update, Jan 2025 / alternate version | Carrie Solomon
At last night’s COOKBOOK CLUB, where we actually cooked not from a book, but from @slate’s list of the 25 most important recipes of the past 100 years (https://slate.com/life/2024/11/food-cooking-recipes-thanksgiving-2024.html). I made a winter stew, or more precisely @helenr ‘s « roberto » but swapped in cauliflower for the tomatoes. I kept the kale, squeezed in lots of lemon, parmesan, rosemary, oregano, and used haricots cocos instead of canned beans, a « roberto d’hiver » if you will 😋 it hit the spot. Slate’s list is more home cooked american cultural examination than culinary creation – in my humble yet frenchified opinion, but there are some real beauties in there, like @ericjoonho ‘s spicy gochujang cookies, Julia Child’s caesar, @inagarten ‘s potato salad, the « last word » chartreuse cocktail – which thanks to @jaimeegong it did have indeed
