101 Cookbooks

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Description: When you own over 100 cookbooks, it is time to stop buying, and start cooking. This site chronicles a cookbook collection, one recipe at a time.

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Cottage Pancakes

I was cleaning out the desk drawers in my office the other day, and came across my collection of vintage photographs. Theyre pictures Ive picked up (a couple here, a couple there) at yard sales and f...

5 days ago

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Favorites List (February 2012)

Hi everyone. Im not entirely sure what happened, somehow this turned into the mother of all favorites lists. The number of things that caught my attention kept piling up - articles, videos, photo ser...

05 feb 12

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Toasted Four Grain Cereal

Somehow, Ive managed to pass the weekday breakfast baton. Wayne has always been the house barista, keeping me (and any visiting friends) adequately caffeinated. At some point, a couple years back, he...

31 jan 12

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Miso Sesame Winter Squash

In the last week Ive done a bunch of things. I returned to a vintage shop, just up the street, to buy a pair of old metal kitchen stools (painted a muted shade of robins egg blue). Someone beat me to...

25 jan 12

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Citrus Salt

Im not kidding when I tell you it looks like a citrus orchard shook out its limbs in my kitchen. There are sweet limes and Meyer lemons on the counter near the sink, wild limes in the corners of wind...

19 jan 12

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Black Bread

As promised, black bread. Its what I crave when I think of winter-time baking, and Ive been making consecutive loaves over the past few weeks. Caraway-crusted, flecked with dashes of grated carrot, i...

13 jan 12

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Favorites List (January 2012)

Hi everyone, how about a favorites list? I feel like I have enough good stuff to roll it out a bit early this month. Not to mention, itll give me a chance to focus on jotting down a recipe for the br...

10 jan 12

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Oregano Brussels Sprouts

2011 was the best kind of chaotic year. Theres no other way to say it. I flew to London, Portland, Palm Springs, and West Virginia. I rode rails to Paris, drove to Marfa, and walked my way through th...

04 jan 12

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Green Lentil Soup with Curried Brown Butter

From where I sit, I can see the laundry piled high knee-high. The trash, compost, and recycling are overflowing, threatening to take over the kitchen entirely. When I glance down, I can see my toenai...

29 dec 11

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Blood Orange Gin Sparkler

For a good part of the year I have rosemary floating about the kitchen. Its typically crowded in a wide-mouth jar, standing stick-straight, quietly waiting to be called upon. Sometimes it sits on the...

23 dec 11

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Gougères

Gougères are my secret weapon this time of year. This means a bag in the freezer, always at the ready. I make the dough ahead of time (any afternoon I have a few extra minutes) then bake them straigh...

18 dec 11

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Black Sticky Gingerbread

Im going to revisit a recipe I posted in 2005. Ive experimented with a good number of gingerbread recipes in the years since I highlighted Regan Daleys Black Sticky Gingerbread. There were single, do...

12 dec 11

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Favorites List (December 2011)

I like December more than most months. I like the tinsel, the twinkling lights, hot mugs of tea in the afternoons, and sparkling drinks later on. I like winter flowers, soft sweaters, shortbread (bak...

08 dec 11

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Roasted Winter Squash

I keep buying kabocha squash. Orange ones. This is despite the fact that, orange or green, theyre incredibly heavy. Now, before you jump to the conclusion that Im a complainer, allow me to add this -...

02 dec 11

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Super-eggy Scrambled Eggs

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We had nice day with family, something Im always thankful for. I did things like: race a three-year-old up a hill, hand off a huge sack of crushed malt, yea...

26 nov 11

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Favorites List (November 2011)

Thanksgiving ideas - you ready? Here are a few favorites from years past. These green beans, this roasted delicata squash, this corn bread, these brussels sprouts, and these mashed potatoes. This kal...

21 nov 11

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Ginger Soba Noodles

Some things I liked about the past few week: The girl with red tights and a banjo at the bus stop. Standing at Ocean Beach to watch the surfers. Roasting a pan of teensy delicata squash seeds. The sk...

15 nov 11

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Red Lentil Soup with Lemon

In between running errands and dinner reservations last Friday, I got this email from my dad. It was short, directed to a short list of friends and family, and simply said, "I am sad today since ...

09 nov 11

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Lemony Olive Oil Banana Bread

You cant really know what to expect regarding the weather when someone invites you to a late-October wedding near Monterey, California. A wedding at an off-season summer camp. I thought there was a g...

03 nov 11

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Roasted Lemon Chutney

I have so many photos to share with you Im not quite sure where to start. AND I have more film to pick up today. Cant wait. Anyhow, Im thinking that whatever I share needs to somehow circle back to t...

28 oct 11

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Favorites List (October 2011)

Hi everyone. And hello autumn! There has been a lot of chopping, roasting, broiling and baking happening on this end. And lots of picture taking too - both at home, and out and about. Im excited to s...

24 oct 11

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Broccoli-Basil Mac and Cheese

Whenever Im away from home I keep a list of what I want to cook when I get back. Well, it actually becomes more of a nest than a list, and theres a pocket in my suitcase dedicated to keeping it somew...

18 oct 11

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Baked Quinoa Patties

On the subject of packing food for airplane flights, it appears that a number of you were curious about how I go about it. The specifics. So I thought Id share a few more photos, and include a more d...

12 oct 11

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Golden Potstickers

Im writing this post from 35,000 feet. Were rocketing through the clouds at 550 m.p.h, the wilds of Canada are below me, and Im wedged into my seat on a nine hour flight. London is the destination, m...

06 oct 11

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Maple Buttermilk Pie

Right now Im thinking about how to pack two weeks worth of film, cameras, computers, and clothes into a carry-on. Wish me luck. Its never a pretty process, and the inevitable low-point always comes w...

30 sep 11

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Favorites List (September 2011)

Im sitting here eating the best apple Ive ever tasted. At a glance, its not much of a looker. The skin is a queasy shade of yellow-green, and overall its shape seems awkward and (quite frankly) out o...

26 sep 11

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Brown Sugar Rosemary Walnuts

My journey to White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia started with crickets chirping from my cellphone alarm at 4:50 a.m. Getting up that early hurts, but it gave me enough time to catch flights to Roan...

20 sep 11

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Tortilla Salad

Hi all - Im having this recipe jump the line because Im that eager to share it with you. I made it just before leaving for this place, which means Im now scrambling to get it onto the server when I r...

14 sep 11