Thread: New Kitchen - need cookbook to try every recipe
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Old 10-16-2016, 10:56 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by FatDog View Post
I am 10 weeks into an 8 week Kitchen remodel. Painters are actually working downstairs as I type this.

I decided I needed to break out of my rut of ... 8 meals I know how to cook. I was thinking of doing a "Julie and Julia" - find a cookbook and try to cook every dish. (If I cook 80% of the recipes in a cook book I will be happy.)

Now comes the problem. Many cookbooks are like music cd's - one or two hits and lots of crap fillers. Strange seafood dishes to fill out a category, obligatory pie & cake recipes without explaining techniques like "creaming" and using a pastry cutter to blend in chunks of butter for 1 recipe. This does not work.
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I have immensely enjoyed "The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science". It is simply is a good read. It does away with many historical misconceptions and tries very hard to explain things. It is available as e-book, take a look at the sample chapter and decide whether you like it.
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