Cooking books, comms, blogs

[highlyeccentric]

Cooking coms I'm loving right now - omnomnom, crock_o_dial.

I'm enjoying reading the King Arthur Flour Baker's Banter blog, although I haven't cooked anything of theirs for a long time. I'm reading Smitten Kitchen but very little of her work really appeals to me. I'm following a few other blogs but always open to more recs. I think I'd particularly like collaborative blogs?

Am completely in love with Everyday in the Kitchen. It's very quickly become our 'when in doubt' cookbook: an excellent investment, IMHO.

All my cookbooks are fair game for scribbling in and emendations, since I am a big believer in marginalia. K's been making notes in Everyday in the Kitchen, I've scrawled all over the quiche recipe and added entire new recipe to the scone page in the AWW cookbook, and K tells me that somewhere, in one of my cookbooks, I will one day find the words "sectumsempra: for enemies".

Today I am making a slow-cooked lamb shoulder in my slowcooker. clavicularity is coming up and we're going to see her brother play jazz in some bar down on Circular Quay. Life is good.

Comments

[bedlamsbard]

I really like Joy the Baker and Shutterbean. A Cozy Kitchen is another good one! (That one's run by two people.) Maybe Tea and Cookies, as well?

I love food blogs, so I have a huge stack of them I read, but those are four really good ones. (I also love Smitten Kitchen, but you are clearly already familiar with that one. Some of the other ones I like are more specialized, like Food in Jars or Soup Chick.) I could go on for a while, so I shall restrain myself.

[majoline]

Um, I don't know that the ones I check out a lot are collaborative: I like Pinch My Salt, Always Order Dessert, A year of slow cooking - who has two really great cookbooks.

[highlyeccentric]

Oooh, thank you :D I really like the look of A Cozy Kitchen! I think I need to learn to make American biscuits...

[highlyeccentric]

Oooh, thanks! Always Order Dessert put me onto Big Girls, Small Kitchen, which... sounds like my life? Only cooler.

[bedlamsbard]

I can give you my biscuit recipe, if you like!

[viklikesfic]

I love Smitten Kitchen, all her recipes have been soo good, so maybe I'm not the best to reply to this :-)

But! Second Joy the Baker. Also Simply Recipes and 101 Cookbooks for good straightforward, delicious recipes. Culinary Concoctions by Peabody if you like ridiculous easy tasty desserts that look suspiciously like stoner food. Serious Eats is a good collaborative blog, though not just recipes, a lot of stuff like taste tests and (US) restaurant reviews. Two all-original recipe blogs I like are Coconut & Lime and Sugar Plum. Also just really really quality is Evil Shennanigans. And not that great at all, but I like to self pimp, I have a vegetarian foodblog called Shortcut to Mushrooms.

Those are all really easy to find through Google.

[highlyeccentric]

I couldn't NOT follow a blog called Shortcut to Mushrooms...

Also I love Smitten Kitchen recipes when other people cook them. I just rarely have the desire to cook them myself.

[viklikesfic]

Hee. Nerd alert, right? I need to update more frequently, it's really just a matter of how much I'm actually cooking at any given moment. Right now, the answer is "not that much."

That makes sense. A lot of food blogs I admittedly follow for the pretty pictures. I also obsessively collect recipes but cook less and less.