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• 5 Recipes That Will Change The Way You Bake: Level up your baking game with genius baking tips + recipes

• How To Turn A Pot Of Beans Into a Week of Dinners: Recipes and tips for creating nutritious, delicious, budget friendly meals with a beans.

• How To Turn 6 Simple Recipes Into Hundreds of Meals: Much of what I cook revolves around these staple ingredients that I can make in large-ish amounts and then use in meals all week long.

Ingredients from recent recipes:

• I use Better than Bouillon all the time and always have several jars in my refrigerator. The Vegetable Base is the one I use the most often but you really will find several different flavors in my fridge at all times.

• Better than Bouillon Sofrito Base

• Native Vanilla Pure Vanilla Extract and Vanilla Paste are my go-to choices for vanilla. Vanilla extract and vanilla paste can be used interchangeably in recipes but vanilla paste has a slightly more assertive flavor and little flecks of vanilla seeds that can add an attractive element to some baked goods like these chewy brown sugar cookies.

• Organic virgin coconut oil

• Lemon oil. Lemon oil is a great addition to your pantry, but be aware that there are two very different, kinds of lemon oil. One is olive oil that's been infused with lemon and is perfect for salad dressing, pasta dishes, or simply drizzled over grilled meat or veggies. For baking, you want the kind that is a very strong essence of lemon made by cold pressing lemon rinds. Lemon oil is super concentrated. The brand I like is Boyajian Pure Lemon Oil, which uses 225 lemons in every 3.4 ounce bottle.

• Bob’s Red Mill Old Fashioned Rolled Oats

• Anchovy paste. I keep a tube of this in my refrigerator at all times because it’s such a quick and easy way to add a dose of umami to all variety of dishes.

• Agar agar powder is an excellent vegan substitute for gelatin.

• Mother In Law’s Gochujang sauce

• Bob’s Red Mill Dark Rye Flour

• Aleppo pepper

• Trader Joe’s Harissa Paste

Useful Equipment

Appliances and gadgets that I find useful in my kitchen:

• Ninja food processor. I LOVE this food processor.

• Basic citrus zester

• Thermapen One food thermometer

• Marcato Pasta Machine

• Pasta Drying Rack

• Cast Iron Tortilla Press

Favorite pans

• This cast iron braiser is the hardest working pan in my kitchen. I use it almost every day.

• 3-inch deep round cake pans

Recommended Cookbooks

• How to Dress an Egg by by Ned Baldwin and Peter Kaminsky.

• How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman

• Nopalito by Gonzalo Guzman and Stacy Adimando

• The Blue Zones: Lessons From The Healthiest Places on Earth and The Blue Zones Kitchen Cookbook by Dan Buettner

• The Amazing Costa Rican Cookbook by Camila Navia

• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat and Wendy MacNaughton

• Baking with Dorie by Dorie Greenspan

• Mastering The Art of French Cooking by Julia Child

• BakeWise by Shirley O. Corriher

Recommended books, podcasts, shows, and movies

• Let us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

• Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

• Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

• Bringing Yoga To Life

• The Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

• Go As A River by Shelley Read

• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

• The Creative Act by Rick Rubin