{"id":22895,"date":"2015-08-31T09:37:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ou.org\/life\/?p=22895"},"modified":"2015-08-31T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:37:09","slug":"judy_bart_kancigor_dishing_it_up_for_mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/food\/cooking\/judy_bart_kancigor_dishing_it_up_for_mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Dishing It Up For Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s kind of a self-serving gift. You give your mother a cookbook for Mother\u2019s Day and who benefits, Mom or you?<\/p>\n

Once upon a time cooking the family meal was just another bit of drudgery in Mom\u2019s overworked day. Today cooking is considered a creative outlet, but with our busy schedules and hectic lives, we\u2019re all looking for easy dishes that impress.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday I attended the LA Times Festival of Books held at UCLA where on the Cooking Stage four new cookbooks and their famous chef\/authors were highlighted. And was it an accident that all four books make the same promise? \u2013 you too can serve impressive, flavorful dishes without breaking a sweat.<\/p>\n

First up, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, chefs\/owners of Animal in Los Angeles and authors of \u201cTwo Dudes One Pan\u201d (Clarkson Potter, $24.95). Note the subtitle: \u201cMaximum flavor from a minimalist kitchen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Together they created a breakfast Mom would love for Mother\u2019s Day or any day: Buttermilk Pancakes and Watermelon and Mizuna Salad with Feta.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a tip: Whisk the buttermilk with the eggs and melted butter, but after adding the flour, trade the whisk for a wooden spoon. \u201cA whisk builds up the gluten,\u201d cautioned Shook.<\/p>\n

Watermelon teams with feta cheese for a sweet-salty pairing. \u201cThis is a derivative of an Israeli salad,\u201d noted Shook. The Dudes substituted arugula for the mizuna. \u201cIf you can\u2019t find an ingredient, adapt, overcome, look around and make decisions,\u201d Shook advised.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many chefs send you on a wild goose chase looking for ingredients,\u201d added Dotolo. \u201cWe don\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curtis Stone, host of TLC\u2019s \u201cTake Home Chef\u201d \u2013 you know the one: he corners a girl in the supermarket and takes her home to surprise her husband or boyfriend with a cooked meal \u2013 couldn\u2019t make cooking sound easier, hence the title of his new cookbook: \u201cRelaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone\u201d (Clarkson Potter, $32.50).<\/p>\n

Totally unperturbed by the state some of his ingredients had taken in the hot sun, he sent his sous-chef backstage to \u201cpilfer\u201d whatever he could find and created a pasta dish on the spot. Now that\u2019s relaxed!<\/p>\n

\u201cWe use simple ingredients so you don\u2019t have to run all over the place,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll show you how simple this is, that someone who doesn\u2019t cook can do them,\u201d and he called his dad to the platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re out of the will,\u201d quipped Dad.<\/p>\n

Named one of “People Magazine’s” sexiest men alive, the tall, blond Australian, who looks more like a surfer than a chef, charmed the (mostly female) audience. Teaching his dad to whack garlic with the back of a knife, he advised, \u201cPut your garlic there and think of your ex-girlfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sticky Chicken Drumsticks and Saffron Couscous were thrown together in a flash. He got such a big laugh burning the pine nuts, I wondered whether he did it deliberately.<\/p>\n

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\nCurtis Stone at the LA Times Festival of Books<\/span><\/div>\n

One lucky girl got to help Stone make a Chocolate Mint Martini. The presentation was spectacular. You dip the rims of the martini glasses into vodka and then chocolate for a new twist on the salted Margarita glass.<\/p>\n

To present the impromptu pasta, he used a roasting fork to twist the pasta and carefully placed the spiral on a plate. \u201cI\u2019m glad this happened,\u201d Stone commented. \u201cThis one\u2019s going in the next book, mate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bon App\u00e9tit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook\u201d (Wiley, $34.95) by the magazine\u2019s editor in chief, Barbara Fairchild offers 1,100 recipes which all claim to be \u201cquick dishes for everynight cooking.\u201d And to prove it, Fairchild and associate food editor, Janet McCracken, prepared four dishes from the book in 45 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s four o\u2019clock and you don\u2019t know what you want to cook for dinner, you can just dip into this book,\u201d promised Fairchild. \u201cChicken seems to be the \u2018go-to\u2019 thing for most cooks. There are almost 90 recipes for chicken in this book.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most interesting to me was Farro Salad with Peas, Asparagus, and Feta, because I have never prepared farro before and would love to try.<\/p>\n

Farro (also known as \u2018emmer\u2019) is a hearty, nutty-flavored grain with a long history dating back to biblical times. Egyptians at the time of the Pharaohs cultivated this wheat exclusively, and, although often incorrectly translated as spelt, emmer is mentioned by the rabbis as one of the five forbidden grains during Passover. You can find it in Italian markets or natural food stores.<\/p>\n

By far the biggest crowd turned out for Food Network star Giada de Laurentiis, whose latest, \u201cGiada\u2019s Kitchen\u201d (Clarkson Potter, $32.50), combines traditional Italian recipes from her illustrious family with lighter, updated twists on the classics.<\/p>\n

Barbara Fairchild interviewed de Laurentiis, who was obviously thrilled to return to her alma mater, UCLA, where she had majored in anthropology. She recounted her experiences growing up in Rome and hanging around her grandfather\u2019s gourmet shop. \u201cHe brought chefs he knew from Naples, and I cooked with them from the age of five,\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n

Asked about the impact of Food Network, she said, \u201cThey make food accessible and find people who are passionate about it and can teach. For a long time people thought cooking was boring, hard work. Now people enjoy being in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe trend is going towards more seasonal cooking with an emphasis on eating locally,\u201d she said. \u201cItalians have always done this. We have a lot to teach the rest of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Judy Bart Kancigor<\/b> is the author of \u201cCooking Jewish: 532 Great Recipes from the Rabinowitz Family\u201d and can be found on the web at www.cookingjewish.com. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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