tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039611.post1671829258159419718..comments2024-03-20T04:57:57.431-04:00Comments on Tiny Banquet Committee: Helen Gurley Brown's Single Girl's Cookbook: the first in a series of occasional reviews of out-of-print cookbooksTiny Banquet Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05653793395835337703noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039611.post-62769043543227343322012-09-07T18:51:39.235-04:002012-09-07T18:51:39.235-04:00Interesting memories, thanks for writing! I wonder...Interesting memories, thanks for writing! I wonder if your heavenly chicken dish is the same one a reader emailed me about a while back -- her daughter had just had a baby and was craving nothing else, but their copy of this book had gone missing. I scanned it and sent it to her, but I can't remember now what was in it. Mushrooms, maybe, and . . . ?<br /><br />The Grub Bag sounds right up my grubby alley! I'd love to track down a copy but it sounds hard to get a hold of. <br /><br />I have an SLA cookbook, actually, a spiral-bound number that looks like it was maybe photocopied, but the recipes in it aren't very revolutionary at all. Lots of unadventurous casseroles. The Single Girl's Cookbook was pretty progressive in terms of including recipes for foods that weren't widely eaten at the time. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Tiny Banquet Committeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05653793395835337703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039611.post-89941890020784520462011-06-20T10:32:26.662-04:002011-06-20T10:32:26.662-04:00Hmm!Hmm!Tiny Banquet Committeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05653793395835337703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039611.post-88637562739992617482011-06-19T19:56:58.698-04:002011-06-19T19:56:58.698-04:00Hey, you, gorgeous… Maybe you don't know how t...Hey, you, gorgeous… Maybe you don't know how to achieve it or you haven't been instructed, but here's our Way to be at my party-hardy in Heaven. Nothing on earth is worth the loss of Heaven, girl, for our finite existence is over in the blink-of-an-eye; Jesus/our Mother are the only free antivirus, while we few are only the prophets in a world that’s whorizontally haywire. Death’s cool, however, if you’re on the RITE side: we'll have a BIG-ol, Wahoo!, kick-ass, party-hardy for eons and eons fulla anything and everything and more --- Now, having read this, you’re faced with a choice: return to God who made you, loves you like crazy, and wants you or return to your dead-end-world - no middle ground on the Last Day. WAIT! BEFORE YOU CALL ME A NUTJOB… I have some pretty nifty, neet-o things we may do in Heaven! Besides being the most gorgeous thang God ever made, wanna nekk in Heaven on a park bench? …or anywhere? Wanna lemme serve you for eons and eons? Wanna lemme hold you as we watch the BEST fireworks Heaven has to offer and ride-on the BEST roller-coaster, too? Wanna lemme feed you baklava and Starbucks (either mocha or Strawberries&cream frappuccino) and those teeny, canned oranges for the length of eternity? Wanna swim nude in the ocean as shallow as four feet and then take a shower? Wanna be one with me for SEVEN, WHOLE, MONTHS?? Wanna be an adorable 17 forever, me a dashing 21? Wanna love so deep and wide, passionate and warm the universe cannot hold our? Wanna lemme be a part of you till even Heaven crashes around us? Wanna lemme snuggle with you, to love you and gratify your wonderful, beautiful, adorable feet? Wanna lemme prove to you I love you more-than-you-know, from head2toe, bodyNsoul, to give you pleasure-beyond-measure? Meet me in Heaven, girly, and I'll do alla that and more for you for the length and breadth of eternity --- How awesome it shall be to love you in person, to be with you, to hold you in my arms and give you a backrub in the Great Beyond; to kiss your adorable body and nuzzle with you, would make my eternity. God bless you.blessed holy sockshttp://closenmyeyes.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039611.post-7469995731088166402008-10-30T12:54:00.000-04:002008-10-30T12:54:00.000-04:00Just came over from Eat Me Daily... your blog is f...Just came over from Eat Me Daily... your blog is fantastic! I wrote you up on mine. :) Cheers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039611.post-21047950962742078232006-10-17T21:00:00.000-04:002006-10-17T21:00:00.000-04:00Julie and Rebecca, I was indeed having a hard time...Julie and Rebecca, I was indeed having a hard time trying to gauge the percentage of recipes here that are dated, both because there are some things that remain favorites (judicious use of soup mix, a platter of deviled eggs, a loaf of garlic bread, shrimp cocktail) and because some of the recipes were ahead of their time - it was very interesting to see, for example, that the hummus recipe was pretty much identical to contemporary preparations but was intended to be an unpleasant surprise for stodgy relatives. <br />Rebecca, I don't think it's just you; if I had to name one dish that I would put in the serve-to-girlfriends-but-not-a-group-of-men category it would definitely be a chilled soup! Such an interesting topic; I'll have to come back to it -Tiny Banquet Committeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05653793395835337703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039611.post-46428504291353327202006-10-16T21:02:00.000-04:002006-10-16T21:02:00.000-04:00Don't tell Julie, but I still use the occasional e...Don't tell Julie, but I still use the occasional envelope of onion soup mix, in my slow-cooked brisket, for instance.<br /><br />Maybe it's because I have three sons and a husband, but I have quite a few meals that I, at least mentally, identify as "man-pleasers", like roast chicken and other meat-heavy entrees, and things I would only cook if the guys weren't around and my girlfriends were coming over, like cold soups involving vegetables.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039611.post-67206180418577859422006-10-11T14:57:00.000-04:002006-10-11T14:57:00.000-04:00Very amusing -- and what a time capsule of cooking...Very amusing -- and what a time capsule of cooking styles and social mores. <br /><br />It's always interesting to read cookbooks of other eras and see what holds up and what looks hopelessly dated. Of course, there are many I am sure who still to this day swear by canned soup and envelopes of onion soup mix.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039611.post-87561927615359561322006-10-11T13:07:00.000-04:002006-10-11T13:07:00.000-04:00Thanks Ann! I will send you the recipe when I get ...Thanks Ann! I will send you the recipe when I get home - it's a very simple one and I'm not sure how authentic to any particular style it is, but it's probably worth trying, especially at this time of year.Tiny Banquet Committeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05653793395835337703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039611.post-54204874259499491152006-10-11T12:00:00.000-04:002006-10-11T12:00:00.000-04:00holy god woman! what a great review!!
i have one o...holy god woman! what a great review!!<br />i have one of HGBs other cookbooks, Cosmo Cookery, it was written in the '70s and definitely has more of a feminist streak to it<br />but i actually have a favor to ask... would you mind posting or sending me that recipe for the Adriatic vege?<br />we had various versions of it in Croatia and they were just FAB-U-LOUS and i've been trying to recreate them ever since with varying degress of aptitutde. i'd love to know what the real recipe is supposed to be!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com