November 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: 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 (extending posts until 12/31/2020 due to backorder of cookbooks)
• 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

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 December 2020 and January 2021 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.

This was a very busy month. Ottolenghi is everyone’s chef crush. From Flavor/Flavour we have the following dishes:

White bean mash with garlic aïoli  by member SugarTreeBaking

 Potato and gochujang braised eggs by member KarinaFrancis

 Grilled figs with Shaoxing dressing by member Raybun

Sweet potato in tomato, lime and cardamom sauce by Darcie

Spicy roast potatoes with tahini and soy by me

 Curried carrot mash with brown butter by Jane (Thanks to Jane for making this dish and raving – I made it because of you and it is one of my favorite things now. Other members made this dish as well.)

From 100 Cookies we have:

 Chocolate sugar cookies made by member Mtetpon

Neapolitan cookies made by Astrid5555

Sugar cookies with chocolate and sprinkles made by member verorenee

There are many additional photos in the club and we have almost a half month of cooking from these titles. We are extending 100 Cookies until the end of the year as members are waiting for the second printing of this amazing book.

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