Learn to COOK - Keeping Good Company: A Season-by-Season Collection of Recipes, with Entertaining and Homemaking Ideas
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Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5973
EAN: 9780740765353
ISBN: 0740765353
Label: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 2007-04-01
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Studio: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Roxie Kelley and Shelly Reeves Smith nourish the body and soul by combining simple yet satisfying recipes with tips on gracious living and friendly entertaining, all presented alongside warm and inviting hand-drawn illustrations. Destined to become a treasured family keepsake, each this features flavorful recipes along with distinctive touches: This beautifully illustrated book is organized around the changing seasons to make the most of incorporating fresh ingredients into everyday family meals and special holiday gatherings, featuring recipes such as Ranch Avocado Dip (Spring), Midnight Moon Potato Salad (Summer), Roasted Vegetable Bisque (Autumn), and Chicken Strudel (Winter). A chapter titled "Morning, Noon, and Night," has crave-worthy recipes for anytime, such as Cream Cheese Twists, Meat Loaf, and Almost Fat-Free Chocolate Cake.
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Summary: KEEPING GOOD COMPANY-EXCELLENT W/GREAT ART
Comment: KEEPING GOOD COMPANY By Roxie Kelley and friends, with illustrations by Shelly Reeves Smith, continues the tradition of the wonderful foods served by Kelley and friends at Kelley's "Bits & Pieces" restaurant in Osage Beach, MO, at the Lake of the Ozarks. Roxie's restaurant was always an important stop in our trips to Lake of the Ozarks. Not only are the recipes in this book wonderful and easy to prepare, but the art work of Shelly Reeves Smith is equally outstanding. The collaboration of these two "Ozarks Ladies" brought about the AMONG FRIENDS CO. which has produced cookbooks, cards and note cards, and calendars over the past ten years. Organized around the seasons of the year, this cookbook contains over 100 terrific recipes. Being an artist, I'd buy the cookbook for the illustrations alone! I simply cannot recommend this book enough. . . and it makes a wonderful gift if you have a friend who's "into cooking." This book evokes the simple life of the Ozarks where friends and family are special and home life is "#1."
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Summary: Fun Cookbook
Comment: I just received this little cookbook in the mail and couldn't wait to take a look at its contents. The authors note that their cookbooks are meant to be more than simple cookbooks. "Because we are more than empty food vessels perpetually needing to be refilled, we all long for an occasional guide to addressing our other human needs--those of companionship and connection.""Keeping Good Company" is a reminder. . .that it is the good company of friends and family that sustains us, as well as the favorite foods we share."
This is built around the concept of recipes for each of the four seasons (plus an addendum at the close of the book). The logic of this, by the way, is not fully clear. They suggest as one accompaniment to a spring main dish a summer side dish! But that is of little moment!
Some recipes that I selected to look at more closely based on my own eating and cooking interests. . . .
Spring: Lemon-Herb Grilled Chicken. I have tried some similar recipes, but this one, featuring lemon juice, honey, rosemary, poultry seasoning, pepper, garlic, and chicken breasts, really draws my interest. There is, on the very next page, Grilled Honey-Garlic Chops. This is one that I intend to try out as soon as I can. Pork chops, lemon juice, honey, soy sauce, water, and garlic cloves. Yummy sounding!
Summer: Here is a nice potato recipe that might please even my picky family (I can't cook smashed potatoes with pesto, for instance). This might meet family needs, though. Garlic, potatoes, milk, salt and pepper. Sounds simple--and it is--but the garlic adds something neat! On page 44 is a rub for grilling meat or poultry that I love just thinking about!
Fall: Beautiful Brie is a delicious sounding side dish, featuring onion, red pepper, yellow pepper, mushrooms, chopped spinach, and brie. Put stuff in the oven (after having sautéed some of the ingredients) with the brie on top! Yum city. . . .
All in all, some fun recipes. This isn't a heavy duty cookbook like "Joy of Cooking," but it's looking to me like a nice little addition to my kitchen library.
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Summary: A great girly gift
Comment: This is a prettified cookbook set in a memory book style. It makes a great gift for the woman who likes fru-fru. (Fru-fru: pretty, lovely things as opposed to practical, nonsensical things)
The book is divided into the four seasons with decorated pages apropos of the season. Spring: A cream cheese spread filled with grated carrots, green onions, celery, and seasoned salt to use on onion bagels. Cool. Strawberry and Romaine salad with Raspberry Poppy Seed dressing. A page illustrated at the top with rubber boots and a small crate of freshly dug new red potatoes, the recipe for New Potatoes in Sour Cream in the middle, and a casually set buffet with the finished recipe at the bottom. Lovely! My favorite recipe of Spring is Cream of Anything Soup.
Summer is lovely with Perfect Harmony Fruit Salad, homemade Barbecue Sauce (like my grandmother used to make), Lemon Vinegar, and a fabulous Easy Manicotti recipe, and Mexicali Quiche. My favorite is the Pasta with Chicken and Squash (both yellow and green), and Pear Zucchini Bread.
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower"--Camus. Cindy's Corn Casserole, Orange-Banana Bread, Harvest Muffins (filled with grated carrots, apples, and pecans), Hearty Vegetable-Beef Soup, and Apple Pie Pockets fill the autumn air with delightful aromas.
Winter brings Hot Spiced Cider, Chicken Strudel (that flames the imagination), Peppercorn Chicken Breasts, Ginger Snaps, and Holiday Place Cards. The last section is a miscellany of delights: comfort foods like Meat Loaf, Grandma's Hot Rolls, Cinnamon Strips, and Simple Pleasure Pound Cake.
"Keeping Good Company" is a dream book as much as a cookbook, a delight for eye and nose. Put on some Chopin, sit with a cup of tea, and take in the soft beauty of this book while discovering new culinary treasures.
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Summary: Nice, but not as represented
Comment: I have two other books by this author, and this one is just as beautiful as the others. I haven't actually compared the tables of content, but all these books seem to have the same recipes with a slight tweak or other. Lemonade, meatloaf, potato salad, etc. I'm not complaining about that. What I was disappointed in was the title vs. the content. "Keeping Good Company: A Season-by-Season Collection of Recipes, with Entertaining and Homemaking Ideas." Silly me, I was looking forward to Halloween tables, Christmas buffets, Easter picnics. There was nothing out of the ordinary, just slightly seasonal recipes. Not ONE holiday drawing. The pastel watercolor drawings are lovely, but I was hoping for a little bold black and orange or red and green. I think there was one "homemaking" idea, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was. These days it could have been green cleaning recipes, or floral water for linens, but it wasn't. Pretty, but same old, same old.
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Summary: very versitile cookbook... beautiful too!
Comment: I own every cookbook in this series and this is my second favorite. I find this cookbook to use normal, everyday ingredients that are easy to find. I also find that the receipes give a new, fresh twist to down home foods. I especially like the approach they take in making the dish simple and quick to prepare. Another nice feature of this cookbook is the organization of the seasons and dishes that would compliment that season. This would be a wonderful addition to your cookbook collection. Note... be sure to try the Angels-Among-Us cake. You will definately make it for years to come!
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