101 Cookbooks

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Beskrivelse: When you own over 100 cookbooks, it is time to stop buying, and start cooking. This site chronicles a cookbook collection, one recipe at a time.

Placering: #137 i Alle , #2 i Food & Drink

Sprout Salad

A truck just pulled up in front of my house and dropped off a palette of flattened boxes. A tower, really. As tall as I am, and then some. Ive spent a good amount of time staring at it. Formidable. B...

1 dag siden

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Favorites List (5.19.12)

Happy weekend all. I thought today would be a good day for a favorites list. I also thought it might be time to share the earliest glimpse of what Ive been working on for the past couple of months - ...

6 days siden

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Green Rice with Smoked Paprika

This is the green rice recipe that got away from me. It was the last thing I cooked before leaving for New York, and I intended to keep it simple. There was some arugula to use up, and a good amount ...

16 maj 12

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Parmesan Cheese Spread

Woah - what a week. Im sitting in the lobby of a hotel in New York, and quite a lot has unfolded since I last checked in. The short version is: I flew to New York for the James Beard Awards, and then...

10 maj 12

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Rhubarb & Rosewater Syrup

This, my friends, is how you want to use that rhubarb youve been seeing at the market lately. Its a syrup, sure, but Id venture to guess its a syrup unlike any youve tasted. It has a lot going on, ta...

04 maj 12

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Photos: Kinfolk Brunch / San Francisco

I couldnt resist doing a quick post of photos I shot at the Kinfolk brunch this weekend. It was a family-style gathering at Heirloom Cafe in San Francisco, and it was just right. The sun was out, the...

01 maj 12

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Spicy Lemon Coconut Sauce

This sauce looks bland from here. I know. All that white. But its totally not. Ive had a jar of it in the refrigerator for the past week, and its one of those things that makes just about everything ...

28 apr 12

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Homemade Cheese Crackers

When my nephew comes to stay with us he likes to stand in the big front window to watch the buses come up the hill. From this viewpoint he can also see a number of plastic owls perched amidst the tur...

22 apr 12

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Favorites List (4.16.12)

A quick favorites list while I regroup from a few days with my favorite three (almost four!) year-old nephew. It was a blur of playgrounds and piñatas, sand boxes and soft serve. He has his own littl...

17 apr 12

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Avocado Asparagus Tartine

Im a bit distracted. In the best way possible. In the way I get now and then when Im excited about an idea or a prospect. It started in Portland last month, when I had a happenstance chat with a coup...

12 apr 12

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Broccolini Salad

I think weve discussed this before. My friend Malinda has a real knack for making salads. Remember the shaved fennel beauty in Super Natural Every Day? That was hers. We were at her house for dinner ...

06 apr 12

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Super Natural Every Day: UK edition

Hi friends, I wanted to share a couple quick announcements today. First thing, Im quite excited to tell you that the UK edition of Super Natural Every Day is set to be released this week (4/1/12). He...

03 apr 12

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Saag Paneer

We make saag paneer at home all the time. Im talking once a week or every ten days. Wayne started it when he cooked Merrills saag paneer one night, and from there it became a regular thing. The recip...

28 mar 12

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Sesame Almond Brown Rice Balls

The last time I was stranded on the side of a road was in Sri Lanka. The sun was intent on breaking us, the location remote. I can tell you this, a shredded tire on the side of an Oregon highway, sto...

22 mar 12

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Chocolate Bundt Cake

Slices of this chocolate bundt cake spent the better part of the past week in the car with me. Each piece, wrapped in parchment, tucked between the Ak-Mak crackers and a jar of almond butter. It is a...

16 mar 12

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Favorites List (3.10.12)

I think Im going to switch up the way these favorites lists work. Just a bit. Instead of doing them monthly, Im going to post them whenever I have 20 or 30 links Im excited about. However often that ...

11 mar 12

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A Simple Tomato Soup

Every couple of months a small group of us choose a cookbook author (or cookbook) to focus on. Its a casual affair, and people leave notes and insights related to the recipes they try. Weve cooked fr...

07 mar 12

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Ginger Grapefruit Curd

If this post doesnt bring my server to its knees, I dont know what will. Between scans of photos from my visit to Morocco, and shots of the grapefruit curd Ive been making, I went a bit overkill on t...

02 mar 12

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Favorite Cookbooks: Béatrice Peltre

It has been quite a while since Ive run a guest cookbook list (over a year!?). Needing a bit of time to regroup from this trip, and knowing that the lovely Béatrice Peltre has a beautiful new book ou...

28 feb 12

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Moroccan Mint Roasted Vegetables

I was on the first flight of the day from Paris to Marrakesh. A full airplane heading south-west, three hours from tarmac to tarmac. Now, Im not sure if its just this time of year, but when you look ...

23 feb 12

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Wintery Spring Rolls

This post started with me snapping a few photos of the lunch I packed for a flight from San Francisco to Paris. My hope is, by the time you see this, Ill be my way back home - film spent, notebooks f...

16 feb 12

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Cottage Pancakes

I was cleaning out the desk drawers in my office the other day, and came across my collection of vintage photographs. Theyre pictures Ive picked up (a couple here, a couple there) at yard sales and f...

10 feb 12

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Favorites List (February 2012)

Hi everyone. Im not entirely sure what happened, somehow this turned into the mother of all favorites lists. The number of things that caught my attention kept piling up - articles, videos, photo ser...

05 feb 12

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Toasted Four Grain Cereal

Somehow, Ive managed to pass the weekday breakfast baton. Wayne has always been the house barista, keeping me (and any visiting friends) adequately caffeinated. At some point, a couple years back, he...

31 jan 12

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Miso Sesame Winter Squash

In the last week Ive done a bunch of things. I returned to a vintage shop, just up the street, to buy a pair of old metal kitchen stools (painted a muted shade of robins egg blue). Someone beat me to...

25 jan 12

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Citrus Salt

Im not kidding when I tell you it looks like a citrus orchard shook out its limbs in my kitchen. There are sweet limes and Meyer lemons on the counter near the sink, wild limes in the corners of wind...

19 jan 12

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Black Bread

As promised, black bread. Its what I crave when I think of winter-time baking, and Ive been making consecutive loaves over the past few weeks. Caraway-crusted, flecked with dashes of grated carrot, i...

13 jan 12

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Favorites List (January 2012)

Hi everyone, how about a favorites list? I feel like I have enough good stuff to roll it out a bit early this month. Not to mention, itll give me a chance to focus on jotting down a recipe for the br...

10 jan 12