Collected Thoughts

I finally got to take a good look at what I bought at the library sale. I just grabbed what I liked and then sorted them out later, but I didn't pay attention to some of the titles. I'm a little disappointed because I thought the cookbooks I got were a bit older than they really were, but it's okay. I did get an Encyclopedia of Cooking that's a 50s reprint of a book written in 1946 or so. It's hardcover and like a nice thick novel, I can't wait to read it! See, I have a thing for old cookbooks and the pamphlet cookbooks, they are so intersting and even though I never really make anything out of them I love just reading them. Well I love reading all cookbooks, right now I have about 7 vegetarian cookbooks from the library and mostly I've just read them like regular books, although I am typing up recipes I want to try.

One of the pamphlets I bought was Shortcut Cooking and it's got so many of those recipes that seem slightly questionable now with all the fat and calories and how tastes have changed, but I think some of them were questionable to begin with. But I've read some neat ideas. And I got a Betty Crocker Hostess Cookbook, with menus for Bridge parties and tea parties and things like that.

The crocheting is frustrating me still, although I think I've got a handle on it. She's hinted that she'd like a scarf, when we were at Jo Ann's she went on and on about the angora style yarn and several of the other types of yarn, how soft and pretty they were. So if I finish up my brother's scarf I may try to make her one. Although I need to get her xmas presents before she leaves for G'ma's. Either that or mail things to her closer to Xmas. She saw the practice scarf and she liked it the color better than I do, she thought Dad might like it, but it looks so plain, just gray. If I get around to making him scarf as well I'd get something closer to what I'm doing for my brother -- it's a heathered dark green. But I'd probably make Dad a blue one, he likes blue.