The Seasonal Cookbook


Book Description

If you grow your own vegetables, or are able to shop at a farmer's market or farm shop, or you are lucky enough to have an old fashioned greengrocer and good local butcher, then this book will help you enjoy food at the peak of its flavour. The textures and tastes gained from cooking fresh ingredients in traditional ways will bring you a new cuisine - garden cuisine; the taste of fresh seasonal food, grown and picked when nature intended it to be picked, and cooked in way that enhances its natural flavour. The Seasonal Cookbook starts with growing fruit and vegetables, and then shows you how to use seasonal produce to create some wonderful dishes. It's cooking the way cooking used to be. Relish the subtle flavours to be had from a roast turnip, and savour the exciting versatility of carrots! You will discover: - Fresh Spring vegetables, juicy Spring lamb and Easter treats - Summer fruit, delicious salads, and tasty barbeque meals - Warming and wholesome meals to sustain you through the long winter, plus authentic Christmas fare - How to use autumn's harvest to provide 'plenty' through the winter months. Each section has the how-to of growing and the how-to of cooking brought together - as though Diana had asked Paul to gather such and such an ingredient from the garden for supper.




Bake the Seasons


Book Description

Rediscover the simple pleasures of baking with a collection of comforting sweet and savoury recipes that celebrates seasonal flavours. Inspired by the abundance of the farms, orchards, and gardens of her childhood, Marcella DiLonardo has always loved baking throughout the year with the wide range of fruits and vegetables that accompany the changing seasons. With a few quality pantry essentials, Marcella focuses on simplicity in Bake the Seasons, sharing over 100 sweet and savoury recipes. These homey favourites are often modern twists on familiar classics and will quickly become tried and true dishes you return to again and again. Whether it's an indulgent Smoked Gorgonzola and Winter Pear Pizza to prepare for friends, a Jalapeno Cheddar Cornbread to bring to a summer picnic, or beautiful holiday cakes, these comfort foods will impress your nearest and dearest. Not only can these delicious indulgences be enjoyed throughout the year at special occasions, Marcella serves up options for any time of day, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, not to mention buttery treats, like Lemon Lavender Shortbread, to accompany a cup of afternoon tea. Showcasing Marcella's beautiful photography, Bake the Seasons is filled with mouthwatering treats and pastries, and takes us through the vibrant produce and enticing flavours of the spring, summer, fall and winter. You'll be delighted with classics like Strawberry Rhubarb Pie, as well as Marcella's personal spin on traditional baking, including Zucchini Cheddar Bread and Salted Honey Challah, and inspiring combinations, like Garlic Scape Brie Biscuits and a Lemon Thyme Tart. So whether you need a simple, comforting dinner idea or a lazy weekend breakfast for two, this collection of delicious, rustic recipes will suit your every day and every season.




Six Seasons


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Winner, James Beard Award for Best Book in Vegetable-Focused Cooking Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Bon Appétit, Food Network Magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, USA Today, Seattle Times, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Library Journal, Eater, and more “Never before have I seen so many fascinating, delicious, easy recipes in one book. . . . [Six Seasons is] about as close to a perfect cookbook as I have seen . . . a book beginner and seasoned cooks alike will reach for repeatedly.” —Lucky Peach Joshua McFadden, chef and owner of renowned trattoria Ava Gene’s in Portland, Oregon, is a vegetable whisperer. After years racking up culinary cred at New York City restaurants like Lupa, Momofuku, and Blue Hill, he managed the trailblazing Four Season Farm in coastal Maine, where he developed an appreciation for every part of the plant and learned to coax the best from vegetables at each stage of their lives. In Six Seasons, his first book, McFadden channels both farmer and chef, highlighting the evolving attributes of vegetables throughout their growing seasons—an arc from spring to early summer to midsummer to the bursting harvest of late summer, then ebbing into autumn and, finally, the earthy, mellow sweetness of winter. Each chapter begins with recipes featuring raw vegetables at the start of their season. As weeks progress, McFadden turns up the heat—grilling and steaming, then moving on to sautés, pan roasts, braises, and stews. His ingenuity is on display in 225 revelatory recipes that celebrate flavor at its peak.




A Dish for All Seasons


Book Description

A creative approach to seasonal cooking, A DISH FOR ALL SEASONS presents 26 adaptable recipes, each with four seasonal variations, for a total of more than 100 accessible recipes for creative weeknight cooking. This practical cookbook flips the script on recipe books organized by season. Instead of dedicated recipes to Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter—which would mean three quarters of the book goes unused for three quarters of the year—this book features 26 go-to recipes, each with four variations. Every dish includes a base recipe—such as a simple frittata, Panzanella salad, sheet pan dinner, or loaf cake—plus four adaptations based on the season. Readers will also find simple instructions and formulas for creating original dishes, giving them the tools they need to improvise based on the ingredients they have on hand. With a photograph to accompany all 100 dishes, this is a versatile, repertoire-building cookbook will be a go-to resource for home cooks looking to create delicious, healthy food all year long. SMART STRATEGY BOOK: This book teaches home cooks to cook creatively. With a base recipe, seasonal variations, and instructions for adapting the recipe using whatever ingredients are on hand, readers can choose to follow a seasonal recipe exactly, swap out an ingredient or two depending on what's available at their local market, or experiment with their own, totally original combinations. GREAT VALUE: With more than 100 go-to recipes, plus instructions and formulas that let readers experiment, this cookbook is a great value. Like DINNER'S IN THE OVEN and other weeknight books featuring lots of photography and simple recipes, the package is as appealing as the content. RECIPES WITH WIDE APPEAL: These are the kind of recipes that people actually cook on a regular basis—easy weekday staples such as oatmeal, hummus, quesadillas, sheet-pan dinners, penne pasta with meatballs—but with a seasonal twist. Perfect for: • Beginner cooks who want to master a few staple dishes • Home cooks of all skill levels looking for easy, creative weeknight recipes • Amateur chefs interested in updated basics • People who like to cook seasonally and shop at the local farmer's market




Season


Book Description

There are few books that offer home cooks a new way to cook and to think about flavor—and fewer that do it with the clarity and warmth of Nik Sharma's Season. Season features 100 of the most delicious and intriguing recipes you've ever tasted, plus 125 of the most beautiful photographs ever seen in a cookbook. Here Nik, beloved curator of the award-winning food blog A Brown Table, shares a treasury of ingredients, techniques, and flavors that combine in a way that's both familiar and completely unexpected. These are recipes that take a journey all the way from India by way of the American South to California. It's a personal journey that opens new vistas in the kitchen, including new methods and integrated by a marvelous use of spices. Even though these are dishes that will take home cooks and their guests by surprise, rest assured there's nothing intimidating here. Season, like Nik, welcomes everyone to the table!




Complete Seasons Cookbook


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Sugar snap peas in March, juicy melons in July, autumn apples, and robust winter greens. Every season boasts its own bounty of fresh, delectable fruits and vegetables. And as every good cook knows, seasonal ingredients form the basis of the most memorable meals. The Complete Seasons Cookbook is a collection of more than 200 recipes that celebrate the finest fare of each season. Includes guidelines for selecting the best ingredients and tips for cooking.




Cooking in the Moment


Book Description

"If there’s one thing Reusing understands, it’s the power of a remarkable ingredient." – O Magazine "[A] must-have title for both new and experienced cookes." --Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review) “Her enthusiasm is infectious, her approach, inviting.”—BookPage Top Pick and Cookbook of the Month “I love Andrea Reusing’s Lantern in Chapel Hill. And her recipes in Cooking in the Moment are so approachable and her stories so insightful that they blaze a path toward great home cooking.” —David Chang “I’ve had the pleasure of enjoying many fine meals at Lantern. Andrea Reusing’s food is always fresh, seasonal, and as local as possible. Her recipes are creative and downright delicious.” —John Grisham For Andrea Reusing—an award-winning chef, a leader in the sustainable agriculture movement, and a working mother—“cooking in the moment” simply means focusing on one meal at a time. Tender spring broccoli given a smoky char on the grill, a summer berry pudding with cold cream, or a cider-braised pork shoulder served with pan-fried apples on a frosty night—cooking and eating this way allows food in season to become the foundation of a full life. Cooking in the Moment is a rich, absorbing journey through a year in Reusing’s home kitchen as she cooks for family and friends using ingredients grown nearby. When seasonality is reimagined as a grocery list rather than a limitation, everyday meals become cause for celebration—a whole week of fresh sweet corn; a blue moon autumn asparagus harvest; a rich, spicy soup made with the last few sweet potatoes of winter. Reusing seamlessly blends down-to-earth kitchen advice with delicious, doable recipes, including childhood favorites (chicken and dumplings), simple one-pot dinners (shrimp, pea, and rice stew), as well as feasts to satisfy a crowd (roast fresh ham with cracklings). And while the action takes place in North Carolina, the kinds of producers and places that animate these pages—farmers, ranchers, cheesemakers, butchers, bakers, orchards, backyard henhouses, and fishing holes—can be found all over, producing the flavors that we crave. With gorgeous photography throughout and more than 130 recipes, Cooking in the Moment will inspire cooks everywhere to embrace the flavors and bounty of each season.




Washington Local and Seasonal Cookbook


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Each new season brings a rich bounty of homegrown products that appear in our gardens, farmers' markets and grocery stores. Seasonally sensitive cuisine here in Washington takes advantage of the freshness and economy of our local vegetables, fruits, herbs, cheeses, wines, seafood and meats, which are best at their peak of availability. This book provides 90 kitchen-tested and tasty recipes featuring seasonally available ingredients for appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, sides, brunches, desserts and drinks: * Spring: Clam chowder and tea-smoked scallops, Lamb with mustard spaetzle, Rhubarb pie with a meringue crust * Summer: Prawn and melon salad, Pacific scallops with bacon and vanilla, Barbecued peaches with Camembert * Fall: Lentil and roasted garlic soup, Coffee and chocolate braised short ribs, Apple cranberry cinnamon buns * Winter: White wine and garlic mussels, Tempura, Hazelnut torte with sour cherry preserve * Recipes are accompanied with local and regional history, folklore, regional food trivia, tips and variations, as well as stunning photography.




Cooking in Season


Book Description

More than 90 simple and wholesome recipes showcase the best ingredients and flavors of every season in this beautifully illustrated cookbook. Each season has its own delicious bounty. And Cooking in Season is the ultimate guide to enjoying the freshest, most flavorful ingredients all through the year with simple yet sublime recipes. Illustrated with lush color photography, this cookbook explores seasonal approaches to soups, salads, tarts, flatbreads, entrees, desserts, and even cocktails. Spring recipes include Shaved Artichoke, Celery & Fennel Salad and Grilled Lamb Chops with Spring Herb Salsa Verde. In summer, it’s time for dishes like Grilled Peach Flatbread with Mozzarella, Pickled Onion & Arugula and Watermelon Mojito Ice Pops. Autumn’s offerings include Cider-Braised Chicken with Acorn Squash Ragout and Apple Fritters with Cardamom Cream. And in winter, you’ll enjoy Creamy Cauliflower Soup with Brussels Sprout Hash, Grapefruit Sorbet with Candied Ginger, and so much more.




Cooking Season by Season


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Provides one thousand recipes arranged by season, from spring to late winter, including curried vegetable pies, roasted tomato soup, sea bass in salt crust, yellow squash gratin, and steamed mussels with saffron-cream sauce.