September 2020 Eat Your Books Cookbook Club Summary

Each month we offer at least four cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. This month we’ve been cooking from the following titles:

• Main Selection:  Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen by Josef Centeno and Betty Hallock or Isolation Baking: Recipes from My (Post) Confinement Kitchen by Jamie Schler
• Baking Selection: Everyone Can Bake: Simple Recipes to Master & Mix by Dominique Ansel
• Online Option:  Australian online recipes (or Australian members can post dishes made from their favorite online sources)
• Plant-based Option:  VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health…for Good by Mark Bittman

For past EYB Cookbook Club summaries, #EYBCookbookClub will pull up an archive of our club’s activities. Please note our announcement document shared in the club shares all our options (including those in the past). You will find the options for September and October at the bottom of this post.

An EYB member recently asked what options were available for those not on Facebook. Please post your photos here on EYB as I always check the book’s member images and try to include those as well. We want everyone to participate.

We have also started a Great Big Cookbook Club Roundup to share what is going on in other clubs. The link above will bring up those posts. As soon as I have the particulars from other groups for October – I will publish that post.

This month we have seen some love for Amá. I made the Biscuits with bacon gravy, but not the gravy and the Fried chicken with honey and mint and we loved both of these dishes. Below are a few photos, for more photographs please check out the group.

Tía Alice Jo’s curry-chile pork roast made by member Maefleur

Super nachos made by member SheilaS

Tex-Mex Roast Chicken (instead of turkey) submitted by member Gary G.

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Now-or-later vegan burgers from VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 submitted by member Danielle H

Swiss chard, zucchini, & potato gratin from Isolation Baking submitted by member Alicia F

Chocolate chip cookie from Everyone Can Bake Jenny M

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Future Selections

October

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• Main Selection:  Simple: Effortless Food, Big Flavours by Diana Henry
• Baking Selection: Happiness Is Baking: Favorite Desserts from the Queen of Cake by Maida Heatter
• Online Option:  Great British Chefs – Chef Recipes
• Plant-based Option: Start Simple: Eleven Everyday Ingredients for Countless Weeknight Meals by Lukas Volger or any other Volger title

November

• Main Selection: Ottolenghi Flavour by Yotam Ottolenghi, Ixta Belfrage and Tara Wigley
• Baking Selection: 100 Cookies: The Baking Book for Every Kitchen, with Classic Cookies, Novel Treats, Brownies, Bars, and More by Sarah Kieffer
• Online Option: Any Ottolenghi online recipe
• Plant-based Option: Oh She Glows for Dinner: Nourishing Plant-Based Meals to Keep You Glowing by Angela Liddon

December

• Main Selection: Simply: Easy Everyday Dishes from the Bestselling Author of Persiana by Sabrina Ghayour
• Baking Selection: One Tin Bakes: Sweet and Simple Traybakes, Pies, Bars and Buns by Edd Kimber * online recipes from the book here and share any of your holiday cookie baking.
• Online Option: Any Sabrina Ghayour online recipes or Edd Kimber online recipes
• Plant-based Option: Any Gaz Oakley recipe * online recipes

January 2021

• Main Selection: Modern Comfort Food by Ina Garten or The Flavor Equation: The Science of Great Cooking Explained: More Than 100 Essential Recipes by Nik Sharma
• Baking Selection: Pie month: The Book on Pie by Erin McDowell, Pie Camp by Kate McDermott, Pie for Everyone by Petra Paredez, Pieometry: Modern Tart Art and Pie Design for the Eye and the Palate by Lauren Ko or The Pie Room by Calum Franklin
• Online Option: Ina Garten online recipes or Nik Sharma online recipes
• Plant-based Option: Any of our over 40,000 online vegan recipes