I was doing so good. Really I was. I hadn't even clicked on Amazon.com for awhile. And then like a fool I went on, and even more foolish, I looked at my recommendations. The evil geniuses at Amazon once again pulled me into the black hole that is the myriad of cookbooks I didn't know I needed...but of course now need. I broke down and ordered a few (bastards). They arrived and I did my initial run through. When I get a new cookbook I immediately go through it. First, if is a book with few photos, I go searching for those. Then I skim through looking at the titles of all the recipes. Then if I have time I will read the ones that sounded good. And when I have time I sit down and read it from cover to cover, just as if it were any book, not just a cookbook. The book I fell in love with this week is Baked. Baked is a bakeshop in Brooklyn that has a frontier theme...very odd, but I think it works for them. There are soooo many things I want/need to make from this cookbook, it's not even … [Read more...]