As promised, here are the recipes (click on the thumbnails to be able to read the recipes)!
1. Pumpkin Soup, from The Joy of Cooking...one word...YUM!
2. The BEST potato salad ever, from Julia's Kitchen Wisdom; Jack said so, therefore, it must be true!
3. Spinach with Sesame Dressing, from Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art. A refreshing way to prepare spinach!
4. Sweet Simmered Dried Shitake Mushrooms, from The Japanese Kitchen. Oh, man...so good!
5. Marinated Chicken Tatsuta-Style, from At The Japanese Table. All the things in this recipe are readily available in most major grocery stores. Amazingly delicious!!!
6. Sweet Potato Casserole, from The Cotton Country Collection. I've made this every year since I got the book...my brother always asks...are you making that sweet potato thing this year?
7. Baked Whole Pumpkin from The Frugal Gourmet. If you like pumpkin pie without the crust, this is for you! Plus it makes a great presentation...you can use smaller pumpkins and serve each person individually.
8. Sue Riding High, from Wild Women In The Kitchen. If you like chocolate, you'll like this!
9. Poached chicken, from Nantucket Open House Cookbook. Try it...it's the most delicious way to cook chicken for salad EVER!
10. Jambalaya, from Celebrate San Antonio: A Cookbook. Let me tell you a little story about this recipe. I made it once for a guy I was dating...and he told my roommate that the "things" in there looked like vag!nas ("things" being oysters). No wonder "men like it" ROFLMAO!
11. Tweed Kettle, from Scottish Cookery. Thought it'd be haggis, didnae ye! An interested way to prepare salmon.
12. White Mountain Frosting (every time I've typed "frosting" tonight it came out either"frontong" or "frostong"...wtf?), from Betty Crocker's New Picture Cookbook. My first ex-MIL made the BEST freakin' cakes and she always made this frosting!
13. Tilly's Banana Fritters from "100 Years of Family Recipes & Memories 1890-1990", which was compiled by my Auntie Rosa. Tilly was my Dad's mom and my favorite Grandmother (shhhhhh). If you can read while Auntie Rosa wrote, you'll see why!
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You're making me hungry! I have several of those cookbooks too...The Frugal Gourmet, Julia's Kitchen Wisdom, and of course the Joy of Cooking...my bible.
The Japanese Spinach salad sounds fab!
My TT's up: Reasons I loved Trixie Belden more than I loved Nancy Drew...
Now this is a post I can get behind!
Oh how FUN!
happy TT!
Wait, wait, wait...share your favorites...but don't actually SHARE them. Come now! :o)
Oh boy this is a tough one for me. I'm on day three of a diet, but lets see, I think there are a ouple I can eat on here. The thing is, I am not hungry right now, but it's late at night and I'm catching up on my recorded programs...and I would love to be snacking while I am watching my shows! Yikes...
I love that you took photos of the individual cookbooks to post here, they look really cool!
Cheers
here is my list
http://gnosticminx.blogspot.com/2006/11/urban-jungle-5-photos-7-phases-1.html
thats a great list
mmmmmmmmmmmm...........I love food.....
Oh my God! I loved Aunt Tilly's Banana Fritters! I would go over to her place and she would make them for me and we would sip tea and eat the fritters and if I was lucky she would play some honkey tonk music and sing!
I just loved your Grandma, Jan. She was the best!
Some of those would be great for Thanksgiving dinner. Thanks! We'd been stressing over what to make.
Yum some fun things to try!! What's your favorite from this list!
How did I leave off sweet potato casserole of my list? I love that stuff!
Dressing balls are the dressing, but instead of stuffed in the turkey or in a flat pan, it's rolled into balls and cooked.;)
Oh wow, a recipe for banana fritters - just in time for Thanksgiving! Thanks, Janet!
Great idea, Janet. Showing not only the cookbook, but the recipe's too. I get into cooking ruts and when I come across something like this, it's inspiration.
Sweet! This is a great idea; thanks for sharing.
I *love* sweet potato recipes! Great list too.
We call it Sweet Potato Puff and it's the same recipe except we roast or rather bake the sweet potatoes. YUMMMM. It's more like desert than a veggie side dish huh!!
It ain't T-day unless you have Green Bean Casserole and Sweet Potato Puff. Otherwise it's just turkey and taters.
♥Pam
MMMmmmm I have the Joy of Cooking. Whole Foods for the Whole Family published by La Leche League is the cookbook I've used the most. It's beat up and stained with all kinds of food DNA! I have an Italian soup cookbook that I like, but I only ever make the same 3 soups.
Now I'm hungry for breakfast!
Come see if you can fit on my 13 Thursday couch!
Thats a great idea for a list. I like it.
Happy TT!
I wonder if my parents would like the sweet potato casserole recipe? They are such purists, I think mom only sprinkles them with brown sugar and calls it good. Maybe I'll try it this Thanksgiving!
Great list, thanks for sharing your favorite recipes!
Yummy! I wrote my own recipe for a pumpkin raisin custard because no one in my family really cares too much for the crust!
Have a great week! My TT is up.
ohhhh I think I'm going to make that Sweet Potato Casserole for Thanksgiving!
I need to bookmark this entry because so many of those sound delicious! Would really like to try them out!
Great TT!!!
Oh, I can't read these now, I'll make myself too hungry! :) But I'll come back and do it later.
You must see this, by the way.
OMG, this reminds me times when I loved to cook and I still have a whole bunch of cooking books. But now I am lazy and I paint !
Very clever!
That frosting sounds soooo good. I'm not much of a baker but I bet it tastes just as good on a boxed cake mix as it does on a scratch cake ;~)
What a clever idea! I can't wait to try some of these!
Oh, that's just great! Now I'm hungry again.
Cool list!
I love lists about food! These sound wonderful, and I'll have to come back and give them a try. :)
Oh wow, what a great idea, and thanks for the recipes! I'll definitely be back later tonight to get some of those, and bookmark your flickr page. :)
Thanks for the great ideas.
Happy TT!
we make that sweet potato recipe too! i like it but my friends all LOVE it. one guy even calls me to make it for him every year in exchange for a 6 pack of bass ale...i am easily bought apparently.
Great list! Including the photos of each recipe was a nice touch. I feel tempted to make Tweed Kettle just because it has such a cool name. I could see asking my friends "Wanna come over and eat some tweed kettle?" and enjoying their bewildered looks :)
What a cool list! *bookmarking*
I love that you scanned in the pages.
Happy TT!
This is one yummy, yummy list you have! I remember the book The Joy of Cooking from Grey's Anatomy! I think I should try to get a copy of that book and adapt and try out the recipes there to our taste.
Happy weekend!
Great list! I'm thankful for people like you that can actually cook (I'm awful at it).
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I love this list, always looking for good cook books.
