December 2025 EYB Cookbook Club Summary

Each month we allow posting in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club from any cookbook, magazine or blog and we also offer one featured cookbook -most months.

We hope that sharing our favorite recipes will help our Members discover new cookbooks and recipes to try. Also please see our January 2026 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary which is now organized by location and includes local cookbook clubs and those held at bookstores.

This month’s featured authors/books were:

• Milk Street Shorts – Recipes That Pack a Punch by Christopher Kimball
• Baking and the Meaning of Life: Ways to Spread Joy in 100 Recipes by Helen Goh.
• Please post any of your Christmas baking as well.

All EYB Cookbook Club featured books have a filter and can be found here.

For past EYB Cookbook Club summaries, #EYBCookbookClub will pull up an archive of our club’s activities. Please note our announcement document shared in the club shares all our options (including those in the past). You will find the cooking options for January and February at the bottom of this post.

Have you uploaded any of your own photos yet? Learn more! Even free Members can add their photos to our recipe record and it only takes a minute! Add the book, online recipe, magazine to your Bookshelf and then upload your photo. Please remember to update your profile with your Instagram name if you would like to be tagged in any photos that we share!

Members made the following dishes:

Milk Street Shorts – Recipes That Pack a Punch by Christopher Kimball – There are seven EYBD Preview recipes available.

I made the Skillet cacio e pepe and it was delicious but the photo I took was not reasonable to look at.

Baking and the Meaning of Life by Helen Goh

Pistachio & dried sour cherry scrolls (page 27) submitted by spokomaciek

Puttanesca galette with lemon ricotta (page 33) submitted by dedi04

A cookie box submitted by Alyssa R in the EYB Cookbook Club. To see the recipes she made and comments see her post.

Another cookie box submitted by Susan K in the EYB Cookbook Club. For details see her post.

• January 2026: Catchup month – continue cooking from your favorite books.
• February 2026: Good Things – Recipes and Rituals to Share with the People You Love by Samin Nosrat
• March 2026: Something from Nothing by Alison Roman