Category: Cookbook Review

Cucumber and Mango Salad with Lime Dressing
A book review of The New American Heart Association Cookbook with a great salad recipe.

Review of My Kitchen Year with Painless Pasta
I know this book has been out for a while, but I sat down last weekend and read it cover to cover. It’s another Reichl classic.

Lentil Salad with Sautéed Vegetables and Feta
This salad recipe appears in Alice Waters’ The Art of Simple Food and I love all the variations that she includes with the recipe. I’ve added carrots, celery, onions and feta to her base recipe for this dish.

Grilled Portobello and Red Quinoa Vegetable Salad
There’s been a couple of oh-so-tiny desserts recently and one soup but we’re still on our 2017 Challenge of Rice Bowls and Salads. Here’s the latest recipe to hit our table as we strive for health and weight loss.

Freekeh Pilaf
This dish is “freekeh” amazing! Recipe is from Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty.

Wild Rice Salad with Dried Fruit and Arugula
Here is a recipe from a truly beautiful book, Eat Beautiful, by Wendy Rowe.

Apple Cranberry Chutney
A cookbook review of Minnesota’s Bounty and a delicious winter chutney recipe.

Busy Day Cobbler
Here is an easy and adaptable cobbler to accompany a cookbook review of Victuals by Ronni Lundy.

Italian Sausage-Zucchini Soup for #SoupSwapParty
I am sharing a recipe for “Italian Sausage-Zucchini Soup” as I join bloggers from across the country in BookClubCookbook.com’s Soup Swap, to celebrate the launch of Soup Swap: Comforting Recipes to Make and Share (Chronicle, 9/16) by Kathy Gunst, Resident Chef for NPR’s “Here and Now.”

something to food about
A book review of Questlove’s exploration of food and creativity with some of the world’s best chefs.