Urrmagurrddd. TWO new recipes within just ONE week! Who am I??? 
WoL recipe for Thai beef salad. I’ve never followed a recipe for yum nua before, but I’m glad I checked this one out. The marinade for the steak would also make for lovely moo ping, me thinks. WINNER!!!
WoL?
Yes, thank you. @Bigley9 I thought it was a relatively well-known acronym here, but I’ll try to be better about random abbreviations 
I should have known that - I must have been brain dead briefly 
Happens to the best of us
Last Thursday I had intended on making pasta with anchovies and capers but after planning my menus this week I realized I needed my last two anchovies for salad dressings this week. I could buy more anchovies but I am trying to finish up bits and bobs in the fridge before restocking. I figured this would be a good chance to work on those zucchinis in the fridge so I dusted off a zucchini cookbook my mom left me. I’ve tried a few of the recipes already and they’ve been successful so this time I tried the zucchini pasta since it sounded good and I had all the ingredients. The recipe calls for sautéing one whole zucchini in one tablespoon of oil which is way too much for my tastes. It also calls for adding dried mint but after making a similar recipe from epicurious (linguine with zucchini and mint) that calls for using fresh mint, I have decided that I prefer using the fresh herb. I doubt I’d make this recipe again.
I’m with you. I can ready cookbooks all day and night. Buuut, when I look up a recipe online I always “jump to recipe” instead of reading the author’s blathering about it.
Same here. I think the fluff is for SEO.
I think we need BOA of TLAs and FLAs.
Search engine optimization! Oh…was no one asking? 
Not me making something from an unused book, but making something from this thread instead. I tried the Colombian chicken and potatoes. I braised it since I don’t have a pressure cooker, and added cumin seeds and cilantro. LLD really liked it, L and I thought it was fine and certainly easy.
Extra credit for trying someone else’s new recipe 
I tried so hard to have a good day in order to make my chosen recipe. However, it did not happen. My back has been in severe pain for the past 6 or 7 weeks. I do apologize.
Even though I did not make the recipe, would it be okay if I posted it and the cover of the book.
Site/copyright rules permit you to post the list of ingredients and to paraphrase the directions, I think.
Yup, paraphrase directions, but ingredients and quantities can be exact.
And I haven’t done well myself going through my own cookbooks to find recipes that interest me enough to make. I HAVE gone through some cookbooks, but it’s always in search of a recipe using a major ingredient i want to make vs. going through every page in a particular cookbook and reading recipes and marking those that look good and THEN getting the ingredients to make it.
I am, however, making the same one tonight that I originally made for this thread way back on July 27th: Seared Sea Scallops with Chardonnay Creamed Corn. So there’s that. 
I appreciate the reminder from @Wtg2Retire — not only had I completely blanked on this thread, but also on… well, the gist of it: trying a new recipe.
Once I feel comfortable in our interim kitchen I hope to get back into the groove again, especially with such good food shopping nearby
Last Sunday I made a zucchini frittatta following a cookbook called "Going Solo in the Kitchen " by Jane Doerfer. It’s a book I bought on a whim at a bookstore near my dad’s old apartment. I often scale down recipes to single serving portions when I don’t want leftovers but in this book the work is already done for me. The biggest feature for me is that the cookbook author will provide instructions for a recipe then make suggestions for substitutions. For example the recipe I followed was for a red pepper frittatta using red pepper and celery and an assortment of herbs. Then below she suggests making the same frittatta but using asparagus or spinach and mushrooms or potato and ham or zucchini. I find it really handy during the weeks when I have done the same rotation of dishes for the last week or two and would like to move on but I need inspiration.
Last Monday while I was doing laundry I went to the lounge in my apartment building to browse through the books in our trading library and found a copy of “The Harrowsmith Cookbook” and the recipes looked good so I tried "Vicky’s Birthday Shrimp ". I have no idea who Vicky is or when her birthday is but the recipe tasted good Some of the recipes sound odd like “Noodles with Poppy Seeds” (egg noodles with whipping cream, honey, and poppy seeds) or “Pasta Candy” (with corn syrup and sugar) so I think I’ll pass on those :)!
Likely a good decision 
