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If you’re already a Milk Street fan, you are going to adore Cookish!! This is my 4th Milk Street book, and it absolutely delivers. It’s my favorite kind of food – lazy posh. To my delight, it opens with a really extensive vegetable chapter. The ingredients are few, and it’s always just a couple steps between you and a plateful of flavor. The dishes are imaginative and balanced. They give lots of alternatives so it’s easy to make it work with what you have on hand, and you wont feel like you need to have every vinegar and jarred sauce available. I recommend this to anyone who likes lots of global flavor and enjoys minimalism.
I’ve only had the book for a few days and didn’t want to start in with a review until I really cooked the book. I’ll share my thoughts and pics of the dishes we tried in a second, but first I wanted to share a fabulous recipe with you, Jalapeno-apricot glazed chicken thighs. They’ve got tons of flavor and are on the table in 20 minutes, and only 5 of those involve the cook. I made my favorite sweet potatoes to go with them and had to get them started first so everything would finish at the same time. A big thank you to Milk Street for letting me share it with you!

Jalapeno-Apricot Glazed Chicken Thighs
These glazed chicken thighs feature an addictive combination of sweet, savory, and spicy flavors. We fire roast the thighs in a hot oven, then finish them under the broiler to caramelize the glaze. Use either apricot or peach preserves – whichever you prefer or have on hand. For easy cleanup, line the baking sheet with foil before setting the wire rack on top.
2 Tablespoons ground cumin
Kosher salt and ground black pepper
3 pounds bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
1/2 cup apricot preserves or peach preserves
3 Tablespoons cider vinegar, divided
1 jalapeno chili or 2 Fresno chilies, stemmed and sliced into thin rounds
Heat the oven to 450 degrees F. Set a wire rack in a broiler-safe rimmed baking sheet. Stir together the cumin, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper; use to season the chicken on all sides. Place the thighs, skin up, on the rack. Roast until the chicken reaches 175 degrees F, about 35 minutes. In a small bowl, mix the preserves, 2 Tablespoons vinegar and the jalapeno. Brush the chicken with some of the mixture, then broil until bubbling. Stir the remaining 1 Tablespoon vinegar into the remaining preserves mixture and serve with the chicken.
Now I’ll share more of the book with you!
-Beef, spinach, and feta golzeme. These are super easy and decadent, like a middle eastern quesadilla. My teenagers were looking over the recipe afterwards and were super happy to see they’d be easy to make for buddies on a weekend.

-Shaved carrot salad with olives and parsley. This is flavored with cumin, olives, lemon, honey, and parsley. You don’t need a spiralizer or anything. That $5 potato peeler in your drawer does all the work.

-Almond, caper and herb-crusted chicken cutlets. Yum!!!! We all loved these! A lot of my coating came off in the pan, so I just fished it back out with a spider and piled it back on the plated chicken. The shaved carrot salad plays really nicely with this!

I’m pairing these three together, because I made them as side dishes for my bbq smoked brisket burnt ends tonight. You need a greens dish, a corn dish, and a sweet potato dish, so I flipped through the veg section and found these. Fun spin!!!
-Sweet-sour swiss chard with apricots and almonds. This is divine! I love greens and the sweetness of the apricots and the acidic pop of the vinegar make these fantastic!
– Charred corn with coconut, chilies, and lime. Great flavors. Total face melter.
– Roasted butternut squash with hoisin and chives. Wonderful butternut squash recipe.
-Warm lentil salad with charred grapes and scallions. Fabulous. If you’re new to applying heat to grapes, you’re in for a treat! This uses canned lentils, so it’s on the table in 5 minutes. Fun flavors. There’s nothing drab about these lentils.

-Pasta with shrimp and browned butter. The pasta cooks right in the same skillet as the shrimp, so you don’t have to dirty multiple pans. Nice. The flavor’s great and the sauce has a wonderful texture with the combination of butter, lemon, and all the starch the pasta contributes.

-Pan-fried chicken and vegetable patties. Yum. There’s plenty of produce in this one, because there’s carrot grated right into the patties, adding moisture and a delicate sweetness that offsets the heat of the horseradish or harissa.

-Jalapeno-apricot glazed chicken thighs – Fabulous 20 minute dinner and only 5 of it is the cook’s time! Tons of flavor! I paired it with my favorite sweet potatoes.

*I received a copy to explore and share my thoughts.
Need more Milk Street? Here are a few more recipes and books of theirs I reviewed…
Milk Street’s recipes for Israeli Hummus with Spiced Beef Topping and Lebanese-Style Tabbouleh
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My food processor – Breville Sous Chef


My Vitamix. It’s a 5200. The best!
My favorite knife. It’s a 7″ full tang Santoku. I chose the Ikon handle design, which is wonderfully ergonomic. I have spent hours on a produce sculpture before and my hand was just as comfy at the end. It’s worth the pennies.

Wusthof WU4176 Classic Ikon 7-Inch Santoku, Hollow Edge, Black

WÜSTHOF CLASSIC IKON 8 Inch Chef’s Knife
My favorite non-stick skillet.

T-fal Titanium Nonstick Dishwasher Safe Fry Pan with Lid, 12-Inch, Black
My favorite cast iron skillet is a 12″ Lodge dual handle pan. Why, the long handles are too heavy to hold with a single hand when they’re loaded up. Since you’re using two hands anyway, you might as well get the ones that take up less space and stack so much better!

Lodge 12″ dual handle cast-iron pan

Same sheet pan with a cooling rack/roasting rack insert. Ooooo!

I get asked about my spice wall all the time. The magnetic tins on the wall are great for any spices or salt-free blends. Salt corrodes the tins, so anything with salt is in a glass jar on the counter underneath.


Looks amazing!!
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Thanks Azilde!
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Did not know there is a new cookbook! These recipes really look fantastic.
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Oh, and it’s fabulous, Servetus! This may be my favorite just because it’s so wonderfully lazy, which suits my current mood. They did another one back in March that was completely off my radar, probably because of covid and the quarantine. It’s a pressure cooker book, Fast and Slow.
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That’s my mood, too. (I found myself mincing an onion two months ago and thinking, “I don’t have the energy to mince the second half of this onion.” That frightened me a bit.) I need to save my energy to feed my anxiety.
I’ll see if the lib has the pressure cooker book. I bought a pressure cooker about a year ago in the holiday sales and STILL haven’t tried it out (see comments above about saving energy.)
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Wow. I haven’t been to the library since the quarantine began. Crazy. A new branch opened up about a mile from our house with a nice bike rack in front. Maybe I’ll go check it out! Pull out the pressure cooker. I posted a broccoli cheese soup and you can use frozen broccoli and pre-shredded cheese. Zero energy. 😀
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It’s complicated here — we have online ordering so you order the books you want, and when they come in, then you fill out a separate order form to schedule a pickup. You get a 15 minute slot and you call when you’re in the parking lot. You wait till they bring them out, and then once the courier is back in the library you can go and pick them up. Then when you take them back, they are in five-day quarantine before they check them in. Yes, I am an insanely devoted library user!
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Wow. At it sounds tremendously well-organized! And I imagine you check out enough books to make it worthwhile. My husband’s been sharing his favorite sci-fi with me and I’ve gotten him hooked on Flannery O’Connor, but we’ve switched to Audiobooks. We killed cable, so I need stories while I do anything mindless.
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Yeah, I’m sort of every librarian’s nightmare. I will max out every service a library offers and crash it. I am regularly the reason a library institutes a policy — because they didn’t have one till I came along and then they got mad when I put simultaneous holds on 30 books or borrowed 75 books in one gulp. Well, the system didn’t stop me and there’s no rule against it, is there? Our branch has max 70 loans, and this spring (six weeks with no borrowing) just about killed me. I can’t afford my book habit, even when I am working. Wish I could get into audiobooks, though.
I meant to say I don’t make broccoli cheese soup at home because dad won’t eat it. I kind of got the pressure cooker b/c of beans and slow roasting meats, and because I could turn it off and on remotely, but now I’m not working so the feature that interested me most doesn’t matter that much at the moment. But I am going to try it out or else give it to my SIL. She’s asked me like six times now if she can have it if I don’t like it.
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These recipes really looks scrumptious Jennifer !! 💙
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Thanks so much, Suni!
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Goodness. These all look good. All of them. Not again…
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😀 Yeah, you’ll love this book! And I’m totally harmless. I only accepted 2 books for review for the fall! This and Ottolenghi! 😀
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I had to get the book. You twisted my arm so so so SO hard….
everything looks amazing….
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Ha! Everything in it is delicious! And silly easy! My kind of food!
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I recently bought this cookbook – I have been a fan of Christopher Kimball for a long time… Glad you liked it and posted so many recipes. Plan to sit down and go through it 🙂
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You’ll have a ball, AuntJuju! It’s a fabulous book!
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Wow, what a feast! It all looks amazing.
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Thanks SudsEats!
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got the book, really really nice, but the photos that show only a tiny portion of the dish? What’s up with that? It really annoys me. I think the idea is to go very artsy on it, but I am old fashioned… 😉
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I like to see whole dishes, too! It’s not just you! 😀
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good to know I am not alone…. 😉
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