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Menu du jour Cooking Books - around the table : 15 Recipes


  • Recipe Carrot Risotto
    Carrot Risotto
    I buy all of my books used. Online, most of the time, on recommendation from friends or other people out there in the interwebs. Or from used book stores, garage sales, the little church around the corner that spills used knickknacks,[...]
  • Recipe Pecan Sandies-like
    Pecan Sandies-like
    There are a few store-bought cookie types I'll always associated with home. Two actually, that my dad always ate. The first is the Oreo, but that's easy to guess. The second is the Pecan Sandie. I have to admit he didn't usually have much[...]
  • Recipe Ginger Roasted Chickpeas
    Ginger Roasted Chickpeas
    I am always just about the last person to jump on a trend.  I can't commit to something until I am absolutely sure that all  the cool kids are doing it, thus increasing my chances to be counted among them.  (Note: use of the word "thus" will[...]
  • Recipe Sweet and Spicy Pumpkin Soup
    Sweet and Spicy Pumpkin Soup
    Hey there! Have you missed me? Have you even noticed I've been gone? I have two and a half weeks left until my oral exam, and am in full freak-out mode. It's not a pretty sight. I don't think you need the details. So if you think you[...]
  • Recipe Saffron-Spiked Moroccan Stew
    Saffron-Spiked Moroccan Stew
    I don't need to tell you what season it is. Starting off with something like "It's Autumn!" is a little insultingly obvious. But, see, the thing is, it is autumn. We're eating totally different things than we were this time, even last month[...]
  • Recipe Lamb Shanks with Five Heads of Garlic
    Lamb Shanks with Five Heads of Garlic
    I read somewhere, probably in a review of some cookbook or other, a criticism of the author for throwing garlic at everything. Risotto? Add some garlic. Vegetable soup? Garlic. Chocolate cake? Just kidding. Anyway, this review was meant as[...]
  • Recipe Chickpea Stew with Chorizo and Meatballs
    Chickpea Stew with Chorizo and Meatballs
    Sometimes you have to concede to your audience.  Sometimes you have to give the people what they want.  R has eaten patiently through countless veggie soups, veggies stuffed, veggies in salads and veggies all on their own.  For this, I[...]
  • Recipe Chickpea Stew with Chorizo and Meatballs
    Chickpea Stew with Chorizo and Meatballs
    Sometimes you have to concede to your audience.  Sometimes you have to give the people what they want.  R has eaten patiently through countless veggie soups, veggies stuffed, veggies in salads and veggies all on their own.  For this, I[...]
  • Recipe Chickpea Stew with Chorizo and Meatballs
    Chickpea Stew with Chorizo and Meatballs
    Sometimes you have to concede to your audience.  Sometimes you have to give the people what they want.  R has eaten patiently through countless veggie soups, veggies stuffed, veggies in salads and veggies all on their own.  For this, I[...]
  • Recipe Pepper and Onion Roast with Soft Indian Spices
    Pepper and Onion Roast with Soft Indian Spices
    I love the sound of "soft indian spices."  It makes me think of ornate fabrics of complimentary colors like pink and orange.  It makes me want to snuggle.  The idea of the title, according to Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift in their rightly[...]