Summer Cooking
Here is a list of books you can find at the library to inspire your summer meal planning. Whether you are planning a barbecue, a backyard movie, or just looking for fresh recipes to beat the summer heat, these books have plenty of healthy and fun recipes to enhance your summer cooking.
Healthyish by Lindsay Maitland Hunt This is a cookbook with seriously satisfying, truly simple, good-for-you (but not too good-for-you) recipes for real life. A collection of simple, healthy recipes features such dishes as toasted coconut muesli, hummus and veggie pita, summer corn soup, pork and mushroom stroganoff, and salmon and quinoa bowl.
Summerland : recipes for celebrating with southern hospitality by Anne Stiles Quatrano This is a cookbook that makes each month’s harvest a reason to celebrate, in the refined yet relaxed style of the South. For a cook as passionate as Anne Quatrano, food marks the passage of the year. Each month inspires her to think of new ways to use the season’s morsels. In this, her first and long-awaited cookbook, Quatrano draws on her twenty-eight years’ experience as a chef to pull together more than 100 of her best recipes and entertaining ideas. Peppered throughout are stories of Summerland—the farm that’s been in Quatrano’s family for five generations and that supplies much of the produce for her restaurants. For a fall lunch, friends gather by an old red barn to enjoy mint juleps, roasted quail, and madeleines. For July Fourth, it’s a lakeside barbecue with watermelon sangria, corn on the cob in a jar, and roasted peaches with chamomile ice milk. Summerland represents a new spirit of hospitality, based on refined farmhouse cooking and an easygoing sophistication.
Endless Summer Cookbook by Katie Lee For Katie Lee, cooking isn't just about the food. It's about the whole experience: the atmosphere, the stories that each ingredient tells, and, of course, the people who share the meal. Katie's vision of a complete entertaining experience continues with Endless Summer Cookbook--where the cooking reflects the distinctive flavors of her home in the Hamptons.
Saladish : a crunchier, grainier, herbier, heartier, tastier way with vegetables by Ilene Rosen with Donna Gelb A "saladish" recipe is like a salad, and yet so much more. It starts with an unexpectedly wide range of ingredients, such as Japanese eggplants, broccoli rabe, shirataki noodles, Bosc pears, and chrysanthemum leaves. It emphasizes contrasting textures--toothsome, fluffy, crunchy, crispy, hefty. And marries contrasting flavors--rich, sharp, sweet, and salty. Toss all together and voila: an irresistible symphony that's at once healthy and utterly delicious.
ScandiKitchen summer : simply delicious food for lighter, warmer days by Brontë Aurell Brontë Aurell, owner of the ScandiKitchen Café in London, brings her famous flair to over 65 Scandinavian-style recipes that perfectly capture the joy of summer eating. In the warmer months we crave food that is often naturally lighter and nourishing. Scandinavians do summer food so well--it is wholesome, flavoursome, simple to make and sumptuous to look at. In Scandinavian culture, eating well is all about 'lagom' or balance-- everything in moderation. Try the tempting breakfast ideas such as Blueberry Porridge. Sharing plates such as Smoked Mackerel Rillettes with Rye Crisps are ideal for grazing, while satisfying larger plates include Herbed Pork Tenderloin with Hasselback Potatoes or Danish Plaice with Remoulade. The all-important cake and fika recipes include a Midsummer Strawberry Cake and Skinny Lemon Muffins. A classic Sourdough Rye Loaf and Seeded Crispbread with Dried Nettles are on offer in the breads chapter, and tempting desserts include a Swedish Mess with Cloudberries, plus there are some refreshing summer drinks to sip, such as a traditional aquavit cocktail. Also included are Brontë's fascinating insights into Scandinavian summer traditions and celebrations.
Fresh from the farm : a year of recipes and stories by Susie Middleton This cookbook of 125 accessible, simple, delicious recipes from the Queen of Fresh, Susie Middleton, goes beyond traditional 'fresh' cookbooks. What distinguishes this book is the engaging story of one woman s journey as she sought a simpler life, bought a farm on a rural island and started planting and growing vegetables in the hopes of doing something she loves (growing and cooking food) and finding a satisfying life at the same time. Susie s story is real, just like her food, but Susie isn t the star of this book. It s really about the vegetables and how they shaped her life around growing and harvesting them and how she honours them in the kitchen. Susie s recipes highlight these vegetables but aren t necessarily vegetarian, though they are healthy, fresh and simple. The visuals are as equally engaging as the text. 35 finished dish photos and 120 lifestyle photos featuring the life of the farm bring both food and farm alive.
So much to celebrate : entertaining the ones you love the whole year through by Katie Jacobs Create beautiful memories for your family and friends with help from Katie Jacobs, a stylist for Reese Witherspoon's lifestyle brand Draper James. In this essential guide to entertaining, Katie reveals her secrets for throwing fantastic parties for any occasion, from a casual backyard movie night to a lavish holiday party. Using Katie's inspiring ideas and make-ahead tips, you will be so organized that you can minimize the fuss, enjoy the time, and celebrate too! Brimming with creative party themes for every season, inspiring décor ideas, and delicious recipes, So Much to Celebrate is the perfect book for anyone who appreciates good times, good food, and good celebrations.
Full moon suppers at Salt Water Farm : recipes from land and sea by Annemarie Ahearn Full Moon Suppers at Salt Water Farm invites you to a series of magical, seasonal suppers where dear friends gather around a farm table to celebrate the bounty that the land and sea provide. This menu-driven cookbook offers twelve beautifully crafted meals derived from more than one hundred sold-out evening events at Salt Water Farm, the author's cooking school in Maine. Even if you can't make it to one of Annemarie's monthly Full Moon Suppers, you can re-create them at home, beneath a full moon--or any night--for family and friends. Each supper includes a portrait of the month: its climate, its rewards, and its ritual kitchen tasks--and a menu inspired by those characteristics. A Full Moon Supper is not only a celebration of the earth and its bounty but a reward for the hard work that goes into food production. These meals pay respect to the elements, the conditions of the earth, soil, and sea, and seasonal traditions as we round the lunar cycle.
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