A visually stunning guide to the emerging kitchen garden culture--combining home-grown ingredients with globally influenced tastes!
Like many of today's home gardeners, Jeanne Kelley's backyard kitchen garden is a means to indulge her desire for fresh, organic, and flavor-rich produce. Just minutes outside of downtown Los Angeles, this same backyard is also home to Kelley's pet goat and Ameraucana chickens, which provide her with a plentiful amount of milk and sky blue eggs that often feature in Kelley's internationally inspired dishes. Now she shares more than 150 of her recipes, all of which incorporate new and authentic ways to take advantage of local and seasonal foods and incorporate the multi-ethnic flavors into your everyday meals.
This remarkable cookbook presents a contemporary version of field-to-table cooking that hails from a region where home chefs prune their kitchen gardens in the shadow of metropolitan cities and year-round farmers' markets provide heirloom vegetables that inspire classic and enticing dishes. Capitalizing on her 20 years as a Bon Appetit contributor, Kelley's recipes are simple and spectacular. With strategies for both weeknight cooking and special occasions, Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes is the essential manual for all who hunger to create quick and healthy meals with flair. In addition to the many mouthwatering recipes, Kelley provides readers with tips and menus for entertaining, plus a thorough kitchen garden primer that celebrates the simple joy of growing your own produce--including discussion on small container and community gardens, raising and keeping backyard chickens, composting, and growing your own exotic ingredients.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Not as reviewed:
I don't keep alot of these ingredients in my pantry, as one review suggested. I'm very disappointed.
A feast not only for the table but for the eyes:
What a delightful cookbook. This is really a walk through the author's garden and life, and a wonderful trek it is. The connection of good food with a natural life-style fills the pages and the pictures support the calm and healthy way this family thrives. A must for all who love good food and who enjoy life.
Coffee Table Cook Book:
One should never judge a book by its' cover, however, it was love at first site for me. This is an amazing work of art- and a definite coffee table book where I keep mine. The photos are impressive and the overall layout of the book is sensible and overall easily read.
The recipes are wonderful; each has a slightly different twist of ingredients that add to the delight of the finished product.
I orginally purchased this book for a friend as a birthday gift and once having seen it purchased one... more info
beautiful book, great recipes:
I ordered this book sight unseen, largely from the reviews and the fact that I loved the cover. It is the perfect kitchen-garden cookbook...full of delicious recipes you'll actually use from ingredients you likely have on hand or nearby. I would recommend it to anyone who loves to cook...especially those with an interest in garden to table cooking.
