Anyone get Bon Appetit?

[Vanessa]

June's issue is great. I have been drooling over the shrimp salad from the cover. The tomato basil soup, scallops with ginger sauce, drunken chicken & the strawberry and cream layer cake looks awsome! I better get a highlighter pen and mark those that look tempting
B Appetit has been doing a great job lately!

[pmmahan]

I love Bon Appetit - great recipes for when you have company!

[Wendy w]

I love Bon Appetit and have been subscribing for years! I just don't seem to cook from it as much as from CL, although BF and I do an occasional "droolathon" http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/tongue.gif http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/tongue.gif through it. I especially like to find out new ideas and food trends. The June issue was very good and I'm waiting for July.

[Beth]

I have subscribed to both most of the time. I used to cook more out of Bon Appetit, then it seemed to be going too far the way of Gourmet (too many offbeat and expensive ingredients, too much fat, too much preparation, etc). Lately I've found myself more interested in CL and just picking up an occassional recipe or idea from Bon Appetit. Looks as though I may need to make room for both of them again.

[ashley]

I love Bon Appetit - especially for entertaining. One thing that I find helpful is that they post all of their recipes on epicurious.com and you can find out how other readers rated them before you try a new one yourself. I love CL, but I wish we had the ability to rate every recipe on this site (without having to post on the bulletin board). If I'm trying a new recipe for a dinner party I prefer to know ahead of time any changes that need to be made, instead of serving something mediocre to my guests!

[JillC]

I bought the June issue of Bon Appetit and have been checking it out from the library regularly. I've been enjoying it so much that I'm considering subscribing. I make more of the recipes from CL, but find BA good reading and inspiring.
I also love it that the recipes are available on epicurious.com Now that I have mastercook, I can just download them into my epicurious cookbook. I agree with Ashley in that I would like to see CL's recipe site as comprehensive as the one at epicurious.com

[beccathebaker]

Just got this months issue in the mail and I must say that I am so impressed with how many healthy and delicious recipes are included. I found myself bookmarking at least 3/4 of them!! Lots of great bar-b-que ideas for meat, chicken and fish. I can't wait for summer!!

[SandyM]

I picked up the June issue off the newsstand, and I am fighting every urge to subscribe.........I trimmed down my subscription list to just CL, Cooks Illustrated and BHG (down from about 8 subscriptions in total)........but as you said, this issue is so good. I used to subscribe years ago, but I let it run out.

Help........me...........................

[chefbec]

I've been getting CL along with Bon Appetit, Gourmet and Vegetarian Times for years. I'm actually trying to wean myself off of Bon Appetit and Gourmet as I find that I get more out of CL and Vegetarian Times. But Bon Appetit is a great magazine. I have stacks of them I've yet to go through! http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/redface.gif

[philamark]

I love Bon Apetit and am a subscriber. I also subscribe to Cooking Light, Cooks Illustrated, and Martha Stewart. Bon Apetit consistently provides me with great recipes and I love the articles. I particularly love to bake and make desserts and I already have an eye on the spice cake with blackberry filling w/cream cheese frosting and the raspberry sour cream tart from the new July issue. MMMMMMMMMMMM http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

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[Laura B]

I love Bon Appetit, as well. I received the July issue today and there are so many recipes that look delicious! And, a restaurant in my town was profiled (Allen's in Chapel Hill - in the BBQ article).

I also get Cooking Light (obviously), Cook's Illustrated, Food & Wine, and Martha Stewart Living and love all of them. Martha is probably my least favorite. I may not renew that one, but I plan to keep all of the others indefinitely!

[schuh]

I kind of agree with Beth. I got a Bon Appetit subscription as a gift this year. I was really excited because I loved it when I first got married (10 years ago) and cooked out of it all the time. But now I feel it's gotten quite complicated and exotic. I wouldn't pay for a subscription myself.

[KimKelly]

I also get Bon Appetit and really enjoy readint it. I, like prior posters do not cook as many reicpes from it as I do CL, but I do read it cover to cover (which I do NOT do with CL - I skip the beauty/etc. stuff in the front). As mentioned before the Epicurious web site is fabulous and the rating system I always review before making a recipe from the site. That has been very helpful. Many of the BA desserts are just wonderful! I use CL for my main meals and BA for many of the desserts.
I also get Cooks Illustrated and just started getting a magazine called Fine Cooking. It has been interesting as well.

I'm now off to a nice hot bath with my new Bon Appetit issue!

Kim

[crazycook]

My magazines have been slowly taking over my home! My pantry is filled more with food magazines than food. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/eek.gif I regrettably threw away http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/redface.gif a lot of back issues of various magazines, including Bon Appetit--if I only knew about ebay or half.com back then or if I was part of this board, I would have gladly donated them to all you wonderful people. No one here(where I'm from) was interested http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/frown.gif Can you believe that one!
I will never stop buying/subscribing, however. It's a passion of mine and my way to relax. I can lose myself in a magazine and dream about having all the time in the world to cook fantastic(in error I typed FATastic forgetting the "n"--hmmmm, Freudian slip?-LOL) meals and throw the most memorable parties. Like I said, for the most part--only a very nice dream.
I love a variety of food magazines from the rich and outlandish to the light and simple. Life should be about variety--right? My BA subscription is paid up until December, 2003--good indication that this one magazine is an absolute favourite. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif I am making a switch to lighter cooking and so
CL is another definite favourite(I'm becoming obsessed with this magazine). With all the problems with delivery, however, I've cancelled my subscription and simply pick it up the instant it's on the newstand.
If any of you are chocoholics, you have to check out Chocolatier. Oh my word! Trust me, when you are craving chocolate, just peruse the magazine and you'll get your fix. Not one that I make a lot from--for the special occasion or special treat, however--most definitely.
It is such a pleasure knowing that so many others share this passion, I don't have to be a closet magazine lover anymore!

[JHolcomb]

That's so funny. I was just sitting on my front porch reading Bon Appetit this morning wondering what my fellow bbers thought of the mag! I personally like it a lot. I don't find the recipes too exotic, though I doubt I'll be making much from the Swedish solstice menu. I think that their recipes are pretty easy to make lighter, too. June's mag had some really great stuff in it-I'm going to try making that chocolae cake for my sister's wedding shower (no set date yet), and I've dog eared several pages. I, too, am fighting the urge to subscribe.

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[chefbec]

I received my July issue of Bon Appetit (which was to be my last issue) and immediately called to renew it! I'm so weak. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/redface.gif I also saw a postcard for the subscription for $12 when the renewal was more, and they gave it to me for the lower price! It pays to ask. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

[Gail]

Boy are you folks making me feel guilty. I STILL haven't read my May CL, though I read through much of the July in Birmingham. MY June Bon Appétit is still in the plastic wrapper! Better get reading so I'm up to snuff with you folks!

[JohnS]

Boy, am I out of the mainstream on this one! I got Bon Appetit because I subscribed to Eating Well (a really great magazine) and when it went under I got Bon Appetit to fill out the subscription. I have continued it because every once in a long while I find a great recipe in BA. Generally, they are way too high in fat- especially the desserts. The pictures are great and there isn't the useless beauty/lifestyle stuff in the front.

[karenv]

I love this magazine. Subscribing to it is great. Actually I like this one better than Gourmet because you get a lot more variety of recipies that you CAN make. Gourmet got on the high end of things calling for ingredients that were getting out of my price range. Also the advertising is getting out of hand in that one. So it is BHG, CL and BA for now. Trying to make things from all three are hard.

This months recipies in BA are TREMENDOUS!

Karen V

[schuh]

Let me retract my comments when it comes to the July issue. There are TONS of recipes I want to try! I'm starting with the Greek salad tonight.

[Curleytop]

Speaking of Bon Appetit, I took the April issue out of the library. I found a recipe in it I am going to try. We love lamb, but it is very expensive in So.Cal. The shoulder chops are too bony and fat, (those are cheap), but B.A. has a recipe where you first debone,defat etc then pound the good morsels and saute them in a little butter. I might use olive oil. DID ANYONE TRY THIS RECIPE?

[Wendy w]

I received my July issue yesterday, and let me tell you, I drooled my way through it. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/tongue.gif http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/tongue.gif http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/tongue.gif http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/tongue.gif It was fun tantalizing BF on the phone last night. There are some issues that are like this, and others that have only a couple of things in it. schuh, let us know how the Greek salad turns out. The whole menu looks great!

[karenv]

Boy, when I mentions "this months" recipes are tremendous I was talking about June's. When I got home from work, there was July and this month is even BETTER!

kAREN

[schuh]

The Greek salad was pretty good. Nothing to swoon over, but good. I do have to say I approximated it .. I was out of red wine vinegar and used white wine instead. Used 2T olive oil instead of 3. Had fresh oregano out of my garden instead of their fresh parsley/dried oregano combo.

Next on my list is the grilled cajun chicken salad (appears on the same page as the Greek Salad). It looks easy enough to "lighten."

Hope this is ok, posting a review regarding another magazine...

[joyous]

Bon Appetit was the first cooking magazine I ever subscribed to. However, most of its recipes are just a little fancier than I care to cook.

Once I discovered CL and Fine Cooking, I never looked back.