Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for November 25, 2014

You tell ’em, Wally! :)

Gee, I’d better let my hub know this! (He’s just taking up cooking…the more the merrier for him!) Me, I stick to making luscious cakes…

Goes ALL the way Back!

“Og, Kills Mammoth. Og Grills Mammoth. Og one Hot Dude!”

Ms Eliot would you please write explanations in the margins so we don’t miss the extra heavy handed hints?

And that look in Val’s eyes! ;)

Let’s see … dinner at Phil’s Aunt’s….I predict that the old dear asks pointed questions like…When are you two getting married?

I have really often wondered if Wally feels outnumbered in those ‘combined households’(with Val and Joan, so close, literally and figuratively) ????

I still use my granny’s Boston Cookbook. I also have a Doubleday Cookbook and Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook held together with duct tape, scotch tape and prayer. Another go-to is Jehane Benoit’s Encyclopaedia of Canadian Cooking.

Hee hee hee!

I still have a special fondness for the massive “Mary Margaret McBride Encyclopedia of Cooking,” which my mother purchased one section at a time at the grocery store in the 1950s (there was a binder that one put the sections into as they were collected). Over 1500 pages, it has a recipe for just about everything and assumes no prior knowledge — it even explains how to make toast!

Hubby and I had different main dishes that we’d make for company at diffent times. I don’t cook anymore since he’s gone.

I asked for the Fanny Farmer Cookbook one Christmas. My dear parents found a reprint of the first edition — anybody need recipes for the chafing dish?

I have a suggestion, kind of a radical one: stop hinting and ask her straight out if she wants to be in a romantic relationship with you. If she says yes, hey, great! If she says no, respect that she just doesn’t have romantic/sexual feelings for her, and either really be her friend or just cut ties if you can’t. (And if she says something like “maybe”, just cut ties, because you’re better off looking for love from someone more decisive.)

Thanks for the cook-book recommendations! ;)

Four Thousand cookbooks! Where do you store them?! ;)