Linger: Salads, Sweets and Stories to Savor by Hetty Lui McKinnonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I think Hetty McKinnon gets full credit for my significant increase in vegetable intake. A huge fan of Tenderheart: A Cookbook About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds and To Asia, With Love: Everyday Asian Recipes and Stories From the Heart, I was very excited about Linger. The premise is essentially that almost anything can be a "salad" and "salad" is an opportunity to linger, to be in community with one another. McKinnon's prose is a treat to read--I love the ways that she acknowledges her past as part of her present. And I never review a cookbook until I've cooked at least three recipes. In this case, "Roasted Spiced Carrots and Crispy Tofu with Agrodolce" (138); "Spiced Chickpea and Lentil Salad" (136); and "Bibimbap-Style Gnocchi with Gochujang vinaigrette (115). The last is a favorite. Her flavors are inventive, but not so out there that you get confused. The agrodolce was terrific and now I'm thinking about other ways to use it. Honorable mention goes to "Green Beans, Caponata Style" (205), which is even better the next day! And I'm always down for a recipe that gets rid of the eggplant.
I've mentioned this before, but I also appreciate how well McKinnon's books are INDEXED. It makes it very easy to find a recipe with what I have on hand (especially shelf-stable stuff like Gochujang).
I look forward to cooking my way through most of this book.
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