Twenty-one years together, I'm still finding out the details!
And how times change. When we met you thought Denny's was fine dining and I did all the home cooking.
And...as if we don't have enough cooking books (what with Woody snagging everything in sight) now I'm starting to pop things in the shopping cart - added at Atlantic Books yesterday:
Tradewinds and Coconuts: Reminiscence & Recipes from the Pacific Islands (Favorite section so far: a discussion of Bats as cuisine..."the Chamorros cook the whole bat, fur and all, in coconut milk. The idea of easting soggy fur is daunting...)
Classic Asian Cook Book - I snagged it after seeing a picture of an Indonesian dish - Kalio Bebek - Duck pieces in rich coconut sauce. There is also a fascinating recipe for an Indian dish called Rogan Dosh - Lamb in rich chili sauce with yogurt.
I ended up with Sugar Pie and Jelly Roll: Sweets from a Southern Kitchen (in this case "Southern" means North Carolina). Recipes for Raspberry Summer Pudding, Apricot Bead pudding, etc. You gotta love a cook-book that regularly adds a tablespoon of bourbon to every other dish!
(I will, however, pass on their Christmas Orange Cake - made with a pound of orange-slice candies! Oh well, this is the land of Sweet Tea.) The Hot Fudge Sauce recipe looks like a classic - bittersweet chocolate, cocoa powder, coffee, cognac! Then there is something called Syllabub - sherry, brandy, lemon, heavy cream - served chilled in goblets (recipe from the 18th Century, it says).
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