The Joy of the Joy of Cooking

I had been looking forward to making Ground turkey or chicken loaf (p. 445) since making turkey meatballs . The meatballs were essentially ...

I had a bunch of new potatoes from dad's garden and decided to utilize them in TJOC recipes. I never buy new potatoes because they seem...

The last time I updated the TJOC index, I noticed that I hadn't officially made Steamed summer squash (p. 307), even though I steam summ...

I am part of a blogging group where they give you a topic a week and you are supposed to write about it. I've been part of the group fo...

As all regular TJOTJOC readers know, I absolutely love New Orleans. It's easily my favorite city in the US. I like everything about it...

Pasta primavera (p. 327) is a dish that I like but never order and have never made. I'm not sure why I've never made it--I think i...

I'm amazingly behind in my blog, yet again. It's been an eventful summer! Between June and August, I went to Chicago, Des Moines, ...

I know I'm amazingly behind! I have made plenty of recipes in the meantime and I AM going to update through yesterday this weekend. Ma...

I was starting to get a strangely large amount of cans of coconut milk in the cupboard so I thumbed through TJOC for a recipe that would uti...

My friend Rachel recently asked me what I was thinking when I put off making any of the desserts on the randomly generated list . The answe...