Category Archives: Cook the Book

Cook the Book: Cauliflower and Gorgonzola Soup

Today’s recipe is from Ottolenghi: The Cookbook. His publicists were nice enough to send me a copy, and I immediately earmarked about three-quarters of the book. Ottolenghi apparently has a mission to make cauliflower a more-loved vegetable, so naturally I picked a cauliflower-centric recipe for my first foray into the world of Ottolenghi. This [...]
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Cook the Book: Braised Swiss Chard with Cilantro, Ginger and Rice

I know that I’ve been playing cookbook favorites lately. I have five new ones that I have yet to crack open, and still I keep coming back to Deborah Madison’s inspired volume, Local Flavors. It seems to have the perfect recipe for precisely every mood that I am in. This week’s pick came to be after [...]
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Cook the Book: Gratinated Arugula with Grits

These past few weeks have been incredibly busy, and I haven’t been able to cook as elaborately as I would normally like. Which is where How to Cook Everything comes in handy. I have the iPhone app on my phone, so last night, coming home tired from a day of work and a weekend in [...]
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Cook the Book: Zucchini-Cilantro Soup with Chile and Mint

Over the weekend, on a stroll through the ‘hood with Lauren , I was lucky enough to pick up a copy of Deborah Madison’s Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers’ Markets at a stoop sale. This book really conveys the essence of my cooking style — it is vegetable heavy (we eat almost entirely [...]
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Cook the Book: Chilaquiles

[Editor's Note: Cook the Book is a new weekly feature, written by your truly. Each week, I'll whip up a recipe out of my quietly growing collection of cookbooks.] Chilaquiles are a favorite weekend breakfast around our house. Sometimes, if we’re feeling ambitious and happen to have a bag of stale tortilla chips around, even [...]
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