the milk street cookbook review

Chocolate Meringue Cookies
Chocolate Meringue Cookies

The Milk Street Cookbook (5th Anniversary Edition): The Definitive Guide to the New Home Cooking—with Every Recipe from the TV Show by Christopher Kimball. Photography by Connie Miller, CB Creatives.

The Milk Street Cookbook (5th Anniversary Edition): The Definitive Guide to the New Home Cooking---with Every Recipe from ... The Milk Street Cookbook (5th Anniversary Edition): The Definitive Guide to the New Home Cooking---with Every Recipe from the TV Show by Christopher Kimball The complete Milk Street TV show cookbook, featuring each dish from every episode and more—over 400 dishes in all, including 65+ new recipes from the 2021-2022 fifth season.

Christopher Kimball’s James Beard, IACP, and Emmy Award-winning Milk Street TV show and cookbooks give home cooks a simpler, bolder, healthier way to eat and cook.

Now featuring over 400 tried-and-true recipes, including every recipe from every episode of the TV show, this book is the ultimate guide to high-quality, low-effort cooking and the perfect kitchen companion for cooks of all skill levels. Every recipe is paired with a photograph.

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Greek Chicken and Potato Traybake
Greek Chicken and Potato traybake

Greek Chicken and Potato Traybake, excerpted from Milk Street: Tuesday Nights Mediterranean. Photography by Connie Miller.

Milk Street Tuesday Nights Mediterranean

Mediterranean cooking is so much more than olive oil, grilled fish, and just-harvested vegetables. It is a diverse cuisine that encompasses the cultures and traditions of Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. The food is direct, simple, and honest. It is proud to be served without disguise or embellishment.

Every Tuesday Nights recipe delivers big flavour, but the cooking is quick and easy. Each of these 125 Mediterranean dinners is ready in under 45 minutes, and many take just 20 minutes start to finish. Dishes include:

  • Green Shakshuka
  • Spicy Egyptian Eggplant with Chickpeas and Herbs
  • Bulgur Salad with Summer Vegetables and Pomegranate Molasses
  • Harissa-Spiced Pasta and Chicken with Green Beans
  • Greek Spanakorizo with Shrimp
  • Spanish Ribeye with Green Olives and White Wine.

The recipes are organized by how you cook, with some chapters focused on time—Fast (45 minutes), Faster (35 minutes), and Fastest (under 25 minutes)—while others dive into themes such as Hearty Vegetable Mains, Supper Soups, and Flat and Folded—including pizza, flatbreads, pita sandwiches, and panini. Many of the recipes require only one piece of cookware, and they all are built from pantry staples. Dinner? Solved—every night of the week.

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Salted Butter Caramel Chocolate Mousse
Salted Butter Caramel Chocolate Mousse

Salted Butter Caramel Chocolate Mousse. Excerpted from THE MILK STREET COOKBOOK by Christopher Kimball with writing and editing by J. M. Hirsch and Michelle Locke. Recipes by Matthew Card, Diane Unger and the Cooks at Milk Street. Copyright © 2019 by CPK Media, LLC. Photographs by Connie Miller.

The Milk Street Cookbook 2017 to 2021

Christopher Kimball’s James Beard and Emmy Award-winning Milk Street TV show and cookbooks give home cooks a simpler, bolder, healthier way to eat and cook.

Now featuring nearly 400 tried-and-true recipes, including every recipe from every episode of the TV show, this book is the ultimate guide to high-quality, low effort cooking and the perfect kitchen companion for cooks of all skill levels.

At Milk Street, there are no long lists of hard-to-find ingredients, strange cookware, or all-day methods. Instead, every recipe has been adapted and tested for home cooks like you. You’ll find simple recipes that deliver big flavours and textures fast, such as Stir-Fried Chicken with Snap Peas and Basil, Cacio e Pepe, No-Sear Lamb or Beef and Chickpea Stew, Somali Chicken Soup, Roasted Cauliflower with Miso Glaze, French Apple Cake, and Central Mexican Guacamole and Israeli Hummus—classics with a twist!

Organized by type of dish—from salads, soups, grains, and vegetable sides to simple dinners and extraordinary desserts—this book is an indispensable reference that will introduce you to extraordinary new flavours and ingenious techniques.

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Steamed Lemon Chicken with Scallions and Oyster Sauce
Steamed Lemon Chicken with Scallions and Oyster Sauce

Steamed Lemon Chicken with Scallions and Oyster Sauce, Excerpted from MILK STREET: COOKISH. Copyright © 2020 by Christopher Kimball. Photographs by Connie Miller. Used with permission of Voracious, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company. New York, NY. All rights reserved.

MILK STREET: COOKISH. Copyright © 2020 by Christopher Kimball.In Cookish, Christopher Kimball and his team of cooks and editors harness the most powerful cooking principles from around the world to create 200 of the simplest, most delicious recipes ever created. These recipes, most with six or fewer ingredients (other than oil, salt, and pepper), make it easy to be a great cook—the kind who can walk into a kitchen and throw together dinner in no time.

In each of these recipes, big flavours and simple techniques transform pantry staples, common proteins, or centrepiece vegetables into a delicious meal. And each intuitive recipe is a road map for other mix-and-match meals, which can come together in minutes from whatever’s in the fridge.

With most recipes taking less than an hour to prepare, and just a handful of ingredients, you’ll enjoy:

  • Pasta with Shrimp and Browned Butter
  • West African Peanut Chicken
  • Red Lentil Soup
  • Scallion Noodles
  • Open-Faced Omelet with Fried Dill and Feta
  • Greek Bean and Avocado Salad
  • And for dessert: Spiced Strawberry Compote with Greek Yogurt or Ice Cream

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