📖 Cookbook club: Samin Nosrat's Good Things

I’m part of a cookbook club with some friends. We pick a cookbook, everyone picks a recipe from the cookbook to make, and then we have a big potluck dinner. This is the sign-up sheet template we’ve been using (h/t my friend Bell for the original).

We’ve done 2 cookbooks so far. The first one was Dishoom: From Bombay with Love by the Dishoom folks. I made the ruby chicken. It was a little more effort than I normally put into my chicken curries but it was worth it! The nice thing about cookbook clubs is that you can crowd-source trying out a bunch of recipes. If your friends are good cooks (as mine are), you can find some gems. I’ve incorporated Dishoom’s keema into my “easy dinner” rotation, with a few modifications to actually make it easy.

The second cookbook was Samin Nosrat’s Good Things. I made:

• fluffy meatballs + olive oil fried bread
• roasted sweet potatoes with green sauce

Other people made:

• kukukopita (Samin’s kuku sabzi meets spanakopita)
• simple soba salad (with peanut sauce, reminded me of Montreal’s Chez Mein $2 noodles doused in an unctuous peanut sauce that hit hard after a night out on Saint-Laurent)
• steamed kabocha with sesame ginger dressing
• crunchy cabbage slaw
• pane criminale (garlic bread, insanely good)
• creamy one pot pasta with peas
• braised kale w feta (kale ❤️)
• chocolate cake with burnt honey frosting (!!!)

I loved my meatballs, the soba salad, the pane criminale (it really is criminally good) and the cake with burnt honey frosting. All in all, big success. I highly recommend doing a cookbook club with your friends and family.

Some pics: