Reading Wednesday
Jul. 24th, 2024 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grundyscribblingNot much of a reading Wednesday. It's been a busy week with one thing and another.
Both cookbooks, both picked up at the (newly re-opened) library, chosen on the basis that the covers looked fun:
Dolci! American Baking With An Italian Accent by Renato Poliafito
It has the cookies on the cover. You know, the cookies you get from the Italian bakery, with chocolate and sprinkles. (I don't know about anywhere else, but the US Northeast knows what I'm talking about here.) Anyway, I would like this one for the cookie section alone, even if I am dubious that the bakery cookies are really just butter cookies. There is also a recipe for Italian Krispie Treats - that would be Rice Krispie Treats, but Italian-American'ed up, with mascarpone, cocoa powder, and espresso powder. It sounds like the bastard child of tiramisu and Rice Krispie Treats and I want to try it. But there is way more than just cookies. Some of it is traditional, some is...interesting. (Cocoa ricotta zeppole with tahini glaze? Interesting.)
Pizza Night: Deliciously doable recipes for pizza and salad by Alexandra Stafford
It's hard to go wrong with a book of pizza ideas. That said, it was a tossup whether any given one of these ideas strikes my fancy or my tastebuds. Worth it from the library, probably would not buy.
Both cookbooks, both picked up at the (newly re-opened) library, chosen on the basis that the covers looked fun:
Dolci! American Baking With An Italian Accent by Renato Poliafito
It has the cookies on the cover. You know, the cookies you get from the Italian bakery, with chocolate and sprinkles. (I don't know about anywhere else, but the US Northeast knows what I'm talking about here.) Anyway, I would like this one for the cookie section alone, even if I am dubious that the bakery cookies are really just butter cookies. There is also a recipe for Italian Krispie Treats - that would be Rice Krispie Treats, but Italian-American'ed up, with mascarpone, cocoa powder, and espresso powder. It sounds like the bastard child of tiramisu and Rice Krispie Treats and I want to try it. But there is way more than just cookies. Some of it is traditional, some is...interesting. (Cocoa ricotta zeppole with tahini glaze? Interesting.)
Pizza Night: Deliciously doable recipes for pizza and salad by Alexandra Stafford
It's hard to go wrong with a book of pizza ideas. That said, it was a tossup whether any given one of these ideas strikes my fancy or my tastebuds. Worth it from the library, probably would not buy.
