Cookbook Immersion Project

When I first flipped through The New Persian Kitchen , I immediately flagged Turmeric Chicken with Sumac and Lime, primarily because I didn...

The photo on the cover of The Food52 Cookbook is so well-shot, so accessible, so attractive, that it makes me want to eat Zucchini Pancakes...

To accompany Lebovitz's steak on Saturday, I also made a simple salad, dressed with Food52 's Salad Dressing (pg 39). I find it cha...

The recipe for Blueberry Almond Breakfast Polenta (pg 140) caught my eye nearly every time I've flipped through The Food52 Cookbook . O...

I've never heard of Croquants (pg 410 of Around My French Table ) before, but it turns out they're one of the simplest cookies that...

Tartine de Viande des Grisons is a long and mysterious name for a simple tartine that the French Fridays with Dorie crew made this week. Br...

I've made a bunch of recipes from The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays . Most of them are from the Thanksgiving section, but not ...

This is going to be a quick one. My friend from home is currently sitting on a runway in Paris, and I have to leave in a while to pick her u...

Finally! A French Fridays with Dorie recipe that gives me a sourcing edge over people who don't have access to an Italian supermarket. I...

I've gone fajita crazy. I cooked The Pioneer Woman's Beef Fajitas and Homemade Tortillas (pg 141 and 143 of A Year of Holidays ) las...

I recently asked Charlie to pick a recipe out of C is for Cooking . He went with Ernie's Fruity Frozen Fun Pops . I like the idea of the...

A bout of poor dinner planning paid off when I realized that I was in possession of the three ingredients necessary to make Rigatoni alla Pa...

Fried zucchini blossoms are near and dear to my heart. Growing up, my Italian-American next-door neighbor fried batches of flowers from her ...

Although I've been plugging along and enjoying recipes from My Calabria , I've (once again) been a delinquent blogger. Thanks for pu...

One element of Italian cooking that I absolutely love, and never knew about before moving to Napoli, is their affinity for carb on carb acti...

It felt like it took a long time to prepare dinner tonight, but that's really only because it took me forever to clean the giant bag of ...

On Friday, two hours before we were scheduled to leave for the train station to head up to Bologna for the weekend, Charlie requested pancak...

I really need to start posting about these recipes closer to the time I've prepared them. Some are a little fuzzy in my memory. Maybe th...

Charlie was sick to his stomach all night. Around 5:30 this morning, Matt got sick, too. I figure it's only a matter of time before I...

I've never met a baked apple that I didn't like. It's possible that so much time has passed since my last baked apple that this ...