Yes, I made my own birthday breakfast. I would love to show off to my goddess Garla since it’s her recipe, but I refuse to get instagram so you hellions get to see instead.
A five star review from @srotzschthomas for @lallimusic
latest cookbook That Sounds So Good
What’s the USP? What we have here is one of my favourite themes a cookbook can have: food is good, but sometimes it’s exhausting, let’s make it easier. That Sounds So Good offers up ‘100 real-life recipes for every day of the week’, and in its introduction author Carla Lalli Music says each of the dishes in the book ‘is designed to help remove any psychic and emotional barriers that get in the…
I'm not enthused by any recipies that claim to be "one pot" or offer some other simplification for ease. But I was intrigued to try a pasta dish where the pasta is wholly cooked in the sauce rather than combined, so it can totally soak up the sauce it is surrounded by & exude its starches into the sauce.
So this is mushroomy, oniony, garlicky, red pepper & tomato paste-y, brothy/stewy/soupy spaghetti.
Recipe by Carla Lalli Music.
And on an aside, Carla really does have a point about the texture of blended parmesan vs regular old microplaned parmesan
i loveee your cooking posts, they are so beautiful and inspiring :) what cooking channels on youtube or tv shows would you recommend? and separate question: which ones are your favorites!! thank you for sharing your beautiful life with us
okay this is the sweetest message ever ilysm 🥺🥺🥺 at the moment i really really love carla lalli music and imamu room and nyt videos. back in high school i loved watching bon appetit but things there have since fallen apart, so i don’t really watch those videos unless i’m making a specific recipe and want the visual. but they did a really good job of explaining technique and WHY you do things a certain way, binging with babish does this too but he can be really extra (he makes fun stuff not necessarily for recreation, or at least he did when i was watching him).
my most favorite thing ever to watch on youtube is sohla el-waylly and her husband ham make courses using mystery ingredients on nyt, their creativity is actually UNREAL and they are such a joy to watch. that show always inspires me deeply to try something new. tenderherbs on instagram i also feel really inspired by, her food is beautiful and she’s really raw and vulnerable about everything which i think is really special. cafehailee as well as chuckycruz on instagram are always cooking spectacularly and their reels are really fun.
If You Find a Unicorn, It is Not Yours to Keep - DJ Corchin
Coven - Jennifer Dugan
Unretouchable - Sofia Szamosi
American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets - Margaret Kimball
How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You - Matthew Inman
When Life Gives You Pears - Jeannie Gaffigan
Nine Nasty Words - John McWhorter
Resilient - Rick Hanson
Ask Me About My Uterus - Abby Norman
That Sounds So Good - Carla Lalli Music
Unbelievably Vegan - Charity Morgan
Bold = Highly Recommend
Italics = Worth It
Crossed out = Nope
Thoughts:
Lots of really decent reads this month, but the standout is once again Olivia Atwater. I think I enjoyed Ten Thousand Stitches even more than Half a Soul. Just delightful.
I also read a bunch of graphic novels while I was recovering from surgery and finally got around to reading some that have been on my TBR forever.
stolen from Carla Lalli Music https://youtube.com/watch?v=xpfSDYr0nXI
⁃ 4 ounces pancetta or bacon or guanciale
⁃ 4 chicken thighs
⁃ 6 cloves of garlic
⁃ fennel bulb, chopped
⁃ onion or several shallots, chopped
⁃ rosemary sprig
⁃ 1/2 cup white wine
⁃ 1 can (14/15 ounce) whole peeled tomatoes
use a dutch oven or deep mouthed pan
1. Medium heat, cook the pancetta. render the fat. then remove it but leave the oil
2. salt + pep the thighs. cook the thighs spiced-side down (then season the other side in the pan). pay attention, render the fat. 12 minutes maybe? brown those thighs, flip them, cook 6 min more
3. meanwhile… chop veg
4. remove chicken, put in chopped veggies, salt em! season with red pepper after a few minutes. drop in the rosemary at this point too. stir and cook until stuff browns up. 6 minutes? can you smash the garlic with a spoon?? softened and juicy
5. deglaze all the fond with 1/2 (or 1?) cup of wine, cook till the wine has evaporated
6. put in the tomatoes, smush them with the spoon, fill half can with water, pour that in
7. half pancetta goes in, so does the chicken skin side up. pour in juices. you want a simmer. put the lid on, cook for 90 minutes. check in every half hour or so?
8. check the chicken, see if you can shred the chicken with forks
serve over noodles or polenta or rice with remaining pancetta!
hey Winnie! would you mind sharing your favourite content creators? on insta or youtube? x
Hope it's ok this is a mix of food, beauty, fashion, knitting/diy and anime/manga content bc that's all I watch :) all these people I watch on YouTube but I'm certain they also use Instagram.
Safiya Nygaard does bit of everything, she might be my favorite content creator ever I'm kind of in love with her lol 😶
Food: internet Shaquille, Emily Ewing, Chinese cooking demystified, Carla Lalli Music, Maangchi, Yeung Man Cooking, The Korean Vegan, Claire Saffitz, Alison Roman, Aaron & Claire
Makeup: Nihel (she makes fashion content too, just found her she's super cute) Kackie reviews beauty, Hannah Louise Poston, Lauren May Beauty, Alexandra Anele, Bekah Sun, Chrissstttiiine (she does food/fashion too)
Fashion: wear I live, Gigi mw, mina le, moderngurlz, Maddie dragsbaek, the milk club, Fernanda Ly (ferntube)
Knitting/diy: Tiffany Liew, well loved knits, Jenna Phipps, Lisa's knit club
misc: Hazel (cozy deep dive vintage anime/manga content+vocaloid) Hannah the horrible (spooky/disturbing/true crime but done v respectfully), be kind rewind (film/old Hollywood analysis), Mike's Mic (memes/comedy/tv recaps)