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September/October 2016: Bon Appetit Month

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So I have about 3 years’ worth of Bon Appetit magazine. As the story goes, one day, these magazines started showing up in my mailbox. I didn’t know where they came from or why I was suddenly subscribed (and I still don’t). At the end of the first year, I got an offer to renew 3 years for something like $30, less than a dollar per issue. So I figured why not? So now I have 3 years’ worth of Bon Appetit magazine, and they’re still coming.

They’ve been sitting on my shelf, untouched all these years. Somehow, I just never got around to reading any of them. Most of them, I never even bothered taking them out of their plastic shipping wrappers. It’s not that they’re bad magazines. (I mean, they pale in comparison with Cook’s Illustrated, but they’re not bad.) I just had other fish to fry.

Until now. I decided to make my cooking project for this month (September and the start of October, actually) to actually cook something from Bon Appetit magazine. So I used a random number generator, randomly picked the September 2014 issue, and decided to cook as many dishes from the magazine as I could.

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Cracker-Noodle-Do

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Friday, November 7, 2014 – Last month was invent a simple recipe and practice it a few times. This month was pick a random Good Eats episode from season 1 and do a bunch of recipes in that episode.

So I randomly picked Season 1 Ep 11 – Pantry Raid 1: Use Your Noodle, which was an episode about how to cook dried pasta. Kinda boring actually, since anyone worth their salt knows how to cook dried pasta. There weren’t even any recipes in this episode, just Alton Brown doing a tutorial of how to cook dried pasta, followed by him tossing in whatever he had lying around.

Fortunately, I got a copy of Good Eats: The Early Years (aka, Volume 1 of the Good Eats book series that Alton wrote when Food Network initially refused to monetize the Good Eats TV show by releasing the episodes in any physical or online format). And in the chapter for Pantry Raid 1 (pp 60-63), there is a recipe for tossing noddles with melted butter and toasted crumbled saltine crackers.

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