My Current Favorite Cookbook
Since we started buying singles ingredients only, survival of the fittest has taken a heavy toll on my cookbooks. Too many of them cannot adapt to the new restrictions. One of my former favorites now gathers dust on the shelf, consigned there by its heavy use of canned soups.
One of the best places to find new cookbooks is the public library’s discard sale. Hardbound cookbooks with dust-covers, filled with lots of pictures, sold for a few dollars. Last year I picked up several, including one that has become a new favorite.
Christine Ingram’s Rise and Risotto: Cooking with the World’s Best-Loved Grain suits our needs very well. Rice is our family staple; the kids never complain about it, and will often eat it when they refuse everything else. Ingram’s cookbook is divided into regional recipes, and while I have to skip one section that makes frequent uses of soy sauce (ahh! soy sauce), everything else is written with the single-ingredient cook in mind. The recipes are flavorful, interesting, and often one-dish meals. Perfect.
(Judging by the Amazon listings, the book has been reworked several times, and there is a newer version available under the name Risotto and Classic Rice Cooking.)
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This is so going on my wish list! One-Dish Rice meals are my families favorite and I am greatly lacking in creativity. I’m getting excited just thinking about new flavors LOL
That sounds excellent – and cooking for a kid with celiac disease means that we eat a LOT of rice.
See if you can find a copy of The More With Less cookbook. We used to use it on the mission field.
Mel, Becky House gave me a copy of that when Az and I got married. I have used it many times over the years.