Sunday Best: Cooking Up the Weekend Spirit Every Day by Adrienne Cheatham

    • Categories: Bread & rolls, savory; Sauces for meat; Breakfast / brunch; African American
    • Ingredients: butter; all-purpose flour; Wondra flour; buttermilk; honey; ground pork; dried sage; Italian seasoning; nutmeg; milk
    • Accompaniments: Country gravy, the Southern mother sauce
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  • Spicy and crispy whole-roasted cauliflower

    • meggan on May 12, 2022

      It was tasty but mine did not turn out crispy as promised.

  • Tater tot waffles with candied bacon

    • EmilyR on April 13, 2022

      I used the sweet potato tots and her bacon miso sauce for a different take on this. It's a salty, sweet, umami bomb.

  • Cha-cha, or Tabletop pepper sauce

    • EmilyR on April 13, 2022

      I have no idea what kind of peppers I ended up using, because they contained an array that were marked "Jamaican hot" - they might have been Scotch bonnet. Considering she recommends Tabasco peppers and the like (which are a friendlier 30,000-50,000 on the Scoville index as opposed to mine which are probably somewhere around 150,000-200,000), I am guessing this pepper sauce is going to last a mighty long while and won't be for the faint of heart. EDIT : Now that it's marinated and I've used it on pizza, I can attest that it's quite good.

  • Bacon-miso sauce

    • EmilyR on April 13, 2022

      This is an interesting sauce, but I kind of wanted it to be a bit heftier / thicker. I could use her recommendation of "Sunday best-ing" the sauce with some cornstarch, but I haven't tried that yet.

  • Barley grits with roasted grapes and almonds

    • EmilyR on April 13, 2022

      My barley did not want to grits-ify itself. I kept running it through the processor and it just never seemed like it was going to break up, so I gave in and let it do what it wanted to do. I can't tell if this is an identity crisis of a breakfast / later in the day meal or if it's sweet / savory. It definitely is good and filling though.

  • Split pea salad with warm bacon-sherry vinaigrette

    • EmilyR on April 13, 2022

      This is soup meets a salad in the best of ways. I appreciated the textures, flavors, and colors.

  • Buttermilk and corn flour pancakes with warm peach compote

    • tarae1204 on April 25, 2022

      So, these pancakes, the first recipe tried from this book didn’t work for us. The sweet corn flour and tangy buttermilk do make a nice flavor, but our pancakes were exceedingly thick (used metric flour measurements) and needed a lot more buttermilk. They tended towards burning rather than that desired golden burnish. They were tough. The stated quantity of baking powder might be on the low side. Pancakes can be unpredictable.

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  • ISBN 10 0593233123
  • ISBN 13 9780593233122
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  • Published Apr 12 2022
  • Page Count 288
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Clarkson Potter

Publishers Text

Chef Adrienne Cheatham spent her career cooking in some of the country's most prestigious restaurants, from Eric Ripert's Le Bernardin to Marcus Samuelsson's Red Rooster. She went on to become a finalist on Top Chef and founded a popular pop-up series, SundayBest, where she honed her signature style of cooking that combined her family’s Southern roots and her own childhood food memories with her classical training in professional kitchens. The name of that series, and this book, were inspired by the special set of clothes that many in the Black community have reserved for church. During segregation, people would put on their "Sunday best" just to go into town as a way of demanding respect from those who didn't accept them as equal. This tradition and its meaning are at the core of Adrienne’s debut book which shows how everyday moments should be appreciated, celebrated, and made special for those you love.

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