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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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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Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
Start preparing for Thanksgiving. As a young bride, I practiced my turkey skills three fall Sundays in a row on some chickens. When it came time for my first holiday as a hostess, I was ready! This lovely book has many recipes for entertaining, such as mini vegetable pies, plank salmon, and an apple cinnamon galette. Enjoy.
Recipe excerpted with permission from Miss Maggie’s Kitchen by Héloïse Brion, photographs by Christophe Roué
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Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
This book inspired me to get in the kitchen and make my own dumplings and buns. I am working my way through the ramen and rice noodle section. Soon, I will try Biang Biang Noodles and a lovely rainbow salad. The vegetarian Lo Mein recipe is easy and fun to whip up on a cold fall evening.
Recipe excerpted with permission from Dumplings and Noodles by Pippa Middlehurst, photography by India Hobson & Magnus Edmondson, published by Quadrille.
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Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
I really love this book. It has recipes grouped into meals, so if you are making the pot roast, you can incorporate some of the braising liquid into broccoli rabe as the side. Make your own ricotta cavatelli, then add a mixture of veggies and spices, and cover with a cheese sauce. I am having fun creating salads and mixing and matching the lovely dressings: Celery Root, Fennel, Pear, and Apple Salad with Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette. Throw in the roasted beets of another salad recipe, add the Meyer lemon vinaigrette, and this refreshing salad is my new favorite. Next up: a grandma pizza pie.
Excerpted from CHASING FLAVOR: Techniques and Recipes to Cook Fearlessly © 2020 by Daniel Kluger. Photography © 2020 by Evan Sung. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
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Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
This beautiful book holds a culinary trip to Italy, with a little bit of France thrown in. Try this pasta dish that is easy to throw together and get on the table. There is also a recipe for torta pasqualina that is right out of my childhood. I remember my eighty-year-old cousin, Grace, cutting one open to reveal Swiss chard or maybe escarole, with a perfectly cooked hard boiled egg in the center of each slice. It was so beautiful that you barely knew, as a child, you were eating a green vegetable. I never asked her for the recipe, because I was afraid of her. Now, thanks to this book, I have it!
Reprinted from Old World Italian. Copyright © 2020 by Marie-France Thorisson. Photographs copyright © 2020 by Oddur Thorisson. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Random House.
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Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
This beautiful book, filled with gorgeous photos and illustrations, will take you around the world, via your own kitchen. So many interesting, new nibbles made me happy: Koshary from Cairo, Pastilla from Marrakech, Keftedes and Tzatziki from Santorini, and Remoulade from Reykjavik. There are some twists on old favorites too, like Peach Melba Pie from Iowa and Guacamole from Baja. These recipes for schnitzel and potato salad are not your typical Italian fare, but they are perfect for an early fall dinner.
Excerpted with permission from Travels with My Spatula: Recipes & Stories from Around the World (Ryland Peters & Small)
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Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
This cookbook features an amazing assortment of chicken soups from around the world—Tom Kha Gai, a gingery Thai noodle soup; Chicken Mafé, a West African peanut-flavored, spicy soup with eggplant and sweet potato; Cuban Ajiaco, a stew of chicken and beef; and a perfumed stew from Peru. Try Egyptian Kubbeh Hamusta; and dumplings from Germany. This French chicken in a pot is close to the classic Jewish penicillin. Spice it up or down, but try it, and also try Skink, a creamy Irish concoction with leeks and carrots; and Pennsylvania Dutch Rival, a chicken-filled corn chowder.
Recipe excerpted with permission The Chicken Soup Manifesto by Jenn Louis, published by Hardie Grant Books
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Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
This book has twenty summers’ worth of recipes for salads, grills, picnics, and cool desserts. Start with green tomato chutney, dilly beans, and a smoked salmon Niçoise salad. Throw some meat and veggies on the grill, drink some sweet iced tea and finish with an ice-cream sundae. The perfect beach day menu.
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Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
This beautiful book is calling my name. I loved these baked eggs with my favorite food—smoked salmon. Next on my list: savory gruyère bread, roasted tomatoes with lemony anchovy crumbs, and a rack of lamb. And maybe some jam-filled sables.
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