Basics with Babish: Recipes for Screwing Up, Trying Again, and HItting It Out of the Park (A Cookbook) by Andrew Rea

Basics with Babish: Recipes for Screwing Up, Trying Again, and HItting It Out of the Park (A Cookbook) by Andrew Rea

Title:  Basics with Babish: Recipes for Screwing Up, Trying Again, and HItting It Out of the Park (A Cookbook)

Author: Andrew Rea
Publisher:  Simon Element
Genre:  Cooking, Food & Wine
Format:  Kindle
No. of Pages: 464
Date of Publication: 24 October, 2023
My Rating:  5 Stars

My Thoughts 

My husband introduced our teens and me to Binging with Babish on youtube a few years ago and this cookbook definitely encompasses the author’s charm and humor. 

I'm going to go so far as to write that these are basics, elevated. This isn't a negative, by any means. It's the difference between something that tastes good to something that tastes great. This is a great how-to / cookbook for anyone who wants to learn how to cook - my teens have been cooking and baking for a few years and they found this book very informative. 

There’s a lot in here. The chapters are below, but this list doesn’t encompass the spices, pantry ingredients, cookware and accessories, etc. that the author has added. 

Chapter 1 - Bread

Chapter 2 - Pizza 

Chapter 3 - Pasta 

Chapter 4 - Eggs

Chapter 5 - Vegetables / Side Dishes

Chapter 6 - Seafood

Chapter 7 - Poultry 

Chapter 8 - Pork

Chapter 9 - Beef

Chapter 10 - Desserts 

**Note - There's a lot of dairy and meat - from raw prep on. If you’ve watched the youtube channel, you know, but if not, this one isn't going to work for most vegetarians, nevermind vegans.

Thank you to S&S/Simon Element and NetGalley for the DRC!

Description

NAMED A BEST COOKBOOK OF FALL 2023 BY FOOD & WINE, DELISH, and TASTING TABLE

Over 100 easy-to-follow recipes that teach you how to learn from your mistakes and become a better cook, from the culinary genius who created the Babish Culinary Universe YouTube channel in this long-awaited companion.

In his wildly popular Basics with Babish series, YouTube star Andrew Rea, who has amassed millions of subscribers, attempts, often fails, but always teaches cooking techniques for all levels of cooks. He’s explained everything from how to make challah bread and English muffins to Asian dumplings and homemade bacon. Now those classic, essential recipes (and many more) are compiled into an authoritative cookbook which contains hundreds of step-by-step photographs with tips and tricks to help you troubleshoot anything from broken butter to burnt bread to bony branzino. Basics with Babish isn’t just a kitchen Bible for a new generation of home chefs, it’s a proud reclamation of mistakes which encourages you to learn from your and Andrew’s missteps alike.

Andrew Rea launched Binging with Babish on YouTube in 2016, recreating and reimagining dishes from famous television programs and movies inspired by everything from Mad Men to The Simpsons to Game of Thrones. The tie-in cookbook, Binging with Babish, was an instant New York Times bestseller, and fans of that book and countless more will delight in this new cookbook which will truly teach you how to cook, with Rea’s beloved sense of humor and guiding hand throughout.