Guide me fine cooking books...?
By cool123
@off124 (127)
March 9, 2018 3:36pm CST
I have read some of Stella artois lager Parks's columns at Critical Eats. However, she wants to use coconut essential oil, a lot, and it is not an element which i have or plan to have. She is also the one who used sugar to lines the crust to impaired bake a pie brown crust area. Aaron tried that but felt it to be a serious waste of sugar. We would have to look carefully through the book to verify that there were enough recipes worth my buying it.
The only book on my list that we own is Dorie Greenspan's Dorie's Cookies. I have not baked from it yet, in part because a couple of dishes I wanted to make demand Wolf's medium kasha, that i cannot find in stores here and would have to order. Offered that my friend has reminded me of the book, I will decide if I can bake some other recipes from it and report back.
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@NJChicaa (120122)
• United States
9 Mar 18
What type(s) of cookbooks are you looking for? Cooking or baking? Any particular type of cuisine?
Coconut oil isn't difficult to find at the local grocery store these days. I buy my store's brand of unrefined for like $5 a jar. It is supposed to be really good for you.
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@NJChicaa (120122)
• United States
10 Mar 18
@off124 I don't do a lot of baking so I don't have many baking-specific ones. Momofuku Milk Bar is pretty complicated as is Bouchon Bakery. Mark Bittman's How To Bake Everything is very comprehensive but there are no photographs in it and I haven't made anything out of it yet. Many people loved Sweet which just came out in the past year and is being republished this month with many editorial corrections.
As for as cooking goes, you can't go wrong with really any of Ina Garten's cookbooks. Cooking for Jeffrey is her most recent and is very good. The Cook's Illustrated Cookbook is excellent and has recipes for just about everything you can think of. I just snagged Small Victories used (in brand new condition but marked "very good") for $5 and change plus $3.99 shipping on Amazon. It looks great! If you like Italian-American, the Carmine's Cookbook is great (again I'd buy it used). If you like Mexican, you can't go wrong with Mexican Everyday, More Mexican Everyday, or Pati's Mexican Table.
The New Midwestern Table, Union Square Cafe Cookbook, and Barbecue Addiction are also good ones.
