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October 17th, 2022

Pasta e Fagioli from Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

An easy and delicious soup. I used lardons for the meat. We were thinking that chicken sausages would be good, saucisse de volaille or merguez de volaille, cut in quarters lenghtwise, then into little... read more >


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A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen: Easy Seasonal Dishes for Family and Friends

By Jack Bishop
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - 2004

June 22nd, 2020 (edited 21st August 2020)

This book has been on my shelf for quite a while. I recently chose it for a thorough read and was surprised how many recipes I had made, mostly quite a while go, athough I'm planning on using it more now.

It's vegetarian, and the recipes are aimed for a family. They are realistic in that nothing takes more than hour to make or uses really exotic ingredients. (Ignore the zucchini blossoms on the cover. They're pretty, but not very available where I am, except in-season, in the potager.)

The book is arranged seasonally, which is good and bad.