{"id":13072,"date":"2016-12-26T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=13072"},"modified":"2020-06-08T14:51:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:51:03","slug":"the-books-of-2016-cookbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/13072","title":{"rendered":"The Books of 2016: Cookbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally got around to reviewing some of the cookbooks I’ve been reading and enjoying.<\/p>\n

I’ve always loved baking, and I like cooking, but all my recipes were for families, so we’d eat the same thing for a week to eat all the leftovers, and, well, meh.<\/p>\n

I started to enjoy cooking when I started using a recipe app that had a “scale” option, so could automatically recalculate the servings from four or six to two.<\/p>\n

Baking, however, is a little different, since leavening doesn’t scale linerally, so the discovery of books with tested recipes for baked goods? Fabulous.<\/p>\n

Non-Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dessert For Two: Small Batch Cookies, Brownies, Pies, and Cakes<\/a><\/em> (2015) Christina Lane<\/a> : 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the first cookbook for two that I found, and it’s marvelous. If I want to tweak the recipes, I have the base from which to do it. But many of the recipes are marvelous as is (although they really are more than two servings).<\/p>\n

Comfort and Joy: Cooking for Two<\/a><\/em> (2015) Christina Lane<\/a> : 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

I got this because I liked the dessert book so well, and was pleasantly surprised to find dinner recipes I liked just as well.<\/p>\n

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The Complete Cooking For Two Cookbook<\/a> <\/em>(2014) America\u2019s Test Kitchen : 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

This has more recipes, and like all of the America’s Test Kitchen recipes, you get the reasons why things work. But mostly I just like having recipes that are quick and I know will work.<\/p>\n

If you click through any of the Amazon links and buy something, it\u2019ll get me hapenny or so, which will eventually let me buy another book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally got around to reviewing some of the cookbooks I’ve been reading and enjoying. I’ve always loved baking, and I like cooking, but all my recipes were for families, so we’d eat the same thing for a week to eat all the leftovers, and, well, meh. I started to enjoy cooking when I started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,1090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading","category-food","category-years-favorites"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3oQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}