Friday, July 30, 2010

The Cookbook Blog

Welcome to the Springridge Farm Cookbook Club! Our club is just as exclusive as Oprah’s Book Club only tastier! We now offer close to two dozen different cookbooks in our farm shoppe.

Springridge Top Sellers
This is a list of our best selling cookbooks that are definitely worth firing up the oven for.

Napoleon’s Everyday Gourmet Grilling
Ted Reader
This definitive book demonstrates how to create sumptuous hors d’oeuvres, mouthwatering main courses, and delectable desserts—using gas, charcoal, or Napoleon`s SIZZLE ZONE technology. Detailed, directions provide readers with tips and tricks for creating a picture-perfect meal. The book features more than 125 unique recipes.



Healthy Appetite
Gordon Ramsay
Geared around our daily lives, Ramsay gives ideas and recipes for healthy breakfasts, lunches, barbecues, suppers, desserts, kids and entertaining, demonstrates healthy cooking methods that guarantee optimum flavour, and tells us which are his favourite healthy ingredients. Recipes include Mango and Smoked Chicken Salad, Griddle Squid with Roasted Peppers and Cannellini Beans, Wild Mushroom Risotto with baked Courgettes and Roasted Peaches with Vanilla and Spices.


Joy of Cooking
Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker
Selected by the New York Public Library as one of the 150 most influential books of the 20th century, the kitchen classic returns with 500 brand new dishes joining 4,000 best-loved recipes that have been retested and updated. Dishes range from elementary to elaborate, and new sections include 30-minute meals, slow-cooker recipes, and expanded vegetable and baking sections making this cookbook an essential for every kitchen.


Jesse’s Personal Picks
Our resident gourmet foods expert used his extensive knowledge to formulate the top three cookbooks from our shoppe that he’s most excited about.

Jamie Does…
Jamie Oliver
On a recent trip to the UK, we fell in love with Jamie’s new restaurant and this book! Jamie Does…is not available yet in Canada, so we brought it back for you! This cookbook celebrates the vibrant food of six very different regions: Marrakech, Athens, Venice, Andalucia, Stockholm and the Ardeche region of France. The food in each chapter is a mixture of classic dishes and new recipes inspired by the things Jamie learns on his travels.


Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom
Julia Child
What would you give to see the notes Julia Child keeps in her handwritten loose-leaf kitchen reference guide? Your wish is granted! This clever little volume was inspired by Child's notebook, compiled from her own "trials, remedies, and errors."





French Taste
Laura Calder
French Taste focuses on modern French home cooking. Over 100 recipes cover regional and traditional favourites, such as Tian of Provençal Vegetables and Poule au Pot, together with quick, modern meals like Tuna in a Black Poppyseed Crust, and dishes that reflect the multicultural influences in today’s France, such as Chicken Tagine.


What’s Ahead
We are looking forward to introducing new cookbooks into our collection this fall. Among the new titles, you will find:

How Easy Is That? Barefoot Contessa
Family Dinners Tyler Florence
Kitchen Nigella Lawson

Thanks to the publishers of these wonderful cookbooks for the synopses.