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I collect two things, nail polish and cookbooks. Ironically, I don’t always have my nails done and I certainly don’t cook every recipe from this massive collection. I have more cookbooks that any reasonable home cook should have. They’re wonderful inspiration. I love experiencing food through different perspectives. These are the most lovely of the summer books that I’ve collected so far. Judging by this list, I have a lot of recipes to get in the kitchen and bake! I’m starting with doughnuts and french toast. Yes!
• I love the California stylings of The Lemonade Cookbook. It’s perfect for summertime. Filled with lovely salads like this Watermelon and Snap Pea number, and a mega amount of lemonade inspiration. Well, wouldn’t you expect that from The Lemonade Cookbook? I made this Blueberry Mint Lemonade and swooned for days.
• I like to think that I have a fool-proof and super-supreme doughnut dough base, but I’d really love to experiment with different doughnut recipes. I mean… someone’s got to try all of the doughnuts, might as well be me. Bread, Cake, Doughnut, Pudding is a gorgeous book and the doughnut recipe is on deck in my kitchen.
• The new cookbook from Jeni’s is absolutely beautiful! She has a way of combining wonderfully unusual ingredients into decadent and comforting desserts. I’ve got my eye on the Extra-Strength Root Beer Ice Cream. Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream Desserts!
• I love the way Diana Henry writes about food. Elegant and inviting. This piece make me want to sit down at a table and share a plate of radishes. Radishes! A Change of Appetite is her latest and most vegetable-centered book. It’s thoughtful and rooted in the seasons. Blackberry and Apple Rye Galette? Done.
• The Bar Book is all about technique! A good cocktail comes from good technique. This book is all about juicing, measuring, shaking, stirring, and garnishing with some awesome classic cocktail recipes.
• I’ll be honest, I bought the Ceviche: Peruvian Kitchen cookbook because I loved the font and lived on a diet of banana y leche smoothies and ceviche while in Costa Rica this year. This is a lovely book with lots of texture and place.
• Do you have the Plenty cookbook? Beyond. I’m looking forward to Plenty, More out this Fall! Yotam Ottolenghi is a beast when it comes to perfect cookbooks.
• I’m learning how to grill. Coals, starters, temperatures, smoke, and char! I’m learning. There is so much nuance. The Grilling Book is my grill bible this summer. So far I’ve grilled a ton of chicken, I’m working on my steak, and hoping to nail a pizza sometime soon. Along with grilling here in New Orleans I have lots of white wine and mosquito repellant. It’s perfect.
• The Nourished Kitchen is such a mindful way to approach food and cooking. It’s inspiring for any season. There’s a tutorial on how to make raw milk yogurt, real buttermilk, and a recipe for Sourdough Blueberry Pancakes that look just dreamy!
• This book of food and travel feeds my wanderlust like no other. A Mouthful of Stars. I now want to go to Seoul with Kim Sunee and eat everything ever.
• Let’s Do Brunch! No seriously, let’s! This book is loaded with all sorts of breakfast-y / lunch-y inspirations. It’s a sweet and simple book with a recipe for Almond-Crusted French Toast that I suddenly can’t live without.
• I think I need to ask Libbie Summers to be my best friend. The cover for her book Sweet and Vicious is a sign. Any woman with a frosting-laden knife and cute dress is a soul sister. The book is beautifully photographed and full of deliciously irreverent recipes. Coconut Fluff Cake please and thank you.
Drycha
I LOVE cookbooks! I’m waiting for some goodies now :) and I was on Cookbook Event two or three weeks ago – lots of treasures to be found!
I would love to get few of Your types from todays post! TFS!
Jeff @ Cheese-burger.net
My favorite cookbook this summer is The Grilling Book.
Lynn @ The Actor's Diet
Plenty is such a Bible! Also, I have to shoutout my cousin Kristine Kidd who writes a gluten-free cookbook for Williams Sonoma. It’s pretty incredible for people who are going gluten-free but don’t wanna go bananas.
Sophia
I have the same addiction as well! I love reading cookbooks in beds and making notes beside the recipes that I like. I’m currently focused on collecting cookbooks from different countries and regions – trying to collect the go-to-recipe book from each country,
Maggie
This is gold! Thank you! There is just so much out there, that it’s super helpful to have the “go ahead” from a trusted voice!
Cecile
I, too, have sooo many cookbooks – yet I still buy new ones & accept any that my friends don’t care to keep anymore!! (You and I will just have to live to ‘ripe old ages’ to even make a dent in our cookbook collection !!)
joythebaker
i look forward to ripe old age!
Lily @ Life, Love, and Cupcakes
I’m obsessed with cookbooks! Not only are they fun to read/flip through, but they look so pretty on a shelf too! I have such a long list of recipes to try out of all the cookbooks I have right now, but I’ve added a couple of these to my wishlist, especialy Jeni’s Ice Cream book!
ladygourmetCatherine
Wonderful gathering of summer cookbooks.
Melissa King
I collect cookbooks too! I actually just did an interview with another blogger and told her your cookbook was my “off the top of your head” favorite! Love it. Can’t wait for your next one.
I can’t wait to get some of these too! Plenty More is on the top of my list!
joythebaker
that’s pretty amazing!
Briel K.
I LOVE Lemonade and always spend WAY too much money when I go there. Maybe I should get the cookbook and make the things I love myself. :)
joythebaker
you totally should! it’s a great book!
Deanne Katz (@impromptuCook)
Love this, especially that it covers everything from grilling to dessert to cocktails. My to-read list is so much longer now.
Sherri
I love the Lemonade cookbook. If you haven’t made the blondies, I highly recommend them, they’re delicious!
joythebaker
they’re on my list! thank you!