aj12754's Profile

From: Montclair, NJ USA

Joined: November 22nd, 2009

About me: I can't be the only person who starts thinking about what to cook next while I am doing the dishes for the meal I just finished eating ... right?

Favorite cookbook: I flirt with all of them. But I am a sucker for good writing and great pictures.

Favorite recipe: Pretty much any combo of good bread and great cheese.

Slow-Roasted Tomatoes from One Good Dish

A dish that could not be simpler to make, and absolutely delicious. Topped the cooled tomato with a room temperature slice of mozzarella drizzled with EVOO and some ribbons of basil. A real treat. read more >

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Cooking by Hand

By Paul Bertolli
Clarkson Potter - 2003

This is an inspirational cookbook to read even if you are not as obsessive about fresh pasta, or balsamic vinegar, as Bertolli is. It is an aesthetically beautiful book whose message is laid out in the very first pages in which Bertolli says that "cooking is trouble" -- that great flavor and good food requires focus and effort but that the end result is satisfying not only to the palate, but to the heart and spirit.