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Category Archives: recipes
Recipe of the week: Warm Goat Cheese and Beet Salad
Today’s recipe is another winner from What to Cook and How to Cook It, Jane Hornby’s excellent step-by-step take on home cooking. This delicious salad, a French bistrot classic, works well as either a main course or a starter. Warm … Continue reading
Make Stained-Glass Ornaments from ‘Very Merry Cookie Party’
Here’s another delicious cookie recipe in honor of this week’s contest, from Very Merry Cookie Party—a unique book that gives tips and tricks for staging a successful cookie exchange party along with classic recipes. These beautiful cookies are especially fun to … Continue reading
Holiday baking: Ultrathin Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Here’s another delicious cookie recipe in honor of this week’s contest, from Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy (isn’t that the greatest title for a cookie cookbook?) by Alice Medrich. These thin, chocolate-y, crispy cookies are a surefire hit. Ultrathin Chocolate Chunk Cookies … Continue reading
Monday contest: Sweet holiday treats
What would Christmas be without cookies? If you’re looking for some inspiration for your holiday baking, look no further: our cookbook columnist Sybil Pratt has rounded up the three best new cookie recipe compendiums—and we’re giving one lucky Book Case … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Shredded Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Pine Nuts from ‘The Essential NYT Cookbook’
This week’s recipe comes from The Essential New York Times Cookbook (Norton) by Amanda Hesser, a labor of love for sure. Hesser solicited readers’ input on their favorite NYT recipes, then pored through the newspaper’s archives to find other winners … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Spicy Vegetable Soup
This week’s recipe comes from What to Cook and How to Cook It (Phaidon), a phenomenal new cookbook that takes readers through recipes step-by-step for “foolproof cooking,” says our cookbook columnist. Spicy Vegetable Soup Preparation Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time: … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Layered Cornbread-and-Turkey Salad
Happy Thanksgiving! Today’s recipe is from the Southern Living collection 1001 Ways to Cook Southern (Oxmoor House), a book full of “fail-proof, detailed instructions” for practical and delicious dishes. “Practical” can definitely describe this recipe—make it for a tasty way to … Continue reading
Recipes of the week: Spicy Cranberry Chutney & Chicken Liver and Apple Stuffing
If you’re looking for some new sides to put on the Thanksgiving table this year, check out these stuffing and chutney recipes from our cookbook of the month, David Tanis’ Heart of the Artichoke. They’re definitely out of the common … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Nigella’s Marmalade Pudding Cake
Today’s recipe comes from Nigella Kitchen (Hyperion), the latest collection of recipes for “homey holiday cooking” from the British domestic goddess Nigella Lawson. Try this traditional English dessert as the comforting finale to a cozy fall meal. Marmalade Pudding Cake … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Spiced Pears in Red Wine
This week’s recipe comes from our cookbook of the month, David Tanis’ Heart of the Artichoke (Artisan Books). Tanis is a chef with “true simplicity at his core and an understated approach to the seasonal,” says cookbook columnist Sybil Pratt, … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: My Go-To Beef Daube
The final recipe this month is another one from Around My French Table, our October cookbook of the month. One of the best things about this book is the way Dorie Greenspan makes even the most complicated recipes seem doable, … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Crisp Noodle Cake with Stir-Fried Greens and Shrimp
This week’s recipe is an Asian-inspired appetizer or side-dish from Mark Bittman’s latest, the Food Matters Cookbook (Simon & Schuster). Bittman is an oft-used resource for the BookPage staff; his French toast recipe is a sentimental favorite of our nonfiction … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Quiche Maraîchère
Today’s recipe of the week comes from Dorie Greenspan’s Around My French Table (HMH)—October’s Cookbook of the Month. A cook whose “culinary talents are limitless,” according to our own Sybil Pratt, Greenspan has amassed a delicious collection of recipes providing … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Muffuletta from ‘Bobby Flay’s Throwdown!’
The new cookbook from Bobby Flay is taken from his popular TV show: The author/chef goes to the best of the best in their field and tries his own recipe for a particular dish against the time-tested creation of his … Continue reading
Recipe of the Week: Tarte au Citron from ‘Wild Food’
Marco Pierre White was the first British chef (and at the time, the youngest chef anywhere in the world) to win three Michelin Stars. In his new cookbook, Wild Food from Land and Sea (Melville House)—which cooking columnist Sybil Pratt … Continue reading
