Cookbook of the Month

Cook This Book: Final Review

9/30/2021

Woops. Here we are again at the end of a month with another cookbook and I didn’t write a single article about a single dinner I made out of the book. The god’s honest truth? The simplicity of the dishes I tested made it difficult to write about. I have a few paragraphs about each, so what better way to discuss the book at the end of the month than to string them all together? Cook this Book from Molly Baz, I have found, is an exercise in simplicity, accessibility, and fun.

Our first cook became dinner for dungeons and dragons night: a quickly prepared pasta dish from this month’s cookbook of the month: Orecchiette with Bacon, snap peas, and ricotta. The ingredients are exactly that with little prior preparation. This proved to be a perfect dish to start with in Cook This Book to get to know the author better. Simple in both its ingredients and its preparation, I realized quickly this would be a theme for my time with Molly’s recipes.

Brown bacon that you’ve cut into small bites. Boom. Snap peas in the bacon fat. Boom. Orecchiette done boiling? Drop it in the pan with the bacon and the snap peas and a few spoonfuls of ricotta. Boom, dinner done. Hit it with some pepper. Eat good tonight.

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Cook This Book: CBOM Intro

9/2/2021

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Cook this Book by Molly Baz came out several months ago, and it’s sat on my shelf waiting for me to get the drive back to try another Cookbook of the Month. I even posted a picture of it on my facebook once claiming it’d be coming the next month. It didn’t, nor did it come the month after that. Only now, September 2021, and I sitting down to write an introductory article to a cookbook that I already have some mixed feelings about.

Molly Baz, famous for her time at Bon Appetit, has been one of the personalities on their youtube channel at the time that I didn’t know how I felt about them. I thought she could get annoying. I thought she was a little bougie for my midwestern sensibilities. Then the scandal with Adam Rapoport happened. She so rarely did any videos without that asshole there, and I realized that maybe he was the problem.

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Cook This Book: Final Review

Cook This Book: CBOM Intro

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