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    The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook Summer Entertaining: Carefree Cooking for Family and Friends
    The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook Summer Entertaining: Carefree Cooking for Family and Friends
    The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook Summer Entertaining: Carefree Cooking for Family and Friends
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    The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook Summer Entertaining: Carefree Cooking for Family and Friends

    By Amelia Saltsman

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    The ultimate guide to easy, local, sustainable entertaining in season. Now in e-book form, it’s easier than ever to access Amelia Saltsman’s tricks and techniques to simple, delicious cooking from local farmers’ markets. This seasonal “bite-size package-offers three menu chapters, each with recipes, entertaining tips, wine suggestions, shopping lists, and a countdown plan. There are also sections on how to shop at a farmers’ market, suggestions for useful kitchen tools and pantry items, and basic cooking techniques, as well as the Roasted Seasonal Vegetable Primer, an indispensable master recipe tool for every home cook. Illustrated with food photography by Staci Valentine, the book showcases the best of summer foods. Whether readers want an elegant supper or casual barbeque, or to know what to serve on a night perfect for sipping rose, they will find out here. Each menu includes an appetizer, first course, main dish, accompaniments, and dessert that complement each other in flavor and preparation time. Cooks can prepare all the recipes for an extravagant lunch or dinner, or use just two or three for a simpler meal. Having entertained “market-style-for years, Amelia offers her strategies for balancing it all while producing a special meal: plan, shop, work, cook, visit with guests, and embrace the “carpe diem-philosophy of seasonal ingredients. Using one market as a lens, Amelia gave us the tools to shop and cook in season in her first, best-selling book. Now she shows us how to bring that knowledge to stress-free entertaining. Delicious ingredients give us the confidence to entertain. When we start with foods that were raised for how they were grown, all that is needed is a bit of technique to bring out their best. Wherever readers live, they will enjoy serving such simple showstoppers as: • Roast Halibut Loin with Black Olives and Summer Herbs • Cherry and Almond Salad • Green Zebra Tomato Gazpacho • Easy Peach Pavlova Words of praise for The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook: Amelia’s book is an amazing resource to have with you, a complete season-by-season handbook to guide you through the bounty of the market. –Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant In her first book, Saltsman proves that minimal effort, coupled with high-quality food can produce extraordinary results. –Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlenheim Press
    Release dateMar 4, 2015
    ISBN9780979042911
    The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook Summer Entertaining: Carefree Cooking for Family and Friends

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      The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook Summer Entertaining - Amelia Saltsman

      Text copyright © 2007, 2011 by Amelia Saltsman

      Some material was originally published in The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook: Seasonal Foods, Simple Recipes, and Stories from the Market and Farm

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced—mechanically, electronically, or by any other means, including photocopying—without written permission of the publisher.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011911423

      ISBN 978-0-9790429-1-1

      Design by Ph.D, A Design Office

      www.phdla.com

      Copyediting by Sheryl Farber

      All photos © 2011 by Staci Valentine (www.stacivalentinedesign.com) except Alex Weiser/Weiser Family Farms photos © 2011 by Michael Hodgson

      Published by Blenheim Press

      1223 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 800

      Santa Monica, CA 90403

      For sales visit: www.blenheimpress.com

      On the cover: Peach Pavlova. Debutante Peaches, Fitzgerald Premium Ripe Tree Fruit, Reedley, CA

      For the farmers, my family, and my friends at the market and at my table

      Acknowledgments

      To Michael Hodgson, a visionary designer without peer, and Staci Valentine, whose generosity and gifts know no bounds.

      My deepest thanks to Laura Avery, Colleen Dunn Bates, Tyson Cornell, Lisa Ekus, Sheryl Farber, Jennifer Ferro, Amanda Gray, Alice Joo, Fitz Kelly, Lisa Lucas Talbot, Phil McGrath, Alice Medrich, Constance Pollock, Angela Rinaldi, Tamra Rolf, Michael Ruhlman, Jerry Rutiz, Andy Schloss, Lisa See, Aaron Silverman, Jill and John Walsh, Alex Weiser, and Tomi-Jean Yaghmai.

      And especially to my family: My parents, Serilla and Benjamin Ben-Aziz; my husband, Ralph Saltsman; our children, Jessica, Rebecca, Adam, Rodolfo, and Stephanie; and our granddaughter, Delfina, who reminds me every day that one is never too young to join the party.

      Contents

      Introduction

      How to Use This Book

      How to Shop

      Basic Kitchen Techniques

      Handy Pantry Items

      Helpful Kitchen Tools

      An Elegant Meal

      A Casual Meal

      A Meal Perfect for Rosé

      Roasted Seasonal Vegetable Primer

      How to Build a Tomato Salad

      More Books by Amelia Saltsman

      Praise for The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook

      Introduction

      Ah, summer. We aspire to days at the beach or pool and evenings warmed by the grill’s glowing embers. While the reality doesn’t always live up to the dream, one aspect of the season is always within our reach: sharing the sun-drenched flavors of summer with friends.

      From the snap of the season’s first cherries to the vibrance of late-harvest tomatoes and eggplants, well-grown, flavor-driven ingredients make summer entertaining a breeze. When you start with foods that were raised for how they taste, all you need is a bit of technique to bring out their best.

      And the simplest way to source such foods (including carefully raised meats, eggs, and dairy) is to shop at your local farmers’ market, where you can meet producers so passionate about flavor they gamble on reaching the moment of perfect ripeness to harvest. You will find farmers who know that producing the most nutrient-rich, flavorful foods—and therefore the tastiest meals—depends on the quality of the soil in which they were grown.

      For me, delicious ingredients give me the confidence to entertain. I know that if I do nothing more than drizzle good olive oil over voluptuous tomatoes, my friends and I will have celebrated the season in style. Market meals don’t require butter and cream to become company fare; they are enriched by the ingredients themselves, the backstory of who grew them, and the fact that by eating seasonally and locally, we capture a sense of time and place.

      Still, entertaining can feel daunting. How do you juggle the seasonal offerings, plan, shop, work—and visit with guests—while simultaneously producing a special meal? Having entertained market-style for years, I offer you my strategies in this series of seasonal mini-guides, starting with summer, the most relaxed time of year. Here are three great menus with all you need to know for carefree gatherings, whether you are planning an elegant wedding supper or a casual backyard barbecue.

      Many readers of The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook: Seasonal Foods, Simple Recipes, and Stories from the Market and Farm (thank you all!) have asked me how to group their favorite recipes into menus that make it easy to entertain. Some of those recipes are included here, along with new ones and beautiful new photography by Staci Valentine. In these pages, you will read about the interesting produce varieties and the farmers at my local market who grow them. But the recipes and menus work wherever you live. I hope they inspire you to discover the specialties available at your farmers’ market and to share the bounty with friends.

      How to Use This Book

      The book is divided into three menu chapters, each with recipes, tips, shopping lists, and a countdown plan. Before you start shopping and cooking, take a look at the information on How to Shop at the Farmers’ Market, suggestions for helpful Kitchen Tools and Pantry Items, and Basic Kitchen Techniques that will simplify all your cooking endeavors. At the back of the book are the Roasted Seasonal Vegetable Primer and How to Build a Tomato Salad, two indispensable recipe tools that offer countless ways to customize summer meals.

      THE MENUS. Each includes an appetizer, first course, main dish, accompaniments, and dessert that complement each other in flavor, color, and preparation time (I’m assuming one oven and no extra help). Use all the recipes for an extravagant lunch or dinner or prepare just two or three for simpler summer fare. The meals can be dressed up

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