Taste of Home Market Fresh Cookbook

by Jennifer Olski (Editor)

Whether you rely on fresh produce from your grocer or grow it yourself, you'll harvest a bounty of compliments whenever you serve these kitchen-tested delicious dishes. Sweet, succulent fresh fruits and vegetables can be used to bring versatility to your cooking, and fresh herbs add a bit of spice. This unique volume of more than 350 kitchen-tested recipes is guaranteed to give you new, fresh ideas for preparing mouth-watering meals with healthy ingredients. Illustrated with more than 225 photographs, you are sure to find just the right recipes to please even the fussiest eaters in your family.

You'll find soups and salads, main and side dishes, and desserts, which are sure to become family favorites that you'll make over and over again. Eat healthy and put real snap into your meals with crisp, tasty, fresh fruits and vegetables and herbs that are naturally high in vitamins and minerals. Each recipe is garnished with a short anecdote-"quotes from the cook"-so using this book is like sharing recipes with a good friend.

Whether you are using homegrown fruits, vegetables, and herbs or the abundant supply of fresh produce available at your local market, you can enjoy the taste of summer throughout the year with the delicious recipes in this book.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2007

Reviews

[Mel · Rating 2 out of 5]

If someone needs to change from the Standard American Diet, then this may be a good choice for them to introduce more fruits and vegetables in a variety of meals/dishes, this would be a good book to get started or even to get ideas.
For me though, too many dishes include dairy and/or sugars, or alcohols.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good recipes!

[Samantha · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love Taste of Home and I love using fresh veggies in cooking but I just couldn’t find anything in here that I liked. I’ve had this for years but I’m getting rid of it because I never use it.

[Darlene · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my favorite type of cookbook - it is full of photos. Beginning with produce handling and buying fresh guidelines, progressing to a produce reference section, and concluding with over 300 recipes. The reference section contains a wealth of information for each category of produce alphabetically from artichokes and asparagus to strawberries and watermelon. The chapter headings are: Apples, Asparagus, Beans, Berries, Broccoli & Cauliflower, Cabbage, Carrots, Corn, Greens, Potatoes, Rhubarb, Squash, Tomatoes, Cornucopia. Much information is packed into this handy, 256-page, soft-cover book.

One word of caution. While there are certainly some good healthy recipes, there are also those that are at the opposite end of the health scales. For instance, sweet potatoes: Sweet Potato Salad vs Fried Sweet Potato Pies. By the way, both recipes are yummy.

Recommended for all, and especially, cookbook collectors like me.

[Anne Holcomb · Rating 4 out of 5]

This cookbook is organized by vegetable, and it has a lot of great recipes that are relatively simple and fast but taste like you put a lot of effort into them. This is a great cookbook for someone who has tons of extra veggies from the farmer's market or their garden and is not sure what else to make with them. The Tomato-Dill Soup recipe alone is sooooo good. I have made it twice and I crave more!

[Becky · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a must for anyone that shops frequently at farmers markets...the best cookbook i've found so far!