What’s Cooking This Weekend? — Weekend of February 22-23, 2014

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Recipe: Savory Parmesan French Toast

Oh, I’m so ready for the weekend! How about you? Also, who’s going to make me this savory French toast? Hello, brunch. In other cooking news, I’m prepping a batch of Emma’s freezer burritos to take to my brother and his wife, who just had their first baby. (Any other good tips for snacks to carry along?) What about you? What’s cooking in your kitchen this weekend?

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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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