nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe) (10/22/85)
[ Is it safe? (sound of drill in background) ] Jonathan Hue asks > Does anyone have suggestions for cookbooks (any category) which you > would consider "safe"? By that I mean cookbooks with recipes which you > would feel confident in serving to guests the first time you prepared it, > assuming you blindly follow recipes as I do, at least the first time. > ... I like recipes that give you a good > middle ground from which you can modify, not those at the extremes > which require you to add or subtract to make something which will > be satisfactory to most people. Any suggestions? Post or mail, whichever > is appropriate. Rapidly becoming my favorite cookbook is _The_Victory_Garden_Cookbook_, a companion to the PBS series based in Boston. After nearly two years of use, and many recipes, I have had *no* bad or even mediocre recipes! I consider that astounding. It is primarily concerned with vegetables, but has some meat in several (O(n)) recipes. It treats the vegetable from the garden or market, through the basic ways of preparing it, to the heights to which the vegetable aspires. Many of the recipes I have deemed worthy of posting were from this book. As far as that goes, we tried the carrot cake recipe last weekend with wonderful results. Sometimes I like more spice, but the results are never insipid when made as directed (provided that good ingredients were used in the first place). It makes a great Christmas present.... Nemo -- Internet: nemo@rochester.arpa UUCP: {decvax, allegra, seismo, cmcl2}!rochester!nemo Phone: [USA] (716) 275-5766 school 232-4690 home USMail: 104 Tremont Circle; Rochester, NY 14608 School: Department of Computer Science; University of Rochester; Rochester, NY 14627
anita@utastro.UUCP (Anita Cochran) (10/23/85)
> Does anyone have suggestions for cookbooks (any category) which you > would consider "safe"? By that I mean cookbooks with recipes which you > would feel confident in serving to guests the first time you prepared it, > assuming you blindly follow recipes as I do, at least the first time. There are two cookbooks that I will use for fail-safe cooking: Marcella Hazan's Classic Italian Cookbook Marcella Hazan's More Classic Italian Cokkbook. We have never had anything turn out badly from these two books and some of our favorite recipes are in them. Of course, I have a pretty foolproof instinct when reading recipes so that helps. -- Anita Cochran uucp: {noao, ut-sally, ut-ngp}!utastro!anita or seismo!ut-sally!utastro!anita arpa: anita@astro.UTEXAS.EDU snail: Astronomy Department The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 at&t: (512) 471-1471
seb@mtgzz.UUCP (s.e.badian) (10/25/85)
I second the vote for "The Victory Garden Cookbook." I haven't tried that many recipes in it (I just have too many cookbooks to make more than one recipe from each every few months, except my Gilroy Garlic Festival Cookbook!) but some of them sure look great. There's a recipe for broccoli pie that I just have to try. It sounds incredible. Sharon Badian ihnp4!mtgzz!seb