Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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‘Grilled Cheese’ sounds more appealing the ‘Fried Cheese’ Sandwich

The Great Grilled Cheese Book by Eric Greenspan

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Bingo 17: Funky The Great Grilled Cheese Book contains some funk; funky cheese (I’m thinking the ‘blue cheese’ chapter, and kind of a relaxed funk (as in the music style) vibe in general. I know the author, Chef Eric Greenspan, from tv, and he seems like the chill sort of guy who would (and did) put together something that is more like guidelines as opposed to strict recipes. So, onto the cheese. Probably the coolest thing in the whole book is a recipe for diy […]

Came For The Recipes, Stayed for the Memoir

Arabiyya: Recipes from the Life of an Arab in Diaspora by Reem Assil

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CBR 14 Bingo: Star The author is a well-known, award-winning chef. I am on a cooking spree these days – what can I say? It relaxes me. And I especially enjoyed this cookbook, not the least because I love Middle Eastern cuisine. Arabiyaa is a mix of cookbook and memoir, telling us the stories of the recipes but also of Assil’s life and her path toward becoming a chef (hint: it’s not straightforward). The book is divided into five sections that cover all the basics of […]

Adventurous Eats for the Hungry Cook

Cook As You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks and Messy Kitchens by Ruby Tandoh

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CBR 14 Bingo: Adapt (Camel) This book is chockfull of flexible recipes, easy to modify and adapt as you like. Ruby Tandoh introduces recipes from across the world with an eye to accessibility and ease of making. Before we go into this review, a caveat: I am a picky eater. A lot of foods don’t agree with me, whether due to taste or texture, and the only meat I eat is chicken. As such, I could not try out a lot of the recipes in […]

Now I’m hungry

Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking With Confidence by Claire Saffitz

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Cbr14bingo Dough BINGO (row 3) While I enjoy cooking shows, I don’t consider myself much of a cook. It isn’t that I’m not interested in improving my skills, it’s just that learning to cook full meals feels overwhelming. It seems like I’m always missing some important ingredient or kitchen tool, plus my kids have a variety of food allergies and intolerances that put some tough limits on me. Baking is one thing I have always enjoyed though and have been willing to take some risks […]

Literally dough, but it mostly looks tasty

Bake: My best ever recipes for the classics by Paul Hollywood

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For this the first review of Bingo, I have gone level 1 literal for the Dough. So I was in the UK in a bookstore and they had both the signed version and the 50% off version of Paul Hollywood’s new book Bake: My best ever recipes for the classics; guess which one I went for? Anyways, some of the recipes are repeats but there’s enough new interesting things to bake that I might be able to bake my way through this one for the […]

100 Recipes and Almost as Many Nopes

Vegan 100 by Gaz Oakley

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Vegan 100 is going to be a cookbook I don’t cook much out of; it turns out to be more pretentious than I tend to like, making it interesting to read but not practical to actually cook much from. It calls for sea-beans in a couple of recipes and I have never seen those in any local market within 75 miles of me. It also thinks I’m going to scratch make everything; I’m all for scratch cooking, the challenge can be fun, but not all […]



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