Show us your latest cookbook acquisitions!

[weinoo]

For anyone who might wonder, Louisette was one of the authors of Mastering the Art!

 

[Tan Can Cook]

8 hours ago, Maison Rustique said:

During all the packing and prepping for moving, I found a box of cookbooks that I'd packed in 2009 and it never got unpacked when we moved here! I made myself wait until I got it to the new place before I opened it.

 

It  had the cookbook with the recipe I have searched high and low for for several years!

 

This was what I was making for 13 people when I first spilled the apples all over the floor. Then when Don went to buy more, goose fat dripped in the oven and started a fire. Don got home to every door and window open, smoke alarm blasting, dog barking and me nearly in tears.

 

I got the fire out immediately, goose was unharmed and it was a delicious dinner after all. Not sure I'd make it again. It was a lot of work. I had working hands and a lot more energy back then!

 

On goose recipes, I found the following from Alwan-E-Nemat (Translation: "Colors of the Table"): A Journey Through Jahangir's Kitchen by Salsa Yusuf Hussain. Please see attached recipe pages along with cover of the book. This is "time travel" cookbook from Persian scholar Salma-ji. From the introductions of her book, she translated the Persian (Farsi) manuscript and modernize the recipes via down scale, etc. Because the real recipes were in banquet-portion for guests of the Fourth Mughal Emperor Jahangir (23 July 1547 – 28 October 1627).

Maybe one of these days, I'll brave and make it. I practically have almost every single ingredient in spice collection except the goose!

[blue_dolphin]

2 hours ago, Tan Can Cook said:

I practically have almost every single ingredient in spice collection except the goose

🤯

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Thanks to the expert enablement of @TdeV in the Indoor Smoker topic I now have Delish! by Philip R Craig and Shirley Prada Craig.  Delish! is the first and only cookbook in my collection to have a recipe for water.  I made some last night but then spilled it trying to swat a fly.

 

[dans]

$5 for the lot. 

[Ddanno]

These aren't recent acquisitions of mine by any means, but since I'm a fairly recent acquisition of the forum I thought I'd share a shot of three of my favourites

 

[Katie Meadow]

Thanks tou you @blue_dolphin for enablement. I found a copy of Nancy Silverton's Twist of the Wrist for dirt cheap in great condition on eBay. I like it a lot. She has a very nice way of recommending specific ingredients and then letting you know what good options are available, and whether some of the ingredients can just be omitted. She's exacting and fairly practical at the same time. I will say this though, many of the recipes have lengthy ingredients lists and complex techniques, so I am not so sure all her shortcuts make things quick. Partly because, probably like you, I rarely use canned beans anymore. I'm trapped in  RG quicksand .  I look at canned beans and  can't do it.

[blue_dolphin]

8 minutes ago, Katie Meadow said:

Thanks tou you @blue_dolphin for enablement. I found a copy of Nancy Silverton's Twist of the Wrist for dirt cheap in great condition on eBay. I like it a lot.

I like the book as well and need to pull it out more often. Some of her other books seem to assume you have a staff of prep cooks on retainer and this one is somewhat more restrained. 
Still, as you noted, it’s not exactly opening jars and poof - dinner! 

[AAQuesada]

If you follow David Lebovitz maybe this Parisian restaurant is familiar to you. Actually I  was on Phaidon's website ordering the pre-release for On Meat by Jeremy Fox and somehow the Mokonuts book ended up in my cart! So here is a  first look 


 

[weinoo]

3 hours ago, AAQuesada said:

somehow the Mokonuts book ended up in my cart!

 

We've eaten at Mokonuts a couple of times...thanks for the heads-up!

 

 

They definitely like their labné!

 

[AAQuesada]

11 hours ago, weinoo said:

They definitely like their labné!

That recipe is in there with padrón peppers! 

[AAQuesada]

First Look: On Meat 
 

 

[weinoo]

My favorite source for everything Roman has a new book coming out, which I preordered today.

 

Rome: A Culinary History, Cookbook, and Field Guide to the Flavors that Built a City

[Tempest63]

First published in 2001 The Chicken Cookbook by Sharda Pargal, published by Penguin and full of Indian chicken recipes, had eluded me until now. I was browsing through AbeBooks recently when I saw a copy for sale at a knockdown price. So I snapped it up. The cover matches exactly that of “Curry Curry Curry” by Ranjit Rai of “Tandoor: The Great Indian Barbecue” fame, which makes me wonder if there are further books in the series.

 

The other pre-loved book bought from Abebooks was “Cooking like Mummyji”, by Vicky Bhogal (2003), home style food from a British Sikh home with some weird concoctions straight out of tins, think tinned sardines and tuna. A picture of how those in the Sikh community ate using supermarket ingredients with an Indian twist. This book compliments others in my collection that focus on Indian home style cooking here in the U.K. “The Urban Rajah” (a great little book) and “Cooking with my Indian Mother in Law” both spring to mind.

 

Edited September 14 by Tempest63
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[Maison Rustique]

Shaun Brady was a beloved KC chef and member of the Irish community here. Last year, he was gunned down by teens when he attempted to stop the theft of his car outside his restaurant. The city is still mourning his loss and a cookbook celebrating his life was recently published to help aid his family. 

 

I never met him, but my dear friend Dave Eckert (a food/wine journalist) wrote about him often and they were good friends. During the last couple of years that my husband was still alive and living here, he unbeknownst to me blew through most of our money (dementia will do that). I was truly fearful that we would be homeless. Dave and his wife fed us/me for much of that dreadful insecure time. (I'm now recovered thanks to long-term care insurance and life insurance.) Every time Dave would go see Shaun, Shaun would send me food--and always his delicious scones.

 

My copy of this book arrived yesterday.

 

Edited 8 hours ago by Maison Rustique
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