Cookistry

Photo from The Diabetes Cookbook for Electric Pressure Cookers. Used with permission. I always celebrate a little when someone I know has published their first cookbook, and this time i...

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The salad that started the search for ponzu. I usually buy ponzu in a bottle, but recently I needed some to make a salad dressing recipe and even thought I clearly remembered a bottle of pon...

http://www.cookistry.com/2019/02/home-made-ponzu.html

As part of the Abrams Dinner Party, I've been getting a ton of cookbooks published by Abrams Books. This time around the book was CALI'FLOUR KITCHEN. Cauliflower has gotten trendy these days, ...

http://www.cookistry.com/2019/01/califlour-kitchen-eggs-in-basket.html

As part of the Abrams Dinner Party, I've been getting all of the cookbooks from Abrams Books at no cost to me. Yay, me. Send bookcases. The most recent book to land with a thud on my doorstep...

http://www.cookistry.com/2019/01/chocolate-sorbet-abramsdinnerparty.html

Every month, I get a box of goodies from Degusta Box, so I can tell my readers all about it. I usually write about it on my review blog , but I thought I'd move it over here for this month. It...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/12/degusta-box-december-2018.html

You know the song. Now, sing along, with Santa's favorite reindog! Ahem! Are we in tune? Okay, let's GO! On the first day of Christmas, my sous chef gave to me ... a new fridge and a...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/12/12-days-of-christmas-cooking-version.html

I usually post food reviews over on the gadget and review blog, but I haven't been doing as much cooking as usual, and food is food, so ... I'll be posting a few reviews here, and maybe even s...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/11/chocolate-pizza-and-peanut-butter-wings.html

No, I haven't decided to make the blog bilingual or French. But this recipe is from a French cookbook. If your first thought about a French cookbook is that it's likely to be haughty, fussy, lon...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/11/braised-chicken-with-peppers-and.html

Whoop, whoop, another fun (and free) book for my participation in the Abrams Dinner Party. This time the book is Home Made Christmas by Yvette van Boven. When I saw the title, I thought it mig...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/10/savory-french-toast-from-home-made.html

When I got the book Cake!, my first instinct was to make one of the coffee cakes. I absolutely adore all kinds of coffee cakes, and they're usually not too sweet, so they're great to have with c...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/10/kentucky-butter-cake.html

When I got the book Korean Home Cooking from Abrams books (free, because I'm participating in the Abrams Dinner Party) I was really curious. What's Korean home cooking like? If that sounds wei...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/10/juk-aka-congee-abramsdinnerparty.html

Once again, I'm working with Abrams Books to tell you about their cookbooks. I had a blast doing this last year (and I collected a lot of cookbooks!) so I was more than happy to sign on again. ...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/10/green-olive-dressing-abramsdinnerparty.html

As a happy participant in the Canbassador program, the nice folks at Northwest Cherry Growers also sent me a box of peaches this year. I looooove peaches. I usually eat them plain. Sometimes...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/09/canned-peaches-canbassador.html

I love cherries. When I was a kid, they were undoubtedly my favorite fruit. Apples and bananas were okay, but cherries were awesome. So, when the Northwest Cherries Canbassador Program asked me...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/07/canned-whole-cherries-canbassador.html

Shrimp scampi. What's not to love? Butter, garlic, seafood ... yum! For some reason, I don't make it very often, but when I saw a recipe in Gumbo Love by Lucy Buffet, I had to give it a try....

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/06/shrimp-scampi.html

If you've read this blog at all, you probably know that I belong to a group where we mail cookbooks around in a round-robin style. When I got Half Baked Harvest, I kind of skipped past all the h...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/06/addictive-salted-caramel-stuffed.html

A bottle of dressing. So un-photogenic. Sometimes I am such a dork. I saw this recipe for ranch DIP and made it and wondered why it was so thick because in my head I was making ranch DRESSIN...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/06/better-than-store-bought-ranch-dip-from.html

So, here's the deal. This past cookbook season, Abrams has been sending me free cookbooks that have recently been published. Yup, free. Nada cost. It's good to be a blogger. One of the books ...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/05/street-corn-pizza-abramsdinnerparty.html

When I found out that Kristy Bernardo, who blogs at THE WICKED NOODLE , had written a cookbook featuring recipes for the Instant Pot, I put it right in my Amazon cart. The book, not the Instan...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/03/pork-chops-in-dijon-pan-sauce-from.html

So, I was browsing through my most recent acquisition from #AbramsDinnerParty (where I get free cookbooks) and I ran across a recipe for a green sauce that's supposed to be much like That Green ...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/03/some-green-sauce-abramsdinnerparty.html

Okay, you don't need to cook this in the pressure cooker - it's perfectly fine on the stove, simmering in a pot, but the pressure cooker speeds up the process of getting the soup tasting more li...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/03/cream-of-mushroom-soup-pressure-cooker.html

When I was growing up, the only chili was chili mac. There was no Texas chili or Cincinnati chili. Chili was ground beef, beans, and elbow mac in a tomato-y sauce. That's what my mom made, and...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/02/blasphemous-chili-cooked-in-electric.html

Seems kind of crazy to have a recipe for salad, but I'd say that this is really more about the dressing. It's not like anything I've made before, that's for sure. The recipe is adapted from Th...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/02/thai-steak-salad.html

In today's edition of What crazy thing is Donna cooking? we have some quick-pickled vegetables courtesy of a new cookbook that showed up at my door. The book is called How To Instant Pot, so o...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/01/quick-pickled-vegetables-in-your.html

There was more ... but I used it! A bunch of people in a group I'm in were talking about a recipe on Serious Eats for toasted cream, and it got me curious. I wanted to try it right away, bu...

http://www.cookistry.com/2018/01/toasted-milk-in-your-instant-pot-or.html