Make This Tonight: Recipes to Get Dinner on the Table: A Cookbook

by Tastemade

Overview

Delicious meals just got easier with 100 all-new recipes inspired by global cuisines and created for the love of food, in the “excellent” (Publishers Weekly) first-ever cookbook from go-to online and streaming food destination Tastemade.
 
Say hello to exciting, globally inspired meals that take away the stress of dinnertime. Make This Tonight is your starter kit for impressing your friends (and yourself) with explosively flavorful recipes—like Curry-Butter Roast Chicken, Sausage and Spinach-Stuffed Pasta Shells, Whole Roasted Za’atar Cauliflower with Tahini Sauce, and Seared Ahi Tuna Sandwiches with Wasabi-Ginger Mayo, as well as desserts like Coffee Crème Brûlée and Vegan Chocolate Cake. These recipes are as simple to learn as they are beautiful to behold.

Whether it’s a quick weeknight meal or an all-out weekend affair, the 100 recipes in Make This Tonight—just like the ones on the hit show—are high on wow factor and low on effort, because Tastemade is here to tell you that delicious food is an attainable goal every single day of the week. Inspired by Tastemade’s global community of tastemakers, these recipes will cultivate your culinary curiosity for life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780594173595
Publisher:	Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Publication date:	06/21/2022
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	72,606
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Tastemade is a modern media company that engages a global audience of more than 300 million monthly viewers on all major digital, mobile, and streaming television platforms, with 700 million minutes watched per month. They create award-winning video content and original programming in the categories of Food, Travel, and Home & Design that they share with an engaged, passionate, and global community.

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Introduction

Tastemade is a community of creative and passionate people. We are a global company with studios all over the world. We are storytellers, striving to capture moments of hope, adventure, and art. We work together to surface voices and creations that represent the rich tapestry of cultures. We know that “good taste” means nothing without respect—respect for quality ingredients, for cultures around the world, and for sound techniques performed by capable hands. We believe the world is delicious and sharing a meal with others is the best way to become a truly global citizen. At Tastemade, we believe there is more in this world that unites us than divides us, and that good food is one of those common threads.

As part of that common thread, there’s one question we all have to answer every single day: What’s for dinner? Sometimes you’re excited at the prospect of preparing a feast, perhaps inviting company over to share in the fun of cooking and certainly of eating. Other times you need a quick, easy solution because you’re too busy or distracted to stop to think about it. Sometimes you want familiar flavors and the comforts of a dish you grew up with. Other times you want to try something new you’ve only ever heard about. However you feel, whatever you crave, however much time you have on any given day, and whatever other circumstances there are, you know it will end with dinner. Let’s answer that question together, shall we?



About This Book

In your hands, you hold our very first cookbook. We gathered 100 recipes from our network of professional chefs and self-taught cooks. With lots of new and exciting any-day-of-the-week inspiration, we’ve ventured to help you answer the question of what to make. We appreciate the joy of a great plate of food, and we know a lot of paths to achieve that end result. We encourage you to explore the culinary offerings of our community and make them your own. Cooking is a lifelong journey, and this book is a tool for anyone curious and eager to get comfortable in the kitchen. We hope you’ll enjoy learning from those who contributed recipes and shared their personal connections to many regions of the world as we traverse the globe through this compendium of good food, good stories, and good people.

The recipes in Make This Tonight reflect a mix of family tradition, far-flung inspiration, appreciation of heritage, and most of all a healthy dose of fun and exploration. This book is a starter kit for new ways of enjoying food, meant to empower you to create explosively flavorful dishes that will enrich your kitchen and cultivate your culinary soul. It’s a primer for learning to love to cook. We hope to convince you of our own philosophy: that life’s true victories—both in and out of the kitchen—come when your sources are global, richly varied, and authentic, and that these victories are 100 percent achievable every day. Our goal is to show you that preparing delicious food and gathering at the table don’t need to be difficult endeavors. With a bit of practice, they will become second nature to you, and you’ll be able to feed yourself and your family and friends every night.

We have organized this book into sections by main ingredient—vegetables, eggs, grains, meat, and more. Each chapter will not only provide new ways for you to enjoy ingredients that you might have grown up with but will also contain countless opportunities for culinary exploration. Some of the recipes will feature familiar flavors, while others will encourage you to expand your spice cabinet or travel to faraway lands via your taste buds. At Tastemade, we are driven by constant curiosity. With Make This Tonight, you’ll learn some of the ways we feed that curiosity—stocking a new-to-us spice, letting something ferment in our cupboard. These recipes are compelling yet comforting, exciting yet approachable. They can make any night an adventure or cozy and familiar.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

About This Book 11

Equipment and Ingredients 13

Vegetables 19

Roasted Garlic Baba Ghanoush 21

Loaded Sweet Potato Nachos with Crema 23

Whole Roasted Za'atar Cauliflower with Tahini Sauce 24

Mushroom Salad 27

Beet Hummus 28

Any-Greens Caesar Salad 31

Japanese Potato Salad 32

Ratatouille on Grilled Bread 34

Cheesy Bubble and Squeak 37

Kimchi Pancakes 39

Cheesy, Creamy Chickpeas 43

Spaghetti Squash Cacio e Pepe 44

Eggs 47

Spicy Turmeric Shakshuka 48

Egg, Havarti, and Greens Pizza 51

Mushroom Toast with Scrambled Eggs 55

Hearty Mixed Greens Quiche 56

Veggie Bowls 61

Shrimp and Mushroom Scramble 62

Spanish Tortilla 65

Breakfast Tacos 66

Khai Jiao Thai Omelet 69

Savory Overnight Oats with Soy-Marinated Eggs 70

Scrambled Eggs with Crispy Pancetta 75

Fish and Shellfish 77

Pot o' Mussels 79

Blackened Salmon 80

Pan-Fried Red Snapper 83

Poached Mahi Mahi in Tomato Sauce 84

Fish Pakora 88

Baked Salmon with Olives 91

Seared Ahi Tuna Sandwiches with Wasabi-Ginger Mayo 92

Curry Shrimp 94

Trout Amandine 97

Salmon Turnovers with Spicy Relish 99

Oyster Stuffing 102

Poultry and Pork 105

Cast-Iron Chicken Thighs with Crispy Kale 107

Panko-Fried Chicken Tenders 108

Citrus-Marinated Chicken 111

Pork Meatballs with Fresh Ginger 113

Grilled Chicken with Plantain Chips and Cabbage Slaw 115

Soy-Braised Chicken Drumsticks 118

Chorizo and Tomato Quiche 121

Ras el Han out Sheet-Pan Chicken 122

Pork Chops with Seared Peaches 124

Curry-Butter Roast Chicken 127

Challah Chicken "Pot Pie," 128

Sticky Lemongrass Pork and Herb Salad 130

Beef and Lamb 133

Korean Beef Bulgogi 134

Brisket 137

Rib Eye Steak with Anchovy Butter and Homemade French Fries 140

Ground Beef with Sofrito, Capers, and Olives 143

Simple Smash Burgers 146

Salt-Crusted Steak and Onions 149

Albondigas Soup 150

Lamb Meatballs with Yogurt Sauce 153

Bolognese 156

Pasta and Grains 159

Fresh Tagliatelle with Mint Pesto and Shrimp 161

Potato Gnocchi with Brown Butter and Sage 163

Hawaii-Style Macaroni Salad 166

Late-Night Anchovy Spaghetti 169

Sheet-Pan Gnocchi Primavera 170

Grandma's Lasagna 172

Sausage and Spinach-Stuffed Pasta Shells 175

Linguine with Caramelized Onions and Mushrooms 178

Farro Salad 181

Stone-Ground Grits with Scallions and Garlic-Chile Oil 182

Chocolate 185

Sour Cream Chocolate Tart 187

Chocolate-Orange Cake 189

Rye Chocolate Chip Cookies 193

Spiced Chocolate Lava Cake 195

Raw Vegan Chocolate Fudge Brownies 196

Chocolate Banana Pops 199

Vegan Chocolate Cake 200

Chocolate Chip Scones 202

Avocado-Chocolate Milkshake 204

Coconut Cacao Granola 207

Salted Chocolate Tahini Milkshake 208

More Sweet Treats 211

Citrus Buttermilk Cake 212

Baklava 215

Coconut Flan 217

Coffee Crème Brûlée 220

Lemon Bundt Cake 223

Walnut Linzer Cookies with Jam Filling 224

Mango Sticky Rice 227

Passion Fruit Mousse 230

Rose Water Mixed Berry Trifles 232

Cardamom Peach Cobbler with Honey Cream 234

Banana-Walnut Bread Pudding 237

Simple Lemon Apple Cake 238

Preservation and Fermentation 241

Rosemary-Honey Sourdough Loaf 243

Sourdough Starter Discard Crepes 249

Super Garlic Kimchi 251

Pink Sauerkraut 255

Rainbow Escabeche 256

Sweet and Sour Pickled Radishes 259

Refrigerator Pickles 260

Strawberry-Chile Jam 262

Limoncello 263

Preserved Lemons 266

Acknowledgments 268

Index 269

Editorial Reviews

04/04/2022

In this eclectic “starter kit,” the team at the lifestyle website Tastemade show home cooks how to enliven their nightly repertoire with simple recipes that are big on flavor. Combining the sensibility of the website’s “Make This Tonight” videos with the brainpower of its broad pool of trained chefs and home cooks, the collection offers dishes inspired by cuisines from around the world. In a fragrant riff on shakshuka, turmeric and sweet potato enhance the classic Middle Eastern dish, and canned chickpeas save the night in a bubbling side dish (or entrée) made ultra-creamy thanks to three cheeses. A customizable sheet-pan gnocchi primavera lets cooks use their favorite farmers’ market produce with “reckless abandon,” while putting the leftover veggies to use alongside day-old challah in an innovative, dairy-free chicken “pot pie.” Meanwhile, offbeat pairings—such as an avocado shake with ribbons of chocolate sauce, and cheesy grits topped with an Asian-inspired garlic-chile oil—come together quickly to add a touch of the unexpected on a weeknight. For those times when dinner is not an immediate concern, a fascinating chapter on fermented and pickled preparations offers ways to create (and use) a sourdough starter, red-cabbage sauerkraut, garlicky kimchi, and more. Savory shortcuts meet equally savory dishes in this excellent work. (June)

Publishers Weekly

[An] eclectic ‘starter kit’ . . . to add a touch of the unexpected on a weeknight . . . Savory shortcuts meet equally savory dishes in this excellent work.”—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

06/01/2022

Tastemade is a buzzy streaming channel with home cooks around the world providing the content to many of the brand's web resources. This title has lovely pictures, a nice range of recipes, and a global approach to cooking. The introduction says these recipes are drawn from a range of providers, yet none are credited for their ideas. And those ideas range widely, including making homemade sauerkraut, cheesy chickpeas, and several options for sourdough. There is an entire chapter on chocolate, too, as well as one for other desserts. However, as with any practical how-to-book, the value is in how well the instructions perform; mileage varies in these recipes. VERDICT The book is attractive and will have a huge built-in fan base, but (even for libraries with unlimited cookbook budgets) it's safe to give this one a pass unless demand warrants.—Danise Hoover

Library Journal