After they have mastered the basics, the book also helps them add to their repertoire.
Recipes
The Maine Ingredient: Go wild with fungi that you can trust
Try safe mushrooms in chicken cacciatore or with grits or in almost anything else.
Farro: Ancient grain good for modern fare
Substitute it for rice and try it as a base for a grilled or roasted veggie salad.
The Splattered Page: ‘The Apple Cookbook: 125 Freshly Picked Recipes’
Eat, cook, look, learn. The cookbook offers tips, history and photos in addition to recipes.
Five ways to use your fall apple bounty – peels, cores and all
Ideas for reducing waste range from making vinegar to flavoring bourbon.
Diversify with slow-cooked chicken and pork
Ten fresh ideas for easy meals may renew your affection for your cooker.
Ditch rice; go with a new grain for better stuffed peppers
Freekeh, a Middle Eastern ‘green’ wheat, is delicious, healthy and behaves well under pressure.
Cookbook review: ‘Brazilian Barbecue & Beyond’
A shrimp soup is one of many tantalizing recipes that go along with insights about Brazil’s culture.
Cookbook review: ‘Dinner Solved’ by Katie Workman
The 100 recipes this book offers really are ingenious.
The Maine Ingredient: Feast like Germans do for Oktoberfest
The Bavarian celebration is a great time to enjoy sausages, sauerkraut and cheesy egg noodles, perhaps with a good beer. (Granted, most times are a great time to eat sausages, noodles and sauerkraut and toss off a few beers.)