Favorites in How To Cook Everything?
Hey Serious Eaters and HTCE lovers,
What's your favorite recipe in Mark Bittman's How To Cook Everything? Just curious. I write a blog, Ben Cooks Everything, where I'm trying to cook each and every recipe in the tome, and I thought I'd see if anyone out there in the SE community has some favorites that I should skip to.
Ben
http://bencookseverything.blogspot.com
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7 Comments:
Is this going to be like Julie and Julia? Interesting.
So does that mean you're going to make every recipe and every one of his variations?
engmcmuffin at 4:43PM on 06/13/09
When it's impossible to get outside, I like to use his oven baked ribs recipe but even he admits he's borrowed/modified a recipe developed by someone else. The recipe is part of my regular rotation and fairly easy...
czken at 6:01PM on 06/13/09
My favorite from that one is the apple-pear pie. His pie crust is the best! Super simple and still flaky--and this without the use of a food processor (although now that I've acquired one, I imagine it will be even easier).
littlestcapy at 8:16PM on 06/13/09
I also like the oven baked ribs with dry rub recipe. I made it 2 nights ago and it's always appreciated by the family. I also like the bread pudding and apple crisp recipes.
mrsegg at 11:08PM on 06/13/09
Yogurt biscuits are very, very good and Jim Leahy's No Knead bread from the "new" Everything is my favorite.
LearP at 2:55AM on 06/14/09
I love the recipes for waffles and chicken adobo, but the section that was the most important one, IMO, is his list of "Fifty Cookbooks I Couldn't Live Without" --which is how I discovered Elisabeth Luard, Nick Maglieri, Reynaldo Alejandro, etc... My edition is from the 1990s; I think the later edition omits this list, unfortunately.
Ortolan at 1:02PM on 06/14/09
I bought his Vegetarian cookbook and had the best of intentions of making a zillion recipes from it.....but....
It was just SO big and overwhelming!!! I think I made 3 or 5 things and now it's just sitting in my cubicle at work.
I think that book is good for complete beginners: it was too simple for me. And lacked photographs!
orchidgirl at 11:00AM on 06/15/09