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314 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 5, 2016
We've all been there—you head to the store with an asparagus recipe and there's no asparagus to be found . . . You get home and realize you forgot to get basil . . . Your CSA box arrives with a cauliflower bigger than your head . . . Those carrots at the farmers market are so pretty, but how the heck do you turn carrots into an actual dinner?While I don't frequent farmers markets, and I was as ignorant of CSA boxes as I was of her blog, yes, I've been there. I have a recipe that calls for savoy cabbage, say, but doesn't use the whole head. What do I do with the rest aside from making the same dish again within days? How do I fix Brussels sprouts in the summer when I don't want to run a 400℉ oven? (I don't like them boiled.) And yes, surely there's more I can do with carrots than soups, raw snacks, and that one braised dish that's delicious but takes about an hour? I taught myself to cook over the years mainly by the algorithms of recipes, but Pépin was where I started to cook by hursitic and Donofrio's book was another step in that journey.