Marga's Foodblog

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.

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

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: