What is it that home cooks really want? Easy to cook meals that taste delicious! Seems simple enough, right? Are you like me, after flipping through a cookbook (close to or at suppertime) you realize that the recipes will a) take too long, b) you don’t have the ingredients, and c) your child is riding Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: 30-Minute Vegetarian”
“Let’s stay in” — three delightful words, when used in combination creates such emotion. What this phrase evokes is the feelings of comfort, kinship, and warmth. While going out is fun being able to stay home is an experience not to be missed. Even as I sit here Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Let’s Stay In”
We buy cookbooks for all sorts of reasons — as gifts, to learn techniques, explore different cuisines — but I’m finding, more and more, that what home cooks are really looking for is for a cookbook to make weeknight cooking easier. I’m not sure there is a person who exists that wants to buy a cartload of pricy Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Back Pocket Pasta”
When I was younger the food at all the big events and family gatherings centered around trays — trays of veggies with ranch dip, cut fruit with a sweet yogurt dip, and one for meat and cheese. Closing my eyes, I can picture them all — rolled sandwich meats, cubed cheese (cut from the econo-sized block kind), veggie trays that always Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: On Boards”
I really learned a valuable lesson from Dorie Greenspan‘s newest cookbook, Everyday Dorie. As soon as the book arrived for me to review, I began the way I always do — bookmarking all the delicious and interesting recipes I want Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Everyday Dorie”
Let’s start with something fun — word association! If I say “Ottolenghi” to you what might you say? The word “elegant” may come to mind or “extra” might pop into your head. Most assuredly “ingredients” would be one that most would think of. Yotam Ottolenghi is a person who has changed the way people view food. Difficult to categorize, his style works on the premise that food is all about flavour and unorthodox combinations (prior to receiving Ottolenghi Simple I had made one of his recipes from Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Ottolenghi Simple”
For being completely into cookbooks I’ve never really been too interested in celebrity cookbooks. I think I was always under the impression that these cookbooks leaned more into the celebrity and their celebrity lives with the food being a secondary concern. So I think I surprised myself and those around me when I hardcore fell for Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Cravings: Hungry for More”
There are just some people in life that make you want to be a better person — and not through any kind of cajoling, guilt, or other tactics. They lead by example and advocate. I think that Julia Turshen is one of these rare people who looks at the world and doesn’t complain but tries instead to make the world better. I could start my review of her newest book Now & Again by talking about the recipes or the Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Now & Again”
One of the ideas I kept coming back to while cooking from Gena Hamshaw’s Power Plates is what Julia Child said: “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces — just good food from fresh ingredients.” Too often our busy lives Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Power Plates”
The comedian, Stephen Fry, once said: “Nothing in this world is as it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.” Good for a small chuckle but I think he’s been eating the wrong porridge! Not difficult to cook but seemingly easy to ruin I think that oatmeal/porridge gets a bad rep. For me, the answer to almost Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: The New Porridge”
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