the cookbook Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi
Plenty – Yotam Ottolenghi

Saturday, April 23 – 12:30pm

At the end of each event, we talk about the cookbook for the next one. And after stuffing ourselves last month with all of the rich goodness from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, we all kind of felt the need to cleanse. So in complete contrast, we went with Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plentywhich is a vegetable-focused cookbook. Ottolenghi is an Israeli-born British chef, known for creating Mediterranean-influenced recipes using fresh, seasonal ingredients, so his cookbook seemed like just what we were looking for. (more…)

the cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child
Mastering the Art of French Cooking – Julia Child

Sunday, March 27 – 6:30pm

The inaugural Cookbook Club meeting! Inspired by Julie and Julia, we chose Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking as our first book. As you might expect, there was lots of butter, cheese, and cream! Perhaps something of an ambitious cookbook for us to start with, there were some members who did a bit of sifting to find Julia’s simpler recipes (me with the Oranges Glaces) and others who dove right in to take on dishes that were more like 4 recipes in 1 (props to Adrienne for tackling the Salade Nicoise!). (more…)