Southern Living Farmers Market Cookbook: A Fresh Look at Local Flavor (Southern Living (Hardcover Oxmoor)) [Hardcover]

Editors of Southern Living Magazine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 16, 2010 | Series: Southern Living (Hardcover Oxmoor)

Celebrate the seasons with fresh-from-the-farm recipes that will make you feel healthy and happy about the dishes you prepare for your family and friends.

Southern Living Farmers Market Cookbook offers recipes-arranged according to season-that make the most of the bounty of fresh ingredients found at local markets, U-Picks, and farm stands. Whether you have your own backyard vegetable patch or pick your produce from the local market, you'll find an abundance of garden-fresh Southern Living recipes that will bring vibrant flavor to the dining table.

Four chapters-Spring Recipes, Summer's Bounty, Autumn Harvest, and Winter Storehouse-are filled with a wide variety of dishes ranging from appetizers and beverages to entrées, breads, and desserts.

Lime Raspberry Bites, Fresh Corn Cakes, Skillet Grits With Seasoned Vegetables, Black-eyed Pea Cakes, and Sweet Potato Galette are just a sample of the many ways to prepare seasonal produce at the height of freshness.

This book is so much more than recipes. A complete chapter walks you through the farmers market experience. You'll almost taste the sweet strawberries of spring, summer's juicy vine-ripened tomatoes, and the pumpkins, potatoes, and apples of fall and winter.

A Fresh Produce & Herb Primer provides all the tips you need for selecting the best produce: how to choose the freshest beans and peas, what to look for when buying onions and peppers, and how to pick melons that are at the peak of perfection. You'll also find out how to store and prepare fresh produce.

And to explore farmers markets firsthand, don't miss the Farmers Market Finds section. It's an extensive guide to some of the best markets and food festivals across the South.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Southern Living, launched in 1966, is the heart of Southern life. Over 16 million people turn to the magazine each month for recipes, travel tips, gardening guides, and home decorating inspiration. Readers use it, keep it, live by it. It's the magazine that no Southern home in any part of the country can be without.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Oxmoor House (March 16, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 084873307X
• ISBN-13: 978-0848733070
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 1 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A++ April 8, 2010

By K. Lewis

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So far between my mom and I we have tried 8 recipes and they have all been excellent. We have tried both the double berry freezer jam and the granny smith freezer jam, the sweet onion pudding, the tomato-zucchini tart, the chicken enchiladas, the lime-raspberry bites, the salted caramel strawberries, and the ham and tomato pie. There is a picture for almost every recipe. Hope Southern Living comes out with more cookbooks like this with great pictures and great recipes.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars An Inspiring and Simple Cookbook! June 12, 2010

By Sandra Z

Format:Hardcover

I received this book as a gift and I'm very pleased. Few cookbooks inspire me to want to make most, if not all, of the recipes like this one does. It is appropriately divided by season and the recipes call for simple ingredients most cooks should already have on hand. My only complaint (and the reason it is 4-stars and not 5) is that the recipes call for processed ingredients (such as store-bought pie crusts, salad dressings, breads and jams). I prefer cooking from scratch, and while I can easily substitute homemade versions where commercial ingredients are called for, I think that offering basic recipes as an alternative to processed ingredients would better fit the healthy and organic theme of the book. Only a couple basic recipes are offered, and are somewhat obscurely placed in the book so they are easily overlooked. Well done though!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars yummy! May 31, 2010

By L. L. Gillilland

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When I saw the title I had to have it as we have a farmstand and we are gearing up for a fruitful season. That being said, I have never gone wrong with a Southern Living cookbook. The recipes are usually easy to prepare and always delicious. Even though I farm in the Adirondacks now, I still believe all girls raised in the south should have a strand of pearls and a subscription to Southern Living (if only for the recipes) on their 16th birthday. My own Baby Girl scoffs at this notion but she sure can whip up great meals. Try the corn meal encrusted artichoke hearts with garlic aioli. I recently ate at a upscale Vermont restaurant and these were on the menu. Now you know were they got the recipe! Simply Scrumptious!