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Recipe for Carrot and Potato Tagine with Peas

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.

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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

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.

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

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Recipe for Storecupboard Pasta

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.

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

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The winners of Mrs. Zabar's Holiday Cookie Contest

We're happy to share the winners of Mrs. Zabar's Holiday Cookie Contest! Thank you to everyone who entered! ⁠
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Donna C.'s, Stained Glass Cookies⁠


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Lori B.'s, Ugly sweater cookies⁠


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Eileen D.'s, Pistachio Orange Cream Sandwich cookies⁠


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Maria R. S.'s, Grandmother's Linzer

Recipe for Chocolate Covered Pretzels

from Milk Jar Cookies by Courtney Cowan, photography by Ashley Maxwell

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

I was enchanted with these pretty no-bake pretzels. There are wonderful recipes for baked goods, too. Get the book and make some banana split cookies, blueberry ricotta pancakes, and fudge.

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Recipe excerpted with permission from Rizzoli

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Recipe for Latkes with Smoked Salmon, Pickled Blackberry, and Wasabi Cream

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This beautiful book combines traditional and modern kosher recipes, some with an international twist, all with gorgeous photographs. Try the smoked salmon rosettes, shawarma, mushroom lasagnette, falafel with beet hummus, or tuna-stuffed tomatoes. And the adorably named Chicken Massaged with Shmaltz. But try these latkes first.

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Recipe excerpted with permission from Rizzoli Publications

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Enter Mrs. Zabar's Holiday Cookie Contest!

Send one original, never-published recipe & photo of your favorite family cookies.

Just send us an email, cookie recipe, and photo to TZabar@zabars.com with the subject "Zabar's cookie contest 2020" and you'll be entered to win. The winner will be selected randomly on 12/31/2020 and will be contacted by email.

First Prize: Zabar's Baker's Gift Box
Second Prize: Zabar's Dessert Cookie Quartet
Third Prize: Zabar's Black & White Duo Cookie Box

Plus, refer a friend and you each get a chance to win Zabar’s Brownie Bites Box!

(Note: The prizes can be sent to the 50 United States and DC, age 18+ only. Cannot be sent to P. O. boxes.) Cookie photos, your name, and recipes may be published on Zabar's blog and social media sites. One recipe entry per person.

 

Recipe for Vanilla Sablés from How to Bake by Nick Malgieri

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

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This classic cookbook, written by my amazing baker-friend, is full of all sorts of recipes and tips. It’s time to start baking your holiday cookies. First up: this ultimate, simple, sugary cookie. Then bake the chocolate spice cookies. They will whip up quickly. After that, his decorated gingerbread cookies, the chocolate version of the sablés, and a few dozen fig bars and hermits. Fill tins to send off to your loved ones and be sure to save one for yourself.

Recipe excerpted with permission from How to Bake by Nick Malgieri (Dover Books)

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Recipe for Veggie Lo Mein from Dumplings and Noodles by Pippa Middlehurst

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.

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Recipe excerpted with permission from Dumplings and Noodles by Pippa Middlehurst, photography by India Hobson & Magnus Edmondson, published by Quadrille.

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Recipe for Leeks Vinaigrette from JACQUES PÉPIN QUICK & SIMPLE

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

Chef Pépin was a dean when I went to culinary school, many years ago. He was always kind, with a twinkle in his eye. And he can cook most of us under the table, pun intended. His cookbook is filled with wonderful recipes, photos, and lovely paintings. There is an interesting cabbage, shrimp, and caviar dish; a garlicky roast leg of lamb; pureed peas with mint; and an apple brown Betty after my own heart. Go in your kitchen and try this simple dish.

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Excerpted from JACQUES PÉPIN QUICK & SIMPLE © 2020 by Jacques Pépin. Photography © 2020 by Tom Hopkins. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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