Apple Delights Cookbook: A Collection of Apple Recipes

Cookbook Delights #1

by Karen Jean Matsko Hood

With Apple Delights Cookbook, Karen Jean Matsko Hood has expertly compiled some of the best recipes to be had concerning this delicious and versatile fruit. This cookbook contains over 240 delicious apple recipes. Each recipe has easy-to-follow directions and uses ingredients that are readily available. Of course, the most important ingredients are apples, which you can pick yourself for the freshest taste or purchase from any grocery store or market. You will never regard the apple in the same way again after becoming familiar with this useful and easy-to-use new cookbook.

Genres: Cookbooks

324 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Greetings to all Goodreads Members!

I am often asked how I find time to write with 16 kids. The answer is that writing keeps me grounded..ok almost grounded... in my sometimes..ok I mean often...chaotic surroundings. Thanks for sharing your books and hopefully you will be able to enjoy some of mine.
I have always loved to read and am passionate about poetry and almost all genres of books. My current goal is to complete my next poetry book and my next novel. I am also a foodie that enjoys all aspects of cooking and that inspired my cookbook series. My children and foster children opened my eyes to the ongoing struggles in the foster system and the world of adoption. My own experience with foster care and adopting 11 wonderful children of different colors inspired me to write books to help others in these areas. Also I love children's literature and am a literacy and biliteracy advocate. That explains a bit about me and why I write in so many genres. It is simply the way my brain is wired. That is the way I work.

Karen Jean Matsko Hood has always enjoyed cooking, baking, and experimenting with recipes. Hood entertains large groups of people and especially enjoys designing creative menus with holiday, international, ethnic, and regional themes.
Hood is publishing a cookbook series entitled the Cookbook Delights Series, in which each cookbook emphasizes a different food ingredient or theme. The first cookbook in the series is Apple Delights Cookbook. Hood is working to complete another series of cookbooks titled Hood and Matsko Family Cookbooks, which includes many recipes handed down from her family heritage and others from more current family traditions. She has been invited to speak on talk radio shows on various topics, and favorite recipes from her cookbooks have been prepared on local television programs.
Hood was born and raised in Great Falls, Montana. As an undergraduate, she attended the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota, and St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. She attended the University of Great Falls in Great Falls, Montana. Hood received a B.S. Degree in Natural Science from the College of St. Benedict and minored in both Psychology and Secondary Education. Upon her graduation, Hood and her husband taught science and math on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Hood has completed postgraduate classes at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. In May 2001, she completed her Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministry at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. She has taken postgraduate classes at Lewis and Clark College on the North Idaho college campus in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and Taylor University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Hood is working on research projects to complete her Ph.D. in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.
Hood resides in Greenacres, Washington, along with her husband, sixteen children, and foster children. Her interests include writing, teaching, and volunteering as a court advocate in the juvenile court system for abused and neglected children. Hood is a literary advocate for youth and adults. Her hobbies include cooking, baking, collecting, photography, indoor and outdoor gardening, and the cultivation of unusual flowering plants and orchids. She enjoys raising several specialty breeds of animals including Icelandic horses, Nubian goats, bichons frisés, cockapoos, Icelandic sheepdogs, Newfoundlands, Rottweilers, and a few rescue cats.

Reviews

[Alice · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received the Apple Delights Cookbook as part of a Goodreads giveaway.

I entered the giveaway because of my mom: she's the one who cooks in our family and she really likes to try new recipes.
So when I saw the giveaways listed by Karen Jean Matsko Hood, I didn't even hesitate and I was lucky enough to win this book.

Even if I'm not so much of a cook myself, I can tell the recipes are very easy to make and the instructions really understandable. The baked goods sound delicious and my mom is already making a list with the first ones she wants to try.
I can even try myself some of the them.

The book is simple but what makes it more valuable are the "extras": poems, infos on health and different kinds of apples and history of them.

Last but not least, since my mom and I are Italian, we find the section about measures and their conversion on metric system extremely useful.

Like I said, English is not my mother tongue so feel free to correct any mistake I could have possibly made.

[Claire · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received the Apple Delights Cookbook as part of a Goodreads giveaway.

A nice, thick selection of apple-centric recipes just in time for fall. Nothing fancy--the recipes and ingredients are simple--easy to assemble from the offerings at your local supermarket. As you might expect, there's an emphasis on the sweet--baked goods and jellies in particular, though there is a small but interesting selection of savory recipes like Apple Cheddar Pie with Sweet Potato Crust.

Given the change in seasons, I'm excited to get started on these as the leaves turn.

[Manuel · Rating 1 out of 5]

So back in april I was Lucky (not so much really) to win this book on the goodreads giveaways and to this day Nov 2nd I haven't received my copy yet. I've already sent a message to Karen, the author, to know why I Haven't gotten my copy yet and She hasn't replied. By the way she was in charge of the giveaways and not another person. I was wondering if someone could tell me how to get in touch with her or tell my what is happening here. thanks guys :)