Cooking With Fresh Food From the Farmer’s Market

Posted by on May 22, 2013

Farmer’s Market Cooking

My favorite part of Summer is the abundance of fresh, local produce available for months on end. Yes, you can find local produce the rest of the year, but there is nothing like juicy, succulent tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, peppers, fresh herbs, did I mention tomatoes? You get the idea. A wonderful offering of Topeka & Shawnee [...]

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MARCH MADNESS IS HERE!

Posted by on March 27, 2013

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Guests will be thinking about nothing but net at this basketball party. March Madness starts “Selection Sunday,” March 17. 2013 when 64 NCAA Men’s and Women’s basketball teams are selected to go to the “Big Dance—the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship tournament. The first weekend of tournament play is the safest time to have a [...]

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Quick and Healthy Meals

Posted by on January 2, 2013

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If you are anything like me you have a tendency to overindulge on sweets and delicious foods available during the fall and winter holidays. As soon as January 1st comes around I make a resolution to eat better and exercise more during the year. Luckily my mom raised us on very healthy foods and I [...]

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Let’s talk Gluten-Free

Posted by on August 15, 2012

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A few weeks ago, I had a request for some gluten-free recipes. For those of you that don’t know, a gluten-free diet is one which excludes gluten. So, what is gluten and where is this gluten found? Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. It can also be found in spelt and [...]

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Cooking in the Summertime

Posted by on July 18, 2012

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When it comes to cooking in the summertime, my mantra is the easier the better. I prefer to use my grill when it is so hot outside but sometimes a new cookbook makes me want to turn on my stove. And that is what happened this last weekend. I saw a recipe for a beef [...]

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And then there was blackberry cobbler

Posted by on May 23, 2012

Blackberry-Cobbler

I have been on a blackberry cobbler kick lately. I have been constantly looking in all the new cookbooks that have come out for a blackberry cobbler recipe. What started all this? Well, I needed to make something for the Cooking by the Book cookbook club and the cookbook we were discussing that night was [...]

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2 moms that cook

Posted by on April 25, 2012

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So, who lives in Oklahoma with her husband and children, writes a blog and two cookbooks, and has a dog named Charlie? Well, the Pioneer Woman, that’s who. Yes, the Pioneer Woman (Ree Drummond) has a new cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from my frontier and it is as good or maybe even better [...]

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All Booked Up! Martha’s Entertaining

Posted by on March 26, 2012

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In this edition of All Booked Up! Kathy and Diana share stories of Martha Stewart and explain why for those planning a special event the library is a great place to start. How many of you remember the entertaining book that Martha Stewart wrote in the 1980s? I do, and I have that book in [...]

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Cooking after Christmas

Posted by on February 1, 2012

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Baking Style by Lisa Yockelson and The Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook are two new cookbooks in the Cooking Neighborhood. The new book club, Cooking by the Book, is featuring chocolate.

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A classic southern bible

Posted by on December 8, 2011

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I don’t know how classic this cookbook is but it is definitely a bible on some really delicious dishes. What cookbook am I talking about? Well, Paula Deen’s new cookbook, Southern Cooking Bible. This cookbook is big and it has more than 300 recipes for some really delicious dishes. Of course, it is Paula Deen. [...]

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Martha Stewart Bakes Again

Posted by on April 28, 2011

If you have not heard, Martha Stewart has published a new cookbook. Martha Stewart’s New Pies and Tarts is her latest cookbook and it is full of pies and tarts. She has devoted ten chapters in all to both sweet and savory pies and tarts. On Easter Sunday, I needed to make two desserts for [...]

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