Cook This Book: Techniques That Teach and Recipes to Repeat

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This was a great week night meal- think coleslaw meets chicken salad but make it zippy, spicy , crunchy and southwest. A thoroughly modern guide to becoming a smarter, faster, more creative cook from Molly Baz, featuring fun, flavourful recipes anyone can make.

It includes things that aren't often found in cookbooks, like how the brain perceives flavors and how to balance those perceived flavors to the max.Learned quite a bit in the intro section prior to the recipes, and inspired to try some of these (I marked down about 10-15 I’d like to try). Throughout, you’ll encounter dozens of QR codes, accessed through the camera app on your smartphone, that link to short, technique-driven videos hosted by Molly to help illuminate some of the trickier skills.

The book does not claim to be a vegan-friendly one, but I was willing to overlook that (and have loved many cookbooks that aren’t vegan) if the writing was good. Perhaps 125 grams of pasta per adult is a lot, but we seem to usually eat most of it, and what gets left over we eat for lunch the next day. I read the entire book cover to cover before cooking anything and was really excited to try some recipes. A recipe developer and the star of popular cooking videos, Molly Baz has written a first cookbook that offers a surprising amount of practical instruction for cooks who are starting to stretch themselves in the kitchen. After all that the chicken was very juicy due to the steaming and vegetables were perfectly cooked at 60 mins as per the recipe and everything was delicious.The flavors are wonderful (the chicken did not taste like pastrami per se, but the same spices made for a yummy chicken) and it smells amazing. My shortbread spread in the oven (my mistake) so I cut out round cookies after baking, which worked fine.