Nothing Fancy: Recipes and Recollections of Soul-Satisfying Food by Diana Kennedy

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  • Sautéed spinach

    • KissTheCook on April 10, 2020

      p. 50 - recommends for omelette or souffle filling. I say also under fish.

  • Cactus salad (Ensalada de nopal)

    • mcvl on March 19, 2022

      It's spring, nopales are in season. Good tasty salad, but all the other ingredients drowned out the delicate, elusive taste of the raw cactus. Next time I'll adjust accordingly.

  • Lemon chicken

    • Avocet on December 31, 2021

      Made this with chicken thighs. Super easy and delicious. Increased the oregano and didn't need the water called for. Better to cook the thighs skin side up for the whole time.

  • Easy peach jam

    • KissTheCook on August 28, 2018

      Way sweet even using 1/2# less sugar. Fruit never broke down from original quarters. After requisite simmer time, boiled on high an hour and a half (instead of 40 min. per recipe) and never reached set point.

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  • ISBN 10 1477308288
  • ISBN 13 9781477308288
  • Published Apr 19 2016
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 230
  • Language English
  • Edition Rev. and expanded ed
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher University of Texas Press

Publishers Text

Diana Kennedy is the world's preeminent authority on authentic Mexican cooking and one of its best-known food writers. Renowned for her uncompromising insistence on using the correct local ingredients and preparation techniques, she has taught generations of cooks how to prepare traditional dishes from the villages of Mexico, and in doing so, has documented and helped preserve the country's amazingly diverse and rich foodways. Kennedy's own meals for guests are often Mexican, but she also indulges herself and close friends with the nostalgic foods in Nothing Fancy.

This acclaimed cookbook—now expanded with new and revised recipes, additional commentary, photos, and reminiscences—reveals Kennedy's passion for simpler, soul-satisfying food, from the favorite dishes of her British childhood (including a technique for making clotted cream that actually works) to rare recipes from Ukraine, Norway, France, and other outposts. In her inimitable style, Kennedy discusses her addictions—everything from good butter, cream, and lard to cold-smoked salmon, Seville orange marmalade, black truffle shavings, escamoles (ant eggs), and proper croissants—as well as her bêtes noires—kosher salt, nonfat dairy products, cassia "cinnamon," botoxed turkeys, and nonstick pans and baking sprays, among them. And look out for the ire she unleashes on "cookbookese," genetically modified foods, plastic, and unecological kitchen practices! The culminating work of an illustrious career, Nothing Fancy is an irreplaceable opportunity to spend time in the kitchen with Diana Kennedy, listening to the stories she has collected and making the food she has loved over a long lifetime of cooking.

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