Hey Stout! #CheckThisOut - Texacano Cabbage

Do you have a cabbage you want to use and you want to try something new?

Check out The Cabbage Cookbook by Ann L. Haslinger on the 3rd Floor.
Call number TX803 .C3 H37 (The cover is plain green so no photo necessary)

The Texacano Cabbage recipe on page 18 is very good. I didn't know cabbage could taste this way.

I don't like green peppers so these were omitted and I used habanero jack cheese instead of cheddar to really give it some kick.

You cook down the chopped cabbage. In another pan you saute the onion and pepper in butter then add tomatoes and spices. Pour the cabbage into a greased casserole dish, then the tomato onion mixture over the top and finish it off with the grated cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

If you have more of a sweet tooth, I'd love to hear how the Quick Cabbage Strudel or Kraut Chocolate Cake recipes turn out (pages 148 and 149).

Hey Stout! #CheckThisOut - Strawberry Pie

The library has shelves of cookbooks, so Reference Librarian, Ann Vogl, decided to check one out in order to make strawberry pie. There were several to choose from, but she chose a simple recipe from:

Country Pies: A Seasonal Sampler by Lisa Yockelson. Located on the 3^rd floor TX773 .Y63 1988.

The Glazed Strawberry Pie recipe is on page 112 and it was super simple. Only 4 ingredients – strawberries, lemon juice, sugar and cornstarch for the filling. 

Ann took the easy way out and used a refrigerator crust, but there is a pie crust recipe in the book as well. The pie filling was easy to make. Crush two cups of strawberries and mix with lemon juice. Mix the sugar and cornstarch, then fold into the crushed berries. Cook on the stove until thickened. Let this cool to room temperature and fold into the small whole berries and then pour into a cooled crust. The only baking was for the crust, so the house didn’t get too warm. (You'll need to check out the book to get the full recipe).

The pie was put in the refrigerator overnight and served at room temperature the next day with whipped cream, if so desired. Ann shared with the rest of the staff and people thought it was quite tasty.

You could probably use part of the recipe to make strawberry jam.

Come in and Check Out a cookbook and share a review with us.

Staff Recommendation: Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Archives staff member, Robin Melland, recommends listening to the audiobook version of Maria Semple’s novel. “It is a silly and fun book where crazy, weird things keep happening – pure entertainment.”    

Student worker, Colleen Roach, recommends reading the hardcover edition from the fourth floor browsing collection. “This book has just enough drama and mystery in it to keep you hooked but not so much that you get sick of the story and characters. It is interesting to see the path that Bernadette's life takes in response to her successes and failures and how that path affects those around her. 

It was an easy book to stay interested in because of the slight twists that happen throughout the story.”  

Where’d You Go, Bernadette

By Maria Semple

New York: Hachette Audio, 2013 (9 CDs) or

New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2012

Available in the library on 4^th floor.

Call number:

 PS3619.E495 W54 2013 (Audiobooks) 

 PS3619.E495 W54 2012 (Browsing books)

Janet Maslin from The New York Times writes “The tightly constructed “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” is written in many formats — e-mails, letters, F.B.I. documents, correspondence with a psychiatrist and even an emergency-room bill for a run-in between Bernadette and Audrey. Yet these pieces are strung together so wittily that Ms. Semple’s storytelling is always front and center, in sharp focus. You could stop and pay attention to how apt each new format is, how rarely she repeats herself and how imaginatively she unveils every bit of information. But you would have to stop laughing first.

Everyone in this sparkling novel is wily, smart or even smarter. The brainiest character is arguably Elgin, who works at Microsoft and leads the design team for what, the book says, is Bill Gates’s favorite project. Elgin is famed for not wearing shoes, for giving the fourth-most-watched TED talk and for generally being Microsoft’s version of a rock star.” Full Review