More Cookbooks to Consider

Every winter, I spend time in bookstores, in the library and on-line, looking at cookbooks.  Ideas for making family meals based on what we’ll be growing this coming season and what is stocked away in the freezer.  On vacation this winter, I’ve come up with my first three, all of which we tried out while enjoying the summer heat of southern Florida.  Thought you might want to take a look yourself:

• Kitchen Express by Mark Bittman – This is the guy from the New York Times Food Section with a number of really good cookbooks and ideas for meals (his most recent bestseller is How to Cook Everything).  The cookbook is arranged by season and presented in a very non-traditional style.
• The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper by Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift.  Rossetto Kasper does a weekly food radioshow on Public Radio.  The pictures are a nice addition, but the easy to read recipes with commonly found ingredients make suppers delicious and satisfying.   I can’t wait to see her new cookbook – How to Eat Weekends.
• Brownies from Good Housekeeping – because every 15-year-old teenager should spend vacation trying out different brownie recipes, allowing the rest of the family to be the taste testing guinea pigs J.