On My Shelves

I'm not v. fancy in the kitchen, I just mostly like to make things that are yummy and unlikely to fail.  (But I do sometimes fail.  Like the chickpea blondies I tried to make during my vegan phase:  MC spit out his bite and compared the concoction to refried beans mixed with sugar.  Oops!)  


In addition to the food blogs I've listed on my main page, here are the cookbooks on my shelves I generally rely on for my recipes and ideas.  (You'll see what I mean by not fancy.)  I'm just typing as I read the titles - there's no meaningful order here, although I've bolded my faves.

Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, Moskowitz & Romero
Everyday Italian, Giada de Laurentiis
Williams-Sonoma Beans & Rice
Williams-Sonoma Cakes, Cupcakes & Cheesecakes
The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, Ina Garten
Cook's Illustrated magazines:  74, 77-82
Almost Vegetarian, Diana Shaw
Williams-Sonoma Essentials of Healthful Cooking
Weight Watchers' Take 5 - 150 five-ingredient recipes
Cooking Light Annual Recipes: 2001-2004, 2006
Esquire Cookbook (illustrated by Charmatz!)
Betty Crocker's Cooky Book
Cucina Viansa, Vicki Sebastiani
Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook
From Asparagus to Zucchini (quintessential CSA cookbook)
Vegan with a Vengeance, Isa Chandra Moskowitz
Bride & Groom First and Forever Cookbook, Barber & Whiteford
The Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver
Williams-Sonoma Pasta
Jamie's Dinners, Jamie Oliver
Barefoot Contessa at Home, Ina Garten
Cool Cocktails, Ben Reed
Pie, Ken Haedrich
Barefoot Contessa Parties!, Ina Garten
The I Hate To Cook Book, Peg Bracken
Entertaining is Fun!, Dorothy Draper
I Like You, Amy Sedaris
The Art of Simple Food, Alice Waters
The Bread Baker's Apprentice, Peter Reinhart
The Baby Bistro Cookbook, Joohee Muromcew
The Petit Appetit Cookbook, Lisa Barnes
Hot Chocolate, Michael Turback
Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook, Beth Hensperger & Julie Kaufmann
Good to the Grain, Kim Boyce
Breakfast Lunch Tea, Rose Carrarini
Plenty, Yotam Ottolenghi
Great British Food, Canteen
I Am Almost Always Hungry, Lora Zarubin
Around My French Table, Dorie Greenspan
Warm Bread and Honey Cake, Gatri Pagrach-Chantri
Whole Grain Breads, Peter Reinhart
In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite, Melissa Clark
Baked, Matt Lewis & Renato Poliafito


Here are some I don't have but wouldn't mind having...  (these ones are kind of fancy).


I Know How to Cook, Ginette Mathiot 
1080 Recipes, Simone & Ines Ortega 
The Village Baker's Wife, Gayle & Joe Ortiz, Louisa Beers (actually borrowing it from my mom right now)
Drink This:  Wine Made Simple, Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
Pure Dessert, Alice Medrich 


But I don't have room for others at the moment.