Weekly Menu Planning - January 2024

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In case folks here haven’t seen the current cook-along threads:

HOMEMADE PIZZA - Winter 2024 (Jan-Mar) Dish of the Quarter

It was a tight race, but HOMEMADE PIZZA took home top honors in our voting thread for this quarter’s DOTQ! I love pizza of all styles and make it frequently, so I am excited to read about your best tips and tricks for the perfect pie. Let’s get those ovens cranking, HOs!

MEXICAN - Winter 2024 (Jan-Mar) Cuisine of the Quarter

Clearly the HO hivemind had spices and salsas on the brain, because MEXICAN was our sole nominee for Cuisine of the Quarter this time around, and therefore, our default winner! I adore Mexican food (and all of its various American-fusion regional variants), and I look forward to exploring it in greater detail along with you HOs.

January 2024 Cookbook of the Month: FROM THE OVEN TO THE TABLE

Welcome to the reporting thread for our January 2024 COTM, From the Oven to the Table by Diana Henry. We’ll use this thread for all discussion and recipe reports. [IMG_2931] To report on a recipe, put the name of the recipe in ALL CAPS and include which book it’s in and the page number, if it’s available to you. If you are the first to post about a recipe, please reply to this post. If someone has already posted about the recipe, reply to their post so all the posts about each recipe are linke…

and nominations:

Early 2024 Baking COTM Nominations

Welcome to the nominating thread for our next BCOTM. What books would you like to bake from together for the next few months? You many nominate as many books as you wish. In order to nominate, please put the name of the book in ALL CAPS in the comments below. Only titles in all caps will be counted as nominations. (If you’re discussing a book, but not nominating, please use regular capitalization for clarity.) Please nominate with the intention of joining us in cooking from the book and report…

and a 2023 round-up:

Favorite New Recipes 2023

Thought I’d start this thread (courtesy @adawks last year and others previously) a bit earlier, before everyone gets busy (or even busier) with holiday season things. The qualifier to include recipes on such lists used to be that you had made them 3+ times, a high bar, but certainly left no doubt that a recipe has become a favorite! I suggest instead that to include a recipe here, you should already have made it, liked it enough to copy over into your permanent store, and plan to make it again…