Cookbook Project, Book #31
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ladysprite"Taste of Home 2007 Recipe Collection"
I subscribed to Taste of Home Magazine for more years than I can remember - it used to be a pretty decent magazine, full of practical and useful recipes. It wasn't haute cuisine, admittedly; they never shied away from recipes that used Velveeta or tortilla chips. But they did their best to focus on food that made sense for middle-income, busy people to make on a day-to-day basis, and for a long time I wound up finding at least one recipe I could use in each issue. Recently they utterly changed their content enough that I dropped my subscription, but their back issues are useful. I found this compilation at a secondhand bookstore, and it's a lot more convenient than pawing through half a dozen issues, if only for the index.
I had some pork chops in the freezer from the last Cookbook Project experiment with stuffed chops, and I saw a recipe in the book that sounded simple but good, so late last week I wound up making Lemon Pecan Pork Chops.
I am impressed. It was a pathologically easy recipe, it was made entirely from ingredients I had in my pantry, and it tasted delicious. This is useful both as a good dinner and as a fallback for nights when I don't have the time or the creativity for big-deal dinner preparation.
I'm happily surprised that this project isn't utterly shattering me financially....
I subscribed to Taste of Home Magazine for more years than I can remember - it used to be a pretty decent magazine, full of practical and useful recipes. It wasn't haute cuisine, admittedly; they never shied away from recipes that used Velveeta or tortilla chips. But they did their best to focus on food that made sense for middle-income, busy people to make on a day-to-day basis, and for a long time I wound up finding at least one recipe I could use in each issue. Recently they utterly changed their content enough that I dropped my subscription, but their back issues are useful. I found this compilation at a secondhand bookstore, and it's a lot more convenient than pawing through half a dozen issues, if only for the index.
I had some pork chops in the freezer from the last Cookbook Project experiment with stuffed chops, and I saw a recipe in the book that sounded simple but good, so late last week I wound up making Lemon Pecan Pork Chops.
I am impressed. It was a pathologically easy recipe, it was made entirely from ingredients I had in my pantry, and it tasted delicious. This is useful both as a good dinner and as a fallback for nights when I don't have the time or the creativity for big-deal dinner preparation.
I'm happily surprised that this project isn't utterly shattering me financially....
