Posts Tagged ‘Seasonal’
the cookbook The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook by Amelia Saltsman
Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook – Amelia Saltsman
July 4, 2016 Alana

Saturday, June 25 – 7:00pm

With the start of summer comes an abundance of fresh local produce, so for this month’s cookbook we selected The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook by Amelia Saltsman. We’re lucky to live in the LA area and actually be able to go to the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market to get our ingredients. The cool thing about this cookbook is that the dishes are indexed by season, so we could look up Summer dishes, or in some cases Fall since we’re right on the cusp of the two seasons, and away we went! (more…)

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the cookbook Think Like A Chef by Tom Colicchio
Think Like a Chef – Tom Colicchio
June 1, 2016 Alana

Sunday, May 22 – 6:00pm

For our next adventure we decided on Tom Colicchio’s Think Like a Chef. You might know Colicchio as the head judge on TV show Top Chef. It turns out, this is one of Sheana’s favorite cookbooks. “It’s basically the cookbook that turned me on to cooking. It taught me how to braise, roast, emulsify and more.” It reads a bit more like a story than just a collection of recipes. Colicchio imparts how chefs think about seasonality of ingredients and flavor combinations. One of the unique things about his cookbook is the section called Trilogies, where he chooses 3 ingredients and then includes recipes for several different dishes that can be made with those same 3 ingredients. (more…)

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