La Vie Rustic: Recipes, Tips And Tales For A Sustainable Life In The

Author: Georgeanne Brennan

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  • : March 2017
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Description

James Beard Award winning author Georgeanne Brennan shares a lifetime of French farmhouse cooking--combining ingredients from forest, field, sea, and stream--in casual meals for friends and family. Following an approach to daily cooking that's rooted firmly in the French tradition, Brennan crafts recipes driven by the seasons and the outdoors. Paired with lovely lifestyle photography, this inspiring cookbook weaves together her personal experience, stories, and tips about how to create a sustainable life--one that celebrates the relationship between the land and the table, and among food, family, and friends--no matter where you reside. The Potager: Year-Round Vegetables green garlic and new potato soup; charred artichokes with fresh herb dipping sauce; zucchini and pine nut fritters; fennel and chicken braised with lemon; savory chard and raisin tart; sweet pepper and shelling bean Gratin; parsnip soup with toasted almonds; winter beignets with sauce verde The Orchard: Fruits & Nuts: homecured olives, cherry and onion chutney for seared duck breast, chestnut and pork stew, pear, arugula and shaved parmesan salad, mulberry and pistachio tart, chestnut cream profiteroles The Barnyard: Cows, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Chickens, Ducks & Rabbits foie gras terrine, chicken liver pate, shredded duck confit and cornichon buns, beef braised in red wine and bone marrow, roast chicken with potatoes and droppings, stuffed breast of lamb-Michoui style, frozen meringues and fruit cream The Forest & Fields: Wild Things snail stuffed mushroom, wild mushroom soup, foraged greens and prosciutto salad, quail with juniper glaze and shallots, fresh bay leaves skewered with lamb and peppers, Creme Brulee with Black Truffles, lavender pepper goat cheese. Water: Fish & Shellfish: smoked trout pate, thin sliced raw scallops with wild fennel pollen, pot de poisson, Moules Gratinee, sea bass with lemon verbenas buerre blanc, sea urchin sauce With lovely recipes and tips to sustainable life, La Vie Rustic allows you to live the French lifestyle in your home!

Author description

Georgeanne Brennan is a James Beard award-winning cookbook author and journalist. She and her work have been featured in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Gourmet, Food and Wine, San Francisco Chronicle, Edible magazines and elsewhere. Her books have been translated into multiple languages, including her memoir, A Pig in Provence. In 2014 she founded La Vie Rustic: Sustainable Living in the French Style, a product line and on-line store. She lives in Northern California and travels several times a year to her long time home in Provence where she once lived, keeping goats and pigs and making and selling goats milk cheese. www.lavierustic.com