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[weinoo]

For anyone who might wonder, Louisette was one of the authors of Mastering the Art!

 

[Tan Can Cook]

8 hours ago, Maison Rustique said:

During all the packing and prepping for moving, I found a box of cookbooks that I'd packed in 2009 and it never got unpacked when we moved here! I made myself wait until I got it to the new place before I opened it.

 

It  had the cookbook with the recipe I have searched high and low for for several years!

 

This was what I was making for 13 people when I first spilled the apples all over the floor. Then when Don went to buy more, goose fat dripped in the oven and started a fire. Don got home to every door and window open, smoke alarm blasting, dog barking and me nearly in tears.

 

I got the fire out immediately, goose was unharmed and it was a delicious dinner after all. Not sure I'd make it again. It was a lot of work. I had working hands and a lot more energy back then!

 

On goose recipes, I found the following from Alwan-E-Nemat (Translation: "Colors of the Table"): A Journey Through Jahangir's Kitchen by Salsa Yusuf Hussain. Please see attached recipe pages along with cover of the book. This is "time travel" cookbook from Persian scholar Salma-ji. From the introductions of her book, she translated the Persian (Farsi) manuscript and modernize the recipes via down scale, etc. Because the real recipes were in banquet-portion for guests of the Fourth Mughal Emperor Jahangir (23 July 1547 – 28 October 1627).

Maybe one of these days, I'll brave and make it. I practically have almost every single ingredient in spice collection except the goose!

[blue_dolphin]

2 hours ago, Tan Can Cook said:

I practically have almost every single ingredient in spice collection except the goose

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[JoNorvelleWalker]

Thanks to the expert enablement of @TdeV in the Indoor Smoker topic I now have Delish! by Philip R Craig and Shirley Prada Craig.  Delish! is the first and only cookbook in my collection to have a recipe for water.  I made some last night but then spilled it trying to swat a fly.

 

[dans]

$5 for the lot. 

[Ddanno]

These aren't recent acquisitions of mine by any means, but since I'm a fairly recent acquisition of the forum I thought I'd share a shot of three of my favourites

 

[Katie Meadow]

Thanks tou you @blue_dolphin for enablement. I found a copy of Nancy Silverton's Twist of the Wrist for dirt cheap in great condition on eBay. I like it a lot. She has a very nice way of recommending specific ingredients and then letting you know what good options are available, and whether some of the ingredients can just be omitted. She's exacting and fairly practical at the same time. I will say this though, many of the recipes have lengthy ingredients lists and complex techniques, so I am not so sure all her shortcuts make things quick. Partly because, probably like you, I rarely use canned beans anymore. I'm trapped in  RG quicksand .  I look at canned beans and  can't do it.

[blue_dolphin]

8 minutes ago, Katie Meadow said:

Thanks tou you @blue_dolphin for enablement. I found a copy of Nancy Silverton's Twist of the Wrist for dirt cheap in great condition on eBay. I like it a lot.

I like the book as well and need to pull it out more often. Some of her other books seem to assume you have a staff of prep cooks on retainer and this one is somewhat more restrained. 
Still, as you noted, it’s not exactly opening jars and poof - dinner!