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Cookbook Exchanges :chef: I belonged to a group that exchanged cookbooks and monthly snailmail recipe swaps, there were also kitchen gift exchanges. It was lots of fun!! If anyone gets a chance to join such a group, it is unlike any email recipe swap group out there!

Cookbooks :chef: For me, choosing a favourite cookbook is difficult but I have to say "at this moment" it is "Mary Ann's Gilligan's Island Cookbook that I got at a garage sale a few weeks ago for 50 cents. I buy most of mine at thrift stores and garage sales and the thrill is seeing what I...

Cooking from Scratch I do what I call, "shortcut cooking", this is where I take a "scratch" concept and help it along. I do the same thing with the spaghetti sauce also, but start with tomato sauce and add my own meat, spices, chopped onions and soup broth and make it into a meaty spaghetti...

Cookbooks I love the idea of a forum just on cookbooks. I enjoy collecting them and talking about them, (sometimes think I am obsessed with the idea of having more). I usually find mine at thrift stores, garage sales and occasionally in bargain bins at book stores. I also visit my local...

Rob Rainford Hi pst1can! Rob Rainford is amazing!! I loved watching the show when it was on in the summer. I'm sure our American friends would really enjoy his style. I saw him on Christine Cushing a couple of months back. He seems so personable! Every time I see a cookbook on 'q'ing, I buy...

I don't mind lending a cookbook if it is something that I know I can replace quite easily but have very few like that, most are old and irreplaceable. My collection means too much to me to have any go missing. If someone wants to look through them, I don't mind having them take a look but...

Hi There! I have many favourites, it depends on the day and how I feel. I love Better Homes and Gardens, Betty Crocker and Canadian Living the most though.

Cookbooks Thank you for the url, PA Baker, I am heading over there now.

Hi Claire! I am also a collector. Last count was 250. I love to read them like novels and occasionally get inspired to make something from one of them. I also don't mind spills and splashes on mine. I got one from my mom that has spills and stains on the pages that she made the recipes...

That is EXACTLY what I do as well, mudbug. My mom told me about using coffee cans when I was a teenager and it stuck. I also have a small container that I put bacon grease into for cooking.

kitchenelf Thanks for the welcome back, kitchen elf! I am glad to be here. Gosh! I wish I knew why I didn't come back sooner...but the main thing is, I'm back now...lol ;)

hotdogs I like mine either boiled or fried with a bit of butter. I eat them with either in a bun with mustard and onion or cut in chunks and dipped in bbq sauce.

Inventing new recipes I love collecting cookbooks but rarely follow a recipe when it comes to meals, as well. I'm not much of a baker but recently received my mom's homemade baking cookbook...she has many recipes that have ingredients and no instructions, so I find them hard to follow. I just...

Changing Deep Fryer Oil We go through "phases" around here with the deepfryer. Sometimes we use it nonstop for a few days and other times it will sit in the cupboard for a few months before being used. Usually what I do is: When I take it out, I change the oil and clean it. If I am only...

Thanks for the welcomes! Thank you for the welcomes: crewsk, chocolatechef, mudbug, PA Baker, buckytom, thank you for the comments on the site, I'm glad to be back GB, one thing I noticed when I was here before was that everyone is so friendly and helpful, I am a hopeless recipe collector, so...