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Default Hm maybe cook books were a waste of $

On Jun 19, 2:45*pm, "Dimitri" > wrote:
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> >I bought TJOC, BHG and Betty Crocker cook books. Haven't touched Betty
> > Crocker or TJOC. I know, blasphemy I'm sure. Only used BHG for a few
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> > I have been addicted to allrecipes.com

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> > I like the fact that other people chime in about the recipes, there
> > are ratings, and people even amend the original recipe.

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> > Made a pumpkin bread last night based on allrecipes.com. Came out
> > delish! Plan on making homemade sausages from there too.

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> > So it seems like I wasted $50 on books. I dunno... maybe not.. i'm
> > still in the beginning stages... there's still a lot out there to
> > make...

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> > Mind you - i don't rely on ratings to determine whether or not I will
> > want to try the recipe, I just use allrecipes.com to find variations
> > on the 1 recipe of whatever you wanted to make that would be in the
> > books.

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> > Anyone here use allrecipes.com and are there any other good sites like
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> Maybe you should put the books under your pillow you're read by osmosis
> while you sleep
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I will give that a try !!