Do you use Cookbooks to help with ideas?

Bretrick

Bretrick

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Reading a Recipe of Maggie Beer's.
Lamb Cutlets with a rambunctious mix of herbs, (not erbs), spices, breadcrumbs and pickled quinces.
Where does one get Pickled Quinces?
 

hollydolly said:
Spain !! :ROFLMAO:...seriously that's the only place I've seen them... didn't even know until I learned Spanish that Quinces are pronounced Keenthay
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That’s an interesting tidbit. Doubt I’ll ever get to impress someone now that I know how to pronounce it.

Rather like quinoa pronounced keen wah.
 

I got rid of all my cookbooks except for two old Betty Crocker ones and a Fannie Farmer one. My mother always used those so I kept mine. I just used one for the basic recipe for making cream cheese dips. Like the ones with olives and other types of things. I adapted those to fit the keto food plan to eat with celery. But for most recipes I usually go online.
 
I use Larousse Gastromique, which is a text book from the culinary school of the same name in Paris. When I returned from France, I waxed enthusiastic to all family members about French cooking and when my cousin went to school there to become a chef, he brought me a text book home that they had to cook from. I've used it for ideas ever since. It covers every type of cuisine imaginable. This is one of my creations: a small venison pot roast I made for my son and me.20200215_142206.jpg
 
I still have a few old favorites that I reread at different times during the year.

I enjoy the authors that provide a glimpse of their life or local history along with their favorite recipes. The cooking books that provide reminiscences of the Great Depression and wartime rationing are particularly interesting to me.

When I actually need a recipe I go online and do a search. I read several recipes then I wing it with the ingredients that I have on hand.
 

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