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Category Archives: recipes
Recipe of the week: Stollen
Our December cooking column, part II of a fantastic collection of gifty cookbooks (see part I here), includes four spectacular collections of great meals. For the foodies and gourmands on your gift list, they’re great, but Illustrated Step-by-Step Baking by … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Molasses Ginger Cookies
Sometimes the title of a cookbook is just as good as the recipes inside, such as in the case of The Rosie’s Bakery All-Butter, Cream-Filled, Sugar-Packed Baking Book by Judy Rosenberg. After all, as much as it’s great to be … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Sautéed Scallops with Asparagus
Thanksgiving is all about the best family recipes–the ones that use the most butter and cream and are handwritten on ancient recipe cards. Like my grandmother’s corn pudding recipe—at the bottom she wrote, “Serve, eat & slap yo’ mama!” So … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Butter-Poached Shrimp with Grits
Ruhlman’s Twenty is one of those cookbooks that should be in every kitchen. Michael Ruhlman distills the art of cooking down to 20 fundamental techniques that “all cooks, regardless of their skill or station, need and use.” Whether you’re making … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Coconut flan
From the world-renowned chef of elBulli comes a cooking guide unlike any other–The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adrià. BookPage cookbook columnist Sybil Pratt calls it “manna from the maestro for home cooks, both novice and notable.” It’s our … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Merry berry cookies
As the holidays approach, it is the perfect time to dive into a Hannah Swensen culinary whodunit, and Joanne Fluke’s Lake Eden Cookbook couples the sweet Minnesota tales with scrumptious recipes from Hannah’s shop, The Cookie Jar! Here’s an excerpt … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Pumpkin & ginger soup
The Slow Cook Book by Heather Whinney is all about the thrifty and the nifty. Any of the 200 recipes in this collection can be done in a traditional oven or in a slow cooker. Sounds like a real staple … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Carroty Mac and Cheese
“Melissa Clark’s effervescent, inexhaustible enthusiasm for all things edible is wonderfully infectious. She really makes you want to drop everything, head for the kitchen and whip up an Upside-Down Polenta Plum Cake or Carroty Mac and Cheese.” That’s what our … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Tarte Tatin
Our Cookbook of the Month celebrates one of the great chefs of our time–Jacques Pepin! Essential Pepin: More Than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food honors Pepin’s 60 years in the kitchen with the best recipes. BookPage cookbook … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Out-of-the-Pan Peach Pie
Our Cookbook of the Month for September comes from the Loveless Cafe. If you’re not as lucky as we are and can’t take a drive down Highway 100–or simply want to bring it home for the family—Desserts from the Famous … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: World’s Greatest Chicken Pot Pie
The American casserole is back on center stage “with a healthy helping of retro-chic and gourmet flair,” thanks to The Casserole Queens Cookbook by Crystal Cook and Sandy Pollock! Featured in our September Cooking column, the cookbook by two Austin … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Parmesan Potato Gratin
One of our September cookbooks comes from West Texas–but these aren’t your everyday ranch-style meals. Louis Lambert shares “haute ranch cooking” in Big Ranch, Big City Cookbook, which “blends the bold, simple flavors of his cattle-ranching heritage with sophisticated cooking … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Loveless Banana Pudding
It’s times like these when BookPage staffers are really proud to be in Nashville — when we’re enjoying the most amazing desserts from the Loveless Cafe. The iconic Southern restaurant is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a new cookbook, Desserts … Continue reading
