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By the Cookbooks

Hello one and all,

      Since living on my own, I've fostered a great love for cooking. It's how I show people I care, and I find great comfort in it.
      Now, I have a friend who knows this about me and regularly buys me cookbooks as gifts, but I have never used them. I either ask family members for recipes or go online to for recipes. Pinterest has been my diet's best friend. Six cookbooks just sat there, waiting to have their creations made.
      After a free weekend, I decided to dig into my 6 cookbooks and have found many new recipes I want to try.
     The six cookbooks, all very different, but also represent a different part of my life.
     I've picked recipes from:

     1) The "I Don't Know How to Cook" Book, 2nd edition by Mary-Lane Kamberg.
     2) The Book Lover's Cookbook by Shaunda Kennedy Wenger & Janet Kay Jensen.
     3) 100 Perfect Dishes: main dishes to enjoy with wine you love by Jill Silverman Hough
     4) Taste of Home Cooking School Cookbook from Reader's Digest.
     5) Audrey at Home by Luca Dotti.
     6) Barefoot Contessa Fool Proof by Ina Garten.
I hope to explore one or two new recipes a week and will keep you posted.

Thanks for reading, and hope you find some recipes.

Sarah!





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