Cooking from Quilt Country : Hearty Recipes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens

Cooking from Quilt Country : Hearty Recipes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens
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Terrific Cookbook!

--Very enjoyable--

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Cooking From Quilt Country is perfection

This is a wonderful cookbook.

Cooking from Quilt Country : Hearty Recipes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens
Marcia Adams
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0517568136
Release Date: 1988-02-13

Book Description

Includes nearly 200 family recipes from America's heartland, a culinary folk history of the Indiana Amish and Mennonites. This celebration of farm life is a companion volume to the PBS series hosted by Adams. 64 full-color photographs.

Customer Reviews:

Terrific Cookbook!.......2007-07-29

The recipes are hearty and filling, taste and look great too. My husband raves each time something new comes from this book!

--Very enjoyable--.......2006-04-20

COOKING FROM QUILT COUNTRY is a pleasure to read. The title comes from the fact that Amish and Mennonite people are famous for their quilt making skills.

This book gives a little background of the Mennonite and Amish sects and how they came into existence. The roots of the two groups originated with the Protestant Reformation and the Swiss Anabaptist movement. The leader was a Dutch priest by the name of Menno Simons.

This very informative book is filled with wonderful recipes and many photographs. Because the Mennonites and Amish have traditionally been farmers, they're also known for their wonderful foods. There are recipes for everyone here, but I was especially interested in the different vegetable dishes that are presented.

98% relaible.......2005-12-04

book received in great shape and took less then four days to receive

Cooking From Quilt Country is perfection.......2005-08-02

Cooking From Quilt Country is by far the best cookbook (and I have many) that I have ever seen. Whether you want to lose weight or gain weight , recipies can be adapted for your own use and taste . Best of all, recipies can be done "by the book itself". I would honestly say this could be the only cookbook one woulld ever need and definitely would make a lovely gift!

This is a wonderful cookbook........2005-06-18

There are dozens of recipes I want to try. I tried the custard cornbread and there will be no going back---this is my new favorite cornbread recipe. And I had an excellent recipe which was often requested, but this is head and shoulders above it! And what a beautiful book! The photos are superlative. Wonderful for both reading and cooking.

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Great down home southern cookin
absolutely devine
Home cooking at it's best
Cookbook Review
Mama Dip's Kitchen Cookbook

Mama Dip's Kitchen
Mildred Council
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0807847909
Release Date: 1999-09-15

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You can hold this book the way you hold a child's hand. And you can let this book show you a whole new world, the way a child will reveal the secrets of a secret world if you take the time to stop and watch and listen. God bless Mildred Council and the time she took to get it all down in Mama Dip's Kitchen. And it's not just the recipes that come out of a life of good cooking--there's a great deal of Mildred Council in these pages, and we are better off for the reading, the cooking, and the sharing.

In her acknowledgments, Mildred Council thanks a woman who helped with the book. Then she thanks the woman's children, "Shawn and Chelsea, for playing so nicely while we flipped so many pages." She ends her cookbook with a recipe for a child's birthday party. Her enthusiasm for life growing through all its stages can be found on every page. "I realized my name was my earthly soul," she writes, "which needed to be tended like the pumpkin seed--tended, tilled, fed, and harvested, to have a good life. And that's what I tried to do ever since for my family and myself."

Part of that tending has been owning and operating Dip's, a popular Chapel Hill, North Carolina restaurant where she serves the kind of country food she grew up cooking. Mildred Council calls her style of cooking "dump cooking" because she scoops up ingredients without measuring and "dumps" them in the bowl or pan. It took her a good deal of time to measure out what she was doing so instinctively to be able to share her work as written recipes. But she encourages every cook to use her recipes like a sewing pattern, to experiment, to stretch here and cut there to make the food you like.

Mama Dip's Kitchen is a compendium of straightforward, simple, southern American foods in chapters devoted to "Breads and Breakfast Dishes," "Poultry, Fish, and Seafood Dishes," "Beef, Pork and Lamb Dishes," "Vegetables and Salad," and "Desserts, Beverages, and Party Dishes." In simple foods as in a simple life, the complexities run deep. --Schuyler Ingle

Book Description

For nearly twenty-five years, Mildred Council—better known by her nickname, Mama Dip—has nourished thousands of hungry folks in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her restaurant, Mama Dip's Kitchen, is a much-loved community institution that has gained loyal fans and customers from all walks of life, from New York Times food writer Craig Claiborne to former Tar Heel basketball player Michael Jordan.

Mama Dip's Kitchen showcases the same down-home, wholesome, everyday Southern cooking for which its namesake restaurant is celebrated. The book features more than 250 recipes for such favorites as old-fashioned chicken pie, country-style pork chops, sweet potatoes, fresh corn casserole, poundcake, and banana pudding. Chapters cover breads and breakfast dishes; poultry, fish, and seafood; beef, pork, and lamb; vegetables and salads; and desserts, beverages, and party dishes.

The book opens with a charming introductory essay, a savory reflection on a life in cooking that also reveals the story behind Council's nickname. It is both a graceful reminiscence of a country childhood and the inspiring story of a woman determined to make her own way in the larger world.

Customer Reviews:

Great down home southern cookin.......2007-02-18

If you like down home southern cookin this is the book for you!! I bought this and her other cookbook. Love Them!

absolutely devine.......2007-01-09

I would recommend this cookbook to anyone searching for some real down home soul food. The recipes are simple and easy. The food is beyond delicious. This is my firt mama dip's cookbook but it won't be my last. I look forward to ordering her other cookbooks soon. The other night I cooked the creole shrimp with rice, and my husband and I loved it. He is a LOUISIANNA native so it was home for him. There are so many great things that I can say about mama dip's cook book, but what i want to say to people who are skeptical and not sure if they want to purchase her book, GET IT, you will not be dissappointed at all.

Home cooking at it's best.......2006-04-28

I have the luxury of living fairly close to Mama Dips restaurant and it's always a real treat to go for lunch or dinner. It's the kind of cooking we grew up with in NC. I was so excited when she published her cookbook. I bought it and have read it cover to cover. I not only love the recipes but the story itself is inspirational. If you ever go to her restaurant - don't skip the banana pudding. Like the recipe in the book, it's served warm and it's TO DIE FOR!!

Cookbook Review.......2006-03-18

I have thoroughly enjoyed the cook book and have used it many times and share recipes with several friends. The recipes are quick, easy and delicious... My family has loved everything that I have fixed from the book.

Mama Dip's Kitchen Cookbook.......2006-02-26

Excellent book. Recipes are not difficult to prepare. Reading this book is an enjoyable as making the delicious recipes presented in it. This book enables us to make food like mom or grandma used to make!!

Country Life Vegetarian Cookbook: Delicious Recipes from the Kitchens of the Country Life Vegetarian Restaurants

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Country Life Vegetarian Cookbook
Simply the best cook book!
Country Life Vegetarion Cookbook
Best Cookbook
Complete, tasty and economical!

Country Life Vegetarian Cookbook: Delicious Recipes from the Kitchens of the Country Life Vegetarian Restaurants

Manufacturer: Family Health Publications (MI)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Plastic Comb

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ASIN: 1878726005

Book Description

Features the remarkably delicious, healthful and nutritious food that is served in the Country Life Restaurants. 6 x 9 180 pages

Customer Reviews:

Country Life Vegetarian Cookbook.......2007-01-12

This is the best vegetarian/vegan cookbook that I have on my shelf! Rarely do I find a recipe that my family doesn't like. Last night we had the Oatburgers and they were wonderful! Even my picky 3-year old was asking for seconds (and thirds). We are changing our eating habits and trying to live a vegan lifestyle. This cookbook has made it very easy to enjoy yummy, good food without feeling deprived.

Simply the best cook book!.......2005-11-08

This book changed my life. I'm not a vegan, but these recipes are just so good, that without even noticing I started eating only healthy food. 99% of what I made from this book was great!

Country Life Vegetarion Cookbook.......2005-09-11

This cookbook has many great receips for vegan's. They are tasty and fairly easy to make. Would reccomend it to anyone looking for vegan receips whether they are experienced vegan cooks or not

Best Cookbook.......2002-09-03

This is the best cookbook I've ever used, vegan/vegetarian or otherwise. The recipes are simple, tasty, and economical. I'm not much of a cook myself, but, with this book cooking is easy. I wholeheartdly recommend this cookbook to anyone interested in eating more healthfully.

Complete, tasty and economical!.......1999-02-15

I've recommended this cookbook to many over the last 5 years. The recipes are tasty and economical. Living in the heart of dairy country and unable to consume dairy products, and for some time meat, I was delighted not to run into these over-used foods and still find tasty food. I use this cookbook as a reference often. Includes an informative article on dietary fat in the back. It's worth the purchase price.

Country Kitchens and Recipes (Taschen Specials)

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Country Kitchens and Recipes (Taschen Specials)
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Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom: Tips, Shortcuts, and Recipes from a Country Home

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A Pearl of a Cookbook from My Cook

Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom: Tips, Shortcuts, and Recipes from a Country Home
Deborah S. Tukua
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Taking a page from one of Heloise's household hints books and adding decorating tips, recipes, and homespun kitchen advice, Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom: Tips, Shortcuts, and Recipes from a Country Home offers useful, interesting, and sometimes odd nuggets of advice on how to make life in your kitchen more pleasant and how to add authentic country influences to your home.

The chapters in Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom are divided into "Country Kitchen Décor"; "Organization, Efficiency, Cleanup, and Safety"; "Baking and Cake Decorating"; "Cooking"; "Food Storage and Preserving"; and "From the Recipe Box." "Learning how to make many of the things your family loves and needs is so gratifying," says author Deborah Tukua. "Making things yourself guarantees the quality of the product and your personal satisfaction." For those who like home improvement and decorating projects, this book offers many tips on how to countrify your home using items you probably already have around. Tip number 32: "A snazzy way to dress up straight-back chairs in the kitchen is to place a colorful vest on each." While many of the hints help spark new ideas, many are gratuitous ("Never leave anything flammable such as a towel, potholder, etc., on top of any stove") or rather bizarre ("Don't make cheese and fresh bread in the same day as one will not turn out properly").

Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom gathers the homey advice your mother, aunts, and old neighbor lady keep telling you--some of it's good, some you already know, some is just plain strange. --Dana Van Nest

Book Description

Combining old-fashioned know-how and modern-day ingenuity, this indispensable book offers literally hundreds of ways to make time spent in the kitchen both productive and enjoyable. As an experienced homesteader and doyenne of her own country kitchen, Deborah S. Tukua has spent years collecting nuggets of wisdom from friends and neighbors who share her way of life in rural Tennessee. Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom represents the distillation of a community's tried and true techniques, many of which have been handed down through generations. This book also has dozens of recipes for preserved food such as dried tomatoes, corn cob syrup, canning chili beans, etc., as well as recipes for dozens of dishes, including baked maple chicken, blender quiche, and vegetable cheese chowder. Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom is perfect for anyone who wishes to bring a fresh country breeze into a city or suburban kitchen. (5 3/4 x 8 1/2, 324 pages, b&w photos, recipes)

Customer Reviews:

A Pearl of a Cookbook from My Cook.......2002-10-15

Two of my favorite recipes in PKW are the Pumpkin-Banana pancakes and Pumpkin-Pear Pie. Deborah won a statewide cooking contest with this pie she makes from the pears we have growing at home. It is a featured favorite on our holiday table. I feel really special because I am blessed to have this author and cook preparing these fabulous country dishes for our family. Yes, I am married to Deborah and do attest here to her good cooking. Hope you enjoy these recipes as well as the helpful tips she has combined to make life in the kitchen enjoyable and productive.

Spanish Country Kitchen: Traditional Recipes For The Home Cook

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CLASSIC SPANISH CUISINE
Best book I' ve read so far in English about Spanish Cooking...

Spanish Country Kitchen: Traditional Recipes For The Home Cook
Linda Tubby
Manufacturer: Ryland Peters & Small
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Binding: Hardcover

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From tapas and paella to tortilla and churros with hot chocolate, Spain is the source of some of the world's greatest dishes. Now you can cook them at home with Linda Tubby's "Spanish Country Kitchen. Chapters include Tapas, Appetizers, and salads for dishes such as Spinach Tortilla with Salt Cod and Potatoes and Garlic Shrimps. Try authentic Spanish Soups such as the famous Gazpacho. Spain has a wonderful way with Vegetables: try La Calcotada (grilled scallions with two salsas) or White Beans with Paprika, Saffron, and clams. Recipes for Rice, Pasta, and Pastry include Paella, here done in several forms, plus Chicken Empanada, and Coca or Spanish Pizza. Experiment with fish and shellfish recipes such as Zarzuela de Mariscos(fishermen's stew), Stuffed Calamares and Poor Man's Lobster. Meat and Poultry dishes include Duck with Olives, Fabada(pork and beans), and Rib Eye Steak with Olive and Tomato Salsa. Finally, Spanish Sweet Things will make your mouth water. -Will delight aficionados as well as newcomers to Spanish cuisine. -An excellent section on Mail Order, Specialist Suppliers, and Websites will help you track down the best products available. -Illustrated by leading photographer Martin Brigdale

Customer Reviews:

CLASSIC SPANISH CUISINE.......2007-03-21

Having a Spanish born husband and son-inlaw, I can assure you this book is authentic to the bone without being complicated. Pure classic Spanish food with mostly simplye ingredients for every day cooking.

Best book I' ve read so far in English about Spanish Cooking..........2005-12-14

These recipes are wonderful, as well as the color photos. I lived in Spain for 4 years, and although I never really used a cookbook, this one is really great. It is totally authentic, from the fabada to the cocido. I used to make fabada every week in winter, and it is just like mine. If you want to learn how to make authentic Spanish food, you should buy this book.

A Cook's Tour of Mexico: Authentic Recipes from the Country's Best Open-Air Markets, City Fondas, and Home Kitchens

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yummy anticipation
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great cookbook and travel guide

A Cook's Tour of Mexico: Authentic Recipes from the Country's Best Open-Air Markets, City Fondas, and Home Kitchens
Nancy Zaslavsky
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Customer Reviews:

yummy anticipation.......2005-09-08

I want to taste these goodies and try to cook some of them. Format of region was helpful for traveling in Mexico.

Indespensible book.......2005-03-27

We've just returned from our first visit to Oaxaca. The xeroxed copy of the Oaxaca section from Cooks Tour was the second most used reference (the street map was first). Since we bought this book nearly a decade ago, it's been the basic resource for information on fondas, markets, local specialties etc. Some of the recipes are such staples that I've forgotten their source until I run across them when using the book. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Delightful and Authentic Regional Guide to Mexican Cooking.......2002-09-06

This is a very fine collection of unpretentious, delicious recipes - wonderful food as cooked by real Mexicans. The descriptions of local markets and fondas are rendered with affection, humor and a healthy dose of common sense. In short, a book that should be in the collection of every Mexican cooking aficionado.

Steve Sando is a Moron!.......2001-04-19

This book rocks! I don't know if Mr. Sando is used to Taco Bell or what? The food I have made form this book has all been superb. The flavor is authentic. Some of the recipies are simple and some quite involved! Not every recipe needs a list of 20+ ingredients and 3 pages of instructions to be wonderfully flavorful. The many types of moles are some of the best I have ever had. Anyone who looks in cookbooks for travel tips is delusional. Great cookbook!

great cookbook and travel guide.......1998-01-04

This is a great cookbook. I've traveled a lot in Mexico and cooked a lot of Mexican food, using the classic cookbooks like Diana Kennedy's. The recipes that I've tried in this one are uniformly terrific. Just as important, the accompanying narratives and photos draw you back into the whole sensual experience of Mexico, so both the cooking and the eating take on an added dimension of rich experience.

How to Make Love and Dinner at the Same Time: 200 Slow Cooker Recipes to Heat Up the Bedroom Instead of the Kitchen

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buying more copies!
Enhanced with humeours sidebars on food, family, men, & life
I Love Love And Dinner!
Rebecca Field Jager makes it simple, tasty and fun!
I Love Love And Dinner!

How to Make Love and Dinner at the Same Time: 200 Slow Cooker Recipes to Heat Up the Bedroom Instead of the Kitchen
Rebecca Field Jager
Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation
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Customer Reviews:

buying more copies!.......2005-11-25

I have had this cookbook now for several months and I have tried several recipes. They have all worked beautifully and gotten rave reviews. The best part however, is the fun reading and the asides that are spinkled throughout the book. I'm here ordering three more for friends for Christmas. Can't think of a better gift!

Enhanced with humeours sidebars on food, family, men, & life.......2004-05-08

Fine food and great sex are the basic building blocks of an enduring true love! In How To Make Love And Dinner At The Same Time, Canadian food writer and home cook Rebecca Field Jager showcases easy to prepare, low-stress, "couple friendly", highly recommended recipes that will enhance the romance for any domestic relationship. Enhanced with humeours sidebars on food, family, men, and life, the more than 200 slow cooker recipes range from Easy Wine-and-Cheese Fondue; Dark and Delicious Beef Broth; and Share-It Steak and Sausage Pie; to Fench White Veal Stew; Spice-of-Life Pork Chop Bake; and Red-Hot Ladies' Fingers.

I Love Love And Dinner!.......2004-04-28

A friend gave me How To Make Love And Dinner At The Same Time for my birthday last month (she knew what a crazy life I lead and thought this book might help). Nice to have a giggle as you're making dinner. We've loved every recipe we've tried --- my family tends to be picky eaters, so you have no idea how happy this makes me! Can't wait for Rebecca's next book!

Rebecca Field Jager makes it simple, tasty and fun!.......2004-04-26

I've had this book for three months and have rediscovered how perfect the slow cooker is for my family, thanks to Rebecca. I've cooked more than 25 dishes now and they have all been a success with my family and friends. People now think I'm some kind of gourmet chef thanks to this book, and the recipes are all simple, some with only 3 ingredients. Some of my best successes have been Warm Bean Salsa, Carmelized Red Onion Dip, Sticky Wings, Chicken Bites In Thai Peanut Sauce, Tropical Pepper Pot, Thai Beef Curry, Hot & Sour Pork, Chicken Tarragon and Pasta Primavera, to name just a few. This is just a perfect cook book, and is on top of that, it's so much fun to read Rebecca's stories and background info.

I am a big fan of How To Make Love and Dinner!

I Love Love And Dinner!.......2004-04-13

Favorite Recipes From Country Kitchens Meats Including Seafood and Poultry

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Favorite Recipes From Country Kitchens Meats Including Seafood and Poultry
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The World in Your Kitchen: Vegetarian Recipes from Africa, Asia and Latin America for Western Kitchens With Country Information and Food Facts (Vegetarian Cooking)

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A real multi-cultural cookbook
A Great Cookbook

The World in Your Kitchen: Vegetarian Recipes from Africa, Asia and Latin America for Western Kitchens With Country Information and Food Facts (Vegetarian Cooking)
Troth Wells
Manufacturer: Crossing Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0895945770

Customer Reviews:

A real multi-cultural cookbook.......2003-11-04

There are a number of things that I like about this cookbook, in addition to the tasty recipes themselves. First, it really does cover most of the world (the only countries left out are Europe and the US/Canada but I guess the author figured we already get a lot of those cookbooks). There are recipes from Bangladesh, Bahamas, Cambodia, Ghana, Syria, Kenya, Thailand, Guatemala, Brazil, Jamaica, Indonesia, Malaysia, Afganistan, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Haiti, Algeria, Peru, and I could go on.

There is a nice intro section (35pgs) that talks about nutrition, where to get certain vitamins/minerals and some history of eating habits/the force of marketing/big money - how we got so hooked on eating animals.

Then the recipes are broken out into the following sections:Starters & Snacks, Main Dishes, Side Dishes, Deserts & Drinks. Within each of these sections the recipes are broken out by continent (Africa, Asia, Middle East, Caribbean & Latin America) and the recipes themselves have a little intro that's stpecific to the food as well as the country its from and the native name for it.

Color pictures and artwork is on every page and there's lots of interesting information - more than just a cookbook but short stories about world eating which is neat.

The recipes are good from what I've tried so far. They're pretty straightforward and rely more on the flavors of the vegetables than on putting lots of different spices in there. The spices that it does call for are easily found (e.g. cumin, chili peppers, paprika, cilantro etc)

Thumbs up on this gem - lots of fun to read as well as cook from.

A Great Cookbook.......2000-05-28

The World in Your Kitchen is a window on basic recipes and foodways usually not included in higher brow cookbooks. Filled with vibrant photography including pictures of people growing harvesting, selling and preparing food, this cookbook presents a generous array of recipes, introduced by a brief history of the ingredients involved. Both metric and non metric measures are used in this combination geographic tour and culinary exploration.

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