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Cookbook: The Best of Gourmet: 1995 Featuring the Flavors of Mexico
Rating: 5/5

I seem to be the only one who has this book, but I have added a link to the recipe on Epicurious. The recipe serves 12 and is a great side dish to serve at family gatherings. It...

Cookbook: Lidia's Family Table: More Than 200 Fabulous Recipes to Enjoy Every Day-With Wonderful Ideas for Variations and Improvisations
Rating: 4/5

Lidia classifies this as a 10 minute sauce and that is what it takes. I have all the ingredients in my pantry so the sauce is ready before the pasta is. You slice marinated artic...

Cookbook: Lidia's Family Table: More Than 200 Fabulous Recipes to Enjoy Every Day-With Wonderful Ideas for Variations and Improvisations
Rating: 4/5

This tomato sauce really can be cooked in 20 minutes while you are waiting for your pasta water to come to a boil and the pasta to cook. The recipe sauces a pound of pasta. The ma...

Cookbook: Seductions of Rice
Rating: 4/5

I followed the recipe exactly using sea bass. They also suggest red snapper, salmon trout, or pickerel. The recipe is very simple but I would not change or add anything. Ingredien...

Cucumber-Sesame Salad

Oct 10, 2011
Cookbook: Seductions of Rice
Rating: 4/5

I used a European cucumber with the peel on. It isn't easy to quarter this long cucumber lengthwise and then remove the seeds but I followed their instructions the first time. Now...

Cookbook: Cook's Illustrated
Rating: 4/5

This is an unusual way to cook boneless chicken breasts, a little fussy but good. You cook the seasoned breasts in a foil covered dish in the oven for 30 minutes, remove from oven...

Best Drop Biscuits

Oct 1, 2011
Cookbook: Cook's Illustrated
Rating: 5/5

If you are a biscuit lover but a little intimidated by the rolled out type, you need this recipe. It is very easy to reduce the recipe to make fewer than 12 biscuits because drop...

Cookbook: Cook's Illustrated
Rating: 4/5

This roast chicken takes only one hour, thus the title. I had a 3 1/2 pound chicken and followed the recipe directions. I put my cast iron skillet in the oven and while preheatin...

Master Recipe - Boule

Apr 8, 2011
Cookbook: Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking
Rating: 5/5

I bought this book when it first came out and was not that impressed. Then recently I decided to recheck their blog and try again with their suggestions. I put a large pizza ston...

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