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From: Salt Lake City, UT USA

Joined: March 29th, 2010

About me: I enjoy cooking, and my favorite internet COOKING community is the one here at cookbooker. If you want to connect about my other non-academic passion, you can find me as QueezleWeaver on Ravelry, and mostly Warped Weavers. But I've miss you cookbooker, and so here I am again, and happy to contribute.

Favorite cookbook: Savory Way

Favorite recipe: roasted anything (most recently grapes)

Stuffed Zucchini with spiced beef or lamb from Zaitoun

When it is zucchini time, it can be difficult to find something interesting. But this was both different and a total delight! Zucchini are scraped out and roasted. The "meat" from within the zucchini... read more >

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Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours

By Dorie Greenspan, Alan Richardson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - 2010

This is a lovely cookbook - big with beautiful pictures and lovely recipes.

The chapters are organized around a dinner plan - with hor d'ouvers, soups, salads and starters, then different sorts of mains, and ending with dessert recipes. An especially useful chapter at the back gives instructions and recipes for fundamental components, such as pesto, tart dough, and lemon curd.

The photography in the book is stunning. Its inspiring to read, and I love its organization. Recipes are typically accompanied by "bonne idee" - variations - and storage and serving suggestions.

Are the recipes reliable? I've had a bit of mixed success, however the highs are so very high that I'm keen to try to cook the entire book.