Homegrown Pure and Simple : Great Healthy Food from Garden to Table

Presents a collection of eighty recipes for salads, soups, main courses, side dishes, breads, and desserts. In this follow-up to Taste Pure and Simplewinner of the James Beard Cookbook Award—Michel Nischan takes his philosophy of healthy cooking from garden to kitchen. Inspired to provide his growing family with meals as full of flavor as those he'd enjoyed at his mother's table, Michel planted a garden of his own. The result was a delicious array of recipes based on the best the garden—or, if you're not that fortunate, the organic produce in the farmers' market or grocery store—has to offer. Sweet tomatoes and bitter lettuces, peppery radishes and succulent strawberries—these are but a handful of fruits, herbs, and vegetables that, served alone or combined with quality meats and poultry, ripened cheeses, or whole grains, inspired these 80 seasonal recipes, each one as good for the body as it is for the palate. Including a superb chapter on extending the harvest, full of fruit preserves and jams, pickled vegetables, sauces, salsas, flavored oils, spice mixes, and even a few refreshing drinks, Homegrown Pure and Simple is a book that not only conveys the sheer joy of feeding family and friends well, but also takes healthy cooking to an exciting—and delicious—new level. In this follow-up to Taste Pure and Simple winner of the James Beard Cookbook Award'Michel Nischan takes his philosophy of healthy cooking from garden to kitchen. Inspired to provide his growing family with meals as full of flavor as those he'd enjoyed at his mother's table, Michel planted a garden of his own. The result was a delicious array of recipes based on the best the garden'or, if you're not that fortunate, the organic produce in the farmers' market or grocery store'has to offer. Sweet tomatoes and bitter lettuces, peppery radishes and succulent strawberries'these are but a handful of fruits, herbs, and vegetables that, served alone or combined with quality meats and poultry, ripened cheeses, or whole grains, inspired these 80 seasonal recipes, each one as good for the body as it is for the palate. Including a superb chapter on extending the harvest, full of fruit preserves and jams, pickled vegetables, sauces, salsas, flavored oils, spice mixes, and even a few refreshing drinks, Homegrown Pure and Simple is a book that not only conveys the sheer joy of feeding family and friends well, but also takes healthy cooking to an exciting'and delicious'new level Takes the philosophy of healthy cooking from garden to kitchen. A delicious array of recipes based on the best your garden or market has to offer. Showcasing 80 seasonal recipes. My garden and how it grew 13 -- Salads 21 -- Soups 39 -- Main courses 61 -- Side dishes 121 -- Extending the harvest 148 -- Breakfast and breads 183 -- Desserts 199.