Cooking
So I have this idea for a cookbook. There is a gimmick because if you look on any cookbook shelf you will quickly discover, the "great" cookbooks have all been written. Now it's all about Toast, or Duck or Blender recipes. Honestly, I kid you not, I saw a cookbook devoted to toast the other day. And it wasn't on the clearance table, well, not yet anyway.
In my household I do the cooking 99% of the time. And that's fine with me especially because early on Lee decided to do all the washing up. Not just the dishes, but the pots and pans, and even the appliances and counter tops get a good wiping down most nights of the week. On occasion the kitchen floor gets washed too. Needless to say when I cook something that uses less than 3 pots and pans and an equal number of bowls, I have made someone very, very happy. Which brings me to my cookbook idea:
"The No Clean Up Cook Book"
In it I would have recipes for things that use one pot or pan or less. So obviously lots of tin foil and parchment paper would get pressed into use. A big chapter on soups, some composed salads. Some assemblage style entrees. Maybe sandwiches? I'm thinking that any food skewered and placed in the broiler would be good too. The real challenge of course will be multiple courses...I suppose if it's successful there will be follow ups--The No Clean Up Breakfast Book, The No Clean Up Dessert Book.
If you want to steal my brilliant idea, be my guest. I have a feeling I know one person who just might be your first customer.
- Divina Cucina's Recipes: Cookbook Review
Can you imagine a cookbook with ingredients but no measurements? My cookbook that I got from the school I attended in Florence many years ago is like that. So is the cookbook A Tuscan in the Kitchen. Tuscans are funny that way. Because they grew up...
- International Cookbook Roundup
Where would you like to go for the holidays? Italy? Spain? Japan? How about just transporting yourself through the creations in your own kitchen? There are several new exciting cookbooks that have just come out featuring the cuisines of these countries....
- Meet Tony Bourdain
Last week Anthony Bourdain came to town to sign copies of his latest book, Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking. At A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books, the space was jammed with foodies,...
- Lost Recipes Cookbook
There are two kinds of cookbooks. One kind often features beautiful photography, and has recipes written by famous chefs from even more famous restaurants. These cookbooks are likely to weigh a lot, and cost a lot. While amazing works of art, bound to...
- That Cookbook Meme
It finally found it's way here thanks to Alice, so here goes... Total number of (cook/food) books I've owned: I really have no idea. Because of limited space, I occasionally thin out my books, so who knows how many have passed through here. At...
Cooking
No Clean Up Cook Book
So I have this idea for a cookbook. There is a gimmick because if you look on any cookbook shelf you will quickly discover, the "great" cookbooks have all been written. Now it's all about Toast, or Duck or Blender recipes. Honestly, I kid you not, I saw a cookbook devoted to toast the other day. And it wasn't on the clearance table, well, not yet anyway.
In my household I do the cooking 99% of the time. And that's fine with me especially because early on Lee decided to do all the washing up. Not just the dishes, but the pots and pans, and even the appliances and counter tops get a good wiping down most nights of the week. On occasion the kitchen floor gets washed too. Needless to say when I cook something that uses less than 3 pots and pans and an equal number of bowls, I have made someone very, very happy. Which brings me to my cookbook idea:
"The No Clean Up Cook Book"
In it I would have recipes for things that use one pot or pan or less. So obviously lots of tin foil and parchment paper would get pressed into use. A big chapter on soups, some composed salads. Some assemblage style entrees. Maybe sandwiches? I'm thinking that any food skewered and placed in the broiler would be good too. The real challenge of course will be multiple courses...I suppose if it's successful there will be follow ups--The No Clean Up Breakfast Book, The No Clean Up Dessert Book.
If you want to steal my brilliant idea, be my guest. I have a feeling I know one person who just might be your first customer.
- Divina Cucina's Recipes: Cookbook Review
Can you imagine a cookbook with ingredients but no measurements? My cookbook that I got from the school I attended in Florence many years ago is like that. So is the cookbook A Tuscan in the Kitchen. Tuscans are funny that way. Because they grew up...
- International Cookbook Roundup
Where would you like to go for the holidays? Italy? Spain? Japan? How about just transporting yourself through the creations in your own kitchen? There are several new exciting cookbooks that have just come out featuring the cuisines of these countries....
- Meet Tony Bourdain
Last week Anthony Bourdain came to town to sign copies of his latest book, Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking. At A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books, the space was jammed with foodies,...
- Lost Recipes Cookbook
There are two kinds of cookbooks. One kind often features beautiful photography, and has recipes written by famous chefs from even more famous restaurants. These cookbooks are likely to weigh a lot, and cost a lot. While amazing works of art, bound to...
- That Cookbook Meme
It finally found it's way here thanks to Alice, so here goes... Total number of (cook/food) books I've owned: I really have no idea. Because of limited space, I occasionally thin out my books, so who knows how many have passed through here. At...