I rarely buy cookbooks, too. Still tempted by Dessert Person (loved my library time) but another libraryloved book I bought hasn't made it off the shelf since it arrived.
(But it arrived at the beginning of the covid darkness and I was grieving the death of my dad. That book was salvation to me)
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Escapism-Cooking-Survival-Intensely-ebook/dp/B07KWHW4JQ
Really fun to cook these sometimes strange recipes, but everything is a headturner and tastes amazing.
Art of Escapism Cooking. I took absolute solace in this book after my dad died this spring.