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I love profanity.  LOL

 

Well, &%#@, my rec was right on, woman! :smilielol5: ;) :D

 

Their food is actually tasty (& easy to make, which is important to me since I'm not much of a cook) & I found the &%^$ing commentary funny.

 

They also have a party food book that came out more recently, but I haven't seen it. (I have a hard enough time cooking for my family; I can't imagine cooking for a party. Lol.)

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I let my subscription lapse awhile ago, but I really enjoyed Simple & Delicious magazine. There was at least 2 recipes every issue that became tried and true for our family.

 

I get that one.  The format is a bit different now.  It's a smaller size.  Which is not a bad idea.

 

Years ago it was one of my favorites, but over time it's a hit or miss if I find a recipe I like in it.  But it's still fun to flip through it and get some inspiration.

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Our Favorites are the Great British Book of Baking and Cooking for Isaiah. Son 2 recently found a diet/cookbook he likes called Always Hungry. I haven't made anything from it yet, though.

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I get that one.  The format is a bit different now.  It's a smaller size.  Which is not a bad idea.

 

Years ago it was one of my favorites, but over time it's a hit or miss if I find a recipe I like in it.  But it's still fun to flip through it and get some inspiration.

 

I think at some point I realized that most of the recipes were on their website, but to be honest, I don't peruse the website...ever, really.

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I love Thug Kitchen but it's vegan Wendy and fairly high carb which I recall is a problem for you.

 

I think Smitten Kitchen would be right up your alley. More meat. Lots of things with bacon.

 

http://www.amazon.com/The-Smitten-Kitchen-Cookbook-Perelman/dp/030759565X

 

It's no problem to add a side of cow on.  :lol:

 

But yeah, I'm not really into vegan.

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I love Thug Kitchen but it's vegan Wendy and fairly high carb which I recall is a problem for you.

 

I think Smitten Kitchen would be right up your alley. More meat. Lots of things with bacon.

 

http://www.amazon.com/The-Smitten-Kitchen-Cookbook-Perelman/dp/030759565X

 

Yeah, she is the one with the dancing bacon. :lol:

 

Even if you don't cook the Thug Kitchen stuff, it's fun to read.

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Yeah, she is the one with the dancing bacon. :lol:

 

Even if you don't cook the Thug Kitchen stuff, it's fun to read.

 

Yes, I found Thug Kitchen highly amusing. I just checked it out from the library to see what the press was about. Not my style of cooking, but great writing for what it is.

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I recently got my mom the Desserts for Two cookbook. The author has a blog with recipes that's I've tried with great results. She does a variety of smaller portioned desserts, like making brownies in a loaf pan etc. Nice when you don't want a ton tempting you around the house, or are low on ingredients when a craving hits!

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My favorites for many years have been America's Test Kitchen/Cooks Country. Anything. Everything.

 

Because of my autoimmune stuff, I've also bought a couple of autoimmune/paleo cookbooks, which have some decent recipes: "The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook," and "The Healing Kitchen."

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It's no problem to add a side of cow on. :lol:

 

But yeah, I'm not really into vegan.

I have un-vegan-ed certain things from Thug Kitchen. Unless I am serving vegans, I don't go out of my way to use veggie broth instead of the copious amounts of chicken stock I have in the freezer. Also, in a few recipes I replace soy protien with chicken.

 

Mostly though, it's not a good book if you are trying to low carb it. Lots of wraps and sandwiches, lots of rice and legumes. I'm not low carb so not an issue here but I remember that low carb is something that works for you.

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I have un-vegan-ed certain things from Thug Kitchen. Unless I am serving vegans, I don't go out of my way to use veggie broth instead of the copious amounts of chicken stock I have in the freezer. Also, in a few recipes I replace soy protien with chicken.

 

 

I subscribe to the Fresh 20 service (they had a special deal for a year) and get the vegetarian menus.  I seem to remember that Sparkly tried the standard menus and didn't care for them, but I do well with the (carby) vegetarian ones.  As we're not vegetarians though, I throw in whatever meat stock I have around: last night it was ham baking juice into a cabbage, leek and cannelini (sp?) bean saute.  Everyone loved it.

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