“I can’t wait to cook my way through this amazing new book,” Ina Garten writes in the foreword to this cookbook of more than 400 recipes and variations from Julia Turshen, writer, go-to recipe developer, co-author for best-selling cookbooks such as Gwyneth Paltrow’s It’s All Good, Mario Batali’s Spain…on the Road Again, and Dana Cowin’s Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen. The process of truly great home cooking is demystified via more than a hundred lessons called out as “small victories” in the funny, encouraging headnotes; these are lessons learned by Julia through a lifetime of cooking thousands of meals. This beautifully curated, deeply personal collection of what Chef April Bloomfield calls “simple, achievable recipes” emphasizes bold-flavored, honest food for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. More than 160 mouth-watering photographs from acclaimed photographers Gentl + Hyers provide beautiful instruction and inspiration elevate this entertaining and essential kitchen resource for both beginners and accomplished home cooks.
I’ve just made one recipe from this — sour cream pancakes with roasted blueberries — which I made with yogurt instead of sour cream 😉 I used frozen blueberries, which turned out tasting fine but very soupy. The pancakes themselves were too eggy for my taste (I suspected they would be with two eggs), and rather flat since the batter spread quite a bit.
A lot packed into this! Several converging plotlines and a lot of bangin’. Sex positive, no shaming about sex work, good job 👍 I know character development isn’t necessarily the point of this style of story, but cutting down to 3-4 droids instead of 5 might have given each to get a little more time to differentiate themselves. As it was I feel the author did a pretty good job. To some extent I feel like Aven-8 was the most important relationship, and the others were supporting, but I probably wasn’t supposed to think that 🙂