Foodie And Other Blogs Worth A Second Look

I was partying all last week with the Ultimate Blog Party and with about 2,000 blogs participating it's pretty much impossible for most people to see all of them so I am sharing a short list with you of the blogs I thought were worth a second look. Here they are in no particular order -- this is just the way I happened upon them. I hope this helps all of us find a new blog friend or two.

• Terre @ Saving Your Green
• Jen @ Jenuine Jen
• Renee @ Chopped Salad
• Barb @ Spotlis
• Danica @ Danica's Daily
• Nique @ NiftyNique
• Sara @ Simply Sara
• Cooking Tip Of The Day
• Sassy @ Saving SAHM Sanity
• Crista @ Domestic Goddess Crista
• Michel-lee @ Gotta Luv Them Sweets
• Our Full Nest Food
• Lynn @ Lynn's Kitchen Adventures
• Nikki @ Minimalist Mommy
• Good Deal Gal
• Happy Hermit
• Gudrun @ Kitchen Gadget Girl

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• Don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY for a great new book:

I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI
By Giulia Melucci

• Looking for a new weekly carnival?

Check out the details for
Vintage Recipe Thursday

• Does CHOCOLATE make you happy??!!

Join my next recipe roundup
Joy Of Chocolate Roundup
Click the link for details.

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Giveaway: I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti

I have another great giveaway for you!!

Hachette Book Group is again generously giving 5 copies of their latest food-related release to my readers (due out April 8th.). It's part autobiography, part cookbook. The deadline for the giveaway is April 30, 2009 so you have a full month to enter, and to tell everybody about this great new book and giveaway. Here's what the publisher is saying about it:

I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI
By Giulia Melucci

From failure to fusilli, this deliciously hilarious read tells the story of Giulia Melucci's fizzled romances and the mouth-watering recipes she used to seduce her men, smooth over the lumps, and console herself when the relationships flamed out.

From an affectionate alcoholic, to the classic New York City commitment-phobe, to a hipster aged past his sell date, and not one, but two novelists with Peter Pan complexes, Giulia has cooked for them all. She suffers each disappointment with resolute cheer (after a few tears) and a bowl of pastina (recipe included) and has lived to tell the tale so that other women may go out, hopefully with greater success, and if that's not possible, at least have something good to eat.

Peppered throughout Giulia's delightful and often poignant remembrances are fond recollections of her mother's cooking, the recipes she learned from her, and many she invented on her own inspired by the men in her life. Readers will howl at Giulia's boyfriend-littered past and swoon over her irresistible culinary creations.

Giulia Melucci was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY where she still lives, but in a more fashionable neighborhood. She is the former VP of PR for Harper's Magazine, and previously worked at Spy Magazine, Atlantic Monthly Press, Viking, Dutton and Scribner. Visit her website at http://www.ilovedilostimadespaghetti.com.

Title: I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI

Category: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY (with recipes!)

Format: HARDCOVER BOOK

Publisher: HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

Publish Date: 4/8/2009

US/Can Price: $23.99/$26.99

ISBN: 9780446534420

Pages: 288

Size: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"

HERE'S HOW TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY:

• Leave a comment telling me why you want this book, other than because it's free;
• If you are a regular or semi-regular commenter (you know who you are :-))leave a second comment for another chance;
• If you follow me through Blogger Follower or through Twitter, leave a comment and you'll get another chance;
• If you blog about this giveaway, leave the link in a comment for yet another chance;
• If you are a participant in my Vintage Recipe Thursday carnival, leave another comment for one more chance;
• If you participate in the Joy For Chocolate Roundup on April 20th, leave a comment for another chance to win a great foodie book!

THAT'S UP TO 6 CHANCES TO WIN!!

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I have been asked in comments how you can follow me.
It is very easy!
Blogger has a new feature at the very top of each blog where you can just click FOLLOW. Or you can use Twitter to follow too.
I want everyone to be able to participate
and by popular request,
I have tried to give you lots of chances to win.

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Watch the video!

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• Looking for a new weekly carnival?

Check out the details for
Vintage Recipe Thursday

• Does CHOCOLATE make you happy??!!

Join my next recipe roundup
Joy Of Chocolate Roundup
Click the link for details.

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Prize-Winning Date Macaroons Vintage Recipe Vintage Recipe Thursday -- 1st Weekly Edition

Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers or your own original vintage family recipes. Want to participate? Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage.


I thought I'd start out our first edition of Vintage Recipe Thursday with a real winner! This is a prize-winning recipe submited by Mrs. R. F. Estes of Laramie, Wyo., to the Household Magazine for the Searchlight Recipe Book. It's super easy to make and to remember, too. ;-)


PRIZE-WINNING DATE MACAROONS VINTAGE RECIPE
24 Servings

2 Egg Whites
1 Cup Chopped Dates
1 Cup Powdered Sugar
1 Cup Chopped Nuts

Beat egg whites until stiff and dry. Add remaining ingredients in order given. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto well-oiled baking sheet. Bake in slow oven (325F) until delicate brown. Cool before removing from pan.

YOU are next! I'll put your link right here if you want to participate.

• Tamy at 3 Sides of Crazy shares with us two recipes: Carrots & Apricots and Baked Beets

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• Don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY for a great new book:

I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI
By Giulia Melucci

• Looking for a new weekly carnival?

Check out the details for
Vintage Recipe Thursday

• Does CHOCOLATE make you happy??!!

Join my next recipe roundup
Joy Of Chocolate Roundup
Click the link for details.

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Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage

From Joy of Desserts

Vintage Recipe Thursday (VRT) is meant to preserve your own original vintage family recipes, or out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers or postcards.

1. Use the Vintage Recipe Thursday button;
2. Link each recipe to the weekly VRT edition on Joy of Desserts;
3. Leave a comment on the weekly edition with a link to your post.

IF YOU WANT TO LINK TO RECIPES ALREADY PUBLISHED IN YOUR BLOG ARCHIVES:
1. Create a NEW post to direct readers to your archived post, and to Vintage Recipe Thursday;
2. Use the VRT button;
3. Link to your own archived vintage recipe;
4. Link to Joy of Desserts' weekly VRT edition;
5. Leave a comment on the weekly edition with a link to your post (and I'll also link your recipe post to the list of recipes).


Click on the links for archived recipes:

Announcing Vintage Recipe Thursday

First Weekly Edition -- March 25, 2009
Prize-Winning Date Macaroons, Carrots & Apricots, Baked Beets.

2nd Weekly Edition -- April 2, 2009
One Egg Cake, Tea Cakes, Short Cake, Cream Cake, Chocolate Cake, Spice Cake, Raisin Cake, Upside-Down Cake, Quick Coffee Cake, Washington Pie, Marshmallow Caramel Balls, Garlic Au Gratin Potatoes, DeLuxe Chocolate Pie, Stuffed Ham Slices, Silva's Pancakes.

3rd Weekly Edition -- April 9, 2009
Chocolate Icing, Fudge Icing, Mocha Icing, Fudge Icing with Raisins, Mahogany Icing, Chocolate Nut Filling, Cream Filling, Almond Filling, Fig Filling, Fruit and Nut Filling, Eggs a la Roosevelt aka Depression Eggs, Lazy Daisy Cake, Pennies From Heaven Crackers.

4th Weekly Edition -- April 16, 2009
Prize-Winning Chocolate Pudding, Chocolate Fruit Pudding, Scalloped Carrots, "Clean Out The Kitchen" Cookies, Hurry Up Cake, Hurry Up Quick Spice Cake, Hurry up Quick Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Butter Icing, Lemon Icing.

5th Weekly Edition -- April 23, 2009
Macaroon Cream Pie, Marshmallow Meringue, Chocolate Bavarian Cream, Cream of Mushroom Soup, Sand Tarts (cookies).

6th Weekly Edition -- April 30, 2009
Bread Pudding, Pineapple Fudge, Hot Broccoli Dip, Baked Potato Cheese Sauce, and can number conversions, Fried Biscuits, Hillbilly Frosting, Hornet's Nest Cake, Fast Chicken Broccoli Alfredo, and Cheese Souffle.

7th Weekly Edition -- May 7, 2009
Strawberry Parfait, Ricotta Herbed Manicotti with Homemade Bolognese Sauce, Jiffy Lemon Pie, Theresa's Cheddar Biscuits, Mississippi Corn Bread Salad, Pineapple Right Side Up Cake, Béchamel Sauce.

8th Weekly Edition -- May 14, 2009
Honey Fudge, Raisin Fudge, Victoria Fudge, Kahlua Cake, Maple Syrup Cakes, Date Nut Bars.

9th Weekly Edition -- May 20, 2009
Sour Cream Cookies, Chocolate Oatmeal Raisin Bars, Fruit Jams, Spice Cookies, Boston Cookies.

10th Weekly Edition -- May 28, 2009
Rhubarb Pie, Chocolate Cream Pie, Garlic and Herb Burgers, Sweet Red Onion Hamburger Relish, Blueberry Breakfast Bread, Grandmother's Tea Cookies (raisins, dates, nuts or coconut).

11th Weekly Edition -- June 4, 2009
Fresh Cherry Pie, Canned Cherry Pie, Honey Cocoa Cake with Fudge Frosting, Family Recipe Nanaimo Bars, Cheese Sauce.

12th Weekly Edition -- June 11, 2009
Cream Pie, Macaroon Cream Pie, Banana Cream Pie, Pineapple Cream Pie, Pineapple Casserole, Vidalia Onions Casserole with Parmesan Cheese and Pesto, Twinkie Pie

13th Lucky Weekly Edition -- June 18, 2009
Peach Cobbler, Baked Onions with Brown Gravy, Easy Chocolate Brownies, Pecan Drops Cookies, 1234 Cake.

14th Weekly Edition -- July 1, 2009
Chocolate Whipped Cream Cupcakes, Chocolate Chiffon Pie, Sliced Peach Turnovers, Butter Crunch, BLT Pasta Salad, Raspberry Strawberry Pound Cake, Chicken & Dumplings, Peach Torte, Chocolate Cupcakes.

15th Weekly Edition -- July 9, 2009
Maple Coffee Ice Cream, Wine and Vinegar Chicken, Herb Rice, Apple Bundles, City Chicken (veal and pork), Caramel Ice Cream.

16th Weekly Edition -- July 16, 2009
Strawberry Ice Cream, Vintage Chocolate Ice Cream, Grandma's Old Fashioned Brownies, Zucchini Pickles.

17th Weekly Edition -- July 23, 2009
Pineapple Sherbet, Blackberry Pineapple Jam.

18th Weekly Edition -- July 30th, 2009
Peach Ice Cream, Great-Aunt's Chocolate Cookies.

19th Weekly Edition -- August 6, 2009
Prize-Winning Baked Caramel Custard, Banana Cake/Bread, Pineapple Cream Cheese Icing, Zucchini and Tomato Bake.

20th Weekly Edition -- August 13, 2009
Honey Bars, Pickled Figs, Chocolate Potato Cake, Pickled Figs.

21st. Weekly Edition -- August 20, 2009
Gold Cake, White House Cookbook 1887 Apple Puff Pudding, Cream Shortcake, Strawberry Shortcake, Complete summer coffee party menu with recipes (grapes and cherries, Miniature Cream Puffs with Chicken Salad, Surprise Muffins, Nutty Bread Sticks, Coffee), Easy beef goulash, Spinach Casserole, Meatball Stew, Crab apple jelly, Almost Vintage Gluten-free Coconut Lime Cupcakes and Coconut Cream Frosting, Fruit Canning.

22nd. Weekly Edition -- August 27, 2009
Sponge Cake, Anise Cookies, Fruit and Nut Cookies, Cinnamon Waffles (Zimmet Waffles), Moravian Christmas Cookies, Dutch Almond Cookies, Sand Tarts, Walnut Kisses, Walnut Rocks, Lebkuchen, Christmas Butter Cookies, Almond Macaroons, Sugar Cakes, Hickory Nut Kisses, "Belsnickel" Christmas Cookies, Ginger Cookies - Gingerbread Men, Pfeffernusse, Moravian Dark Cookies, Bright Eyes Cream Cheese, Weeknight Chicken Enchiladas, Baked Fudge Delicious (Fudge-Like Brownies).


Weekly Editions -- September 2009 through Present
More than 400 recipes in all!!

Please join all of us on the weekly post each Thursday.

This post is for guidelines and archived recipes only.
Do not add your links here.

Enjoy!!

Announcing New Carnival: Vintage Recipe Thursday

I'm so excited!! I'm taking you with me on a voyage back in time to rediscover wonderful desserts which cannot become forgotten.

I love old cookbooks, and I was delighted to find a great one at my local Friends of the Library shop.

It was first published during the Depression Era, and my 16th printing is from World War II. It is full of money-saving, penny-pinching, extra-flavorful recipes, which is just right for all of us in this economy of extreme recession.

It's out-of-print, the copyright is expired, and the publisher, Household Searchlight, which survived both the Great Depression and World War II, did not survive modern times, so YOU are in luck as I will be reprinting recipes each Thursday.

If you are lucky enough to have such old cookbooks where you don't have to worry about copyrights, feel free to participate with me for Vintage Recipe Thursday.

Your original, old family recipes are more than welcome too!

Let's help each other pinch pennies and save these recipe gems from being forgotten.

You can click to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage right now for a link to easy directions on how to participate.

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• Don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY for a great new book:

I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI
By Giulia Melucci

• Looking for a new weekly carnival?

Check out the details for
Vintage Recipe Thursday

• Does CHOCOLATE make you happy??!!

Join my next recipe roundup
Joy Of Chocolate Roundup
Click the link for details.

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Does Chocolate Make You Happy?

Join me on the Joy of Chocolate Roundup on Monday, April 20, 2009, with all your favorite chocolate recipes!

Chocolate Lava Cake, Chocolate Mousse, Chocolate Chip Cookies ... if it has chocolate, let's roundup all those scrumptious recipes.

• Post your recipes anytime until Monday, April 20, 2009;
• Link to the Joy Of Desserts blog and use the graphic on each participating recipe;
• On Monday, April 20, 2009, return to Joy Of Desserts and leave your posts' URLs;
• Then have fun reading everyone's lovely recipes for the Joy Of Chocolate Roundup.

Help me spread the word so we can all get lots of recipes and lots of visitors. Feel free to add the graphic to your sidebars and to write posts about the Joy Of Chocolate Roundup.

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• Don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY for a great new book:

I LOVED, I LOST, I MADE SPAGHETTI
By Giulia Melucci

• Looking for a new weekly carnival?

Check out the details for
Vintage Recipe Thursday

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Welcome To My 2nd Ultimate Blog Party!!

Welcome to the Ultimate Blog Party!!

I'm so glad you stopped by, and I hope we'll become blog friends.

I'm French and I blog from California, where I live with my husband and young son. I started this dessert blog a year ago (my blog-iversary was March 3! WOOHOO!!) just as a test to see if I would like the Blogger platform, but it had such immediate success that I never started the mommy slice of life with a French joie de vivre twist which I had planned to write.

I've been having a blast and from all the great comments from my regular readers, I think they've been pretty happy too.

Besides, I want this blog to be FUN and a lot more than just a series of recipes. That's why I take my readers on fieldtrips to yummy foodie places like the Laduree Tea Salon in Paris; I have great giveaways (the last one was a cookbook written by comedienne Amy Sedaris and the next giveaway is in April so be sure to check back here); and I host fun recipe roundups like my We All Scream for Ice Cream! roundup. There's always something new and unexpected, all with a dessert theme.

Does CHOCOLATE make you happy??!! My next roundup will be on Monday, April 20, and we will celebrate the Joy Of Chocolate! Yum!! I can't wait to see what you all come up with! :-)

I'm also launching a new weekly carnival called Vintage Recipe Thursday. Vintage Recipe Thursday (VRT) is meant to preserve out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines or newspapers. You can also post your own original vintage family recipes. Click on the link for the details. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3!

So come on friends, FOLLOW ME and we'll have lots of FUN together!!!

• For our lovely hostesses and Pamela: Here are the prize numbers of what I would love to win should I be picked.

• #58 -- My absolute favorite. With a dessert blog I do a lot of baking, including breads, so I not only want the Kitchen Aid Artisan Stand Mixer generously donated by Moms Who Think, but I also NEED it! It would also give me lots to blog about.

• #19, 21, 22, 26, 91, 89, 113, 118, 123, 121, 111, 103, 69, 130, 20, 12, 11, 2, 70, 15, 41, 37, 85;

• INTL #61, 3, 51;

• USC #56, 47, 15, 77, 26, 75, 40, 16.

Fast, Easy Brie En Croute Apple Compote Dessert

This was the dessert I prepared for my family last night. Easy, fast and delicious. The puff pastry was store-bought for those days when we are just too busy or too famished to wait. The entire recipe can be assembled in less than a half hour.

Anything "en croute" or in a crust, means it is in a pastry shell. Somehow puff pastry makes everything taste better and more elegant, don't you think?

The apple compote adds some sweetness and additional moistness for a melt-in-your mouth, satisfying finale to your meal.


Brie En Croute Apple Compote Dessert

INGREDIENTS

• Brie wedge about 3-4" wide
• Store-bought puff pastry
• Egg yolk or milk (optional)
• 4 Golden Delicious apples
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• Juice of 1/4 of a lemon

Take a wedge of brie. Scrape off the white part, but leave the rest of the crust.
Wrap it in a sheet of store-bought puff pastry making any preferred shape. You can use an egg yolk or a bit of milk to paint the top for a golden crust.
Place it in your toaster oven at 350 F until golden (about 15-20 min.).

While the pastry is baking, peel, core and slice apples.
Place in large saucepan. Add 1/2 cup of sugar. Squeeze the juice of 1/4 of a lemon. Let macerate for a few minutes. Cook over medium heat until apples are soft and sugar has become a golden brown caramelized syrup (about 5-10 minutes).

Serve apple compote over baked brie.

Enjoy!

P.S.: Joie de vivre brought up a very interesting point in comments. You might be interested to read it and my reply about eating cheeses and desserts.
Thank you, Joie de vivre. :-)

Easy Chocolate Fudgey No Bake Cookies Recipe

We keep hearing on the news and all around our neighborhoods that people are STRESSED because of the economy.

Don't get STRESSED!!
Get DESSERTS!!

I have for us an Easy Chocolate Fudgey No Bake Cookies Recipe to try out together. What could be easier than NO BAKE? And what could be more delicious and stress-reducing than CHOCOLATE FUDGEY COOKIES?

So relax this week-end and get DESSERTS!! Enjoy!

Pictures from Flickr public files. Click to enlarge and hover for credits.

Authentic Macarons Des Soeurs From City of Nancy

There is only one authentic macaron in all of France. It is from the city of Nancy in the Lorraine region. While many pastry shops in Nancy and throughout France will sell macarons, the original and authentic macarons recipe is from the Macarons des Soeurs, the nuns who created this almond cookie in 1793.

It remains a secret recipe to this day. While the basic ingredients are simple, egg whites, ground almonds and sugar, which are piped into circles on a baking sheet, getting a perfect cookie, light as air with a thin crunchy crust and a moist inside is tricky. So is getting the cookie to crackle just right. You'll probably notice that most macarons sold outside of Nancy do not have the characteristic cracks. The Macarons des Soeurs are never stuffed or sandwiched with ganache like the macarons Ladurée later created.

The Macarons de Nancy are the type of macarons I ate when I was living in France and they are one of my favorite treats. They are often imitated, but never equaled.

Photos from Flickr public files; click to enlarge and hover for credits

Related Posts On Joy Of Desserts:
Ladurée One of Paris' First Tea Salons
Boucheron Immortalizes Ladurée's Macarons

Ladurée One of Paris' First Tea Salons

Ladurée is one of Paris' first tea salons and remains one of the most famous -- so famous, in fact, that Boucheron, one of Paris' and the world's leading luxury jewelers, dedicated an entire jewelry line to Jeanne Souchard, its founder, as I wrote about in the previous post, Boucheron Immortalizes Ladurée Macarons.

So today I'm sharing with you just what Ladurée, their pastries and signature macarons look like as well as just a bit of their history.

The house of Ladurée opened as a bread bakery in 1862 at 16 Rue Royale by Louis Ernest Ladurée.

Nine years later, a fire prompted a whole new look, and his wife, Jeanne Souchard, conceived the idea to transform the bakery into a tea salon -- part café, part pâtisserie -- where women could freely go even if unaccompanied by a man.

Soon Parisians were going to the tea salons to see and be seen much as today's American teens go to the mall.

The decor was put in the hands of Jules Cheret, a famous painter and poster artist of the end of the 19th century, who used lots of cherubs and Chinoiserie motif, which was popular at the time.


At the beginning of the 20th century, Ladurée's cousin Pierre Desfontaines thought of taking two plain almond macarons and sandwiching them with a ganache, Oreo-style, thus creating Ladurée's signature cookie. Each half of this almond cookie is slightly crunchy on the thin outside crust while remaining soft and moist on the inside.











All photos from Flickr's public files. Click to enlarge and hover to see credits.

Related Posts On Joy Of Desserts:
Boucheron Immortalizes Ladurée's Macarons
Authentic Macarons Des Soeurs From City Of Nancy

Boucheron Immortalizes Ladurée Macarons

Paris luxury jeweler Boucheron immortalizes Ladurée macarons in part of this year's collection titled Gaieté Parisienne (Parisian Joy) with their new line, Gourmandise, which includes Tentation Macarons rings, pendants, necklaces and earings.

It's modern, 21st. century and someone has already taken a bite out of each macaron as you can see from the teeth marks in the pictures. These macarons which come in eight colors, made of tsavorites, multicoloured sapphires, amethysts, garnets or diamonds, may be calorie-free, but they will take a real bite out of your wallet. The least expensive rings run from 4990 euros to 7500 euros, depending on the stones chosen.

The entire Gourmandise line was dedicated to Ladurée's Jeanne Souchard, founder of one of the first Parisian tea rooms.

"We've taken a radical approach about fun," said Jean-Christophe Bédos, chief executive of Boucheron in an article by Suzy Menkes. "This is an opportunity to reinvent ourselves, moving from the 20th to the 21st century. We have to innovate -- to invent the rules of a new game. It's not about being gray and sad."

Related Posts On Joy Of Desserts:
Ladurée One of Paris' First Tea Salons
Authentic Macarons Des Soeurs From City Of Nancy

Picture Yourself Cooking With Your Kids!

Get ready to make some culinary memories with your children or grandchildren. "Picture Yourself Cooking with Your Kids" is just the cookbook to help you and your children create deliciously healthy meals.

Beth Sheresh of Kitchen Mage has taken her writing beyond her blog to her own cookbook published through Course Technology Cengage Learning.

I know many of us bloggers dream of getting our books published, so I'm spreading the word of her success and hope you will support her, especially since her book does deserve to become a beloved family heirloom on your bookshelf.

First of all, let me tell you how pleased I was to see that she did not talk down to children. If you've looked for children's cookbooks, you already know how difficult it is to find a quality book which has not dumbed down the recipes and text.

This cooking text would also be great for adult beginner cooks, since unlike most cookbooks, it is not simply a series of recipes that take for granted that you already know how to cook and are familiar with cooking jargon.

Beth's "Picture Yourself Cooking with Your Kids" also has real recipes, not just snacks. A family can eat real and healthy breakfasts, lunches and dinners. There's even a convenient Freezes Well graphic for such recipes. This cookbook will help you share with children memories and cooking skills that will last a lifetime.

In some sections she speaks to the parents, in others to the children, and throughout the book you will find lots and lots of full-color photos to help children see step by step what to expect.

In addition to the easy-to-follow directions and photos, Beth has put together an essential section called A Cook's Primer with headings like Organic Food, Helping Kids Eat Better, Dealing With Picky Eaters, Defensive Shopping, Stretching Your Food Budget and Making a Kid-Friendly Kitchen.

"Picture Yourself Cooking" is chock-full of colorful boxes to catch everybody's attention with Notes, Cook's Tips and Try This variations, packing lots of information in an easy-to-spot, undaunting format.

Beth put a lot of thought and work into this book. And like with most nonfiction books, a lot of people helped Beth create "Picture Yourself Cooking with Your Kids." Most of her contributors are fellow bloggers you might be interested in, so I'm linking to each one of them.

Michelle Stern: Owner of What's Cooking, a children's cooking school;
Sarah Jackson: Writes a photo, food and craft blog at spjacksonphoto.typepad.com;
Susan Thomas: Shares recipes, photos and life on a 240-acre sheep farm at Farmgirl Fare;
Bryanna Owens: Writer, photographer and art director, she Plays Well With Food;
Ryan MacMichael: Freelance writer for vegetarian topics who blogs at vegblog.org;
Jessie Voigts, PhD: Publishes the travel site WanderingEducators.com;
Kevin D. Weeks: Former computer programmer turned chef, blogs at seriouslygood.kdweeks.com;
The Inn at Lucky Mud: Shared recipes, luckymud.com;
The Inn at Crippen Creek Farm: Shared recipes, crippencreek.com;
Katrina Hall: She's In The Kitchen with a Blogger blog;
B H Neely: Is a black-and-white travel photographer based in Greece -- bpsphoto.com;
Jaime Prosser: Web developer who loves to cook, but didn't have a website listed.

In addition to her primary website, Kitchen Mage, Beth Sheresh writes at A Year In Bread and has a regular column, The Kitchen Mage's Apprentice at Gather.com. She also writes a blog for her Picture Yourself Cooking with Your Kids cookbook.

Category: COOKING
Format: PAPERBACK
Publish Date: 10/24/2008
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-59863-558-4
Pages: 245
Size: 7-1/4" x 9"
Publisher: Course Technology Cengage Learning
Beth Sheresh's Website: http://blog.kitchenmage.com
Picture Yourself Website: http://blog.cookingwithyourkids.net/