The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook — Classic Cookbook

This cookbook has the honor of being The First. The first cookbook I fell in love with, the first cookbook I bought with my own money (and at a time in my life when a $35 cookbook constituted a major purchase!), and the first cookbook that brought me success in the kitchen. It would not be stretching it to say that this book is at the root of my food writing career — had those gingersnaps not been so very perfect or that first strawberry-rhubarb pie not been such a smash hit in those first tenuous days of falling in love with food, who knows where I might have ended up?

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Ten Ways to Make a Pork Butt Last All Week (Or Just All Day)

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Though it’s one of my favorite big-party dishes, a slow-roasted pork butt is also an ingenious way to get food on the table all week long, or parsed out over a month or two. A typical five or six pound boneless pork butt will yield a nice pile of cooked meat. Once you have your mountain of shredded pork, the possibilities are almost limitless.

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stuck-pot rice with lentils and yogurt

stuck-pot rice with lentils and yogurt

I once read that if you ask a guy what his favorite item of clothing is, he would pick the oldest thing he owns — some t-shirt he’s had since high school or nearly threadbare sweats. And if you ask a woman, she usually picks the last thing she bought. [Nobody mentioned four year-olds but obviously: fireman hat.] Gender stereotyping copy aside,* when it comes to recipes, this has me down to a T: my favorite thing to cook is usually the last thing I made. Because of this, I fail 100% of the time at “content-planning strategies” [or as it sounds in my head when I read phrases like this: blargle-blargle blargle] because while I’m supposed to be telling you about this great dish I made last week for Valentine’s, I only want to talk about what I made for dinner on Tuesday night. Because it’s my new favorite everything.

what you'll need, plus a fork
i rinsed my rice. for once.

When I first read about stuck-pot rice many years ago, I guffawed a bit, because who needs a recipe for that? I come from a long line of cooks that cannot make rice without burning it; any night where rice is on the stove ends with a gunked-up pot soaking overnight in the sink. It’s tradition; one day I will teach this guy too!

deb, your pot is too small!

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