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Friday, September 12th, 2008Bonjour mes amis! We’re back again with another edition of Cooking the Books; this time we tried the “stir-fried vegetables” from How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman.
After a lifetime of eating Chinese food, not to mention four solid years of living in Beijing, stir-fry is no stranger to me. But, this recipe was included on […]
Misadventures in crumble
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008I’m not sure where I got the idea that a crumble/crisp dessert was “foolproof” but I can now assure you this is not true. Perhaps I should known things were not going to go smoothly when I purchased some rhubarb at the market and asked (in my mauvais francais) for 200 kilograms instead of 200 […]
More meatless meals
Friday, September 5th, 2008Now that we have a kitchen again, we here at Cooking the Books are delighted to continue with our review of Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Good Food. At 996 pages, this is not a book to be taken lightly. And so, as with our review of Martha Stewart’s cookbook, […]
Cooking the Books is moving!
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Bonjour mes amis! Apologies for the long, long silence. As I mentioned before, my diligent French studies have unfortunately swallowed up my cooking and blogging time. But now, I have an exciting announcement: Cooking the Books is moving to Paris!!! Yes, the movers come on Thursday to pack up our apartment and move our belongings across the […]
Bean burgers
Friday, May 16th, 2008I love burgers–turkey, beef, chicken, or fish–I love the compact portability of a burger, I even love the word burger. I don’t, however, always love the saturated fat of a beef burger. Fish burgers are wonderful, but I can’t always get to Whole Foods to buy fresh fish, and while bocaburgers are a worthy vegetarian substitute, […]
Veggie tales
Monday, May 12th, 2008Bonjour, mes amies! Finally, I have finished a long and tortuous stretch of busyness during which I went to school, studied, worked, and, well, that’s it. While French class continues, I have happily finished and filed a ton of work, leaving me free to concentrate on other things like cooking and scouring used book fairs for […]
Wrapping up
Monday, April 21st, 2008Before we say goodbye to The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics, I thought I’d offer a few final positives and negatives –
+ Offers lots of easy, healthy, low-fat, flavorful recipes that are great for everyday dinners. Many of these are labelled “fit to eat” and have nutritional information.
+ Recipes for ethnic dishes like […]
Back again
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Finally, we are happy to present another edition of Cooking the Books: The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics! Today’s dish is daube de boeuf provencal from the “meat” chapter, a classic French recipe that proved to be very easy and delicious, yet also a lengthy endeavor.
Brunch bonanza
Monday, March 31st, 2008This past weekend saw a flurry of cooking, with food from other cookbooks (and thus unrecorded here) and also a brunch bonanza from The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics. It was All Martha, All the Time, and seriously, my back now hurts. I may be suffering from Martha-xhaustion. Is that a treatable syndrome?
From […]
Careless errors
Friday, March 28th, 2008Do you ever make mistakes in the kitchen? I made one the other day while baking Elke Wood’s lemon squares (scroll down halfway) from the “cookies and candy” chapter of The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics.
You see, the recipe calls for 1 3/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour. As you probably know, lemon bars […]