Gather & Graze: 120 Favorite Recipes for Tasty Good Times Stephanie Izard with Rachel Holtzman Photographs by Huge Galdones and styling by Johanna Lowe 2018 Purchased from Now Serving in downtown Los Angeles Recipes cooked: Thai-style bouillabaisse, shrimp cocktail with miso blue cheese sauce, salmon with blueberry-Szechuan chile sauce, “tasty eggy kimchi bacon thing,” Szechuan chile sauce, sauce green, smoked salmon toast with chile-lime vinaigrette (as a salad), aioli (only) from recipe for goat neck with pickled watermelon rind salad…
State Bird Provisions: A Cookbook Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski with JJ Goode Photographs by Ed Anderson 2017 Pre-ordered with love from Amazon Recipes cooked: Garlic bread with burrata and aromatic pepper spice (minus homemade bread); bonito-rosemary aioli; deep-fried sweet soy-marinated fish parts (minus frying); cumin lamb with squid, dates, shishito peppers, and Thai basil Recipes I want to cook: Duck liver mousse with warm duck-fat financiers, brined beef tongue, rice-crusted trout with garum, brown butter, hazelnuts, and mandarin Difficulty…
Kaukasis: A Culinary Journey through Georgia, Azerbaijan & Beyond Olia Hercules Photographs by Elena Heatherwick, cover by Grace Helmer 2017 Pre-ordered with love from Amazon Recipes cooked: Chicken chigyrtma (casserole), herb kükü (frittata), badrijani nigvzit (eggplant rolls) Recipes I want to cook: Ostriy (soup), qata (butter cookies) Difficulty to make: Remarkably easy—among the very best for instructions Difficulty to source: Easy to medium Chicken chigyrtma If you grew up in rural Virginia in the nineties, like me, you learned a lot about the…