Hey good lookin’, what ‘cha got cookin’? Well if it’s anything from Millie LaRue & Mummy Cooking with Friends then it’s gotta be good.
Over 350 recipes of fine human
cuisine from around the world. Miss Millie LaRue (a little Yorkie just like me)
and her human, Darsey Mitchell collected recipes from many people from all
parts of the globe. At only $35.00 that’s like just a wee penny per recipe and a portion of the proceeds go toward
dog rescue and shelter organizations! How great is that?? However, I, Carly
must interject that the best part of this cookbook is a whole section devoted
to all sorts of delectable recipes for dogs, starting on page 247. This cookbook also makes a pawtastic gift for someone you love...or someone you hope will cook for you. Click on the link above and order your full color hardcopy as soon as possible! The recipes are howlingly good!
We decided we’d choose
something for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and of course a dessert for our two day cook-a-thon. There is
such a big selection in this cookbook we took nearly two hours deciding on what
we wanted to make. Some of that time we were getting lost in reading the
history of some of the recipes submitted by the people.
We finally decided on which
recipes we wanted to try and did our ingredient shopping on a Saturday evening.
We knew we needed to spread out all this cooking over two days since Mom only
has Sundays and Mondays to cook up a storm. Ingredients purchased we got up
early Sunday to weather that storm! Mom and I put on our aprons from Harlow &Grace’s Cooking With Carly collection to get started whipping up some
of these recipes.
Breakfast: Fairy Cakes
(pg 40) Mom’s not big on that most important meal of the day, preferring
instead to sip on her coffee but even she couldn’t turn down a fairy cake. (She
substituted blueberries
so she could share them with me and my fur-sisters!)
Lunch: After overindulging in those fairy cakes Mom planned
to keep lunch light. She chose the Baked
Potato Soup (pg 65) but it was such a hearty dish it could have been a meal
in and of itself! Of course, some of that “heartiness” may have come from this
recipe change: the recipe suggested “low-fat” sour cream which Mom and I
laughed and laughed as we don’t do anything “low-fat” so we used the full fat
sour cream and threw in an extra dollop for good measure!
Monday morning I couldn’t help
but notice Mom brought out some of the Fairy
Cakes she apparently hid yesterday and got herself all cozy with her
morning cup of coffee. I sat dutifully at her feet and let out an occasional
whimper to let her know that Fairy Cakes
were meant to be shared. Finally, she relented as she always does and gave me a
bite. She said, that’s it, but I have a
funny feeling she was still tucking those things away for a snack later on. After
she did all those other morning things she once again got our aprons out and
started laying out the ingredients to prep for dinner.
Dinner: To get things rolling
a very tasty appetizer from my little friend, Zoey Bear’s mom, Pam. Happy’s Holiday Cheese Balls (page 33) and
Lettuce and Smoked Asparagus (pg 73) kicked off dinner. Soon followed was Magic Chicken Tenders (pg 115), Greek Styled Potatoes (pg 153), Deviled Eggs (pg 24) and Buttermilk Biscuits (pg 51). Being the good pet parent Mom is she
suggested we make extra Chicken Tenders so us doggies could enjoy dinner too.
Dessert: We were all too stuffed after that scrumptious dinner
but since we had eaten a late afternoon dinner we were ready for some dessert
come evening. With all that dinner prep
earlier Mom decided she’d give Possum Pie
(pg 206) a try, mostly because she knows my obsession with squirrels and
somehow the word possum made her think of squirrels and that made her think of
me. I’m not sure I fully understand her reasoning either but whatever she let
me have some of the Cool Whip so who am I to complain?? Couldn’t seem to taste
any possum though, not that I ever ate any possum but I’m sure it would have
tasted a bit gamey.
Dessert was enjoyed outside on
the deck with the warmth of a September evening soon to become a memory. Mom
made room for a Celebration Cocktail
(pg 33) celebrating the fact she hasn’t cooked that much for a very long time!
Exhausted from all that taste-testing I did I needed a nap. Since Mom was still
celebrating with another cocktail I found an empty deck chair and decided I’d
watch Mom’s celebrating with one eye opened. She promised me I could pick a
recipe from the dog fare section of the cookbook. Next weekend my fur-sisters
and I will pull out the good doggie china for a tea party and some doggie fare
befitting an upper crust pup!
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