Do you love to eat? Love checking out cookbooks? Enjoy trying new recipes?

The Adult Department at the Homewood Public Library currently hosts a monthly recipe club. Every month a new theme will be chosen and each attendee will make a dish based on that month’s theme. Thus far, we have showcased everything from cookies to healthy favorites. You will not be assigned a feature cookbook to cook from.  Instead, choose any cookbook and pick a recipe that represents the month’s theme. Put on your apron and cook like the culinary star you are in your own kitchen. We would love for you to share your masterpiece with the rest of us and invite you to try the other delicious dishes represented as well. Don’t forget to jot down or print off your recipe so one of our staff members can make copies and pass it around.

Don’t have a cookbook that is just right? We’ve got you covered! Come on in and select one of the many cookbooks we have on our very own shelves. Still can’t find what you want? A staff member will be happy to help you locate just the right book from one of our other 39 Jefferson County Library branches.  We can have your cookbook sent and ready for pickup at the location of your choice.

Happy Cooking!

This month, in honor of  Valentine’s Day, we are dishing out  the Sweet Treats. I’m including a few cookbooks that are sure to get you in the kitchen and baking with love!

In Butter Celebrates! Rosie provides more than 100 recipes for every celebration, holiday, special event, and milestone in your life. Whether you’re an experienced baker or just starting out, Rosie’s straightforward recipes are easy to follow and will produce irresistible results. Butter Celebrates! takes you into Butter’s pink-and-pistachio slice-of-heaven world, where every day is worth celebrating. It will inspire you to celebrate life and to create new traditions and memories along the way.

Chocolate-lovers…rejoice! The ultimate chocolate cookbook is here! Taste of Home Chocolate Delights features 201 luscious sensations ideal for any occasion—from coffee breaks and dessert time to morning noshing and late-night snacking. Featuring 201 decadent chocolate bites that are easy enough for novice bakers but luscious enough for experienced candy makers. Inside, you will enjoy recipes for all things chocolate, including fudge, cheesecakes, candies, cookies, bars, milk shakes, coffee drinks and martinis!

Want your friends and family to gasp in awe when you bring dessert to the table? Here’s a secret: You can make wow-worthy cakes, cookies, candies, and more, in your own kitchen, faster and more easily than you’d ever guess. In Sweet Envy: Deceptively Easy Desserts, Designed to Steal the Show, you can create desserts that are crazy fun, breathtakingly beautiful, and, most importantly, surprisingly simple. This book contains over 100 beautiful pictures of desserts.

It is hard, today, to imagine a time when the word bittersweet was rarely spoken, when 70 percent of the chocolate purchased by Americans was milk chocolate. Today’s world of chocolate is a much larger universe, where not only the quality is better and the variety wider, but the very composition of the chocolate has changed. With nearly 150 recipes—each delicious and foolproof, no matter your level of expertise—BitterSweet,  answers every chocolate question, teaches every technique, confides every secret, satisfies every craving. You’ll marvel that recipes as basic as brownies and chocolate cake, mint chocolate chip ice cream and chocolate mousse, can still surprise and excite you, and that soufflés, chocolate panna cotta, even pasta sauces can be so dramatically flavorful.