At the Table :: 2026 Rainy Day Bites Cookbook Club | January

Considering I've already made seven new recipes for the Rainy Day Bites Cookbook Club just in January, I thought I might should post a little oftener than quarterly. We'll see how it goes going forward.

Anyway, 2026 is Year of the Deep Dive for the club and we kicked off our four-month savory cookbook club selection with Something from Nothing by Alison Roman @alisoneroman. For January, our challenge was to Eat Your Veg: Make any recipe from either the Vegetable or Beans & Grains chapters. And boy, did I. Sorry I'm not a better food photography, but you'll get the idea.

Forever-Roasted Squash with Browned Butter Dates

Toasted Rice Pilaf with Crushed Walnuts and Dates

Browned Butter Potato Salad

Perfect Oil-Roasted Tomatoes

Spiced, Butter-Roasted Carrots with Walnuts

A Chili, because you asked

Then Baking & The Meaning of Life: How to Find Joy in 100 Recipes by Helen Goh @helen_goh_bakes is the yearlong cookbook for our last day of the month baking party.

For January, we had the choice of making one of two madeleine recipes, and I chose the Lunchbox Madeleines,

You'll find longer descriptions of each recipe if you click to my IG posts about them. But overall, it's been a really yummy month, and I'm happy to just keep cooking and baking from these two books into February and beyond.