Joy of Gardening Cookbook

America's Classic Vegetable Cookbook Back by Popular Demand! Now you can make the most of your garden harvest or capitalize on your grocer's bounty of fresh vegetables. Packed with more than 300 back-to-basics recipes organized by vegetable from A to Z, the Joy of Gardening Cookbook makes it easy to turn a bushel of tomatoes, beans, peppers, zucchini, and other favorites into delicious entr,es, soups, sauces, side dishes, and even desserts. Over 350 step-by-step, how-to-do-it and how-to-serve-it photographs clearly illustrate Janet Ballantyne's creative cooking techniques as well as standard methods for blanching, parboiling, saut,ing, and stir frying. Tips for saving time in the preparation of meals, cleaning vegetables more easily, and even utilizing vegetables that are slightly gone by, are also included. Every page offers a new idea for turning everyday vegetables into something special, including: TOMATOES Fried Green Tomatoes Herbed Chicken and Tomatoes Tomato Sorbet Cream of Tomato Soup POTATOES Potato Pancakes Scalloped Potatoes Caesar Potato Salad CARROTS Carrot Slaw Carrot Cake Curried Carrot and Bean Tart Carrot Orange Ginger Soup BEANS Blue Cheese and Green Bean Quiche Black Bean Soup Bean Almond Pat, Refried Beans Home gardeners and smart shoppers need never worry about what to do with a bumper crop again! Just reach for the Joy of Gardening Cookbook, the well-recognized companion to Dick Raymond's Joy of Gardening.Ballantyne, Janet is the author of 'Joy of Gardening Cookbook' with ISBN 9780882663555 and ISBN 0882663550.