Farm-Fresh and Fast: Easy Recipes and Tips for Making the Most of Fresh, Seasonal Foods

by Fairshare CSA Coalition

Bursting with strategies, techniques, and more than 300 original recipes, Farm-Fresh and Fast is a new cookbook for both seasoned and beginning CSA members and farmers’ market shoppers. Produced by FairShare CSA Coalition in Madison, Wisconsin, Farm-Fresh blends culinary know-how with practical recipes and resourceful techniques to teach local food lovers of all skill levels how to make the most of fresh, seasonal produce.  Farm-Fresh follows the coalition’s first cookbook, From Asparagus to Zucchini , now in its third edition and a national bestseller. Each chapter of Farm-Fresh is organized by plant anatomy (such as leafy greens, root vegetables, etc.) to highlight similarities in cooking and preparation among ingredients.  Master recipes help home cooks adapt recipes to fit the ingredients they have on hand, and come with four seasonal variations so the recipes can be “changed up” as the season progresses and the harvest unfolds. Recipes are flexible and encourage innovation. Don’t have spinach? Try chard. No basil for your pesto? Try garlic scapes or cilantro for a tasty variation that makes a great sandwich spread. In addition, home cooks will find themed, seasonal menu suggestions, from Mother’s Day Brunch and Starry Spring Night Dinner Party to Winter Solstice Celebration, and photographs and descriptions of seventy-eight fruits and vegetables that can be found at farmers’ markets and in CSA boxes from Wisconsin to Florida. Farm-Fresh is graphic-rich, with unique illustrations throughout.

Genres: Cookbooks

296 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2013

Reviews

[Mark Albright · Rating 5 out of 5]

Farm-Fresh and Fast by Fairshare CSA Coalition lives up to its name.
Each section within the farm-fresh fare is logically named and sectioned. You get information about the food group (root vegetables, stalks and shoots, leafy greens for example), a storage and usage guide, and then the recipes. The first page of each recipe section has a master recipe. Here a reader can see the flexibility of the vegetable type. So, when you get to the root vegetable section, you can see how you can make a puréed soup from any of the selections.
The recipes are easy to follow and there are recipes for everyone's liking.
This would be perfect for the cook/chef who has a big garden, who has a CSA box, or for those of us who like to forage through the farmer's market.

[Abby Stopka · Rating 5 out of 5]

Are you a member of ACS a? Do you buy a lot of veggies at the store that you just don't know what to do with? This is definitely the book for you. It gives you both vegetarian and non vegetarian options on things to do with vegetables. They do things from lettuce wraps to zucchini bread to many other things. Just pick and choose from Recipes in this book and whip yourself up a delicious meal