cookbooks
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chili crisp
After cooking from Samin Nosrat’s Good Things, I ended up with a very happy abundance of chili crisp in my refrigerator. Naturally, I wanted a way to use some of it up, so I consulted James Park’s cookbook, Chili Crisp: 50+ Recipes to Satisfy Your Spicy, Crunchy, Garlicky Cravings. I first heard about this book
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bowls – america’s test kitchen
I bought America’s Test Kitchen’s Bowls: Vibrant Recipes with Endless Possibilities in early 2020, before the world came to a halt, and it’s been an inspiration to me ever since. I’m convinced that all the best foods—soups, stir fry, burritos, salads—come in bowls. This book proves my theory. Chock full of different categories of bowl
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the birchwood cafe cookbook (thaw) – beth dooley, marshall paulsen, and tracy singleton
I’m quite sure I found out about this book while working as an intern for a local lifestyle magazine. (Though the internship didn’t lead directly to further employment, it did acquaint me with my future wedding photographer!) Given my love for cooking and my growing interest in local, seasonal foods and flavors, this book fascinated
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good things – samin nosrat
I’ve been a fan of Samin Nosrat ever since 2021, when I scooped up her lauded first book, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, and made my first buttermilk-brined bird (a revelation!). Truthfully, besides paging through and appreciating the flow charts and matrices, I haven’t cooked from the book very much. While I love exploring the theory