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Category Archives: Miscellaneous

And we’re back in 5… 4… 3… 2…

Yes, you read that right. We’re back! After a long absence, the four of us are picking up the books again! Our next book, which was Jeanine’s pick, is A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg, for anyone who wants to read along with us (our Books We Cooked page is even updated!) It’s been a [...]

A long absence… and a triumphant return!

Well! I must apologize a thousand-fold for my loooong absence over these last two months. The newest book was MY suggestion and two days after we decided to read Confessions, my mother-in-law passed away VERY suddenly while on vacation in Mexico. Since then our lives have been thrown into a whirlwind, and I could barely [...]

Don’t think we’ve forgotten..

It’s been a busy few months for us. Brianne got her own blog up and running and then got a .com (Iron Chef Mommy), and then Jeanine became a vegan again, decided to start a vegan blog and bought her .com (Vegan Nourishment – coming soon!) and she’s been working on that… and I’ve been [...]

Happy January!

Happy 2010 to everyone! For those who have been following us, fear not – we will be back soon with our postings on Garlic & Sapphires. Stay tuned for more bookery cookery in the coming weeks! Stay warm and safe!

Just a quick thank you…

I know everyone’s busy with Christmas, getting ready to make our gnocchi and if you’re Jeanine- being at Disney! But I just wanted to thank Yoyo at topstitch.org for spotlighting us this week for ‘Web Crawler Wednesday’! It’s sweet of her to plug us and I know we all appreciate it. Thank you, Yoyo! So [...]

Incendiery-Not-Sole and my new addition!

Well! We have had quite the week in this household; lots of craziness going on over here. Classes are finally finished and I’m opting to blog instead of studying for a final in the morning. I spent a few days in NY at the end of last week, spending some time with my mom and [...]

All good things must come to an end.

No- not our blog! But our first book selection, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti. We all thoroughly enjoyed this book, and I think we can all agree every recipe we tried from it was aces, that we could relate to it in so many ways, and that we were all very sad when [...]

Fuck You Cakes… cause everyone needs a drink!

No, that’s not directed at you – any of you. That’s actually what they’re called. This, by far, was my favorite 3 pages of the book. Not because of Giulia’s heartache, because we all sit and wonder the “what-ifs” after a breakup. We all try to somehow find a backwards way of blaming ourselves to [...]

So excited!

So here we are! It’s finally officially open! I’ve been waiting for a long time to make the announcement and share the site with people and today all the bio’s finally went up and I updated the “books” page. So we’re in business! There are still a lot of little things to add (links, etc) [...]

Welcome to Cooking the Books!

Welcome to our new venture in cooking/booking/blogging! In the vein of ‘Julie & Julia’, we’re a group of High School friends who’ve come together from different places, getting together once in a awhile and sharing our kitchen exploits with one another via the web! We’ll be cooking recipes from various books and sharing our results [...]