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ladysprite) wrote2015-09-02 07:58 am
ladysprite) wrote2015-09-02 07:58 am
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Cookbook Project, Book #207
"The Book Lover's Cookbook," Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay Jensen
I think I first saw this book on a trip to Plimoth Plantation - but that was when I was in the middle of the original Cookbook Project, and had declared a moratorium on buying new cookbooks. Still, I put it on my wishlist, and shortly after the original project ended, a good friend bought it for me as a Christmas present.
The real problem is that, since it's a mixed collection of recipes, anecdotes, and quotes from books that relate to said recipes, that it's a much denser book to look through than most cookbooks, and more fun to read than to browse for recipes. Which means that, for a couple of years now, I've been slowly and lovingly working my way through it, reading quotes and pages from James Herriott and Ogden Nash and Fannie Flagg and Margaret Mitchell and idly glancing at the recipes as I mostly savor the writing *about* food. But I promised myself that I'd use this book next.
Since my garden has, for the first time in years, finally given me a bumper crop of zucchini this summer, it was easy to decide what to make. About 13 pages into the book is a recipe for Priceless Zucchini Bread (with a quote from Andrew Rooney). Given that it looked like a fairly straightforward and reliable recipe, I gave it a try.
This may be one of the best zucchini bread recipes I've ever found. Sweet but not cloying, moist but not greasy, with a little bit of chewy crust.... perfect. And the recipe makes two loaves, so there's now about 2/3 of a loaf in our freezer. And if I don't think of something to do with the 2 zukes currently in my fridge soon, there may be more.
I want to use this book more - I just have to finish reading through the quotes and excerpts first.....
I think I first saw this book on a trip to Plimoth Plantation - but that was when I was in the middle of the original Cookbook Project, and had declared a moratorium on buying new cookbooks. Still, I put it on my wishlist, and shortly after the original project ended, a good friend bought it for me as a Christmas present.
The real problem is that, since it's a mixed collection of recipes, anecdotes, and quotes from books that relate to said recipes, that it's a much denser book to look through than most cookbooks, and more fun to read than to browse for recipes. Which means that, for a couple of years now, I've been slowly and lovingly working my way through it, reading quotes and pages from James Herriott and Ogden Nash and Fannie Flagg and Margaret Mitchell and idly glancing at the recipes as I mostly savor the writing *about* food. But I promised myself that I'd use this book next.
Since my garden has, for the first time in years, finally given me a bumper crop of zucchini this summer, it was easy to decide what to make. About 13 pages into the book is a recipe for Priceless Zucchini Bread (with a quote from Andrew Rooney). Given that it looked like a fairly straightforward and reliable recipe, I gave it a try.
This may be one of the best zucchini bread recipes I've ever found. Sweet but not cloying, moist but not greasy, with a little bit of chewy crust.... perfect. And the recipe makes two loaves, so there's now about 2/3 of a loaf in our freezer. And if I don't think of something to do with the 2 zukes currently in my fridge soon, there may be more.
I want to use this book more - I just have to finish reading through the quotes and excerpts first.....