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Recipe of the week: Maple Yogurt Pound Cake
The Food52 Cookbook by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs (the foodie brains behind the Food52 blog) is our January Cookbook of the Month! It is a phenomenal collection of winning recipes from their weekly contests, starring the best of the … 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: No-Knead Clover Honey Dough
Heartland by Judith Fertig, one of our cookbooks from the August cooking column, celebrates good, down-home American Midwest cooking. Whoever sits at your table — whether friends, family or just you — will find bread made from fresh dough to … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Salty Caramel Ice Cream
We have been excited about Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home (our Cookbook of the Month for August) since May—and one of our editors had some Jeni’s ice cream at Hot N Cold the day before the “rapture” (just in … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Salade Niçoise
Our July cooking column features three fantastic summery cookbooks, including Patricia Wells’ 12th book, Salad as a Meal. It includes over 150 recipes that each challenge and expand the definition of a salad, and this recipe is a great example … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Roasted Salmon with Swiss Chard and Herb Butter
There’s something truly awesome about cooking a meal that looks and tastes as if it came from some fancy restaurant. The recipes from DK’s Seafood, as seen in our June cooking column, seem to specialize in both ease and style, … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: David Lebovitz’s Nonfat Gingersnaps
As a new feature on The Book Case, we’ll be sharing select recipes from the cookbooks reviewed in our monthly cooking column. First up is a delicious cookie recipe from David Lebovitz, whose Ready for Dessert is “inspired and inspiring,” … Continue reading
