I just got a message about this new Burmese cookbook: hsa*ba, Burmese cookbook. hsa*ba means "please eat" in Burmese (is that the name of the language?). I haven't seen the book, but as there aren't many books on Burmese cooking, I thought I'd mention it. The website also has some Burmese recipes.

My cooking page on Burmese food is here. I enjoyed cooking the food, as it was quite different - but comforting - from what I usually make.

This morning we had another library sale, and as usual I bought a bunch of cookbooks. Cookbooks that I have nowhere to put in my house (what a convoluted sentence). Here they are:

Coastal Carolina Cooking - by Nancy Davis & Kathy Hart
The Cooking of Japan [Foods of the World Series]
The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine - by Jeff Smith
Monet's Table: The Cooking Journals of Claude Monet - by Claire Joyes
Natural cooking the finish way - by Ulla Käkönen
Savor the Flavor of Oregon - by Junior League of Eugene
Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain - by Penelope Casas, 1987

I've decided to make a list of the cookbooks I own, so I don't have to search all over the place to see if I have one in particular. It's a time consuming task, but c'est la vie.

General Cookbooks

Bay Wolf Restaurant Cookbook - by Michael Wild et all
Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook - 1953
Frugal Gourmet - by Jeff Smith
The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine - by Jeff Smith
Joy of Cooking - by Irma and Marion Rombauer Becker Rombaucher

Specialty Cookbooks

License to Grill - by Christopher Schlesinger
The Barbecue! Bible - by Steven Raichlen

All About Braising: The Art of Uncomplicated Cooking - by Molly Stevens

The Fabulous Fondue Cookbook - by Carmel B. Reingold

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book

The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas by Jeff Smith

Great Girl Food: Easy Eats & Tempting Treats for Girls to Make - by Jeanette Wall

Ethnic Cookbooks

The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors - by Jeff Smith
Bon Appetit Tastes of the World

Unusual Acadian Recipes for the sweet tooth - by Mercedes Vidrine
The Africa News Cookbook: African Cooking for Western Kitchens - by Inc. Africa News Service
The Africa Cookbook - by Jessica B. Harris
The complete American Housewife - 1776 - by Julianne Belote
British Museum Cookbook - by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson
Las Recetas Económicas de Doña Petrona - by Petrona C. de Gandulfo
The Balkans Cookbook - by Jugoslovenska Knjiga
The Basque Table: Passionate Home Cooking from One of Europe's Great Regional Cuisines - by Teresa Barrenechea
The Basque Kitchen: Tempting Food from the Pyrenees - by Gerald Hirigoyen
Cocina Vasca - by X. Costa Clavell
Traditional Bulgarian Cooking - by Atanas Slavov
Caribbean and African Cookery - by Rosamund Grant
The Complete Book of Caribbean Cooking - by Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz
Sky Juice and Flying Fish: Traditional Caribbean Cooking - by Jessica B. Harris
Coastal Carolina Cooking - by Nancy Davis & Kathy Hart
The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines: China, Greece, and Rome - by Jeff Smith
Danish Cookery - by Susanne
Natural cooking the finish way - by Ulla Käkönen
A Taste of Florida - by Dorothy Chapman
The French Chef Cookbook - by Julia Child
Monet's Table: The Cooking Journals of Claude Monet - by Claire Joyes
Green Cookery - by Marin
Authentic Indian-Mexican Recipes - by William Hardwick
Prashad-Cooking with Indian Masters - by J. Kalra (Author)
Best Ever Indian Cookbook - by Mridula Baljekar et al.
Indonesian Regional Food and Cookery - by Sri Owen
The Korean Cookbook by Judy Hyun
Mediterranean Cooking - by Paula Wolfert
Great Book Of Couscous - Classic Cuisines Of Morocco, Algeria And Tunisia - by Copeland Marks
Book of Middle Eastern Food - by Claudia Roden
Savor the Flavor of Oregon - by Junior League of Eugene
Tradewinds And Coconuts: A Reminiscence And Recipes From The Pacific Islands - by Jennifer Brennan
Las Mejores Recetas de la Cocina Peruana - by Mirza Vasallo González
Philippine Fiesta Recipes - by Leonarda R. Belmonte and Perla B. Del Mundo
Polish Cookbook - by the Culinary Arts Institute
Traditional Quebec Cooking - by Micheline-Mongrain-Dontigny
The Romanian Way of Cooking - by The Geroy's of St. Mary's Romanian Orthodox Church in Ohio
Russian Cooking - no author
Delicioso! The Regional Cooking of Spain - by Penelope Casas
Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain - by Penelope Casas, 1987
The Elegant Taste of Thailand: Cha Am Cuisine - by Sisamon Kongpan and Pinyo Srisawat
The Complete Book of Turkish Cooking - by Ghillie Basan

Time-Life Foods of the World collection

American Cooking: The Northwest
The cooking of the British Isles
The Cooking of the Caribbean Islands
The cooking of Provincial France
The cooking of Germany
The cooking of Italy
The Cooking of Japan
Latin American cooking
Middle Eastern Cooking
The cooking of Scandinavia
The cooking of Spain and Portugal
The cooking of Vienna's Empire

This morning we went to yet another Friends of the Library booksale at the San Leandro library. I didn't mean to buy too many cookbooks, I have no room as it is, and it's not like I ever use them. But once again, I couldn't resist them. So this is what I got:

A Taste of Florida, by Dorothy Chapman - I guess I'm adding Floridian, to the list of cuisines I'll probably never cook.

The wine lover's cookbook by Sid Goldstein - Mike found it. It's not a book of wine-based recipes (darn!), but of recipes with recommended wine pairings. It gets good reviews at Amazon.com, and it seems it's the kind of book one has to read and not just get recipes from. Seems like a good buy.

The Greens Cook Book by Deborah Madison. I am, as you may know, an anti-vegetarian, I eat barely any vegetables, but I do cook vegetarian food from time to time and I thought it'd be a good addition to my cookbook collection.

The Complete Book of Caribbean Cooking by Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz. I already own two or three Caribbean cookbooks, but there are so many islands in that area that I can always use another one. And this book tells you from which country each recipe is.

Middle Eastern Cooking and American Cooking: The Northwest from the Time-Life Foods of the World collection. This is a really old collection - the books are from the 1960's and 70's, but I've found some good recipes in some of them. I have quite a lot of them now, as I keep buying them when I see them at the library sales.

And this is it - until the next sale :)

Last Saturday our local library had its book sale and I scored a lot of cookbooks. Granted most of the stuff they had was quite old, but for $1 for hardcovers and 50-cents for softcovers, who can complain? Now I need a place to store all these books!

Anyway, I got a few spiral or home-bound books:

-Traditional Quebec Cooking by Micheline-Mongrain-Dontigny
circa 1995

-Authentic Indian-Mexican Recipes by William Hardwick
a small pamphlet circa 1965 of recipes from the Rio Grande region

-Unusual Acadian Recipes for the sweet toogh by Mercedes Vidrine
These are cake & pastry recipes from the Acadians that settled in Louisiana, aka Cajuns

-The Romaian Way of Cooking by The Geroy's of St. Mary's Romanian Orthodox Church in Ohio
Really, Romanian-american recipes, c. 1968

-Kauai Cookbook by the Kekaha Parent-Teacher's Association
c. 1959

-Recipes: The Cooking of the Caribbean Islands
a Time-Life publication
Though I have several Caribbean cookbooks, i got this one because it helpfully mentions what country each recipe comes from. Often times Caribbean cookbooks don't.

I also got several books from the Time-Life "Foods of the World" collection circa 1968. These are all hard cover books. I got:

Today our public library had a sale and I picked up a few cookbooks. They are mostly pretty old (cookbook selection at these sales is never that good) but for $1 for hardbacks and 50-cents for paperbacks, I can't complain. I got:

-La Cuisine Creole A collection of Culinary Recipes, 1956 reprint of 1885 original

-Danish Cookery by Susanne, 1961

-The Fabulous Fondue Cookbook by Carmel B. Reingold, 1980
This is a small paperback but might be useful.

-The French Chef Cookbook by Julia Child, 1968

-The Frugual Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines, 1989

-Indonesian Food and Cookery by Sri Owen, 1980
I already have a newer, longer Indonesian cookbook by the same author, but for 50c couldn't pass it up

-Polish Cookbook by the Culinary Arts Institute, 1978

I found Molly Stevens' All About Braising at the library a few weeks ago and liked the first couple of recipes so much that I decided to buy the book. I got it for only $11 plus shipping brand new through one of Amazon's affiliates, which I think it's quite a bargain.

The book has a long section on the principles of braising which I haven't read yet, but I do mean to. I'm new to braising but I enjoy the results so much that I do want to try it.

The recipes themselves have been quite good. So far I've made Short Ribs Braised in Porter Ale with Maple-Rosemary Glaze, Herb-Stuffed Leg of Lamb Braised in Red Wine, Whole Chicken Braised with Pears and Pork Pot Roast with Apricots, Cardamon and Ginger. All of them have been quite good.

In all, I can recommend this book wholeheartedly.