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Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee: Eating Korean
I would place this cookbook in my top 10 of all time. The recipes are delicious and each section is packed with the best of Korean home cooking. The stories are wonderful, too. Highly recommend.
Angelo M. Pellegrini: The Unprejudiced Palate
My favorite food-writer by far. A big thanks to childbearinghipster for turning me on to his writing. So inspiring. Start a garden and eat from it!
Irma S. Rombauer: The Joy of Cooking
(not the "All New", the old school one) I don't so much like this for main dish and salad recipes as for baked goods, sauces, and jams. I have my mother's copy, and when I was about 12, my favorite thing to do was to make tea sandwiches from this cookbook. Every weekend I'd make a couple of different kinds until I worked my way through all the spreads and fillings. A good basic cookbook.
Jacques Pepin: Jacques Pepin's Complete Techniques
This man has been teaching me to cook (on TV) since I was 9 years old. My Saturday mornings forever have been spent watching him on Public Television. I love him like he was one of my family.
Peter Berley: The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen
My most favorite veggie cookbook, and definitely in my Top 20 cookbooks list.
Anthony Bourdain: Les Halles Cookbook
O how I love this man.
Michael Ruhlman: The Making of a Chef
Not a cookbook, but still a must-read for anyone interested in cooking, chefs, and restaurants like I am.
Jamie Oliver: Jamie's Kitchen
The best of the Naked Chef bunch, IMO.
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I think your Friday meal sounds just splendid!
Posted by: maggie | December 11, 2006 at 06:50 AM
How do you make bulgogi lettuce wraps? They sound really good.
Posted by: erin | December 11, 2006 at 10:54 AM
For the bulgogi lettuce wraps, the easiest thing to do is to buy thinly sliced rib-eye from your local asian market. If you can't do that, you have a couple of options: look in your regular supermarket for beef that has been thinly sliced for stirfry or stroganoff, or buy a large rib-eye or two and thinly slice it your self.
Marinate the beef in bulgogi marinate (you can google this, it's like a teriyaki marinade).
Then grill or pan-fry meat. Eat by placing meat and rice on a large lettuce leaf (green or red leaf works best) wrap like a taco and eat. If you are near a Korean market you can pick up some spicy chili/soybean paste sauce to go with it.
Posted by: CityMama | December 11, 2006 at 11:27 AM
Have you ever thought of giving cooking lessons ? I read this all and want to cry-- I can not cook.You are inspiring me to want to learn.
Posted by: Pamela Hornik | December 13, 2006 at 08:40 PM
I love bulgogi - but I've never tried to make it myself, although I've always been temped to try. That's what we had for Christmas dinner a couple years back when Nate and I visited some of his family in CA. His sister promised us a huge ham dinner, then left us high and dry - so a cousin rescued us with a little homemade Bulgogi. (Nate is 1/2 Korean.) It was great.
That bean paste, is it called Go-chi-jon? (I'm spelling it the way I call it!)
Posted by: Kat | December 14, 2006 at 06:39 PM