The Joy of the Joy of Cooking

Tart corn relish (p. 949) is perfect for people with a lot of fresh garden veggies. I blanched three ears of corn in boiling water and cut ...

Fans, I know a lot of you are a bit hard-hearted and particularly like stories of TJOTJOC related disaster. You will be in for a real treat...

Every now and then TJOC surprises me (usually in a bad way). Sometimes it's a weird ingredient, sometimes it's a bizarre cooking me...

While looking through my pictures, I was absolutely shocked I had forgotten to post about something as monumental as the bacon sundae at Den...

I made some chicken stock for my mom and hoped to find a recipe to use the poached chicken. Hot chicken salad (p. 106) looked perfect! I r...

I decided to make a couple of food items to bring to a pre-4th of July party I was attending. As I said before, everyone seems to like devi...

Mom told me that she had boneless, skinless chicken breasts and asked if there was something that I could make out of them. We agreed that ...

My mom had a food day at work and asked if I wanted to make anything for her to bring to it. I thought that Deviled or stuffed eggs (p. 195...

I am being seriously punished for writing these posts so much later than when I actually cooked the dishes. This post (and about ten others...

I love, love, love the author Jasper Fforde . His books are almost in a genre of their own and are rather difficult to explain or categoriz...