baking

When I was starting college, my dad gave me a cookbook as a present.  It is Betty Crocker’s Quick & Easy Cookbook: 30 minutes or less to dinner every night.  I was appreciative but skeptical.  For one thing, my parents’ cookbook shelf is full of Moosewood tomes, full of lovely vegetarian dishes by the lovely Molly Katzen, who writes things like “Pile up everything in a provocative yet compelling arrangement” in the margins of the recipes. Whereas Betty Crocker seemed too… old-fashioned?  Midwestern?  Full of recipes like “Cheesy tuna broccoli skillet casserole”?  Yes, all that.  So I wasn’t...

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