What are your favorite cookbook/blogs?

misguidedfunk@beehaw.org to Food and Cooking@beehaw.org – 25 points –

I wanted to start a thread to share some of my favorite blogs and cookbooks. I hope we can use this thread to share new blogs or cookbooks as they become available.

Cookbooks Patti Jinich- Treasures of the Mexican Table This is a fantastic cookbook that’s broadened my understanding of Mexican cuisine. The Achiote Chicken in particular is always a crowd pleaser.

The Woks of life blog and cookbook has been in the rotation of our weekly meals for some time now. I originally tried their chicken and brocolli recipe as our local Chinese restaurant is not that great. I have come to love their ultimate chili oil. It’s kinda like the Frank’s Red Hots commercial- I put it on everything.

Blogs

I love these two blogs, as they are fantastic introductions to Japanese and Korean cooking.

Just one cookbook The Oyakdon recipe from here might be one of my favorite meals hands down. Simple, easy to throw together and great flavor.

Korean Bapsang The bibimbap recipe is a great starting point to introduce yourself to Korean cuisine. I wasn’t a huge fan of it while I lived there, but it has really grown on me since returning to the States.

Edit: future dish has a fantastic fresh kimchi recipe that lives in our fridge. It tastes exactly like my lunch ladies in Korea made. Most of their stuff is tasty.

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Awesome! I love everything that I’ve ever tried from J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. In particular Food Lab has taught me a lot of fundamentals and I just reviewed his bbq chicken ahead of Father’s Day grill out!

Have his wok book but honestly I find other Asian cookbooks to be more appealing. He is very clinical at times.

I've been really enjoying Dessert Person. Every recipe I've tried so far has gone well, and she's actually honest about how long the steps will take.

The Food Lab is my other favorite. It's incredibly nerdy and I'm getting through it extremely slowly.

Sally's Baking Addiction - really enjoy the pumpkin bread. might make it again once pumpkin is in season once more. Budget Bytes Many of the recipes are adaptable to Southern Ontario prices. Add a few dollars for estimation and you're golden. Cooking On a Bootstrap - I really like the concept of it, but I haven't quite made any recipes just yet.

Sally's Scone Recipe is fantastic. During the pandemic, I made several different kinds of scones based on her recipe. Also agreeing with Budget bytes, which is where I get most of my daily recipes these days.

Just one cookbook is my go to. I take tidbits from recipes to mix I not o my recipes for Miso Ramen / Stock and trying new Asian dishes I just learn about.

Bon Apetit for variations on recipes. I use the cooked butter Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe lost from here. I used to grab Brad Leone recipe sheet before me busted out (get his cookbook if you can.)

Budget Bytes for when you want to make meals for an entire week or empty your pantry.

Great thread - bookmarked! I find BBC Good Food has good recipes which tend to turn into my favs.

That's at the top of my mind, but there's a few so I will come back tomorrow and add more!

BBC good food is pretty good for me, can be at little hit and miss but more than makes up for it with having a massive catalog

Great thread, thanks all for sharing.

I personally use Tea for Turmeric quite a bit for Pakistani/South Asian cooking!

My favorite is Gregory Gourdet’s [https://gregorygourdet.com/book](Everyone’s Table). His Haitian restaurant in Portland is amazing, and the global recipes in his book are delicious. Most of them are Paleo and Gluten-free.

Now that might make my list. I’m low key hoping they choose him as the next judge of top chef.

Love that Just One Cookbook has already been recommended. I really enjoyed her baked versions of chicken katsu and tonkatsu (frying in oil makes me so nervous).

For Korean dishes, I really like Maangchi's blog. Her bibimbap recipe is tasty.

I've gotten a significant amount of mileage out of BudgetBytes. I especially enjoy the ingredient cost breakdowns even if they're outdated or inaccurate. My other big source lately has been Food Network's Worst Cooks in America (typically features dishes that are easy to learn)

I love to recommend Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden and The New Midwestern Table by Amy Theilan. Both have never steered me wrong. Six Seasons totally reframed how I think about cooking (focusing on seasonal cooking) and The New Midwestern Table really makes Midwestern cooking so romantic. And Theilan is a fantastic writer of prose. Highly recommend both of them!

The Garlic Lovers Cookbook, Tra Vigne Cookbook, the Moosewood and Authentic Mexican by Bayless are my go tos on my shelf.

I get a lot of ideas from Recipe Tin Eats. Great selection, and always a lot of variations/substitutions in the recipe.

Thanks for sharing! These look very interesting. I've been looking into Chinese food for a while, but I'm also interested in Japanese and Korean.

My favorite place for Chinese recipes is Chinese Cooking Demystified . The Mapo tofu and Dan Dan noodles recipes are now two of my monthly meals.

I added a kimchi recipe I keep for giving out to friends and family when they request it.

George Motz’s newest edition of The Great American Burger Book is absolutely worth grabbing. Wild recipes and plenty of history and method.

Currently cooking one every other week for my neighbors, and I gotta make a cheese sauce!

I second the ultimate chili oil from The Woks of Life. It's seriously amazing.

One Pan, Two Plates by Carla Snyder has consistently been my most used cookbook. I have to modify the recipes to be gluten free in some cases, but I haven't tried a single recipe from it that I didn't like.

Bowl by Lukas Volger has amazing recipes for ramen and bibimbap that are all vegetarian. I've found that Rice Ramen works really well as a gluten free replacement for the ramen noodles.

Damn Delicious is my favorite blog. The copycat recipe for PF Chang's Chicken Lettuce Wraps is especially good.

It's hard to pick favourites because I love cookbooks and have far too many, but "Gran Cucina Latina" by Maricel Presilla is an amazing compendium (in English!) of South American recipes. I've just bought "Vegetarian Tagines and Couscous" by Ghillie Basan, which has some interesting variations on traditional dishes.

For blogs, I'll also second Woks of Life - we use those recipes a lot!

  • America's Test Kitchen - I pay for the subscription. It is technically 3 websites in 1 and includes recipes from all of their print books.
  • Cooking for Two - ATK's physical cookbook as been great for making enough for one person, plus leftovers for later. Or just enough for me and my partner.

A few of my favorite cookbooks, tools, and websites.

Cookbooks

Tools/Websites

  • Paprika - recipe manager, used it for over a decade. Syncs with all of my devices.
  • Gumbo - find recipes based on the ingredients you already have on hand.

Haven't seen anyone mention chef John from food wishes He has a YouTube and all his recipes are also on Allrecipes.com

I really wish I could get over his cadence in videos. The recipes look good, but I can’t stand his way of talking.