Greenburgh Library Cookbook Meetup
The past few months with the cookbooks have been fun, I have enjoyed talking and sharing spices and what the tastes of Indian really up like. In my meanderings, I have enjoyed also some book clubs that I have participated in. In the interest of a Last In First Out (LIFO) mechanism, let me tell you I was really thrilled and honored to be a part of the Greenburgh Libraries Meetup Group.
The way this group works is that they pick a theme (and this week, it was Indian Cooking!) and the participant pick books and cook and critique their way through it. As I sat through the process, much as I enjoyed the food, as an author it was invaluable for me to heat the feedback on the cookbooks, Especially since so many of these books have been a part of my table and life. Some of the highlights and comments, and books that were on my radar. (Just as a general disclaimer, have not worked with all these books, so I am going on here say, having said this, it was still education to get to some of these comments. First out,
1.New Indian Home Cooking There was an addictive coconut Burfi, that has made me crave and want to make my coconut burfi, from The Bengali Five Spice Chronicles. the problem here was apparently the book recommended a recipe for rice pudding or kheer using skim milk and the user had a difficult time with that one. Now than I can understand, skim milk, rice pudding not sure about that one.
2. There was a deep and rich tasting chicken curry from Madhur Jaffrey’s from Curries to Kebabs, the user found the book very easy to use, and I love the Kerala Chicken curry made from the book.
3. Indian Home Cooking: Given someone was working from my dear friend Suvir’s book, I though this would be a slam dunk, turns out that the recipe called for pink lentils, for mooshoorir dal. The recipe was really good, but I have to confess, the color really is more like orange or red.
4. Dakshin: My all time favorite book, given my son’s addiction to dosas, I thought this one would be a slam dunk, the irony of life is that, if there is one typo in a book, someone will find and obsess upon it, and in deed that was the case. I found this so informative and useful. I think that I might just join the next next meetup.
Here is wishing you and yours a happy spring and rest of the week.
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