You know, I get a lot of questions from gardener-cooks asking about recipes, organic foods and cookbooks. We are adding recipes back onto the little website I created for our "retirement" page,Paradise Nursery, because I heard from so many online friends who'd been using the fig recipes we'd collected from our customers and other sources.... but I've also added some of my favorite books about food to the recipe page: Paradise Nursery Recipes .
There is a marvelous trend in cookbook publishing these days - books that have not only delicious recipes but also inspiring essays by chefs, local organic farmers and others who love food and love the land. One that I'm enjoying this fall is entitled Cooking Fresh from the Mid-Atlantic (our own region). It is a season-by-season tour of fabulous restaurant recipes, each season accompanied by a wide-ranging assortment of essays by foodies of all kinds: growers, farmers, chefs, environmentalists, families.... although the Mid-Atlantic is the focus, this is an inspiring book for any food-lover. And the recipes... wow! I bought my copy used from Amazon.com - my most convenient book shopping place, I'll admit. (Hey, it's 30 miles to a bookstore -- I'm definitely an internet shopper, just as - thankfully - our own wonderful online customers were! ) Here, I'll put up the link I used to find the book:
There is a marvelous trend in cookbook publishing these days - books that have not only delicious recipes but also inspiring essays by chefs, local organic farmers and others who love food and love the land. One that I'm enjoying this fall is entitled Cooking Fresh from the Mid-Atlantic (our own region). It is a season-by-season tour of fabulous restaurant recipes, each season accompanied by a wide-ranging assortment of essays by foodies of all kinds: growers, farmers, chefs, environmentalists, families.... although the Mid-Atlantic is the focus, this is an inspiring book for any food-lover. And the recipes... wow! I bought my copy used from Amazon.com - my most convenient book shopping place, I'll admit. (Hey, it's 30 miles to a bookstore -- I'm definitely an internet shopper, just as - thankfully - our own wonderful online customers were! ) Here, I'll put up the link I used to find the book:
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteI am frantic and am hopeful you can help me. Figs are coming in now and I'll have more than we can deal with very soon. I am looking for Carla Austin's Fabulous Fig Bread recipe (used to be on your Paradise Nursery site--and the best fig bread recipe there is).
Last year, of the many loaves I made, I took a few of them, cut them in half or thirds (portion control!), tightly wrapped the pieces in Saran Wrap, then aluminum foil, and then froze them. The bread has kept beautifully in the freezer and we have thoroughly enjoyed have 'fresh' fig bread all winter (try toasted slices with cream cheese--yum!).
I would be so, so grateful if you'd email the recipe to me. My family started asking for this bread the minute they saw fig jam on the stove--no joke.
Thank you very much,
Helen Madden
P.S. I have a ginger fig jam recipe I'd love to share with you, if you're interested. It's very easy, almost shamefully so.
Hi, Helen! Something unjammed on our blog and suddenly comments from months ago appeared in my inbox! I will check for Carla's recipe in my files and if I find it, will email it to you for next year's harvest!
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Sybil, I'm another frantic reader, heartbroken that your fig recipes have disappeared from the internet. I made several batches of fantastic fig preserves last year from your website and now can't locate the paper I printed out. Can you help? Also, if you have Carla's fig bread recipe, I'd love to have it. Thanks so much.
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