I love this book! To me, Sally McKinney is like Ina Garten but purely for baking – her recipes just work. Everything will turn out delicious, no misses, no exceptions. This will sound bad to some people, but the thing with this book is that it has the palette of a five year old. In…
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Smitten Kitchen Every Day by Deb Perelman
If you don’t know Smitten Kitchen, you’re missing out. It’s a wonderful blog by Deb Perelman. Her own description of her life and times is so charming, I think I should just refer anyone interested to her ‘about’ page. Suffice it to say, I have loved her blog basically forever. She is a legend in…
A Guide to Homemade Sourdough Bread
Making sourdough at home can seem intimidating. It requires special equipment, it takes time to make the dough, and the skills needed to shape and score loaves have to be learned. So, is it worth it? YES. I do think so. There is nothing so lovely as your own beautiful sourdough loaves. The accomplishment of…
Made in India by Meera Sodha
The first meal I cooked out of Made in India: Recipes from an Indian Family Kitchen was Roasted tamarind chicken, and on the side the lime pickled onions, the mint and yogurt chutney, and the Chapatis. I would not usually make so many sides, but these recipes are just so easy and so easily made…
Cucina Rustica by Evan Kleiman and Viana La Place
I have loved cooking from this book. My mom has had it since I can remember (it was published in 1990), and gifted me a copy for Christmas/Hanukkah this past year. It’s a quiet classic, and well worth diving into. The truly valuable part of this cookbook is that the rhythm of it encourages…
Cooking for Jeffrey by Ina Garten
Ina Garten is a Culinary Queen. But before she was a queen, she was just a girl, standing in front of Jeffrey, trying to get into a cocktail bar. So the story goes in Cooking for Jeffrey, Ina’s one millionth (*ahem* 10th) cookbook. So enjoyable to hear her origin story, which begins, according to her,…
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking, by Samin Nosrat, illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton, is listed on Amazon as a Cooking Encyclopedia. Accurate. It’s basically a cooking course, more about methodology and learning the why of it all than just giving you every recipe ever. Like any course of study, the…
Ottolenghi SIMPLE by Yotam Ottolenghi
Yotam Ottolenghi has been massively internationally influential in the last decade. He has changed the way we think about food on a much larger scale than just his own work—he has influenced so many people in the food space that it actually changed the current, moving us collectively more towards vivacious herbs and middle eastern…
Ready for Dessert by David Lebovitz
When did I first learn about David Lebovitz? Was it reading his blog, davidlebovitz.com, or was it seeing his ice cream book, The Perfect Scoop? Whichever it was, it was wonderful, and I was instantly a fan. Even after being a follower for so long, I can still get lost on his website, spending far…
One Good Dish by David Tanis
I loved cooking from One Good Dish: the pleasures of a simple meal. First up for me was grilled cheese in a waffle iron, a sandwich so simple I hesitate to even call it a recipe. It’s an idea—read the name, you pretty much know how to make it. That amazes me. David Tanis is…
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