Posts Tagged ‘Outdoors’
Saturday, August 27 – 5:30pm
While we’re still in the summer months, we wanted to have a Cookbook Club event outside around an open fire, because fire is fun and grilled food is delicious! There’s a beach nearby with fire pits, so with that in mind as our event location, we chose the cookbook Around the Fire by Greg Denton, Gabrielle Quinonez Denton, and Stacy Adimando. Greg and Gabrielle are the owners of Ox Restaurant in Portland, where they cook dishes inspired by the wood-fired grilling tradition of Argentina. Their cookbook seemed perfect for our grilling event, plus it had awesome visuals! (more…)
Sunday, July 24 – 6:00pm
Our next cookbook was recommended by Colin, who is fast becoming a star member of the cookbook club (perhaps we will see if we can convince him to be a co-organizer!) – Deb Perelman’s The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. Smitten Kitchen started out as blog where Deb Perelman shared the dishes she cooked in her tiny Manhattan kitchen. We were drawn to her cookbook because the recipes sounded delicious, but accessible. (more…)
Saturday, June 25 – 7:00pm
With the start of summer comes an abundance of fresh local produce, so for this month’s cookbook we selected The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook by Amelia Saltsman. We’re lucky to live in the LA area and actually be able to go to the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market to get our ingredients. The cool thing about this cookbook is that the dishes are indexed by season, so we could look up Summer dishes, or in some cases Fall since we’re right on the cusp of the two seasons, and away we went! (more…)
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 Plenty, which 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…)
Chocolate Olive Oil Cake with Molasses Cream and Fudge Sauce
Quiche au Roquefort
Muddle Puddle Battle
Clafouti
Tomato Scallion Shortcakes with Whipped Goat Cheese
Corn Risotto-Stuffed Poblanos
Roasted Eggplant with Yogurt-Tahini Sauce and Cumin-Crisped Chickpeas
Melon, Cucumber, and Mint Salad
Bacon and Deviled Egg Salad
Eggplant Caviar
Salade Nicoise
Blackberry-and-Balsamic Grilled Game Hens
Renegade Salad
Roast Leg of Lamb with Oil-Cured Black Olives and Herbs