If it is decided to have 2 or 3 options in each quarter, I would like to suggest possibly having one of them be a “golden oldie” from the CH days. Don’t know how much interest there is from those that cooked from them previously.
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Trying to impose categories on the selections will make the nomination process much more difficult for the coordinator. We are trying to do the opposite. So we’re going to start out with no categories, and plenty of coordinator discretion, and see how that goes. You are, of course, welcome to nominate previous COTMs from back in the CH days. We are really hoping we’ll see a variety of books nominated.
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Since we have a free month coming up, I’d like to encourage everyone to come over to our current COTM thread and maybe give Ethiopia a try. It is really a much easier book to cook from that you might imagine. And you really don’t need to track down any hard-to-find ingredients. Take injera out of the picture, you don’t need it to enjoy the other food. You also don’t need to make a dozen dishes for a full Ethiopian spread. Saregama posted a meal where she had made one vegetable dish from the book as a side in a normal meal. The vegetable dishes tend to be pretty simple and and most DO NOT require any special ingredients. You can find a lot to cook with no berbere, no spiced butter. Just simple, simple seasonings like garlic and ginger. I cooked four vegetable dishes plus injera last night in two hours while also following an online pottery workshop. Three of the vegetable dishes called for nothing more exotic than turmeric, garlic or ginger. They were soooo easy. Way easier than anything in that Diana Henry book we just did. The Kindle version of this book is currently $3.99, so you aren’t risking much giving it a try.
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Hey, COTM people, it’s time to nominate books for the first in what I hope will be many successful quarters!
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