One of my favorite books ever for cooking is The Flavor Bible! It's fascinating because it will share a word -- it can be a season, cooking style, or specific food product -- and it will list all the various flavors that go well with it. It can be super handy to have on hand to come up with recipes or understand what flavors go well together!
Also a Cooks Illustrated membership is totally worth it. It will teach you so much and the content is seriously endless. There are various free articles too if you want to get a taste. You can get a membership that also includes America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Country which I very highly recc. Great equipment reviews too!
Have fun and enjoy the journey :-)
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The Flavor Bible is a really fun one to have in your collection. Itโs all about flavor/ingredient pairings. You look up an ingredient and theyโll list others that compliment it well.
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Additionally, I was gifted The Complete Language of Food. This book is fun if you want to focus on symbolism with your cooking.
Feb 15, 2024
Great variety of solid recipes, nice range of time/difficulty and a shockingly helpful/useful comments section when wondering about shortcuts, substitutions or tweaks.
Worth the sub If youโre even halfway into cooking!
Feb 1, 2024
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Not a cookbook - there are no recipes. It's more like a reference textbook. Every single ingredient you can think of gets rigorously motif-indexed with complementary flavor pairings.
Build entire menus around that one item in the grocery store that catches your eye but you have no idea what to do with. Or find new exciting ways to use your favorite ingredients! I promise there is an entire universe inside this book
Jan 30, 2024
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I know it sounds crazy, but trust me it's so good! All you need is radishes (sliced into however you want! or keep them whole, that's totally fine!), and just roll them into the butter or use a knife to spread it, and a sprinkle of sea salt, and enjoy! it's so simple, and the flavor and texture combo is out of this world good. delicious thinly sliced radishes with a knife on a mandolin (but be careful!!!) with proscuitto and parsley in a sandwich (or on a flatbread/cracker) as well
Also check out Ploughman's lunches!! it's basically that exact vibe and I'm sure there's some inspo on pinterest!
Apr 25, 2024
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I can't tell you how much I love this app. It's a note taking app, but everytime you enter it, it creates a blank document. it makes it seamless to get thoughts out asap!!! It's super basic and bare bones, but having a blank digital document ready as soon as you click the app seriously makes all the difference! They automatically save and sync to your computer if you have the app on your desktop too, so it's easy to sort through and find things.
Apr 17, 2024
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one of my favorite journals is my cooking journal! I have one for each specific year and I write in it monthly, in real time. it consists of my grocery lists, farmers market lists, seasonal produce, meal plans for the week, recipe development (i also have a website i'm working on and a future goal is cookbooks so i'm always journaling this as I work on my recipes!!), meals I had out, dishes from cookbooks catching my eye, recipes i want to try... etc. really, everything food and cooking! it's more of a commonplace book of everything food related where I can develop and create recipes! it's fun to write the recipes out, and you have a place to make notes on what works, what didn't work, what to try, etc. Sometimes I even like to journal what playlists are going with the week - it's fun to see it along side all the cooking. it's always a fun look into the seasons too!
You can also use it to keep track on recipes / traditions you want to remember!
Apr 18, 2024