don't know what a "third of a golf ball" is.  Like, fuck actual measurements like weight.  I think I made them TOO small.  I would definitely try this again, but maybe only make 12


(sorry about the feet)
 

Finished

I assume forty humans are covered in Mr. Bittman's book.