Always in Season: Twelve Months of Fresh Recipes from the Farmer's Markets of New England

by Elise Richer, Teresa Lagrange (Illustrator)

Overview

Always in Season gives you inviting, approachable, delicious recipes you can prepare the same day you come home from the farmer's market with a bag full of local produce, or find your CSA box full of unfamiliar vegetables. Elise Richer takes you through each month of the year, highlighting a few select ingredients each month. Entrees, side dishes, soups, and baked goods are all featured, showcasing traditional and contemporary ways of using what is available locally, along with recipes from far-flung locations that put those same local ingredients to use in creative new ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934031698
Publisher:	Islandport Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/16/2013
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Elise Richer has worked in several restaurants, run her own baking business, and cooked a lot of family meals. As a teenager in Massachusetts, she worked at a farm stand where she learned how much tastier a Macoun is than a Macintosh. As an adult, she lived and worked in Washington, DC, where she was spoiled by a long growing season and abundant peaches. She moved to Maine in 2003 and has been learning to love cabbage ever since. Teresa Lagrange is an illustrator/graphic designer who lives in Portland, Maine. She enjoys using bright, bold colors in her digital illustrations, but also creates soft watercolors and drawings. A graduate of the University of Maine, she worked as a designer at the Portland Museum of Art, and now creates designs, logos, and illustrations for various clients. When she isn't sketching on any paper she can find, or creating art on the computer, she enjoys being with her family and spending time outdoors.

Table of Contents

Introduction iv

September: Featured Ingredients: Cauliflower, Cucumbers, Eggplant Spinach, Summer Squash 1

October: Featured Ingredients: Brussels Sprouts, Kohlrabi, Parsley, Pears, Raspberries 13

November: Featured Ingredients: Apples, Celeriac, Leeks, Pumpkin 28

December: Featured Ingredients: Cranberries, Garlic, Oats, Winter Squash 43

January: Featured Ingredients: Cabbage, Dried Beans, Parsnips, Rutabaga 57

February: Featured Ingredients: Commeal, Honey, Potatoes, Tumips 71

March: Featured Ingredients: Carrots, Maple Syrup, Onions, Whole Wheat Flour 87

April: Featured Ingredients: Arugula, Chives, Fiddleheads, Garlic Scapes 101

May: Featured Ingredients: Asian Greens, Lettuces, Radishes, Rhubarb 114

June: Featured Ingredients: Asparagus, Kale, Peas, Sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes) 129

July: Featured Ingredients: Beets, Blueberries, Chard, Corn Sour Cherries 143

August: Featured Ingredients Bell Peppers, Bok Choy, Broccoli, Green Beans, Okra, Tomatoes 160

Acknowledgments 174

Resources 175

Seasonal Menus 178

Index 179

Editorial Reviews

"Reading this beautifully illustrated book is like being in the company of a savvy friend as she helps you sort out the contents of your CSA basket or your latest farmers' market haul. With a warm, witty, and refreshingly pragmatic voice, Elise Richer has created not just a cookbook but a solution for the common challenge of 'What do I do with all these ______?' This great New England home cooking and a testament to the pleasures and possibilities of eating locally and in season."
— Amy Traverso, senior lifestyle editor at Yankee Magazine and author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook

"With its clean, efficient style of layout and instruction and its weeknight-friendly recipes celebrating local produce, Always in Season is a must-have for New Englanders who shop the farmers markets, CSAs and farm stands."
— Amy Diaz, The Hippo

"Elise has captured the unique and outstanding flavor of New England’s year-round bounty. I'm excited to see her show how simple and effective techniques, combined with a bold desire to use anything and everything from the farmer’s market, can consistently yield healthy, satisfying, delicious meals, while supporting ecologically and socially sound practices to the utmost. New England should rightfully take its place among the great culinary regions of the world, and Elise has helped in no small way to make that case."
— David Scott Levi, chef and owner of Vinland restaurant (Portland, ME)

From the Publisher

"Reading this beautifully illustrated book is like being in the company of a savvy friend as she helps you sort out the contents of your CSA basket or your latest farmers' market haul. With a warm, witty, and refreshingly pragmatic voice, Elise Richer has created not just a cookbook but a solution for the common challenge of 'What do I do with all these ______?' This great New England home cooking and a testament to the pleasures and possibilities of eating locally and in season."

Amy Traverso

With its clean, efficient style of layout and instruction and its weeknight-friendly recipes celebrating local produce, Always in Season is a must-have for New Englanders who shop the farmers markets, CSAs and farm stands.

Amy Diaz

Elise has captured the unique and outstanding flavor of New England’s year-round bounty. I'm excited to see her show how simple and effective techniques, combined with a bold desire to use anything and everything from the farmer’s market, can consistently yield healthy, satisfying, delicious meals, while supporting ecologically and socially sound practices to the utmost. New England should rightfully take its place among the great culinary regions of the world, and Elise has helped in no small way to make that case.

David Scott Levi