The One-Block Feast: An Adventure in Food from Yard to Table

Автор: Margo True
Название: The One-Block Feast: An Adventure in Food from Yard to Table
Язык: English
Издательство: Berkeley: Ten Speed Press
Год: 2011
Формат: epub
Размер: 58,8 mb
Страниц: 272
Based on the James Beard Award–winning blog The One-Block Diet, this all-in-one home gardening, do-it-yourself guide and cookbook shows you how to transform a backyard or garden into a self-sufficient locavore’s paradise.
When Margo True and her fellow staffers at Northern California–based Sunset magazine walked around the grounds of their Menlo Park office, they saw more than just a lawn and some gardens. Instead, they saw a fresh, bountiful food source, the makings for intrepid edible projects, and a series of seasonal feasts—all just waiting to happen.
The One-Block Feast is the story of how True and her team took an inspired idea and transformed it into an ambitious commitment: to create four feasts over the course of a year, using only what could be grown or raised in their backyard-sized plot. She candidly shares the group’s many successes and often humorous setbacks as they try their hands at chicken farming, cheese making, olive pressing, home brewing, bee keeping, winemaking, and more.
Grouped into gardening, project, and recipe guides for each season, The One-Block Feast is a complete resource for planning an eco-friendly kitchen garden; making your own pantry staples for year-round cooking and gifts; raising bees, chickens, and even a cow; and creating made-from-scratch meals from ingredients you’ve grown yourself. Chapters are organized by season, each featuring a planting plan and crop-by-crop instructions, an account of how that season’s projects played out for the Sunset team, and a multicourse dinner menu composed of imaginative, appealing, and ultra-resourceful vegetarian recipes, such as:
Butternut Squash Gnocchi with Chard and Sage Brown Butter • Egg and Gouda Crepes • Whole Wheat Pizzas with Roasted Vegetables and Homemade Cheeses • Fresh Corn Soup with Zucchini Blossoms • Braised Winter Greens with Preserved Lemons and Red Chile • Summer Lemongrass Custards • Honey Ice Cream
Generously illustrated and easy to follow, this ultimate resource for today’s urban homesteader will inspire you to take “eating local” to a whole new level.
 Table of contents:
INTRODUCTION
The One-Block Garden Warm-Season Planting Plan and Timeline
The One-Block Garden Cool-Season Planting Plan and Timeline
ESSENTIAL GARDENING GUIDELINES
Before You Plant
How to Plant
How to Water
How to Fertilize
SUMMER
THE STORY OF OUR SUMMER FEAST
GARDEN
Summer Garden Plan
PROJECTS
How to Raise Honeybees (and Make Honey)
How to Make Cheese (Part I)
Fresh Chive Cheese
Oregano Queso Blanco
How to Make Beer
Summer Wheat Beer
Belgian Abbey Ale
How to Raise Chickens
RECIPES
Skillet-Roasted Edamame
Deviled Cucumber Cups
Tempura Squash Blossoms
Tomato and Herb Salad with Fresh Chive Cheese
Watermelon-Chile Salad
Purslane-Cucumber Salad
Crème Fraîche
Corn Soup with Roasted Poblanos and Zucchini Blossoms
‘Trombetta’ Zucchini and Its Flowers
Oven-Baked Steak Fries with Green Chile Mayonnaise
Rosemary Potatoes Anna
Grilled Summer Succotash
Pattypan Squash with Eggs
Whole-Wheat Pizzas
Fresh Chive Cheese and ‘Sweet Million’ Tomato Sauce
Corn and Zucchini
Cherry Tomato, Ricotta, Mint, and Chile
Potato, Onion, and Gouda
‘Sweet Million’ Tomato Sauce
Summer Lemongrass Custards
Watermelon, Cantaloupe, or Honeydew Sorbet
Peppermint-Lemongrass Tisanes
Summer Preserved
Canned Heirloom Tomatoes
Dried Herbs
Dried Chiles
Dried Corn
Roasted Poblanos for the Freezer
Slow-Roasted Tomatoes for the Freezer
FALL
THE STORY OF OUR FALL FEAST
GARDEN
Fall Garden Plan
PROJECTS
How to Make Wine
Syrah
Chardonnay
How to Make Vinegar
How to Make Cheese (Part II)
Ricotta
Fromage Blanc
Feta
Gouda
How to Grow Mushrooms
How to Make Olive Oil
RECIPES
Fresh Apple Cider and Applesauce
Pickled Cocktail Mushrooms and Onions
Quinoa Bites with Walnut Romesco
Creamy Flageolet Dip with Red Pepper Sticks
Roasted Spiced Butternut Squash Seeds
Roasted Tomato-Fennel Soup
Herb Vegetable Broth
Butternut Squash and ‘Cipollini’ Onion Soup
Grilled Radicchio and Fennel Salad with Apples and Toasted Walnuts
‘Scarlet Emperor’ Ragoût
Stuffed Poblanos with Red Pepper Sauce
Quinoa Huaraches with Egg and Parsley Salad
Butternut Squash Gnocchi with Chard and Sage Brown Butter
Ancho Chile–Sauced Noodles with Shiitakes and Butternut Squash
Mexican Skillet Eggs
Creamy Scrambled Eggs with Oyster Mushrooms
Whole-Wheat Rosemary Shortbreads
Walnut-Honey Crisps
Honey Ice Cream
Lemon-Thyme Ice Cream Sandwiches
Apple Cheese Puff
Butternut Squash Compote with Honey and Toasted Walnuts
Homemade Butter and Buttermilk
Last-Minute Pineapple Guava Preserves
WINTER
THE STORY OF OUR WINTER FEAST
GARDEN
Winter Garden Plan
PROJECTS
How to Make Salt
How to Make Escargots (from Your Own Garden Snails)
Garlic Butter Escargots
How to Make Mead (Honey Wine)
RECIPES
Arugula and Red Butterhead Lettuce Salad with Tangerines and Hard-Cooked Eggs
Wheat Berry Ciabatta
Egg Cloud (Nuvolone)
Featherlight Pancakes
Egg and Gouda Crepes
Kale Colcannon
Vegetable Shepherd’s Pie
Ricotta Manicotti
Winter Vegetable Chowder
Wheat Berry “Risotto” with Roasted Tomatoes and Broccoli Rabe
Braised Winter Greens with Preserved Lemons and Red Chile
Caramelized Tangerine and Ricotta Tart
Tangerine Honey Flan
Sticky Chewy Tangerine Marmalade
Preserved Lemons
SPRING
THE STORY OF OUR SPRING FEAST
GARDEN
Spring Garden Plan
PROJECTS
How to Own (or Co-Own) a Dairy Cow
How to Make Tea
RECIPES
Radishes, Fresh Homemade Butter, and Salt
Favas and Ricotta on Buttermilk Crackers
Gouda Gougères
Carrot and Beet Chips
Garden Borscht
Mesclun Salad with Spring Beets and Dill
Nasturtium Salad with Omelet Ribbons
Whole-Leaf Radish and Herb Salad
Grilled Carrot Salad
Roasted Beets and Tops with Tarragon
Fresh Pickled Beets (and Eggs)
Five Ways with Fresh Eggs
Fava Leaf and Parsley Quiche
Strawberries with Fromage Blanc and Lemon Honey
Strawberry Crepes
Strawberry Crème Fraîche Sherbet
Strawberry Lemonade
A Spring Tea Party (because we could)
Scone Tarts: Lemon, Strawberry, and Tangerine
Clotted Cream
Lemon Curd
Strawberry Oven Jam
Tea Sandwich Trio
Egg Nasturtium
Gouda Arugula
Green Onion–Parsley
Whole-Wheat Honey Sandwich Bread
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THE ONE-BLOCK TEAM
APPENDIX: Regional Planting and Harvesting Timelines for Your Own One-Block Feasts
INDEX
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