The Ultimate Pasta Machine Cookbook by Lucy Vaserfirer
I took a class at Sur la Table on making homemade pasta and have since been making it semi-regularly at home. So, I was interested to check out this cookbook to see what other ideas I might get. I really liked how the book was organized. It started with the three types of pasta machines - sheeter, extruder, and cavatelli. Then it went on to talk about sauces and how to finish different types of pasta. One thing I didn't like was that most of the recipes didn't have any pictures. I feel like that's the biggest draw of a cookbook is seeing the picture and wanting to make that dish. There are some really good ideas in here for doing more with homemade pasta. I would really like to try laminating pasta where you add herbs or other colored pasta to sheeted pasta to create something really cool looking. There weren't as many recipes that I wanted to try, but I do think for the semi-experienced home pasta maker it's worth checking out.
The Good Book of Southern Baking by Kelly Fields
Kelly Fields grew up in low country South Carolina where both her mother and grandmother loved to bake and share their desserts with family and friends. Fields discovered her own love of baking while working in bakeries and decided to go to culinary school. After working in several restaurants, this cookbook is the culmination of her own baking point of view - making classic Southern desserts and baking more modern. The cookbook is organized into categories like cookies and bars, cakes, etc. While a lot of the pictures looked yummy most of the recipes have a LOT of ingredients. I know baking isn't simplistic, but these recipes seem more fancy and professional than for the average home baker. It's a beautiful cookbook and I LOVE Southern food, but I personally felt like this was not geared toward the average home cook.
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