Food Like That: Recipes your mouth will like

Sablefish poached in coconut milk with green peppers, cilantro, and fresh ground pink peppercorns. Served over basmati rice with crushed almonds.

Dessert? A few spoonfuls of Liberté Mediterranée Lemon Yogourt. 8% milk fat, and you can taste it in every delicous spoonfuls. 

Penticton? That was a couple of weekends ago, the long weekend in May. Driving in the hills, we ended up stopping in at the Dirty Laundry winery. A great stop, very nice wines -- I was surprised by how good the whites were, and came back with a Riesling and a dry Gewürtztraminer. The other haul from Penticton was a large selection of used cookbooks.

I'm currently looking for two things when I'm looking for cookbooks. One is a focus on seasonal recipes. I got two great books in this category: Pleasures of the Good Earth, and Food in Good Season.

The second is picking various "local" cookbooks -- you know, the ones put together by the Ladies' Auxilary, the local church, or whatever. Not quite in this category (since it's an actual published book), is one of my favourite cookbooks of all time -- Nutbread and Nostalgia, by the Junior League of South Bend Indiana.

Anyway, I got a handful of these local cookbooks. Some coil bound, like Country Church Cooking, by Josephburg Men's Choral Society, which has a hilarious picture that I have to scan. Others are literally tied with some twine and mimeographed. Sure, you get a ton of macaroni salads and Joe's Quick Pasta Sauce, but there are often really unique recipes hidden here and there.

And that's it for tonight.