Marie's review
The Gourmet Cookbook: More than 1000 recipes (now with DVD)
by Ruth Reichl
I'm coming for dinner. I love cooking... it is almost therapeutic. I especially love hosting dinner parties for family and friends, but more than that I love having sex with my husband. Cooking and sex have always been cool in my book! I don't know where these women get off (or actually not getting off and neither are their husbands) thinking that it is cool not to cook and not to have sex with your spouse. I don't get it (well actually I get it daily) ;)
By the way... when are we getting together to cook together, you, me and Ms. M?
Oh by the now... I want to purchase this book. Where did you buy it?
no, no Mimi these woman are too busy watching cooking shows and complaining about how tired they are to cook. These woman are driving their KIDS to karate and buying knitted items at Target. They are too busy making snide remarks about people that wear anything other than elastic waist pants and sweatshirts.
nicole, nicole, nicole. what can i say? how you manage to bring every conversation around to your healthy sex life with your husband is an art in and of itself.
and are you serious about where i purchased this book? it was a gift from my brother, ben but i'm guessing you could find it at:
Powells
Borders
Barnes and Noble
Amazon.com
Costco
Fred Meyer
Target
Walmart
Kmart
Quickiemart
Sur la tablle
Kitchen Kaboodle
Crate and Barrell
Williams and Sanoma
ya know one of those little obscure spots we have tucked all over this great city of ours.
I concur.
I received this book as a Christmas gift 6 weeks before a got pregnant. Needless to say, now that my daughter is almost 2, I am finding my way back into the kitchen. From inception to 6 weeks after Audrey's birth, I could only bring myslef to eat 6 lemons a day with a tomato or two on the side. After Audrey was born, baby formula and home made baby food (that's right, I am certifiably insane) were the only offerings on the menu. Green beans with tofu anyone?
This book currently competes for cookbook supremacy in my kitchen with The Joy Of Cooking. The good thing about The Joy of Cooking is that it calls for ingredients I may ACTUALLY have and can prepare with a baby hanging off of my leg , but the recipies are not nearly as interesting as those in Gourmet. My cocktail cookbook remains the hands-down favorite.
no, no lady with the crisp eyes and the perfect skin NOT "certifiably insane" for making baby food. Save your daughters palet while you can! My son (1st born)lived off fresh, home made baby food, he knew nothing about processed foods, my biggest food problem was getting him to stop eating all the cherry tomatoes in the garden before I could get to them, his absolute favorite food was broccoli, my mom took him to McDonalds at age 4 and the poor little guy got sick AND THEN..... he went to school, i got lazy (or rather divorced and had to work more) and he ate more school lunches than i ever would have dreamed and now he knows (his palet knows) about processed foods and white bread and dressings and dips and on and on and on and on.
sigh.
my daughter (2nd born) on the other hand was born with GERD and as such diet was a major issue. she pretty much at otter pops and breast milk for her first year and yet she's an ok eater now.
maybe it's a crap shoot but it's worth a try.
so more power to you and your "insane" baby foods jes. MORE POWER (and less packaging too - oh, ah , oh it's a win, win)!
Audrey too had/has GERD. She is the world's most particular eater and as a result gets pediasure through a feeding tube at night until she catches up. Her top edibile delights include dog food (This supports my theory that she was a very good puppy in her previous life),soap, and potting soil (so I guess if following my previous line of thinking, it is possible that she could have also been a washing machine or a houseplant).
Marie's review
The Gourmet Cookbook: More than 1000 recipes (now with DVD) by Ruth Reichl
Marie's review
rating:
recommended for: you and you and you and you and me
one of my pet peeves is when i'm in a group of women and they start trying to out do each other with their lack of cooking ability. "I can't cook", "who has time to cook?","I can barely manage to heat up a box of macaroni and cheese without burning it", "I don't even know how to fry an egg anymore", "I'm such a cooking retard that I have to read the directions on microwave popcorn EVERYTIME". what?! when did it become cool to not be able to cook? These tend to be the same woman that pride themselves in their lack of interest in sex with theirs husbands and can recall for you (whether it is requested or not) the details of Survivor, American Idol, Lost, and America's Next Top Model and, ironically, any and every cooking show out there in great detail.
So, I'm not one of those woman. I mean i'm not a great cook but i enjoy it for the most part. If you new me in my high school maybe you were invited to one of Tricia and my naively (and ...more
So, I'm not one of those woman. I mean i'm not a great cook but i enjoy it for the most part. If you new me in my high school maybe you were invited to one of Tricia and my naively (and ...more
I'm coming for dinner. I love cooking... it is almost therapeutic. I especially love hosting dinner parties for family and friends, but more than that I love having sex with my husband. Cooking and sex have always been cool in my book! I don't know where these women get off (or actually not getting off and neither are their husbands) thinking that it is cool not to cook and not to have sex with your spouse. I don't get it (well actually I get it daily) ;) By the way... when are we getting together to cook together, you, me and Ms. M?
Oh by the now... I want to purchase this book. Where did you buy it?
no, no Mimi these woman are too busy watching cooking shows and complaining about how tired they are to cook. These woman are driving their KIDS to karate and buying knitted items at Target. They are too busy making snide remarks about people that wear anything other than elastic waist pants and sweatshirts. nicole, nicole, nicole. what can i say? how you manage to bring every conversation around to your healthy sex life with your husband is an art in and of itself.
and are you serious about where i purchased this book? it was a gift from my brother, ben but i'm guessing you could find it at:
Powells
Borders
Barnes and Noble
Amazon.com
Costco
Fred Meyer
Target
Walmart
Kmart
Quickiemart
Sur la tablle
Kitchen Kaboodle
Crate and Barrell
Williams and Sanoma
ya know one of those little obscure spots we have tucked all over this great city of ours.
I concur.
I received this book as a Christmas gift 6 weeks before a got pregnant. Needless to say, now that my daughter is almost 2, I am finding my way back into the kitchen. From inception to 6 weeks after Audrey's birth, I could only bring myslef to eat 6 lemons a day with a tomato or two on the side. After Audrey was born, baby formula and home made baby food (that's right, I am certifiably insane) were the only offerings on the menu. Green beans with tofu anyone?
This book currently competes for cookbook supremacy in my kitchen with The Joy Of Cooking. The good thing about The Joy of Cooking is that it calls for ingredients I may ACTUALLY have and can prepare with a baby hanging off of my leg , but the recipies are not nearly as interesting as those in Gourmet. My cocktail cookbook remains the hands-down favorite.
no, no lady with the crisp eyes and the perfect skin NOT "certifiably insane" for making baby food. Save your daughters palet while you can! My son (1st born)lived off fresh, home made baby food, he knew nothing about processed foods, my biggest food problem was getting him to stop eating all the cherry tomatoes in the garden before I could get to them, his absolute favorite food was broccoli, my mom took him to McDonalds at age 4 and the poor little guy got sick AND THEN..... he went to school, i got lazy (or rather divorced and had to work more) and he ate more school lunches than i ever would have dreamed and now he knows (his palet knows) about processed foods and white bread and dressings and dips and on and on and on and on. sigh.
my daughter (2nd born) on the other hand was born with GERD and as such diet was a major issue. she pretty much at otter pops and breast milk for her first year and yet she's an ok eater now.
maybe it's a crap shoot but it's worth a try.
so more power to you and your "insane" baby foods jes. MORE POWER (and less packaging too - oh, ah , oh it's a win, win)!
Audrey too had/has GERD. She is the world's most particular eater and as a result gets pediasure through a feeding tube at night until she catches up. Her top edibile delights include dog food (This supports my theory that she was a very good puppy in her previous life),soap, and potting soil (so I guess if following my previous line of thinking, it is possible that she could have also been a washing machine or a houseplant).