Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin

  • Extremely easy old-fashioned beef stew

    from Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin

    • Categories: Stews & one-pot meals; Main course
    • Ingredients: stewing beef; paprika; carrots; potatoes; red wine; tomato sauce; tomato paste
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Notes about this book

  • nomadchowwoman on January 07, 2010

    Wonderful kitchen stories, wonderful recipes.

Notes about Recipes in this book

  • Flourless chocolate cake

    • laurabead on November 16, 2018

      Our favorite cake for passover (or any other time of year). It's rich and dense. Delicious with a raspberry coulis and/or barely sweetened whipped cream.

  • Creamed spinach with jalapeño peppers

  • Braised fennel, celery, onion and red pepper

    • wester on November 02, 2012

      This was actually very simple and very tasty. The reason it didn't get more stars is that the timing was way off - it needed about twice as long as stated, and the onions wouldn't have minded staying in the oven for even longer. I added some fennel seeds as well, which was nice.

  • Cornbread and prosciutto stuffing

    • mjes on September 27, 2021

      A very decent dressing recipe that is just slightly different from the expectations - add a little variety to Thanksgiving without crashing hopes.

  • Rösti

    • Jardimc on June 27, 2024

      Not really a recipe that one can actually use.

  • Black cake

    • robinorig on July 06, 2013

      Article and online recipe: http://www.boston.com/ae/food/articles/2006/12/13/black_cake_adds_intrigue_to_baking/

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  • ISBN 10 024196296X
  • ISBN 13 9780241962961
  • Published Oct 04 2012
  • Format eBook
  • Page Count 208
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Penguin
  • Imprint Not Avail

Publishers Text

'Everything food writing should be: funny, profound, inspiring and unaffected' Nigella Lawson

Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, Home Cooking is Laurie Colwin's manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. From the humble hot-plate of her one-room apartment to the crowded kitchens of bustling parties, Colwin regales us with tales of meals gone both magnificently well and disastrously wrong.

Never before published in the UK, this is hilarious, personal and full of Colwin's hard-won expertise. Home Cookingwill speak to the heart (and stomach) of any amateur cook, professional chef, or food lover.

'A feast . . . witty, no-nonsense. Home Cooking is a culinary companion as comfortable beside your bed as your cooker. It has an essay for everyone who loves to eat and demonstrates that home is where the heart is - and the stomach happiest' Observer

'Laurie Colwin's food thoughts are like phone calls from a dear friend' New Yorker

'Shrewd, witty and consistently enjoyable' Mail on Sunday

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