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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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By John Burgoyne, Daniel J. Van Ackere, Carl Tremblay, Editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine, Cook's Illustrated Magazine, Cook's Illustrated Magazine, John Burgoyne, Daniel J. Van Ackere, John Burgoyne, Carl Tremblay, Daniel J. Van Ackere, Cook's Illustrat
America's Test Kitchen - 2004

January 28th, 2019 (edited 28th January 2019)

This book is going in the recycle box. We weren't happy with the one recipe I've made from it. I thought I would use it as my "cookbook-of-the-month" for next month, so today I found some recipes and put them on my meal plan. Then I sat back and thought, I really don't want to make any of those. Vindaloo with a whole 1/4 tsp of cayenne, where the usually amount is multiples of whole teaspoons. And with tomato sauce. Never. Nope. Removed my stickies, found another book, and replan. Away with this one. I expect more from Cook's Illustrated.