Tag: cookbooks
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Cilantro Pesto Recipe (Can It Pesto? Series)
I had other intentions for the fourth edition of Can It Pesto?, but then two things happened—and this cilantro pesto recipe was born. First, I spent six worthwhile hours making the quesabirria tacos from the ArnieTex cookbook. Second, I had a full-on forest of cilantro growing in the top spot of my Gardyn (my indoor…
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Cookbook Roulette: Hasselback Potatoes with Baltimore Blonde & Chive Sauce
This week’s Cookbook Roulette wheel landed on The Official Guiness Cookbook. Every recipe incorporates some form of Guinness beer, which makes it a fun (and slightly unpredictable) choice for Cookbook Roulette. The randomizer landed on page 59: Hasselback Potatoes with Baltimore Blonde and Chive Sauce. We were already planning steak for Saturday night, and this…
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The Five Best Things I Made in January
January was a bit of a strange month this year. There was crazy cold weather all across the country (even in Florida and Texas), my husband was out of town for work for most of the month, and I did some traveling of my own as well. For all of these reasons, I cooked a…
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Cookbook Roulette: Making Croque Madame from Matty Matheson’s Cookbook
I collect cookbooks, and in an effort to actually use them more, I decided to let a spinning wheel choose what I make for dinner. First, I added eight of my cookbooks to an online randomizer and hit “spin.” Then, I used a second wheel to randomly select a page number. The result? Page 205…
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6 Cookbooks to gift everyone in your life
Somewhere along the way, my three siblings and I grew into adults who are all equally obsessed with food—and increasingly invested in learning how to cook it well. A few Christmases ago, that shared passion revealed itself in the best possible way: we exchanged gifts and ended up with what we now lovingly call a…
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Chicken & Sausage Gumbo + 2 Cajun Cookbooks everyone needs
The first time I ever made gumbo, it wasn’t from a polished cookbook—it arrived in a string of slightly chaotic text messages, half instructions and half encouragement. Since then, I’ve cooked my way through multiple versions of this classic Cajun dish, celebrating the triumphs and shrugging off the failures (burnt roux included). When winter starts…
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5 Kitchen Items I’m Obsessed with Right Now
As someone who cooks almost every night, I love to find kitchen tools that truly make my life easier. Here are five I am loving at the moment! 1. Gravity Automatic Electric Salt & Pepper Shakers Honestly, I’m shocked at how long it took me to jump on this trend, but I am new to…
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I can’t stop eating this Roasted Broccoli Salad…
Remember a few years ago when brussel sprouts suddenly became very sexy? Every cool restaurant had a version of balsamic glazed brussel sprouts or crispy brussel sprouts. If you had plans to meet up with a friend they’d say “let’s go to __________, I’m obsessed with their brussel sprouts.” Remember that era? It was followed…
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Habanero Hot Sauce Recipe
This habanero hot sauce recipe made me famous at the office! It all started because my garden decided to go absolutely wild with habaneros. I’m not kidding—I had so many peppers coming in that I hosted an entire habanero-themed dinner party just to keep up. (Think habanero margaritas, habanero-seasoned fajitas… you get the idea.) Four…
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5 Cookbooks I actually use… (as a collector)
I have a confession. I love buying cookbooks. I love getting excited about a new one, waiting all day for the Amazon truck, and cracking it open to immediately flip through it the second it arrives. To me, it’s a relatively low-cost hit of serotonin. I almost always learn something from flipping through a cookbook,…