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Yep, that's it. People hate Jamie, but his food works. Never had a bad recipe. I will not be making my own fish stock. I will be buying some high quality base, and not feeling in the least bit guilty about it. slacker We have a cleaning crew of four scrubbing our house from top to bottom today, and two showings. Our first open house is on Sunday. [steve Martin impersonation]Well, excuuuuuse me if I don't feel like throwing fish bones around.[/steve Martin impersonation] The good new is that we've had an offer already. Too low, but an offer nonetheless.

Yep, that's it. People hate Jamie, but his food works. Never had a bad recipe. I will not be making my own fish stock. I will be buying some high quality base, and not feeling in the least bit guilty about it.

Let's do the Mediterranean fish stew, and save the Billi-bi for when we're all having a dinner party. Seth, I use Jamie Oliver's basic bread recipe. If you're too embarrassed to check his book out at the library I will PM it to you.

The Mediterranean was the one I was talking about, but Billi-bi looks good and I've never made it. Nice to have you along for the ride, Chad.

Slackers, huh? Sorry, now that our house is on the market I have to spend every waking moment picking up after the kids. How about the fish soup in J & J? I will confess to having made it several times, but it's delicious and would gladly make it again. Besides, it's a one pot meal and I need those right now. Maybe we could all bake a loaf of bread of some sort to go with.

Nice catfish, V! OK, I am making risotto tonight. No more putting it off.

You would be wrong. If my kid's diaper ever leaked (it has never happened in public) I would of course clean it up. That's also why the seat compartment has a flap that folds down to put your kid on. Flip it up if you use that area for groceries. Same if she mouths something, I wipe it off.

I find that hard to believe!

I had to get over the shopping cart thing when the very first time I sat infant Emma in a cart, she leaned over and planted her mouth on the handle. Bleah.

I'm enjoying your blog, Cusina. Another dilettante housewife here. Sesame Street Live sounds like fun. We're seeing the Wiggles next Sunday. Woo hoo. Kris, I wish I'd known, I would have shipped you my Blues Clues cake pan!

Am I the only person on egullet who likes fully cooked poultry? I just cannot stomach bloody fowl, and I've tried many times. I am looking forward to cooking this dish precisely because it is fully cooked. I hope you will still let me cook with you, even though I'm a duck philistine.

So the CIA book is worth getting? Scott and my brother are dead set on deep frying the turkey, so no elegant galantines for us. Unlike Seth, I have not given any thought to side dishes yet. Heck, I don't even know how many people I'm cooking for. My family is very noncommital.

My mom did some further cleaning out of my grandmother's things, so eleven more for me, including a Good Housekeeping Cookbook in extreme disrepair - both covers held on with scotch tape! It appears to be from the 50s and the cover is black, with red and white lettering. Does anyone have this who can give me a publication date? Also included in this shipment: A pamphlet from the American Meat Institute, titled Ideas With Meat, with a note in my grandmother's hand that says she sent away for it in 1950. Cooking With Condensed Soup published by the Campbell Soup Company of course, also from 1950, with tips such as: "A clever cook keeps a full soup shelf!" A recipe booklet from Prince Enriched Golden Macaroni Products A Gloucester Cookbook from the Goucester Fisheries Association. Plenty of cod recipes in this one. The French Chef Cookbook, pub. 1968, with pictures in the center. Recipes on Parade: Vegetables a collection of 200 world wide favorites of military wives, with a note and recipe contribution from Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson

In a gratin, or in an amazing seafood soup in Julia & Jacques: Cooking at Home.

Hilarious!

I had never heard of her, but it's worth looking for at the library. River Cafe? Isn't that where Jamie cooked?

So sorry, I must have been thinking of the large green space in front of the White House.

Thanks Dave.

Whoa, another Ina fan! Me too! I don't watch the show, but her food is good.

That's OK Tryska, my 18-month-old likes to sit in my lap and help me type. I manage to edit most of those before they go out.

OK, Marcella, Mario, and Lidia. Susan's right, time to hit the library. A small confession: I had Simple Italian Cooking a few years ago and gave it away. Oh, the shame!

Nope, I'm not buying anything until we buy a new house. No sense in adding to my possesions before we know how much (or little) space we have. Well, except maybe an Italian cookbook. But that's all.

And I have too many Asian cookbooks. Maybe we should have a book swap.

The ellipse is great...sometimes. I'm not trying to be the grammar police. I just have a hard time reading missives that contain no other punctuation.

adrober's post about risotto has spurred me to shamefully admit to one and all that I do not own a single Italian Cookbook, unless you count the Time-Life Cooking of Italy. So tell me, which one (or ones) do I start with? Marcella Hazan? Batali? Bastianich?