Weekend Meditation: The Potential of Apple Blossoms, Fully Realized

I live for summer, but this picture posted by our good friends over at The Kitchn makes me want to dig out my fall sweaters! 

Time, at MaggieB's Cookbook Club to start thinking about fall cooking, with its heavier sauces, gravies and savory flavors! But for today it's still steak on the grill as we continue to swim with our children in our 90° Virginia heat!

The Potential of Apple Blossoms

The Kitchn

It was just about six months ago that I wrote here about wandering in a small apple orchard amongst the apple blossoms, dreaming of the day they will become apples, and apple pies and applesauce. That day has come, at least in my kitchen. It's time to begin the cycle again, to capture the blossoms of spring in a jar and seal it up tight. It's applesauce time!

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$3 iPad Wall Mount? Does it Make Sense?

MaggieB’s Cookbook Club thinks this is a great use of an easily found device,

BUT I won’t be putting holes in my kitchen cabinet anytime soon…  

maybe we could use those self-releasing 3M hooks???

The $3 iPad (or Other Tablet) Wall Mount

I've been using my iPad as a cookbook, which it's great for, but keeping it on the countertop has

proven problematic due to the various splashes and dustings of flour happening in my kitchen.

$3 later, I've got a solution…

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JOIN a CookBook Club TODAY!

Love to cook and want to share your passion with friends? Do not have any nearby interested or available to join you? Than an ONLINE cookbook club is a GREAT alternative! There is no charge and its available to YOU 24/7!

Online or offline a club is a great way to regularly check in with friends, try out some great new recipes, review old and new cookbooks, food magazines, television and online food sites!

Step 1. Gather your friends or find an online cookbook club that you like.

Step 2. Decide how often you want to meet, where, and when, OR just check in on your online club whenever you want!

Step 3. Get involved!

Step 4. Decide what dish[es] you would like to make and bring to your next meeting [party] to add to the cookbook club buffet OR select which dishes you like in your online cookbook club.

Step 5. Everyone cooks and brings their dish to your meeting [party] OR you cook all those luscious dishes you find in the online club for you and your family!

Step 6. Eat and ENJOY! That goes for whether its off, or online!

Step 7. Rate and review! Be sure to discuss what you liked, and what you might not have, nicely of course. This goes especially ONLINE, most cookbook clubs will have a comment section!

Step 8. Wash, Rinse, and REPEAT!

Whatever type of a cookbook club you decide on you will get to test and sharpen your cooking skills so dust off that cookware and let's get cooking!

~MaggieB… bringing a lifetime of cooking to YOUR dining table