I had been planning for this week to be a start of another “better know a cookbook” cycle. While I do not have nearly the ambition of a Julie Powell, relentlessly cooking every single recipe from a single cookbook, I do like to take time, sometimes, to go through a cookbook I have rarely used and choose recipes that seem appealing and then spend a week or two cooking from it, getting to know it a bit better. By concentrating some effort and attention on it, I can get a sense of the author and the recipes on offer and determine whether the cookbook is useful to me in some fashion or would be better rehomed, as they say. The fact that a cookbook isn’t useful to me does not imply that it isn’t useful to someone.
Fortunately, the cookbook on deck this week is Ruby Tandoh’s Cook As You Are. I bought the book some time ago, made one recipe from it from which I developed a positive impression of the book overall, and then I set it aside and never returned to it. It is time to give it its due.
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