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The first two books were COTMs in Chowhound days, and while I did not expect much to appeal, I ended up adding three recipes to my regular rotation (with minor tweaks along the way).
CARROT AND COCONUT SOUP
Flexible and fast using a pressure cooker and prepared chilli oil and crispy shallots or onions
CAESAR SALAD
She has several tweaks for caesar salad – the easiest one uses mayo and fish sauce, another spices it up with sriracha and anchovy paste. The fish sauce and anchovy paste tweaks are clever time and ingredient savers.
PARMESAN WAFFLE
A savory waffle, crisps up nicely in the oven or toaster afterwards. (Iirc I ate them with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.)
Not about food: taking an idle look through the ebook edition of Cravings: All Together, I ran into this headnote:
Remember that TV show Zoom? It was sort of the kids’ show for the 'N Sync gener-tion. Anyway, in it, they had this short cooking segment when kids would teach kids (me, at the time)
And was reminded that there was a Zoom reboot. Because I remember the original series from the early-mid '70s, when I was a young kid limited to PBS. Chrissy Teigen was born in 1985, according to the internets.
SUPER TUNA MELTS P. 228 CRAVINGS
This was a good tuna melt with the usual suspects of tuna, mayo, sweet pickle relish and onion with the addition of Dijon mustard (whole-grain was on hand). I don’t think I’ve ever added mustard to my tuna salad before. I did not have any tomato since I don’t obtain them from the grocery store. I sliced some medium sharp cheddar for the sandwiches. Chrissy says this makes 2 sandwiches but will probably make at least five since I use good old American white (Rainbow if they still made it) bread. You use 2 cans of tuna and they’re a bit goopy so you would need larger and much more substantial bread to hold that much filling. Will not mind eating more of these. I always use the broiler to make my toasties rather than the skillet.
