I enjoy cooking as a hobby. My goal is to make several recipes from each item in my collection of cookbooks and cooking magazines.
If you would like to follow along as each project progresses, follow me on Instagram at bibliothekla.eats
2021
2022
2022–2023
2023
- Food & Wine 40th Anniversary Special Edition
- Appetites
- The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
- The Big Texas Cookbook
2024
- Tasting History
- Bon Appétit + Gourmet Special Edition: Essential Breads
- Bon Appétit + Gourmet Special Edition: Holiday Entertaining
2024–2025
- The Food Lab — IN PROGRESS
- Methodist Morsels — IN PROGRESS
2025
- Dining In — IN PROGRESS
- Pirate’s Pantry — IN PROGRESS
2025–2026
- Baking Yesteryear — IN PROGRESS
- Cook’s Illustrated Special Edition: All-Time Best French — IN PROGRESS
- Cook’s Illustrated Special Edition: All-Time Best Hot and Spicy — IN PROGRESS
- Cook’s Illustrated Special Edition: All-Time Best Side Dishes — IN PROGRESS
Cherry Bombe
ed. by Kerry Diamond + Claudia Wu, 2017
Project 2021
Book Review
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Recipes Tried
- Baked eggs with leeks — RECOMMEND
- Beer-brined roast chicken
- Beet and ricotta gnocchi
- Brisket with sweet-and-sour onions
- Broken pie crust cobbler
- Coconut curry with chicken
- Irish soda bread
- Labneh — RECOMMEND
- Lemony lentil stew — RECOMMEND
- Maraq digaag — RECOMMEND
- Manicotti with tomato sauce
- Mirza ghasemi — RECOMMEND
- Pasta e piselli — RECOMMEND
- Pink spaghetti
- Savory oatmeal with mushrooms
- Soup joumou
- Spring greens borscht — RECOMMEND
- Stovetop ricotta — RECOMMEND
- Sweet potato wedges with tahini
- Three-cheese cauliflower gratin — RECOMMEND
Indian-ish
by Priya Krishna, 2019
Project 2021
Book Review
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Recipes Tried
- Cheesy chile broccoli — RECOMMEND
- Chickpea flour green beans
- Kadhi
- Kaddu
- Malaysian ramen — RECOMMEND
- Orange peel fish
- Pesarattu
- Roasted aloo gobhi
- Shortcut chhole
- Spicy chickpea dip
- Spinach and feta
- Sun-dried tomato and chile dip — RECOMMEND
- Tomato rice with crispy cheese — RECOMMEND
- Tomato-cheese masala toast — RECOMMEND
- White bean stuffed poblanos
- Yogurt — RECOMMEND
Cool Beans
by Joe Yonan, 2020
Project 2022
Book Review
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Recipes Tried
- Creamy pasta fagioli — RECOMMEND
- Cuban-style black beans — RECOMMEND
- Ewa riro and dodo
- Kidney bean and mushroom bourguignon — RECOMMEND
- Marinated lima beans — RECOMMEND
- Molettes
- Red lentil ful with sumac-roasted cauliflower
- Three-bean salad
Houston Cooks
ed. by Francine Spiering, 2019
Project 2022
Book Review
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Recipes Tried
- Barolo-braised beef
- Boudin mashed potatoes
- Corn and poblano soup
- Crawfish rolls
- Rigatoni alla vodka — RECOMMEND
- Spiced drinking chocolate
- Summer squash in honey-shallot cream sauce — RECOMMEND
- Sweet corn bisque with crab
Good Drinks
by Julia Bainbridge, 2020
Project 2022–2023
Book Review
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Recipes Tried
- Blackberry cold brew colada
- Cherry ginger coconut cream ale — RECOMMEND
- Cucumber doogh
- Golden hour — RECOMMEND
- Honeydew agua fresca
- Limone e sale
- Nectar of the gods — RECOMMEND
- Pea flower lemonade — RECOMMEND
- Rose and kumquat
- Saffron sharbat — RECOMMEND
- Salted rosemary Paloma
- Shiso spritz
- Sunomono — RECOMMEND
- Up-beet
Food & Wine 40th Anniversary Edition
ed. by the editors of Food & Wine Magazine, 2018
Project 2023
NOT REVIEWED
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Recipes Tried
- Almost-instant soft serve — RECOMMEND
- Baked goat cheese salad
- Baltimore-style crab cakes
- Caramelized black pepper chicken — RECOMMEND
- Chicken tikka masala
- Chickpeas and kale in spicy pomodoro — RECOMMEND
- Crispy okra salad — RECOMMEND
- Farro and green olive salad — RECOMMEND
- Garlicky braised lamb shanks with sweet peppers
- Pasta with sausage, mustard, and basil — RECOMMEND
- Poulet au vinaigre
- Soboro donburi — RECOMMEND
Appetites
by Anthony Bourdain, 2016
Project 2023
Book Review
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Recipes Tried
- Belgian endive with curried chicken salad
- Budae jjigae
- Do chua salad
- Osso buco — RECOMMEND
- Pomodoro — RECOMMEND
- Portuguese kale soup
- Roasted baby beets with oranges
- Roasted cauliflower with sesame
- Saffron risotto — RECOMMEND
- Salad with yogurt-chive dressing
- Spaghetti with garlic and anchovies — RECOMMEND
- Tuna salad
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
by Deb Perelman, 2012
Project 2023
Book Review
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Recipes Tried
- Apricot breakfast crisp — RECOMMEND
- Avocado tartine — RECOMMEND
- Baked potato crisps with the works — RECOMMEND
- Broccoli slaw — RECOMMEND
- Butternut squash and caramelized onion galette — RECOMMEND
- Cinnamon French toast — RECOMMEND
- Coffee toffee
- Emmentaler on rye with sweet-and-sour onions — RECOMMEND
- Gnocchi in tomato broth
- Gooey cinnamon squares — RECOMMEND
- Harissa and honey farro salad — RECOMMEND
- Heart-stuffed shells in lemon ricotta béchamel
- Mustard milanese with arugula and fennel salad — RECOMMEND
- Seared halibut with gazpacho salsa
- Spaghetti squash and black bean tacos — RECOMMEND
- Sugar snap salad with miso dressing — RECOMMEND
- Vinegar slaw with dill — RECOMMEND
- Whole lemon bars — RECOMMEND
The Big Texas Cookbook
ed. by the editors of Texas Monthly Magazine, 2022
Project 2023
Book Review
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Recipes Tried
- Bean dip
- Caribbean-style shrimp and slow cooker grits — RECOMMEND
- Chicken-fried steak
- Chile pequin and shrimp aguachile
- Fideo loco — RECOMMEND
- Flour tortillas
- Green chile hominy
- Grilled jalapeño poppers — RECOMMEND
- Kolaches
- Lao-Texas chili — RECOMMEND
- Lima beans with smoked pork
- Okra salad
- Peach cobbler — RECOMMEND
- Pickled jalapeños — RECOMMEND
- Queso
- Salsa macha — RECOMMEND
- Stacked carnitas enchiladas with tomatillo sauce
- Texas sheet cake
Tasting History
by Max Miller, 2023
Project 2024
Book Review
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Recipes Tried
- Beef with garlic harvester sauce, citing The Prince of Transylvania’s Court Cookbook — RECOMMEND
- Epityrum, citing De Agri Cultura — RECOMMEND
- Everlasting syllabub, citing The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy — RECOMMEND
- Farts of Portingale, citing The Good Huswife’s Handmaide for the Kitchen — RECOMMEND
- Gingerbread, citing Cury on Inglysch
- Makshufa, citing Kitab al-Tabikh
- Nyumen, citing Ryori Monogatari — RECOMMEND
- Patina de piris, citing De Re Coquinaria
- Pomodori farciti all’erbette, citing Il Cuoco Galante
- Potage d’onions au lait, citing Le Cuisinier François
- Precedella, citing Ein New Kochbuch
- Pumpkin tourte, citing De Re Coquinaria — RECOMMEND
Bon Appétit + Gourmet Special Edition: Essential Breads
ed. by the editors of Bon Appétit Magazine and Gourmet Magazine, 2018
Project 2024
NOT REVIEWED
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Recipes Tried
- Anadama bread
- Barbari bread — RECOMMEND
- Classic focaccia — RECOMMEND
- Garlic-herb naan
- Milk bread — RECOMMEND
- Pão de queijo — RECOMMEND
Bon Appétit + Gourmet Special Edition: Holiday Entertaining
ed. by the editors of of Bon Appétit Magazine and Gourmet Magazine, 2018
Project 2024
NOT REVIEWED
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Recipes Tried
- Butternut squash soup with apples and bacon — RECOMMEND
- Cauliflower and herbed barley salad — RECOMMEND
- Charred eggplant and tahini spread
- Pear upside-down cake — RECOMMEND
- Pumpkin mascarpone pie
- Twice-baked sweet potatoes with bacon-sesame brittle — RECOMMEND
The Food Lab
by J. Kenji López-Alt, 2015
Project IN PROGRESS
Methodist Morsels
by The Cookbook Committee of the First United Methodist Church of Lamesa, Texas, 1983
Project IN PROGRESS
Dining In
by Alison Roman, 2017
Project IN PROGRESS
Pirate’s Pantry
by The Junior League of Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1976
Project IN PROGRESS
Baking Yesteryear
by B. Dylan Hollis, 2023
Project IN PROGRESS