Lasagna becomes Whole-wheat Lasagna with Butternut Squash and Kale. Even the classics get a Western spin: you won’t find plain old pot roast, you’ll find Slow-Cooker Merlot Pot Roast.
For example, when Sunset first got its own laying hens, they still bought store-bought eggs for their recipes, as hyper-fresh eggs work differently, especially in baking (ever tried to peel a truly fresh hard-boiled egg? It’s a pain).Īs for the food, there’s a Western flavor throughout: Mexican spices, lots of seafood, Asian influences.
#SUNSET FAVORITE RECIPES COOKBOOK PROFESSIONAL#
Sunset recipes, whether solicited from professional chefs, submitted by readers, or created in the Sunset kitchen, are tested ruthlessly. She’d get emails like this in the middle of the day: “Stop by the test kitchen: we’re pairing nine wines with the Salsa Verde Braised Pork and need more opinions.” It crushed me with jealousy when she’d forward those to me, tauntingly. In producing an eye-and-mouth-watering monthly magazine for, oh, 110 years, Sunset has long focused on accuracy and quality in their recipes. Sunset’s test kitchen is the real deal: precise and creative.
The best descriptors of the food herein are: fresh, creative, simple, and healthy(ish). Seriously.īut it’s not just a generic, everything-and-a-roast-chicken cookbook. So it’s tough to feature just one, but I can’t possibly live in “the West” and not review The Sunset Cookbook.įirst off, the heft: over 800 pages, 1,000 recipes, scads of photos. It’s the time of year when publishers produce their biggest and best cookbooks, hoping to capture a big slice of the gift-giving pie.
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