New Book - already read

I allowed myself a new book today, since I have read a couple of old ones. This is actually a new edition of a book we used to own. The first edition of Dad's own cookbook helped Brooke and I immensely. Brooke also credits some of our first-year food joy to Help, My Apartment Has a Kitchen!, but Dad's own is the one that taught me a lot of the little details:

• Different ways to cook different kinds of fish
• The different cuts of beef
• How to make the perfect macaroni and cheese.

This book has some of my favorite all time recipes:

• Mac and cheese (maybe you guessed from the other list)
• Mediterranean oven fried chicken
• Beef fajitas

Alas, we had do sell our copy of Dad's own and several other cookbooks a couple of years ago when times were tight and we needed a few bucks to continue eating. I saw this one the other day in the Barnes and Noble and decided today to buy it. I'd already zipped through the whole thing by the time we got home from our evening out at University Village (where we grabbed sushi off of a conveyor belt at Blue C and examined books at yet another Barnes and Noble).

The new edition has the same information, along with a few more recipes and details that I don't recall being in the first edition. The one that really jumps out at me is a full-page table listing different foods and how long they keep in the fridge or freezer. It's possible that the information was already in the first edition and I'd just forgotten about it. After a few years' absence, a lot had been forgotten. But the presentation is definitely better. And the writing style is still great. You are presented with the basics, but in a fashion that doesn't make you feel like hopeless idiot.

Yeah. Get this book if you're about to move out on your own and need a good all-purpose cookbook that gives recipes for food you might actually want to eat.