jessicacarr
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OK...so i am not the only one! whew! as i read alot of these posts i was absolutely amased and amused by seeing that other people have the same problems as i have with cookbooks-too many and will never be able to use them all. i have probably 30-50 cookbooks. i was at a yardsale one time and got tons of Annual Southern Living and the like for was it a 10 or a 20 dollar bill?!! i knew i would hardly have any place to put them...but i couldn't help myself! My problem is, though, that i have this idea that if i get rid of any of my books, i will be missing something awesome out of them, and i certainly dont have enough time to go thru them all and extract the faves in order to get rid of some. even if i did have the time to do that...i prob couldn't bring myself to get rid of them. that's just how i am with all books! i guess that's what they call a packrat? oh dear.SizzlininIN said:Same here. In fact, I've started to go through them and writing down the recipes I enjoy so that i can sell some of them to make way for new ones. I have some that I only have a couple recipes I enjoy.
One that I have found quite a few recipes from and I go to often as a guide is Culinary Arts Institute - The American Family Cookbook. Copyright 1974.
In fact, I thought I'd never be able to make my moms Chop Suey or her Sage Dressing after she passed. I'd never been able to get the dressing right even while she was alive and I'd forgot the Chop Suey recipe. So I was thrilled when my brother brought this cookbook down one Thanksgiving to help me with the dinner. Lo and behold there was a Herb Dressing recipe and after tweeking it ..... it was so much like moms........now I can make it all the time. Same for the Chop Suey. So many more great recipes in this book also. I highly recommend it. I found my copy on Ebay.
I like using the cookbooks to give me ideas.....I usually tweek the recipes though and adjust to our tastes.
I do collect the Annual Southern Living and Better Homes & Gardens so I'll hang onto those even if there's only a few recipes I like in each.
I love community cookbooks.......like those that churches subscribe. I have to admit I have a lot of these and I haven't made anything out of most.