In the last couple of weeks, I discovered two awesome cooking channels and an amazing book I didn’t know about before:
- ThatDudeCanCook
- What’s Eating Dan? This is part of the America’s Test Kitchen channel, but I think it really stands out from the rest of the content they have. It should be its own channel!
- Vegatables Illustrated: An Inspiring Guide with 700+ Kitchen-Tested Recipes: America’s Test Kitchen. I am obsessing with this book, it has tons of simple, classic, and delicious vegetable recipes, and it’s very well organized and put together.
This weekend I made two loaves of brioche with this recipe. Turned out amazing. I used one loaf to make french toast the next morning.
I also found that rabbit was available at a local grocery store and picked one up, and cooked it with garlic, parsley, olive oil, and white wine, using this classic Spanish recipe. To make it ultra-moist, I brined it for 45 minutes in 4 gallons of water, 1 cup of salt, and 1 cup of sugar. This is a brine I learned many years ago for chicken that is a game changer.
I also made peri peri marinade, and I’ve had a chicken taking a bath in that stuff for 24 hours already. I will cook it today.
Finally, from the Vegetables Illustrated book, I made southern style collard greens which were incredible. Last week I also made the broccoli rabe recipe with garlic, bacon, parmesan, and balsamic vinegar and it was also insanely good. This book is the best.
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