There are many cookbooks published on the topic of cooking with kids and, when I first saw the title of Joshua David Stein‘s cookbook, I initially mistook the “for” in the title for “with.” So, I was pleasantly surprised when the book arrived from the publisher, and I realized my misunderstanding. Speaking from experience, Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Cooking for Your Kids”
This is my fourteenth cookbook, and it arrives exactly thirty years after my first. A lot has changed over those decades, but not the joy I get from baking. That’s constant and unfailing. If you’re a baker, you know exactly how I feel. If you’re not, the sweetest thing I can wish you is that you become one. Bake something and share it. It might change your life. It changed mine. (3)
People who adore Dorie Greenspan have a favourite Dorie book. I came to my favourite Dorie book when my (then) baby daughter was becoming acquainted with food. The mealtimes Katie enjoyed the most were the ones when I made pancakes or waffles. This is where Dorie comes in: Dorie’s fourth book, Waffles: From Morning to Night, is full of flavourful and beautiful waffle recipes Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Baking with Dorie”
More than any other cookbook this year, Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple: A New Way to Bake Gluten-Free is the book I’ve gotten the most DMs about — mostly, people are requesting a review. I know what the concern is: is the gluten-free baking in Aran Goyoaga‘s book good? Being a vegetarian, I can understand what people who eat gluten-free go through because as a vegetarian, the way I eat is seen as Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple”
The fact that restaurant dining and travel has changed over the past couple of years is an ever-present part of our lives. That coulda/woulda/shoulda feeling washes over me when I think of the places I didn’t visit because I thought: there is always next time. Well, the sting of this thought is only soothed when I pick up a cookbook to vicariously enjoy whatever I’ve missed. One of the cookbooks published this year, Bite House: Cooking on Cape Breton Island by Bryan Picard, offers the home cook a way to enjoy this renowned restaurant Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Bite House”
Most good love stories have a certain amount of magic in them; mine just also happens to contain vegetables. (11)
The most interesting cookbooks are the ones that also offer a connection in addition to the recipes. While there has been much written maligning narrative recipe writing, I strongly believe it is the personal stories that make the recipes worth trying. And in a world of myriad recipes, as a home cook, I want to know why ingredients are important and what makes a recipe special. I need something to hang my Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Vegetables — A Love Story”
With my daughter starting back at school last month, my husband and I have been able to enjoy lunches together as we work from home. Lunch preparation for us leans towards being quick and easy — soup, sandwiches, or pasta. The latter being a particular Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: An A-Z of Pasta”
What I’ve come to realize about myself since the pandemic with its myriad lockdowns — I truly am an introvert. While I love the idea of being out with my friends and family for beautiful, leisurely weekend brunches, in the back of my mind that little voice quickly reminds me: “Uh oh! People!” Which is why I love cookbooks from Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Maman – The Cookbook”
Much of what cooking means to me has to do with joy — with the food, recipes, the process, and the final reveal as you plate the food and set it on the table for people to enjoy. Part of the delight is feeling grateful for the fact I can cook and have ingredients to do so. I think this is one of the reasons why I am drawn to Mary Berg and her cookbooks. And it’s not just me either — my daughter adores Mary Berg. For Katie, it began with Mary’s first television show Mary’s Kitchen Crush and then that love Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Well Seasoned”
Baking from a cookbook is like completing a trust fall — the home baker putting all their trust in the author. If an author has done their job well then, the home baker will come up with beautiful results. Many of us feel tentative as we look through baking books at Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Baking for the Holidays”
Recently, I was chatting over the phone to a friend about cakes. Not a baker or even one to indulge in baked treats, she had purchased an Instagram-worthy layer cake from a local bakery to celebrate a milestone. The cake, with its bright frosting piped to perfection, topped with beautiful macarons, left something to be desired in the flavour department. The cake was entirely for the ‘gram. She described the first few bites — the cake was flavourless save for the excruciating sweetness of the frosting. Thinking about what she said, cake should be worth the trouble to eat. It should be beautiful in all things — Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: The New Way to Cake”
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