Half Undone.
This morning I wanted to cook some chicken to use in a salad. The last time I did this, I had used leftover poached chicken breast from a chicken b'stilla. I started the same way: soften onion and garlic, add chicken, turmeric, ginger, cilantro*, and chicken stock, bring to boil and simmer for 20 minutes, remove the chicken.
Then rather than add egg to the broth and reduce by half, reintroduce chopped chicken, and pile into phyllo dough, top and dust with crushed almond, cinnamon, and powdered sugar and bake, I ladled a bowlful of the broth, cut up half a chicken breast and added it, and sunk in some chopped cilantro. Mmmm. Tasted almost medieval, in a very good way. Though next time I will add some lemon juice.
Anyway, yes: Half Undone will feature recipes that offer rewards to the lazy, hopefully in transduced forms (pie to soup, for example). Of course the amazingness of b'stilla comes from the intermingling of sweet and savory, but this is good when you feel like a dark, spicy, almost threateningly rich broth.
*parsley works as well
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What about a cookbook that combines cooking with a 'choose your own adventure' format.
You start off with something like 1 cup of flour, then it's your choice, pour into mixing bowl or start dicing an onion.
etc. etc.
..and some of the "recipes" are poisonous, but you don't know which.
Or the chemical composition of a finished item, and a fill-in-the-blanks recipe.
your half undone cookbook would be an excellent companion to my almost all the ingredients cookbook!
in my book, I'll tackle things like "what to do if you bought all the ingredients to make the fondue but forgot to buy the cheese" and "pancakes: non-syrup options."
Brilliant! You could call it "The Distracted Shopper."
The Unintentionally Broiled Cookbook
You'll Never Make These
Watery Sauces of the Basque Country
I love it! I always get bored half way through the recipe anyway. A cookbook with recipe upgrades would be fabulous.
And I'll add my unwritten cookbook to the list. In my book, The Student Kitchen, I will only include recipes with fewer than 5 ingredients (because who ever had anything in their kitchen in college?) and all the ingredients will be things you can buy at a convenience store, things you can steal from the dining hall, or alcohol.
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