Even those who were sure that cooking was not for them will be drawn to the kitchen.
Sometimes it seems that we are doomed to kitchen slavery, because it is impossible to attract household to cooking. Together with talented chefs, we have put together a selection of the right cookbooks. Correct – because thanks to them you can teach how to cook (and enjoy it!) Anyone. For example…
Rustam Tangirov. “Wild food”
The preparation of these dishes does not begin in the kitchen, but in the sea, in the forest, in the field, by the fire. Raw crab with roasted avocado, cod with young celery and seaweed, quail eggs from the liver – many of the products for recipes Rustam mined himself, and then cooked in field conditions. His book awakens the hunter’s instinct and reminds us that hunting and preparing food was not always a woman’s business. It remains to support this mood. Even if your man goes hunting for partridge and steak at the nearest market.
“Just a kitchen with Alexander Belkovich. Second season”
Taking a girl on a date to a restaurant is a beautiful gesture. But cooking a restaurant-grade dinner at home is a feat. With the book of Alexander Belkovich, it is quite feasible. There are no complicated ingredients and difficult technologies, even a beginner can figure out the recipes. Smelt with mint-citrus salad, pink risotto with baked beetroot and feta cheese, shepherd’s pie with liver – it sounds exquisite, it’s easy to prepare, and it tastes great.
Olesya Kupin. “Chocolate Book”
This book is like a vibrant Instagram profile: you want to like every page. Chocolate is a dessert that is impossible to resist. With this book, you will learn how to use it in recipes for cakes, candies, muffins, bars and other dishes. And so that all this turns out not only tasty, but also spectacular, Olesya suggests little tricks: how to turn chocolate into shavings, cut orange peel into curls, prepare almond petals for decoration.
Vitaly Istomin. “Not boring food”
Vitaliy is a culinary expert from Instagram. He even knows how to cook buckwheat so that the video recipe will collect hundreds of likes. The main thing is to be yourself and joke more in the kitchen, he says. And in parallel with this, you can cook cod with mashed potatoes and garlic sauce, potatoes with tongue and horseradish, ginger chicken with rice and many other dishes. Cooking is very simple, Vitaly is sure. It remains to be verified.
Victoria Melnik. “Cheesecake inside. Book three “
Do you like cheesecake and always order it for your coffee? But the portion is always too small. There is only one way out – to learn how to cook this dessert yourself. Victoria talks about the basic principles, understanding which you can bake any cheesecake: totally berry, very carrot, strawberry umami – or any that your imagination suggests. Her detailed recipes make even the most sophisticated desserts easy to prepare.
Victoria Isakova. “More than a cake. Awesome sponge cake recipes for those who want to create, not repeat “
You have to eat 5 thousand cakes. That is how much Victoria baked them to learn how to make the perfect biscuit. A tempting prospect, isn’t it? Incredible combinations “carrots – caramel”, “buckwheat – prunes – pear”, “blackberry – lavender” – all these are cake ideas that the author tells you. But Victoria emphasizes: she gives only basic recipes and ideas for inspiration, then your imagination acts.
Chelsea Monroe-Cassel. The Official World of Warcraft Cookbook
Not every made-up dish can be prepared. Sometimes fantasy worlds are poorly thought out, and food in it is just an element that is mentioned in passing. The same cannot be said about Warcraft. The detailing is stunning here: Chimeroca Grave’s incendiary chops, tender shoveltusk steak, Mulgore spice bread – which game fan would pass it up?
Alena Solodovichenko. “Miss Varenichnaya. Favorite and unusual dumplings, dumplings and something else “
Evening, a mug of tea and another episode of your favorite TV series on the screen. Why not do something useful while watching? For example, make a dozen or two dumplings. You can use the usual ones – with potatoes and mushrooms, cherries, cottage cheese. Or the original ones – with couscous and turkey, with spicy sweet potatoes, with an apple and a pear. Alena talks about dumplings in such an interesting way, as if it were a new fashionable subculture. And who knows what the hipsters will be up to tomorrow …
… a travel lover
Julia Evdokimova. “The Taste of Italian Autumn. Coffee, Mysteries and Mists “
This is not a cookbook, but a gastronomic journey to Italy. From it you will learn why rice and pasta are not a side dish, but an independent dish, and when ordering cappuccino is unacceptable. Julia talks about this country so deliciously that one involuntarily wants to ask a couple of recipes. And she shares with us: chicken in the oven in Lucanian style, crostini with figs, Renaissance rice cake … It seems that we urgently need to go to Italy. Or the kitchen.
Pomme Larmouyer. “Istanbul. Cult Recipes “
Istanbul’s cuisine is like the city itself: plentiful, generous, festive and devoid of clichés. And if you want to remember your vacation in Turkey – or to be mentally transported there for the first time – there is nothing better than Pomme’s book. Soon your kitchen will be filled with the aromas of the spicy pasta of Antioch, baklava in syrup, kebabs made from meat or fish – the aromas of the ancient Byzantine capital.