Sunday, February 4 – 5:00pm

Our cookbook for February was Joshua Weissman’s Texture Over Taste. Weissman proposes that texture is what makes the eating experience. He divides his recipes into 6 texture chapters – Crunchy, Chewy, Aerated, Creamy, Fluid, and Fatty.

Sunday, January 14 – 5:00pm

For our first Cookbook Club event of 2024, we cooked from any of the cookbooks in The Silver Palate series by Sheila Lukins and Julie Rosso – The Silver Palate Cookbook, The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, and The New Basics. Published in the ’80’s, these cookbooks are billed as beloved American classics.

Saturday, December 2 – 5:30pm

Another successful year of Cookbook Club! Life was a little crazy this year so I wasn’t able to join as many events as I would have liked, but I’m happy to report that Cookbook Club continued to thrive. For our culminating event of 2023, people could choose a recipe from any of the cookbooks we used in the past year. Always a fun way to recap the year, and for me it was a great way to get a taste of some of the cookbooks I missed out on.

Sunday, October 20 – 12:30pm

It’s been a busy last several months in which I wasn’t able to attend any of our Cookbook Club events, so I’m extra happy to be writing about our October event. It was such fun catching up with some old friends and meeting a bunch of new ones who have joined Cookbook Club since the last time I was able to attend! The cookbook was Tasting History by Max Miller. Originating as a YouTube channel and now in cookbook form, it provides historical recipes from around the world.

Saturday, May 6 – 6:00pm

We did this dinner on May 6th, so while not technically Cinco de Mayo, it was a great excuse to eat Mexican food and drink margaritas! We used three sources for recipes – Joy of Cooking (2019 Edition), https://www.americastestkitchen.com, and Chef John’s Food Wishes on allrecipes.com.

Saturday, March 4 – 5:30pm

The Magnolia empire (what I like to call “the other Waco cult”) seems to be everywhere, so I guess it was only a matter of time before we used one of the cookbooks by Joanna Gaines. We went with Magnolia Table, Volume 2, which includes recipes from her restaurant, bakery, coffee shop, and home.

Saturday, February 11 – 5:00pm

Our February cookbook was Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden. The cookbook takes you through recipes featuring the in-season vegetables from spring to early summer to midsummer to late summer to fall and finally winter. Though to be honest, living in California and with our global food system, we’re able to get so much produce all year round that we for the most part just chose dishes that sounded delicious.

Saturday, January 28 – 5:30pm

We’ve been talking about doing an appetizer Cookbook Club event for a long time, so in January we finally did one using Suzanne Lenzer’s Graze: Inspiration for Small Plates and Meandering Meals. I don’t know why we didn’t do this sooner! A meal made up of a large number of small bites is perfect for the Cookbook Club format.

Sunday, December 11 – 5:00pm

I wasn’t able to make it to our Holiday Year in Review event this year, but we had another event in December, where we used the 2019 edition of Joy of Cooking. This massive cookbook has thousands of Irma Rombauer’s classic American recipes, plus over 600 new recipes from Irma’s great-grandson, John Becker, and his wife, Megan Scott.