Cookbook Club – Aarti Paarti In October, we used Aarti Sequeira’s cookbook Aarti Paarti. In it, she simplifies traditional Indian recipes and techniques to make Indian flavors accessible for the US market. To find out how many of her Indian dishes translated, go to my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish! What Sequeira…
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Pickled Rooibos Grapes
Cookbook Club – Baco Our September cookbook was Josef Centeno’s Baco. Centeno has several restaurants in LA – I’ve been to Baco Mercat, for which the cookbook was named, and really enjoyed the sandwiches made from the flatbread he calls “baco”. To find out how our homemade versions of the baco and other selections from…
Roast Green Peppers with Fried Garlic Chips
Cookbook Club – The New Spanish Table For our August Cookbook Club, we used The New Spanish Table by Anya von Bremzen. I was at first irritated by the formatting of the book, but after an amazing meal all layout woes were forgiven. To come along on our culinary journey through all the regions of…
Cremini Mushroom Toasts
Cookbook Club – Nancy Silverton’s Sandwich Book In honor of summer picnic season, our July cookbook was Nancy Silverton’s Sandwich Book. In the book, Silverton has gathered together her best recipes from the very popular sandwich night that she used to do at her restaurant Campanile (no longer open). You can examine every bread-y bite…
Blueberry-Lemon-Coconut Loaf
Cookbook Club – Baking at Republique We did a bonus Cookbook Club event in June, using Margarita Manzke’s Baking at Republique. She shares recipes for many of the baked goods available at Republique. I was pretty excited about this, since I have eaten my fair share of baked treats at that LA restaurant and pretty…
Spiced Egg Salad
Cookbook Club – The Soul of a New Cuisine For our June cookbook, we used Marcus Samuelsson’s The Soul of a New Cuisine. In it, he includes traditional foods of Africa as well as his own African-inspired creations. I was looking forward to this meal because I haven’t had many opportunities to eat African food,…
Super-Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits
Cookbook Club – The Food Lab Our cookbook for May was The Food Lab by J. Kenzi Lopez-Alt. This cookbook is all about the science behind the best techniques that the home cook can use. You can experience our whole experiment in a meal on my Cookbook Club site – for now, my dish! Biscuits…
Fresh Fruit with Chilli Sugar and Lime
Cookbook Club – Chin Chin: The Book I was traveling and missed our official Cookbook Club events for April, but I did manage to make it to the bonus event where we used Chin Chin: The Book by Benjamin Cooper. We did it as a bonus event because this book is not easy to get…
Curried Roasted Cauliflower
Cookbook Club – The Seasonal Jewish Kitchen Our March cookbook was The Seasonal Jewish Kitchen by Amelia Saltsman. I’m always angling to get invited to my Jewish friends’ holiday parties because of the food (and the company of course!), so I was excited for this book. You can get a peak into the abundance of…
Fly’s Head
Cookbook Club – The Immigrant Cookbook For February’s Cookbook Club, we used The Immigrant Cookbook by Leyla Moushabeck. It was a fun way to try recipes of immigrant chefs from a diversity of countries. To experience our whole trip around the world in a meal, visit my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish!…
Peas with Lemon and Mint
Cookbook Club – The Kitchen Diaries For our first cookbook of 2019, we chose Nigel Slater’s The Kitchen Diaries, which was probably appropriate to kick off the new year as in it he chronicles a year of his own cooking and eating. You can cook a lot of food in a year, so there were…
Salted Butter Break-Ups
Cookbook Club – Holiday Year in Review The December event seemed like the perfect time to look back on and appreciate all of the fantastic food the Cookbook Club explored over the past year, so rather than selecting a new cookbook we asked everyone to make a recipe from any of the books we’d used…