Lisbon: Recipes from Portugal’s Beautiful Southern Region Rebecca Seal Photographs by Steven Joyce 2017 Purchased from Skylight Books in Los Feliz, Los Angeles Recipes cooked: Partridge escabeche (with game hens), shredded greens soup with chorizo, peas with sesame Recipes I want to cook: Bacalhous à Brás; piri piri chicken; pork with clams Difficulty to source: Easy to medium Difficulty to make: Easy to medium Beautiful Lisbon “Kate!” Fabiano blurted out almost breathlessly when he opened the door into the guesthouse…
State Bird Provisions: A Cookbook Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski with JJ Goode Photographs by Ed Anderson 2017 Pre-ordered with love from Amazon Recipes cooked: Garlic bread with burrata and aromatic pepper spice (minus homemade bread); bonito-rosemary aioli; deep-fried sweet soy-marinated fish parts (minus frying); cumin lamb with squid, dates, shishito peppers, and Thai basil Recipes I want to cook: Duck liver mousse with warm duck-fat financiers, brined beef tongue, rice-crusted trout with garum, brown butter, hazelnuts, and mandarin Difficulty…
Kaukasis: A Culinary Journey through Georgia, Azerbaijan & Beyond Olia Hercules Photographs by Elena Heatherwick, cover by Grace Helmer 2017 Pre-ordered with love from Amazon Recipes cooked: Chicken chigyrtma (casserole), herb kükü (frittata), badrijani nigvzit (eggplant rolls) Recipes I want to cook: Ostriy (soup), qata (butter cookies) Difficulty to make: Remarkably easy—among the very best for instructions Difficulty to source: Easy to medium Chicken chigyrtma If you grew up in rural Virginia in the nineties, like me, you learned a lot about the…