"Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" sounds like another one to check out! Wonderful to meet other writers that also cook :D
I'm a big fan of learning the basic principles of anything I'm doing, so I've been reading "Salt, Sugar, Fat, and Heat" by Samir Nosrat. She takes the science of cooking and makes it practical--for example, I had no idea that the shape of a salt controls the strength of its taste.