The Most Inspiring Cookbook Ever

Remember I said I'm focusing more on the kind of wife/mother I want to be?

In many instances, this means working on my weaknesses.

(Ahem... homemaking.)

Enter: the most inspiring cookbook ever.

We recently ordered John Besh's My Family Table: A Passionate Plea for Home Cooking.

The pictures are gorgeous, the recipes are doable, (even for me, Mrs. Boxed Mac & Cheese,) and the theory behind the food is inspiring: food should be close to nature, made of delicious ingredients, and cooked by ordinary people, rather than celebrity chefs.

I'm truly inspired by this book.

I'm reading it cover-to-cover.

Really.

It lives on my bedside table, except for when I'm cooking from it.

Here's what I've made so far:

(PS - I'm stealing these images. Mine could never be so pretty, and I'm no food photographer.)

"Simple Meat Ragout for Any Pasta"

"Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder"

"Olive Oil-Roasted Cauliflower"

"Provencal Stuffed Tomatoes"

Some quotes from the book:

"But today a terrifying wasteland of food options lurks between our kitchen stoves and our favorite restaurants.  The packaged foods we use are loaded with sugar and a whole lot of other things that are anything but good for us, our meat is shot up with hormones and antibiotics, our produce is sprayed with God-knows-what, and fast food options are the devils work.  This is not healthy.  This is not real."

*****

"I worry that the more cooking becomes entertainment and a spectator sport (instead of a family activity) and the more we fetishize celebrity chefs, the awful result is that we discourage folks from even setting foot in their kitchens."

*****

"It's entirely conceivable that one day this treasure of slow-cooking will no longer exist as fewer and fewer folks take up any kind of pot to cook for themselves. [...] Oddly, a great many of these same people who never cook consider the act of cooking a high-end sport that takes place on television, not meant for the kitchen at all."

Want the book yet?
I highly recommend it.
Thanks to my  husband who first lusted after it and told me of it's glories. :)

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