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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Harvest: Recipes from an organic farm
In a secret valley near Worcester, in the Western Cape, untouched by pollution and city rush lies a farm so heart-achingly beautiful it will compel you to reassess what life is really about. If the view doesn't mesmerize you, the lifestyle of organic farmers Christine and Mark Stevens and their two sons will get you thinking. Beyond the obvious meaning in the title, Harvest is a cookbook about reaping what you sow in life. Christine's decision to leave the city and a hectic corporate career behind has rewarded her with a quality of life for her family that you can only envy. The root of it is feeding two very active boys and a busy husband. In Harvest, Christine shares not only her favourite recipes, but her passion for growing things and taking food straight from the garden or paddock into the kitchen. When she first arrived on the farm, she thought life would be all about slow-cooked meals and long lazy days, be she soon had to adjust to the reality of farm life. This meant that the way she cooked had to change too, to become more seasonal and a lot less fussy. Her recipes are a combination of quick (not fast) food using the best organic ingredients and slower, more indulgent meals using the best that her farm produces. She shares tricks for keeping the pantry full of things to keep hungry boys happy and to help get a healthy, delicious dinner on the table with the minimum of fuss. From baskets full of heirloom tomatoes and home-raised pork to bottles of their own organic wine, Harvest takes us into the kitchen of an organic farm to explore an organic lifestyle and its delicious benefits. The farm comes alive through the eyes of food and lifestyle photographer Russel Wasserfall. In his words: "The place is almost picture-perfect. Everywhere you look there's a postcard view. It's as if someone set out to design the perfect farm with which to lure city folk away from the big smoke.
£17.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The harvest kitchen
Building on the success of Christine Steven's first book, Harvest: Recipes from an Organic Farm, we now bring you The Harvest Kitchen. The Harvest Kitchen guides you through the seasons, the importance of eating seasonal produce and how to grow and prepare your own. A simple meal can be transformed by using the freshest ingredients - a lettuce just plucked from the ground or a peach picked straight from the tree. This is not just a recipe book about preserving jams and chutneys from excess produce, but more a look at how you can better use and preserve the fresh produce that is available to you by capturing the essence of seasonal ingredients to enhance your larder and your lifestyle. Each chapter describes the background of the food it covers with a little bit of growing or production advice, personal anecdotes and practical knowledge, with a selection of up to sixteen recipes per chapter and a series of photos. Each recipe is tried and tested and has a story of how or why it came to exist. With people becoming more inquisitive about food, more people are growing their own food and questioning what goes into the food they buy. To many people, preserving and baking mean a trip down memory lane, a remembrance of a mother's freshly baked loaf of bread spread with a dollop of Granny's strawberry jam. In today's world, preserving means having economical and ethical control over your food. It is time for us all to re-look at the way we eat; to re-establish food values that affect our lives and everyday health. The Harvest Kitchen is full of information with easy-to-follow recipes and tips that will fill your year with flavour while filling the shelves of your larder.
£18.95