With mother's day approaching, I have fond memories of my mother, her cooking, and her cook books. I don't think I'd ever want to throw them away, they are a part that I have to remember her by.

So when my mom passed I took all her cook books with me. I have not had the free time or enthusiasm to try and become a great cook until now. I want to cook foods and improve what I eat.

One of the books that I picked up tonight is called "Great Dishes from the Oven" by Rita Holmberg (1977)

If you're like most homemakers, you use your oven almost every day - for savory brown roats, tender oven-fried or braised meats, ..... etc

A particular hit with young people are "packet burgers" or "packet chicken". These favorite foods are cooked in foil pouches, then served piping hot right from the pouch. And best of all no dishes to wash!

self-cleaning overn (pyrolytic) soil is reduced to a light ash during a separate high-heat cycle. In a continuois-cleaning oven (catalytic), the oven walls or panels are specially treated so that soil is gradually reduced to presentably clean consitions.

Who's more interested in good food that a hungry family at the end of a busy day?

Who knew that oven cooking could be so technical? :0