Cookbooks, Brought to you by Dr. Seuss

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We took a look, we saw a Nook.  On his head he had a hook.  On his hook he had a book.  On his book was How to Cook.  But a Nook can't read so a Nook can't cook so what good to a Nook is a hook cook book?

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I've been reading WAY too much Dr. Seuss lately!

In all seriousness, yes, I have cookbooks.  Joy of Cooking, Better Homes and Gardens, a couple of International Jewish cookbooks family members have picked up for me, Every Woman's Guide to Eating While Pregnant, the Frugal Gormet Cooks American, and the new love of my life, The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking, which has supplied me with all my vegetable side dishes for my first Thanksgiving dinner at home.  I also have a kitchen book that I copy all my favorite recipes, stuff I made up on the fly that turned out well, and kitchen tricks into.  My particular kitchen book is a hard cover, blank page, military issue green book my husband found on post.  Of course, you'd be hard pressed to know it was originally green what with all the stains on it.  I use that sucker almost every day.

What do I use?  Well, I've used the Indian book almost every day since buying it about a month ago.  It's fabulous.  I'm learning things to do with vegetables that never ever would have occurred to me.  The Joy of Cooking comes off the shelf pretty regularly too.  I tend to use Joy of Cooking more as a reference book than an actual cookbook though.  Much as I've loved the recipes I've tried, they tend to be a bit more involved and complicated than I'm willing to deal with on a regular basis.  But the amount of information about ingredients and how to use them is invaluable.