“I recently discovered this podcast and have been binge listening! This is a Podcast for working moms who love to cook from scratch and cook from and read cookbooks and who are also mindful of budgets and health. The hosts are very experienced home cooks (as am I) and the structure of the shows is very informative. I have also book marked and made many other suggested recipes that they mention. Made The Smitten Kitchen Confetti Cookies just today based on their love of them! I wish I had more friends like Sara and Renee who find time to cook from scratch and take on challenging recipes not because we have more time, but because we love it so much we make the time. A cookbook that I have had over 15 years and go back to is Molly Katzen’s The New Moosewood Cookbook. The Bulgarian Pepper Casserole is one I make just about every year when I have excess dill and I credit the adorable drawings in helping me learn how to eat a Tostada :) I am surprised to have not yet heard mentioned a bread machine on the show. I am such a lover of mine it has a permanent spot on my counter. I have neither the time, patience or hand strength to knead dough and so I use the machine exclusively for dough making at least twice a week. It’s so easy to make dinner bread, focaccia, or even pizza dough and you can even make most doughs on a timer to be read to shape, rise and bake when you get home. Cinamon rolls too! It’s a life saver for me. And I would like to offer another hack that I use a ton at the holidays when I am in the mood for mulled wine, a sangria, or drink syrup and that is flavored tea bags. SO many to choose from! As I diabetic I cannot do excessive amounts of juice and the flavored teas add such flavor impact. I just used some cinnamon tea today to flavor a chai syrup I’m making as I ran out of cinnamon sticks. Hope you ladies don’t mind the suggestion. A question I have for you both, and I have not yet listened to the actual 2nd episode where you might cover this in regards to how you operate your cook book club is how do you divvy up the recipes so no one gets stuck with cooking an expensive meat recipe whereas someone else might make a veggies dish, hence not distributing the costs evenly. I would love to know this and again apologize if you already covered it. Thank you both so much for this wonderful show! -Ann”
NHCWIK via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/05/23