Reddit mentions of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Recipes and Wisdom from an Obsessive Home Cook

Hooray! I love cookbooks!

• Forest Feast is great for those veggies & entertaining
  
  
• A subscription to Cook's Illustrated
  
  
• A solid cookbook - Smitten Kitchen
  
  
• Anything by Yotam Ottolenghi but I particularly LOVE Plenty.
  
  
• The god of pastry Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bakery
  
  
• David Chang's momofuku, his pastry chef Christina Tosi's milk bar,or a subscription to his magazine Lucky Peach
  
  I don't know if they're into making ice cream, but it's really easy and fun:
  Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream, The Perfect Scoop, and Ample Hills are all great.

She has a cookbook too that is really great. I think most of the recipes might be on her site, but I still recommend picking up the book. Several of our favorite things to make come from there.

http://smile.amazon.com/The-Smitten-Kitchen-Cookbook-Perelman/dp/030759565X

I can recommend two cook books.

1. mastering the art of French cooking by Julia Childs
   
   http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Art-French-Cooking-Volume/dp/0394721780
   
   
2. The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. A personal favorite.
   
   http://www.amazon.com/The-Smitten-Kitchen-Cookbook-Perelman/dp/030759565X
   
   

Both my partner and I are vegetarians and we both like to cook. We often cook enough food to have leftovers, so our go to "quick meal" is often reheating leftovers.

If you like Indian food, this Easy Chana Masala recipe is one of our favorites. You can skip the mango powder if you don't have it/can't find it/don't want to bother getting it.

For making rice, if you don't have a rice cooker, having a gas stove is the best. But if you have electric, the best method uses two burners - 1 on high to bring the rice to a boil and the other on low to cover and simmer on. I usually do a 2 to 1 ratio water to rice and simmer white rice around 15 minutes, brown rice around 45 minutes. I also enjoy a curry rice as a side dish - simmer 1-2 tsp curry powder in butter or oil for 2 mintues; add 1 cup rice, 2 cups vegetable broth, 1 bay leaf, and a pinch of salt and bring to a boil and then simmer 15 minutes for white or 45 minutes for brown rice.

For making beans, canned beans work pretty well when pressed for time, but I recommend using dried beans for better flavor and texture. Soaking your beans overnight really helps to reduce your cooking time on dried beans, but that does mean you have to plan ahead.

I'm not sure if you want cookbook suggestions, but here are a few good ones that I like:

• Veganomicon
  
• The Heart of the Plate
  
• The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook - not exclusively vegetarian, but it has a lot of good vegetarian recipes
  
  If you're looking for recipes, there are a lot of vegetarian/vegan food blogs out there and you can also check out /r/VegRecipes and /r/veganrecipes.

• I am obsessed with cooking and baking. Trying new recipes is a weekly, sometimes daily thing. Specifically, I LOVE Deb's recipes!!
  
  
• Deb's Cookbook (Smitten Kitchen) because, then I can cook/bake all of the delicious food!
  
  
• Thank you, so much!

1. I am sitting in a coffee shop and working.
   
2. I need to pay my bills and I also didn't feel like being at home.
   
3. I have a concert tomorrow night to see The Lumineers
   
4. To advance my career even more.
   
5. If you consider this as my desk (the coffee shop table) then I have a cup of water, a cup of tea, my security fob, my laptop, my cell phone, and a dirty plate that a donut was on.
   
6. "Nilgiri teas are from the Blue Mountains in southern India.
   
7. TeaSource - Tea & Accessories 2013 Catalog
   
8. Chocolate Glazed Donut
   
9. A Year Of Pies Love it!
   
10. Smitten Kitchen Wonderful cookbook
    
11. This Lens That I Am Saving For
    
    Zweihander ... Always worry I type these complicated words wrong... I could use copy and past.

• 1. semirhage527
     
• 2. 527 (insert surprised face here)
     
• 3. Christmas! I grew up in a Catholic family so it's Christmas all the way. My favourite part is when we were kids on Christmas morning my dad would wake us up by blasting Queen through the house so to me holiday music has never been the hymns such at midnight mass but Freddie Mercury telling us we are the champions. Even now even though I live alone and have to travel to the family festivities I wake up and listen to some Queen on December 25th.
     
• 4. I think a Blumaroo would definitely be Santa. So happy and bouncy and ready to bound up and down chimneys to deliver joy.
     
• 5. Ok to actually do my favourite winter sport is downhill skiing (although I enjoy XC as well) but to watch it's ice hockey. It's just so freeing going down a mountain. My fav team has to be the Blackhawks. I grew up going to Ice Hogs (their AHL affiliate) games (since it was in my hometown and my dad did their marketing for awhile) and it was always a blast. Gotta go with Tazer for my fav (tho freezing the puck is more for Crow's territory and we love him too). I know the cap is obvious but he's just so great! I know they're desert species but I think Rukis would make great hockey players!
     
• 6. I'm all about the cookies for the holidays and my favourite are rugelach. I normally do the raspberry chocolate version she has in her cookbook but that one is also great!
     
• 7. For aps I’m thinking Yooyu Cheese Ball
     and Chokato Dumplings. First course, fruity bread salad
     followed by Maraquan cream broth. For the main let’s go traditional, roast pork, Meridellian Style Mashed Potatoes
     and grilled veggie platter
     for the table. Holiday feasts are always finished off with holiday cookies so candy cane cookies
     and a holiday wocky cake
     for dessert and plenty of drink flowing between courses! Finally we’ll end it all with a nice mug of hot chocolate.
     
• 8. Thad is quiet and thoughtful and loves sitting down and taking in the world so he’d love a pillow cap of convenience
     so he can relax anywhere, a gaming lantern
     so he can see and a new book to take with him. And maybe a new backpack
     for all his stuff!
     While Thad is content to find a nice place and sit Sol is always gogogo. She loves learning new things and exploring everything. She’s been dying to upgrade her telescope and while Captain Tuans Collectors Telescope
     is probably too big for a stocking (unless it’s bigger on the inside!) and not super portable perhaps a smaller quality one
     could be found. She’d also like a copy of Backpacking Across Neopia as that’s the dream!
     Unlike his sibs who love to be outside Alyosha is more content inside with the finer things in life and a robot noil
     to cater to his whims and a new cloak
     would be just the thing.
     
• 9. My wishlist
     
• 10. One of my favourite winter memories was one that got me and my sister into trouble but it was so worth it. When we were kids we were obsessed with Sailor Moon and when ever we played it I was always Mercury and she was always Mars. Living in N. Illinois huge icicles were the norm and having a woods in our backyard meant an endless supply of sword like sticks so one winter we decided to have a battle (psh who cares if they’re on the same side right?) and broke off a huge icicle and grabbed a stick from the dried for the fireplace pile and lit it on fire and had an awesome battle in the backyard until mom saw us oops.
      
• 11. 2016 I’d really like to get back on a regular writing schedule and find a new job. Haven’t really set any longterm neopets goals since right now I’m just enjoying playing again.
      
• 12. 1st) Bouquet of Flowers Parasol, Stormy Ombre Flower Wand, Enchanted Tale Dress, Flowering Vine Garland, Pink Lace Parasol, Tulle Cloud Skirt, Dark Prism Forest Background, Frozen Tree Branch Wings, Fireworks Face Paint, Frightful Doorway Background
      2nd) Bouquet of Flowers Parasol, Pink Lace Parasol, Stormy Ombre Flower Wand, Dark Prism Forest Background, Frightful Doorway Background
      3rd) Bouquet of Flowers Parasol, Dark Prism Forest Background
      
• 13. I just started hanging around here so I don't know many people but /u/TheHeadlessOne was awesome and explained Food Club to me and even busting day one I've still managed to turn a profit by day two so I think this is going to be a great thing long term so thank you!

I think that his is a cookbook that everyone should own or at least 499 people should.