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Recipe for Tomato Sambal from Coconut & Sambal by Lara Lee

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This wonderful book is an armchair cook’s trip into an Indonesian kitchen. The sambal featured here is a versatile relish that you can make as spicy as you please. I am exploring this book’s interesting dishes, made with lemongrass, pandan leaves, and palm sugar. Next on my list: Peanut sauce, crispy fish, and bakso meatball soup.

Recipe excerpted with permission from Coconut & Sambal by Lara Lee, photographs by Louise Hagger and Laura Lee (Bloomsbury)

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Recipe for Carrot and Potato Tagine with Peas from Vegetarian Tagines and Couscous by Ghillie Başan

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

A tagine is a flavorful, slow-cooked stew. It’s also the vessel that it is cooked in, which is a kind of pot bottom with a tall, tapered cover that allows steam to build up so the food stays tender. This cookbook has lots of recipes for vegetarian dishes, often served with couscous, rice, or toasted bread, such as little artichokes with ginger, honey, and preserved lemon; runner beans with tomato and dill; and a creamy pumpkin soup with chili honey. Whip up this easy veggie dish and settle in with the book to take an armchair trip to Morocco.

Recipe excerpted with permission from Vegetarian Tagines and Couscous by Ghillie Başan, photography by Steve Painter (Ryland Peters & Small)

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Recipe for Thai-style Coconut Chicken Curry from Cooking for One by America's Test Kitchen

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

There are lots of interesting meals for one you can whip up in a flash: try the Florentine soup with sausage and tortellini, salads, stir-fries, paper bag popcorn, and two chocolate chip cookies made in the toaster oven.

Recipe excerpted with permission from Cooking for One by America's Test Kitchen

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Recipe for Storecupboard Pasta from Posh Pasta by Pip Spence, photography by Faith Mason.

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This book will inspire you to make pasta dishes every night. There are recipes for spicy chickpea and sweet potato penne, cold orzo salad with tomato, artichoke and olives, fried macaroni and cheese balls, and a perfect pesto. And lots more.

Recipe excerpted with permission from Posh Pasta by Phillippa Spence, published by Quadrille

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Recipe for Dutch Baby from Baking Day by Anna Olson, photography by Janis Nicolay

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This week’s recipe from this lovely book is for a sweet breakfast treat or dessert. Next on my list: garlic cheese bread, roasted carrot dip, and an interesting Japanese cheesecake loaf. And maybe some walnut rolls with butter. Happy New Year!

Recipe excerpted with permission from Baking Day by Anna Olson from Appetite by Random House Canada

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