I don't think I can overstate how much we love the America's Test Kitchen cookbooks. We have subscriptions to Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country, we own no less than 8 of the cookbooks and they are some of our most used, well loved recipes. But the Menu cookbook is daunting. Each menu takes days to put together. However, we finally pulled one off. The bad news is that we made this on Fast Sunday. The first Sunday of the month we abstain from eating for roughly 24 hours. So all day, while we were hungry, there was delicious yumminess cooking all around us. It made for some pretty cranky moment. Don't worry, there was food induced ecstasy at dinnertime. Here was the menu:
Hearty French Lamb Shank Dinner:
Skillet-Carmelized Pears with Blue Cheese
Braised Lamb Shanks
White Bean Gratin
Garlicky Swiss Chard
And for fun, I added Bread Machine home-made bread and a green salad
This was really delicious. I especially loved the white bean gratin and Dave discovered that Swiss Chard can be quite awesome. It made me want to go to the effort to try some more of these, but not on a day of fasting!
2 comments:
Fellow devotee of America's Test Kitchen here! I have many cookbooks (baking illustrated is a favorite), get the magazine, and I also subscribe online. Not sure if it would be an economical choice for you, but we travel so much and I can't take all the magazines with me, so having the recipes at my fingertips and having them easily searchable is amazing. You can do a premium deal and get access to all the cookbook recipes as well!
The meal looks amazing. Amazing. Good work you guys!
Karen,
I don't know if we still have an online subscription but we used to. I should check on that! Makes it a lot easier to search for a recipe!
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