Cooking book of the month (COTM)?

[hungryonion]

Anyone interested?

[meatn3 (equal opportunity eater in the NC Triangle)]

I tend not to participate in this series for a variety of reasons. But I have been so impressed with the accolades from some months that I have bought the book! It’s a great resource and fun to follow.

[naf]

I’m interested. I will suggest our first edition to start with Hungry Onion Recipe Collection, cook our fellow members’ best dish and get to know each other better!

Hungry Onion Recipe Collection

Found it! A take on the “Funeral Potatoes” thing, great thing to bring to work. Once, for work, I had made a rub, covered a decent pork butt, 6 hour smoke, pulled it, made coleslaw, made BBQ sauce, bought correct rolls and brought it all to work. Threw this recipe together for something to serve it with and people could not stop talking about it. Sigh. Whatever. Midwestern Tater Tot hot dish Ingredients 1 1/2 pounds ground beef 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 (16 ounce) package frozen mixed vege…

[Gio (Giovanna)]

Probably not interested in this stage of my life after having participated for about 10 years.

That is not to say that if a COTM begins here, if I own the cookbook elected, if I see that some recipes agree with what we like to eat… and a bunch of other factors arise, I might jump in, cook, and report. Too many conditions though to make any impact.

[catholiver]

What book?

[catholiver]

So, Gio, you’re no longer doing it on CH?

[meatn3 (equal opportunity eater in the NC Triangle)]

Three which come to mind are Radically Simple and Jerusalem and Smoke and Pickles - all of which I’ve been very happy with.

[Gio (Giovanna)]

@catholiver

Gio, you’re no longer doing it on CH?

I look in from time to time but nothing has interested me lately.

[biondanonima]

Yes, although I would probably only participate sporadically. I tend only to cook from cookbooks if the cuisine is very unfamiliar. For instance, I participated heavily on Chowhound when the COTM was 660 Curries, because I hadn’t done much Indian cooking up to that point. However, I only made one recipe from Radically Simple, and gave the cookbook away almost immediately (honestly, I wouldn’t have bought the book at all, but I found it available for just pennies for a used copy).

[hungryonion]

It seems like there is limited interest in Cotm so far. How about a Regional Cuisine of the month? Please see here:

dish of the month (cooking)

Or how about Regional Cuisine of the month? Anyone interested in that? It seems like we don’t have broad interest in cotm, because of the commitment, hassle to acquire books, etc. dotm seems ok though it’s one dish for a whole month. how about we pick a regional cuisine, and learn about that cuisine and specialties during the month? One can pick any dishes from that cuisine that interest them. This is something that hasn’t been done at Chowhound either. E.g. Catalan, Lebanese, Issan, Ca…