For those of you who don't know, we have a FAQ section devoted to cookbooks. Recently, /u/GreasyPorkGoodness had an interesting post on the topic, which I've excised below:

I am not new to cooking, cooking has been a part of my family for my entire life. I would classify myself as a moderately advanced home chef, I don’t come across recipes that intimidate me anymore

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Since I now have 3 kids and a spouse that can be picky when it comes to eating I am in a cooking rut. I have been using the America’s Test Kitchen’s Family Cookbook as my default super easy and super predictable go to for far too long.

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I now want to step up my every night cooking a bit and am looking for a new go to book recommendation. Most of the books I have now fall into the simple beginner books (Test Kitchen, How to Cook Everything, Betty Crocker) or they are dinner party/ Sunday dinner cook all day kind of books (Ivan Ramen, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Silver Spoon). I'm on the hunt for that in between book – one that is more contemporary than the Test Kitchen, is a bit more challenging but still approachable for cooking any night.

In the mod discussion, it came up that it might be worthwhile to explore pros/cons of overthinking recipe development in the style of ATK or serious eats.

So /r/AskCulinary, what are some intermediate cookbooks, and what are you thoughts are recipe development at an intermediate level?