Hi,
Looking around, I see that I have an incredible amount of cookbooks! Some are antique, others are used, and yet others I purchased new (lots of them). If thats not bad enough, I print plenty of recipes from various sites on the internet including, of course, BYC! It goes without saying that I have the BYC My Pet Makes Me Breakfast cookbook. I also have one that is titled 365 Ways To Make Eggs, which I got at a garage sale and another book completely devoted to egg recipes.
I also have Taste Of Home cookbooks (their regular large cookbook and their baking book, a slow cooker book, their Classic cookbook--a somewhat thinner hardcover, and another baking book, tons of their cooking magazines, Americas Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, their Family Baking Book, Cooks Country Cookbook, an old Joy of Cooking--my mother used it when I was a child--and a newer Joy of Cooking, a Hersheys Cookbook, a couple of Bisquick books, a Fix It And Forget It slow cooker book, a Cake Mix Doctor book, a Taste Of Home Cake Mix Creations book, a Duncan Hines Complete Cake Mix Magic Book, a book containing exclusively ice cream recipes, and even a book that is only for recipes that will fit into a 9 x 13 pan!)
There are MANY, MANY more but just too much to list! The situation is so bad that I had purchased a small hall cabinet for my dining room to keep my extra set of Christmas dishes in and somehow it got filled with cookbooks--and the dishes--which I purchased at a garage sale only because they were too good a deal to pass up--are still up in the attic! Then I bought a nice, large pantry cabinet for extra storage to put in my mud room. Yes, I did manage to clear my counter of various small appliances that arent used on a daily basis, but there are cookbooks stashed in there wherever I could find an extra inch of space. I live in a very old house that has those old-fashioned radiators for heat and I even find cookbooks stacked up on one of them!
Of all of them, the one that really stands out in my mind is extremely old and has chapters dealing with various domestic situations. One that I found very entertaining was how to train your servants! Yeah, right, like I could afford such a thing! To give you an example, the book tells you to make sure they are very quiet and unobtrusive when serving dinner, so as not to disturb your or your guests conversations. This book doesnt help me much with cooking but it is very interesting!
Does anyone else here suffer from Cookbook Overload?
Genie
Looking around, I see that I have an incredible amount of cookbooks! Some are antique, others are used, and yet others I purchased new (lots of them). If thats not bad enough, I print plenty of recipes from various sites on the internet including, of course, BYC! It goes without saying that I have the BYC My Pet Makes Me Breakfast cookbook. I also have one that is titled 365 Ways To Make Eggs, which I got at a garage sale and another book completely devoted to egg recipes.
I also have Taste Of Home cookbooks (their regular large cookbook and their baking book, a slow cooker book, their Classic cookbook--a somewhat thinner hardcover, and another baking book, tons of their cooking magazines, Americas Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, their Family Baking Book, Cooks Country Cookbook, an old Joy of Cooking--my mother used it when I was a child--and a newer Joy of Cooking, a Hersheys Cookbook, a couple of Bisquick books, a Fix It And Forget It slow cooker book, a Cake Mix Doctor book, a Taste Of Home Cake Mix Creations book, a Duncan Hines Complete Cake Mix Magic Book, a book containing exclusively ice cream recipes, and even a book that is only for recipes that will fit into a 9 x 13 pan!)
There are MANY, MANY more but just too much to list! The situation is so bad that I had purchased a small hall cabinet for my dining room to keep my extra set of Christmas dishes in and somehow it got filled with cookbooks--and the dishes--which I purchased at a garage sale only because they were too good a deal to pass up--are still up in the attic! Then I bought a nice, large pantry cabinet for extra storage to put in my mud room. Yes, I did manage to clear my counter of various small appliances that arent used on a daily basis, but there are cookbooks stashed in there wherever I could find an extra inch of space. I live in a very old house that has those old-fashioned radiators for heat and I even find cookbooks stacked up on one of them!
Of all of them, the one that really stands out in my mind is extremely old and has chapters dealing with various domestic situations. One that I found very entertaining was how to train your servants! Yeah, right, like I could afford such a thing! To give you an example, the book tells you to make sure they are very quiet and unobtrusive when serving dinner, so as not to disturb your or your guests conversations. This book doesnt help me much with cooking but it is very interesting!
Does anyone else here suffer from Cookbook Overload?
