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What’s Rachel Reading? Give a Girl a Knife: A Review

I’m a perpetual sucker for food memoirs, so of course had to pull Give a Girl a Knife off the new book shelf at the library a couple of weeks ago. Since we don’t have cable, I didn’t even know that Amy Thielen formerly had a Food Network show (“Heartland Table”) — but that’s quite all right; her …

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What’s Rachel Reading? Indian Instant Pot Cooking: A Review

I received a digital copy of Indian Instant Pot Cooking for purposes of review. All opinions here, however, are my own. *** Update  — the Kindle version of Indian Instant Pot Cooking is just $1.99 on Amazon as of 9/27/17! Great deal. If you’ve spent any time in the Instant Pot community group on Facebook, you’re …

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What’s Rachel Reading? Eat Delicious: 125 Recipes for Your Daily Dose of AWESOME

Why yes, we are back to cookbooks in this week’s edition of What’s Rachel Reading. 🙂 Up today: Eat Delicious: 125 Recipes for Your Daily Dose of Awesome by Dennis the Prescott. This was another impulse find from the library’s new book shelf, because who doesn’t want to eat delicious? The photos The book serendipitously begins with …

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What’s Rachel Reading? In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown

Who else instantly heard the lulling rhythm of “in the great green room, there was a telephone, and a red balloon…” in your head as soon as you saw this book cover? Both of my boys went through a lengthy Goodnight Moon phase, but I never really knew anything about its author. After reading In the Great …

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What’s Rachel Reading? Impatient Foodie

Yes, it’s another cookbook this week! This time I’m reading Impatient Foodie: 100 Delicious Recipes for a Hectic, Time-Starved World, the premise here being that thoughtful, sustainable, and healthy food can be easy, fast, and fun. Well, that all sounds right up my alley, so let’s see what we have here… The basic backstory Impatient Foodie grew out …

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What’s Rachel Reading? Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

I don’t often say this about a book any more (because I’m trying to pare down and do most of my reading from the library…), but: I think I am going to have to buy Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Much more than your typical cookbook, this is really a cooking class in a book — taught …

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