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Patricia Wells at Home in Provence: Recipes Inspired By Her Farmhouse In France |
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Patricia Wells at Home in Provence: Recipes Inspired By Her Farmhouse In France |
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by: Patricia Wells
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.59449 EAN: 9780684815695 ISBN: 0684815699 Label: Scribner Languages: Manufacturer: Scribner Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: October 07, 1996 Publisher: Scribner Studio: Scribner Editorial Review: Product Description: For the past thirteen years, Patricia Wells has been carrying on a love affair-not with an individual, but with a region of France, a centuries-old stone farmhouse, and a cuisine. Now, in a cookbook that captures the soul of modern regional French cooking, the award-winning journalist and author invites readers to share the passion, the joy, and, best of all, the cooking of her adopted home. Provence is uniquely blessed with natural beauty as well as some of the world's most appealing foods and liveliest wines. Patricia's culinary skills have transformed the signature ingredients of this quintessential French countryside into recipes so satisfying and exciting they will instantly become part of your daily repertoire. Here are 175 recipes from Patricia's farmhouse kitchen. Simple but imaginative "palate openers" such as Tuna Tapenade are followed by a profusion of salads, from All-Star Herb Salad, which captures the essence of the herb garden in a single bite, to the vibrant, cream-dressed greens of the Cheesemaker's Salad. Vegetables have a special place in the hearts and palates of Provence's cooks, so Patricia presents an entire chapter of quick-and-easy vegetable creations. From the crunch and herbal freshness of Fresh Beans with Garlic & Herbs to the elegant simplicity of Potatoes Roasted in Sea Salt, these are recipes for the vegetarian and nonvegetarian alike. Soul-satisfying soups have their own chapter, with such delights as Summer Piston and the deeply flavorfull Caramelized Fennel Soup. This chapter is highlighted by Monkfish Bouillabaisse with Aioli, Patricia's own brilliant interpretation of a Provencal classic. Pastas, too, are on the menu, with inventive dishes like Provencal Penne and Spaghetti with Green Olive Puttanesca, inspired by the produce of Patricids village market. A chapter on breads includes everything from Crusty Wheat & Polenta Bread to an olive oil brioche, a local classic. Poultry and game are represented with everything from Butter-Roasted Herbed Chicken to Monsieur Hennys Rabbit Bouillabaisse. In the fish and shellfish department, you will savor Seared Pancetta-Wrapped Cod and The Valson Fishmonger's Fresh Tuna Casserole. When it comes to meat, Patricia offers recipes for earthy daubes, the slow-simmered almost-stews so beloved by the French, along with homey favorites like Lemon-Thyme Lamb Chops, and Spit-Roasted Brine-Cured Pork. To round out the meal, there is a treasure trove of desserts based on seasonal fruits-Cherry-Almond Tart, Winernaker's Grape Cake, and Patricids Apricot-Honey-Almond Tart, as effortless as child's play but as impressive as the most exacting work of the pastrymaker's art. As you read and cook from this book, generously illustrated with the captivating color pictures of famed photographer Robert Freson, you will feel as if you have actually joined Patricia Wells in her beloved stone farmhouse, and her passion for the foods, flavors, and people of Provence will become yours. As comforting as an old friend, as enlivening as a trip to the sun-dappled hills of southern France, this book will truly bring Provence into your kitchen, and you will want to visit its pages again and again. Amazon.com Review: Tomato clafoutis, herb-cured filet of beef Carpaccio, garlic family soup, Catalan tuna daube: these and 171 other recipes pour off the pages of this sumptuous coffee-table cookbook by the author of Bistro Cooking and Simply French. Wells concentrates on coaxing the utmost flavor out of simple, fresh food, and her French recipes are not all swimming in cream, oils, and fats: the filet, for example, profits not from a heavy sauce but from being wrapped for two days in tarragon, parsley, basil, thyme, and salt. In a couple of places Wells even commits the heresy, for a French-style chef, of switching a red wine used to simmer meat to a white wine. Related Items:
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 Rating:  - More praiseI wanted to add my raves to the others this book has received and point out three more outstanding recipes. Her Summer Pistou is the best version I have ever eaten. The Chicken with Tarragon and Sherry Vinegar is superb, my son's favorite dish that I have ever cooked for him he claims, and her Apricot Honey Almond Tart is the recipe I always go to when I want to impress without real effort. I'm ordering several of these as Christmas presents for the people who have loved this food at my house. Rating:  - How do you say "yummy" in French?Wells is a very well-known foodie, with an enviable life spent writing cookibooks, eating French food, and enjoying what sounds like an idyllic farm life in the heart of Provence. If you watch Food Network, you've seen her pop in and out of some of your favorite shows. (I particularly remember her guesting on Barefoot Contessa, where she made a delish light lunch.) Anyway, she writes a mouth-watering preamble to every recipe and provides wine suggestions for main dishes. It's one of the few cookbooks worth actually READING straight through, rather than picking and choosing only the recipes that sound good. I've found some of the recipes a bit more difficult than others, but all the ones I've tried so far have been really good. AND the book has really inspired me to cook foods that I haven't worked much with before. For example, I've never been a big turnip-eater, but Wells made the turnip and cumin puree sound so good that I had to attempt it. And it was DE-LISH. Rating: - Patricia Wells At Home In ProvenceThis is a WONDERFUL cookbook containing some of the best recipes I have ever prepared. But more than that, it's an invitation to enjoy the landscape and history of Provence. Excellent work, Patricia! Warm regards, Linda Quest :) Rating: - A treasure found againI bought this book in 1997, made many of the truly excellent recipes, but somehow forgot about it -- the result, I suspect, of my hobby of (addiction to?) purchasing cookbooks. But, while searching for something different to fix for 2005's Christmas dinner, I remembered Patricia's recipe for "City Steak" and, voila, we enjoyed a marvelous meal of City Steak, Fake Frites and Cheesemaker's Salad -- so easy, so delicious! Thumbing through my copy and the contemporaneous notes I always write for each recipe tried, I was reminded of how we happily devoured the Amazing Sorrel Soup, Turnip and Cumin Puree, Monsieur Henny's Eggplant Gratin, Checchino Dal 1887's Spaghetti alla Carbonara, Steamed Salmon with Warm Lemon Vinaigrette and the Beef and White Wine Daube from Arles, to name a few. I suspect this book will now be a somewhat permanent fixture in my kitchen since there are dozens of recipes I can't wait to try -- even the breads and desserts that usually don't interest me. Yes, it truly is a treasure.
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