No cooking today!

I am trying to find time to cook and for the last 2 days, all I have done is run errands. Plus I can't decide what recipe to use next. Since I can't decide what to cook, I'm going to tell you about my EBay site-Valerie2901. I have always sold one thing or another on EBay, but when I moved to Las Vegas, I decided to focus on one thing-cookbooks. I have a couple hundred of my own, plus I like reading cookbooks. So I decided to give it a shot. I am doing very well with this.

The best sellers for cookbooks are: Grilling/Barbecuing(you're all probably saying, yeah, I get that), then making homemade bread/bread machines (who would have thought so many people had time to still make bread) and then exotic cookbooks (ex: Indian Cooking (like from India), Slow Cookers would be next and then all the Sunset/Southern Living Annuals (this I expect, you usually get 400 + recipes in these books).

One book, I am going to focus on is The Victorian Kitchen-Best of Milk & Honey. A pretty book with lots of color photographs, perfect for planning your next Tea Party. The thing about this book is it only has 30 recipes! And yet, I know this will be sold in the upcoming week, with only 30 recipes. This book reveals the recipes and the techniques perfected by the Victoria cook and shows you how you too can transform milk and cream into elegant syllabubs, pale and interesting blancmanges, luscious homemade ices and rich ambitious desserts. This could almost be described an an exotic book-not from a foreign land, but a past time. I have to study up, because at this point I don't know what syllabubs and blancmanges are.

That's what is so interesting about cookbooks. Reading them, being inspired to cook-I love it.

No longer a redhead, but back to being blonde again. After the hairdresser literally stripped the red color out of my hair and not applying another color, I ended up with dark golden blonde-just the right color.

If you ever come to Las Vegas-look at Craigslist under free tickets. Lots of shows that need to fill showrooms will offer free tickets. Mostly comedy clubs and magic shows, but occasionally big names pop up. Recently I saw the Dixie Dooley Show-the man has been performing magic for the last 30 years, the show was great. Geared towards the family audience, I was entertained and enthralled. The Mayor of Las Vegas, even made November 13th-Dixie Dooley Day, to honor his commitment to magic and longevity in Las Vegas. Also, if you're in Las Vegas for Halloween, October 31st, Dixie is going to have a seance and to try and contact Houdini-this is the only seance, endorsed by the Harry Houdini family.

That's all for now. CookBook Val