You are here: Home / cookbooks Another random find from Mr. Big Food’s Bog Food Manual and Survivalist Flourishing Guide. This one from “Tributes,” Cooking with Czech Recipes Cookbook, Texas Czech Genealogical Society (2021). I take it this was written by someone just remembering what she’d been told by her grandparents. Very folksy. As we come to the close of our
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Coffe and brandy. What more can I say? From Adventures in Good Cooking (Famous Recipes) and the Art of Carving in the Home: A Duncan Hines Book (1939) MADELEINE NORMAND’S SPANISH BEANPOT Serves 4 to 6 2 large cans red kidney beans2 Tbsp bacon fat1 clove garlic, mincedPinch English thymePinch rosemary1 small bay leaf2 whole
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From Vegetables, Old Carolina Tobacco Country Cook Book: From the Great Depression to World War II (1985) THE MAIN DISH: The main dish at a meal was not always a meat dish. Perhaps one of the main reasons for this was that the wife, who did the cooking, also had to help with the many
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Remember Clementine Paddleford and her How America Eats cookbook? In the 1950s she traveled the United States to discover…well, how America eats. The cookbook is filled with great stories. Now, 70 years on, the stories are like a blast from the past. A window into another time and place. A book well worth Hold that
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Daughter C and The J-Man got this cookbook for Mr. Big Food back when they lived on The Farm. Water Valley, Mississippi is a very interesting and welcoming little town, a bit less than an hour from here, and maybe 30 minutes from Oxford–so situated perfectly if we’re coming or going to that school up
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Mr. Big Food picked up a cookbook a while back, and he’s beginning to make his way through it. Esquire Eat Like a Man: The Only Cookbook a Man Will Ever Need Ryan D’Agostino (2011) He sent me the book’s Introduction, because it’s funny and absolutely true. Enjoy! THINGS A MAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ENTERTAINING
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First one from Old El Paso Sun Country Mexican Cookbook (1978). Don’t know where Rio Grande Pork Roast I (below) came from but the recipe provides instructions for indoor cooking, smoking outside, and in a slow cooker. RIO GRANDE PORK ROAST II 4 lb rolled boneless pork loin roast½ C apple jelly 1 ¼ C
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From Old El Paso Sun Country Mexican Cookbook (1978). This sounds like it would be good football food. SOUTHWEST TARTS Makes 2 dozen appetizers 1 2-crust pie pastry recipe (see recipes in Desserts section)1 medium tomato, peeled and chopped4 oz chopped green chilies1 C cooked chopped chicken1 tsp vinegar½ tsp salt½ C sour cream½ C
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Tortilla Ball Soup and Bean Soup with Tamale Dumplings from Old El Paso Sun Country Mexican Cookbook (1978). TORTILLA BALL SOUP I Serves 6 10 tortillas, torn¼ C milk1 small onion, cut up1 clove garlic1 egg½ tsp salt1/8 tsp pepper4 oz chopped green chilies¼ C (1 oz) shredded cheddar or Monterey Jack cheese (or use
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Another repeat! This one first posted in 2015. From Old El Paso Sun Country Mexican Cookbook (1978). MEXICAN LASAGNAServes 4 to 5 1 lb ground beef½ C chopped celery½ C chopped onion1 can Ro*tel1 ¼ C (10 oz) enchilada sauce ¼ C sliced ripe olive¾ tsp saltDash pepper1/3 C cooking oil8 tortillas1 C shredded yellow cheese1
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This is a skillet supper from Old El Paso Sun Country Mexican Cookbook (1978). HEARTY FIESTA BURGERS 1 egg, beaten slightly¾ C fine saltine cracker crumbs (about 21 crackers)¼ C Taco Sauce2 tsp instant minced onions¼ tsp salt1 lb ground beef10 ½ oz can condensed cream of mushroom soup15 oz can chili beans OR Ranch-style
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From Old El Paso Sun Country Mexican Cookbook (1978). We started with Mexican Baked Eggs, and I thought these two would make a nice weekend breakfast or brunch. Tostada Salad and Sangrita.
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We stopped at the Mexican restaurant in town on our way home last evening and picked up supper. It was delicious! And I was inspired. So… I thought we’d focus on a single cookbook this coming week. This is a good one! Old El Paso Sun Country Mexican Cookbook, Meredith Publishing Services, Des Moines, Iowa,
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From Pillsbury’s Food for Friends (1978) If you don’t have this cookbook in your library, you are really missing out. Here are the search results at Bookfinder (also a few other hits at that big store in the sky). This is one of my all-time favorites. It’s occasion and menu-based–perfect for the person just starting
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From Cooking with Czech Recipes Cookbook, Texas Czech Genealogical Society (2021) DEDICATION We dedicate this Cookbook to the honor of the tireless Czech cooks who have laboriously planned, gathered, and prepared for the nourishment and happiness of her (and, in some cases, his) family and friends, sending wave after wave of culinary fragrance drifting across
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Highly recommend this cookbook as well. I’ve had mine since college when I took a cooking class from one of the chemistry profs. Good recipes. Nice menus. Wide range of super easy to a bit more challenging if you’re just starting out. Not a bad recipe in the bunch. This is the last stroganoff recipe!
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From January 2015. It’s a good one. And The Garlic Lovers’ Cookbook is a marvelous cookbook. We had appetizers for Sunday supper. Try it sometime! Cocktail Wieners and Variation Hi Hat Mushrooms in Wine Sauce and Vegan VariationHot Mexican Bean Dip (Veganized) “This excellent shrimp appetizer could be served as a main dish with either rice
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Reposted from April 12, 2016. This white sauce is part of the filling for Rustic Pizza from The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines (1989). The Frug claims that Béchamel sauce is was being used in Greece 150 years before the French were using it. Basic White Sauce 2 cups milk3 Tbsp. peeled and chopped
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A brief commentary on words follows the recipe. We’ve made this and it was good. Recipe: Authentic 1949 Chow Mein Originally published on April 9, 2019 (Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati, 1949) The Home Economists of the Crisco Kitchen at Proctor & Gamble recommended serving Seafood Neptune, Creamed Chicken, or Chow Mein over Fried Noodle Rings. Unfortunately, the pages
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I mentioned the other day that Mr. Big Food and I had gone to a couple used bookstores. He scored some old cookbooks, this one among them. I was entering it into my card catalog–looks as if we’ll go over 220 cookbooks–and skimmed through it. Eat Like a Man: The Only Cookbook a Man Will
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