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Rosalind Creasy's Recipes from the Garden: 200 Exciting Recipes from the Author of the Complete Book of Edible Landscaping

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Rosalind Creasy is a renowned gardening authority and the author of the acclaimed instruction guide "The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping". Now she has compiled a superbly illustrated compendium showcasing a culinary wealth of recipes featuring vegetables, fruits and herbs that can be grown in anyone's garden. There are two hundred easy-to-prepare, kitchen-cook-friendly recipes -- each of which is as nutritious as they are delicious. The individual recipes are organized into sections featuring herb blends and salad dressings, salads, soups and starters, vegetable dish entrees, meat, poultry and seafood dishes, side dishes, drinks and desserts. From exotic items like flower butters (Nasturtium Butter and Rose Butter) to such diet friendly items as Fennel Salad with Red Peppers; appetite satisfying entrees such as Savory Bread Pudding with Sorrell and Baby Artichokes; to terrific 'dinner enders' like Baked Apples with Cherries and Hazelnuts, "Rosalind Creasy's Recipes From The Garden" is a cornucopia of edible garden products prepared to satisfy even the most gourmet appetite and an enthusiastically recommended addition to personal, family, and community library cookbook collections!

This is a huge, beautiful cookbook with lots of eye catching pictures. It has wonderfully laid out recipes and many, many excellent servings suggestions. This would make a wonderful wedding gift combined with a salad spinner, oil and vinegar carafe, or other salad fixing items.

The dressing recipes are all fresh and delicious. The vinaigrettes are simple and tasty. The Wild Party Salad recipe was beautiful although I don't know if I would invest in all those edible flowers. If I grew the flowers that might be one thing but to buy them would be a little costly. The rainbow slaw was a work of art. I did make the Garden Celebration Salad, it's a composed salad of zucchini, wax beans, colored sweet peppers, green beans, red cabbage with a garlic vinaigrette that was delicious. It held up well during a summer grill out.

This cookbook might be a little overwhelming if you're starting out but it well worth the price in the long run. Many of the salads combined pieces of protein, tuna, squid, duck, swordfish and red meats to make a complete meal.

There was a recipe for the traditional Salade Nicoise that would make a nice bridal luncheon presentation. There are recipes for soups, gazpacho, vichyssoise, miso, chowders, and a fancy carrot soup. All pretty but a little over the top.

If you're looking for a simpler salad cookbook then go with "Simply Salads" by Jennifer Chandler. It's just as lovely a cookbook but with more everyday salads rather than these Martha Stewart presentations.

Both serve their purpose...HTH.

I'm sorry but I don't understand the 5 stars that this cookbook received. I collect cookbooks, and I do have a lot! But this cookbook is by far the worst one that I own. I personally cannot see me eating flowers, and a lot of the recipes use edible flowers (e.g., orange blossoms, pansies, etc.). I must have gone through this book a dozen times to find one recipe that I would like to try, one recipe that I would consider exciting, but I can't find one. Let me say that I'm also an avid gardener from the state of PA, and that is why I purchased the book; however, the recipes in this book were not written for vegtables grown in a PA garden (or any state in the north-east as far as that goes). Sorry, but I guess I'll stick to ordinary and unexciting vegtables like corn on the cob, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes. . .

I'm giving this cookbook to friends who have a self-sustaining garden. It was delivered on time in new condition. Will use this vendor again! Thanks!