I’d like to say that I was so consumed with Superbowl food, that I completely spaced on Valentine’s delicacies. But the fact is V-Day falls so close to Haley’s birthday that all my focus is always on her special day. Also, if it doesn’t involve a large group or having the day off from work, then it ain’t no holiday!
But I know most of you are expecting soooomething. Come on Amy! Show me a red and white cake…some heart shaped cookies…a picture of people kissing…something!
So I bring you these Raspberry Rockets from Fix Me A Snack. They’re red and white, involve chocolate, and no cooking. A great after-school-snack or welcome-home-from-work-dear goodie, or I-could-have-just-given-you-fruit-but-stuffed-chocolate-inside-it treat that I says I love you.
NOTE: if when you make these, be sure to buy ripe, but firm raspberries, very gently rinse them and allow them to air dry before stuffing them.
Moving on.
Looking to get more organized? Learn a better method to menu planning? Tired of of spending way too much time looking through the index of all your cookbooks for an ingredient?
Then you’re going to love Eat Your Books.
This website has indexed thousands of cookbooks by ingredients, ethnicity, special diet, and course. All you do is tell EYB what cookbooks you own by entering the ISBN number. Any book that has been indexed will be added to your virtual bookshelf. Then within seconds you can search all of your own cookbooks for ingredients you have on hand. The search shows you the name of the recipe, the ingredients, and the book it’s in.
Thought it couldn’t get any better? It does. Eat Your Books also has an extensive list of magazines and now blogs which have been indexed. And I’m one of them. So even though I don’t have a recipe index on my blog, EYB has it for me. Loving that!
Have extra spinach to use up? Chicken was on sale? Greek yogurt about to go bad? Do a search for those ingredients and all of your cookbooks, magazines, and blogs which have recipes using them will come up. Pretty incredible, if you ask me.
THE GIVEAWAY
1 reader has a chance to win a FREE lifetime membership, courtesy of Eat Your Books. Just leave a comment on this blog post or on Facebook telling me what your most used cookbook is.
Want to increase your chances? Do any or all of the following:
1. Tweet about this giveaway with a link back to this post. Include @veryculinary and @EatYourBooks in the tweet as well.
2. “Like” Very Culinary on Facebook.
3. “Like” Eat Your Books on Facebook.
THIS DRAWING IS NOW CLOSED
UPDATE on February 13th:
The lucky winner is Sandy. Congrats!
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Thank you so very much!!! Let the fun begin!!!!
The great “checkered” Better Homes and Garden is our most used cookbook. Still use our old one, as the newer ones changed the recipes!
Tweeted! @goodcookdoris
Liked Very Culinary on Facebook :)
Liked EYB on facebook!
I probably use my Joy of Cooking the most – looking up recipes & techniques.
I always find good old church cookbooks have great tried and true recipes – but Betty Crocker is probably my most used.
Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything!
I liked Eat Your Books on facebook
I loved Very Culinary on facebook.
Betty Crocker Old Cookbook, I don’t even know the year – it is old, old, old – it has my original pancake, etc recipes, which I really know by heart. The pages are taped, etc.
Just found your blog, just love it.
Thank you!!!
Better Homes and Garden Breast Cancer cook book!
My go to book is one with these glorious pictures. Its The Complete Encyclopedia of Vegetables and Vegetarian Cooking. I always end up there when I can’t remember how long to cook corn or ideas for making green beans taste good.
Not only did I “like” the EYC page, but I can’t wait to be a part of that, one way or another. I am doing some spring cleaning and had to relocate many cookbooks that I just can’t part with. Awesome idea!
I like Eat Your Books on Facebook.
I like Very Culinary on FB.
I tweeted it!
I use my Betty Crocker Bridal edition cookbook the most. I have lots of cookbooks that I like more, but this one is handy when I need a basic recipe.
I turn to the Joy of Cooking first for most recipes!
I love Michael Ruhlman’s series…
Such a unique post you have here. Thanks for sharing!
How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. It has an answer to almost every cooking question I have.
I liked the Facebook page too
I just got it recently, but already Vegan Planet is becoming my most used cookbook!
I LOVE Heidi Swanson’s Super Natural Every Day! All the corners are bent already from me thumbing through it constantly.
A good friend of EYB on facebook!
Super Natural Every Day by Heidi Swanson
Exempt me from the contest, but I’m SO excited you’re on their! Makes searching your blog SO MUCH EASIER. But my most used cookbook at the moment is anything by Deborah madison. Love her.
I’d be popping those raspberries like they were fruit or something.
I like EAT YOUR BOOKS on FB
I Like you on FB
I like any cookbook by paula
America’s Test Kitchen or Cook’s Illustrated
I love old cookbooks just to have on the shelf but my go to book is the Betty Crocker old Cooky Book.
Deborah Madison – Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone is the BEST EVER, of course my favorite.
I really like taste
I LOVE going through old church cookbooks, sometimes I find the most amazing recipes !
I “like” you on facebook. The raspberry rockets look awesome!
The eat your books site sounds interesting, I’ll have to check it out. My cookbook that I made is probably my most used however, if I had to pick another, I’d say the Taste Of Home Diet book, I’ve found a lot of things in there. Thanks!
365 Easy Italian Recipes. I use it for ideas and proportions. It’s unpretentious and lies flat when it’s open. Then the 1950 Betty Crocker ring-bound cookbook for everything I made when I was teaching myself how to cook. Also lies flat!
My most used cookbook is probably the Wisconsin Herb Cookbook by Suzanne Breckenridge and Marjorie Snyder. I got it when I was in college and it just has so many delicious recipes that I make them even though they are just a tad too time-consuming for my busy life. I love it.
silver palette!
How cute are these?! And of course they’re healthy because they’re raspberries, right??? Right.
I’ve heard of this site before, and it sounds so fabulous! I adore my cookbooks, but being able to search them electronically would be so much more convenient than trying to remember where I read that “must-try” recipe.
At the moment, my most used cookbook is probably Ann Burrell’s Cook Like a Rock Star, but overall it’s probably Marcella Hazan’s Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking.
Much as I switch between the Joy of Cooking (both the 1975 and the 1997 edition) and the Doubleday Cookbook (1975 ed), it’s more likely I’ll find what I want in the Doubleday. I do admit though, if something is missing from there, the Joy of Cooking will have it.
My favorite quickbread recipie however is from a newspaper clipping from NYC from when I was a child. Works like a charm – and it’s a bookmark in the Doubleday :)
My most “loved” cookbook is my Betty Crocker cookbook, that somehow never got turned back in at the end of the school year, back in the 70′s. It’s lost it’s cover, the pages are slightly (LOL) worn..but it’s been my life saver from the 1st day we got married!
Those raspberries look delicious!!
I have not heard of eat your books but how handy would that be seeing as how I probably have 100 cookbooks!! Don’t really use them much since I have soo many but I would have to say Julia Childs volume 1 or The Joy of Cooking. Mostly for reference.
Thanks for the link. Love your photo. I can’t wait for raspberry season in my neck of the woods.
I have used Eat Your Books and found it really helpful. My subscription recently ran out and I do find myself missing it.
These days I use America’s Test Kitchen’s Family Cookbook a lot. It’s a gem.
. . . And I “like” VC on facebook. =)
Oh man, that’s awesome! I’d love, love, love to win this! My most used cookbook is probably Donna Hay’s “The Instant Cook”–it’s full of great, simple recipes.
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