SKIP TO: Best Recipes – Favorite 2024 Cookbooks – My Recipes
Happy New Year! 2024 was a whirlwind year for us as Alex and I took a huge leap, leaving our home of 15 years in NYC for a new adventure in Portland, Maine. Between our move, Alex’s career shift, and welcoming our new pup, Helen, being in the kitchen was a much-needed oasis and source of stability amidst so much change.
As for @storeboughtisfine, this was a low-key year, still plugging away on recipe development and challenging myself to tackle dishes that intimidate me (looking at you beef wellington).
A highlight of the year was revisiting my favorite Ina Garten recipes in the lead-up to her memoir drop. Well, that and being featured in the Ina issue of Cherry Bombe Magazine!
Today, I am sharing all my favorite recipes that got me through 2024 – both the ones I created and the cookbook gems I discovered. Hope they inspire you to get in the kitchen!
BEST RECIPES
Here are my favorite recipes I cooked this year
Jessica Merchant’s Apple Cider Doughnut Cake with Brown Butter (Recipe here)
Smitten Kitchen’s French Onion Baked Lentils and Farro (Recipe here)
Woks of Life’s Roasted Root Vegetables with a Miso Glaze (Recipe here)
Woks of Life’s Pumpkin Tres Leches Cake with Spiced Cream (Recipe here)
Wok’s of Life Shrimp Toast (Recipe here)
Toni Tipton Martin’s Coffee-Scented Short Rib Braised in Red Wine (Recipe not online) – Jubilee, page 209
Jeremy Salamon’s Carrots & Crispy Speck (Recipe not online) – Second Generation, page 126
Lidey Heuck’s Cider-Glazed Sausages with Caramelized Apples & Fennel (Recipe not online) – Cooking in Real Life, page 87
Frédéric Eliot’s Seared Scallops With Sweet Corn, Cream and Bacon (Recipe here)
Gabrielle E.W. Carter’s Country Panzanella with Watermelon Dressing (Recipe here)
Lidey Heuck’s Saucy Shrimp alla Vodka (Recipe here) – Cooking in Real Life, page 118
Christine Gallary’s Crispy Rice with Avocado and Tuna Tartare (Recipe here)
Edy Massih’s Aleppo Garlic Shrimp Cocktail (recipe not online) – Keep It Zesty, page 173
Jasper White’s World Famous Lobster Rolls (recipe here)
Win Son’s Fried Milk Dough Sundaes with Peanuts and Cilantro-Mint Sauce (recipe not online) – Win Son Cookbook, page 227
Sarah Jampel’s Just-Keeps-Getting-Better Lentil Salad (recipe here)
Michael Solomonov’s Jerusalem Hummus (recipe here)
Lidey Heuck’s Salmon with Honey & Chili Crunch (recipe here) – Cooking in Real Life page 122
James Park’s Sesame-Crusted Gochugaru Shortbread Cookies (recipe here) – Chili Crisp, page 153
Eric Kim’s Salt-and-Pepper Ribs with Fresh Mint Sauce (recipe here) – Korean American, page 235
Win Son’s Fan Tuan (recipe here) – Win Son Cookbook, page 215
Chris Morocco’s BA’s Best Lasagna (recipe here)
Smitten Kitchen’s Bialy Babka (recipe here) – Keepers, page 33
Edy Massih’s Moroccan Harissa Minestrone (recipe not online) – Keep It Zesty, page 121
Dan Pelosi’s Bimpy’s Escarole & Beans (recipe here)
FAVORITE COOKBOOKS
New in 2024:
Kalaya’s Southern Thai Kitchen, Nok Suntaranon
Second Generation, Michael Salamon
Cooking In Real Life, Lidey Heuck
Keep It Zesty, Edy Massih
New to me:
French Pastry Made Simple, Molly Wilk
Dessert Person, Claire Saffitz
Most anticipated 2025 cookbooks:
My (Half) Latinx Kitchen: Half Recipes, Half Stories, All Latin American by Kiera Wright-Ruiz
Salt Sugar MSG: Recipes and Stories from a Cantonese American Home by Calvin Eng
Setting a Place for Us: Recipes and Stories of Displacement, Resilience, and Community from Eight Countries Impacted by War by Hawa Hassan
STORE-BOUGHT IS FINE RECIPES
A handful of my favorite recipes that I developed this year!
