Friday, January 6, 2012
I love cookbooks! I collect cookbooks and recipes and have way too many of both. I even asked for a another cookbook for Christmas. I love to read them and dream that one day someone (me?) will actually cook something from my growing collection. My daughter, Charlotte, suggested that one of my New Year's resolutions would be to try a new recipe from a different cookbook on a weekly basis and then blog about it. So here I am.
Last night I went through my requested Christmas present -- The Gasparilla Cookbook 50th Anniversary Edition. The Gasparilla Cookbook was originally published in 1961 by the Junior League of Tampa, and it was one of my first cookbooks. I'd forgotten what a great cookbook it is. I used their banana bread recipe for years, and I still make their shrimp creole. But in looking through it last night, I was reminded of some of Tampa's wonderful restaurants (some are long gone) and their recipes -- The Columbia, Valencia Gardens, Louis Pappas, Las Novedades, Kapok Tree Inn, and so many more. And I found a few recipes that I haven't tried yet that sound great.
So recipes in hand, I was off to Publix this morning and have the ingredients for three or four new dishes to experiment with over the next week. I'll post later which I decided upon for tonight and let you know how it tastes.
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