Volume 3, Issue 1“Cooking Ex-Libris” is a CasaFestiva.com series exploring new recipes from my own cookbooks. Enjoy! By Katy Budge At the beginning of this century, the Sunday newspaper used to make a resounding plop when it hit the driveway. The hefty edition also had a multi-page travel section, with compelling articles and beautiful photographs that enticed you to travel the world. Also in this … Continue reading Cooking Ex-Libris: Seasons of My Heart
Volume 2, Issue 2“Cooking Ex-Libris” is a CasaFestiva.com series exploring new recipes from my own cookbooks. Enjoy! By Katy Budge I’m going to go out on a limb and say that not many people will have copies of The Congressional Club Cook Book on their shelves. I have two: the 6th edition published in 1961, and the 8th from 1970. Fourteen editions of these cookbooks … Continue reading Cooking Ex-Libris: The Congressional Club Cook Book
This cookbook dates back to when I was an inveterate recipe reader and user. There was a time I dared not stray from ingredients, measurements, or techniques. That’s not the case anymore, and probably one of the reasons I’m a terrible baker … unless you need baked doorstops, then I’m your gal. Continue reading Cooking Ex-Libris: Salsas, Sambals, Chutneys & Chowchows
Volume 1, Issue 4 “Cooking Ex-Libris” is a CasaFestiva.com series exploring new recipes from my own cookbooks. Enjoy! By Katy Budge Well, of course I have Mastering the Art of French Cooking on my bookshelf. C’est de rigeur, oui? This seminal tome — written by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, and Simone Beck, illustrated by Sidonie Coryn — pulled back the curtain on all those fancy French … Continue reading Cooking Ex-Libris: Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Volume 1, Issue 3 “Cooking Ex-Libris” is a CasaFestiva.com series exploring new recipes from my own cookbooks. Enjoy! By Katy Budge Full disclosure. The cookbook I’ve chosen for this month’s “Cooking Ex-Libris” is not one of my well-worn, dog-eared, sauce-splashed tomes. That’s only because We Are La Cocina: Recipes in Pursuit of the American Dream was just published by Chronicle Books in 2019, and didn’t hit my … Continue reading Cooking Ex-Libris: We Are La Cocina
Volume 1, Issue 2“Cooking Ex-Libris” is a CasaFestiva.com series exploring new recipes from my own cookbooks. Enjoy! By Katy Budge It’s hard not to love any book that begins with the Oscar Wilde quote, “I can resist everything but temptation.” So begins the foreword of the eponymously named (and self-published) Gumbo Shop: Traditional and Contemporary Creole Cuisine: A New Orleans Restaurant Cookbook by Richard Stewart. … Continue reading Cooking Ex-Libris: Gumbo Shop
Cooking Ex-Libris is a series exploring new recipes from the cookbooks already on my own shelves. Enjoy! Continue reading “Cooking Ex-Libris: The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook”
