The Winter Table: Fireside Feasts for Family and Friends

by Lisa Lemke

Overview

Come in from the cold and celebrate with family and friends! Lisa Lemke’s cookbook presents the comforting delights of hearty wintertime meals.
There’s nothing better than coming home on a wintry evening to the welcoming aroma of a bubbling stew or comforting soup. Lisa Lemke, author of The Summer Table, now changes seasons and brings her prodigious gifts to more than 75 recipes that showcase wintertime ingredients. Her soul-satisfying dishes range from a savory rye risotto with oyster mushrooms browned in butter to mouthwatering roasts and casseroles to blazingly hot chili, and even good old mac ’n’ cheese. To-die-for desserts include an apple toffee, an almond crumble, a fragrant pear pie, and sublime tiramisu. These sensational recipes will assure that everyone you love is warm, happy, and well fed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454922544
Publisher:	Sterling Epicure
Publication date:	11/07/2017
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Lisa Lemke, a freelance food consultant, recipe developer, food stylist, and television chef, lives in a small town on the west coast of Sweden. She writes about food in various media, including magazines, books, radio, television, and advertising. She is the author of The Summer Table (Sterling Epicure), and the host of My Kitchen on TV4. Together with Tommy Myllymäkki, one of Sweden's biggest chefs, she gives viewers recipes and culinary inspiration twice a day, Monday through Saturday, on the popular morning show Nyhetsmorgon. Lemke lives in the countryside, in an old vicarage, on the west coast of Sweden with her husband Marcus Nordgren, also a chef, and their two small children.

Editorial Reviews

It is difficult to face winter’s dearth of those fresh-from-the-farm ingredients that are so abundant in summer. Living in an almost perpetually cold climate, swede Lemke (The Summer Table, 2015) makes the best of items like onions and rye, cauliflower and beets. Even better, her 100 recipes can, for the most part, be made in one pot or pan. Old and culinarily varied favorites, such as quiche, tiramisu, and pho, mingle with Scandinavian and contemporary takes on the familiar. For instance, a risotto made with rye, not rice. A tiramisu truffle cuts refrigeration time from 10 to 2 hours. Mac and cheese is lightened with softer and lesser amounts of dairy. And the secret of always-fabulous scrambled eggs is revealed (hint: heavy cream). Color photographs show all that can be, while frequent notes (such as cooking and cooling rice before frying it) . . . ensure home chefs are aware and educated. A good cookbook to have on hand in cool and warm weather alike.” —Booklist

From the Publisher

12/01/2017
Swedish chef and food consultant Lemke follows up her debut, The Summer Table, with a new collection of dishes for colder months. She takes an all-embracing approach, deftly bringing together 75 kindred comfort foods from throughout Europe and the rest of the world. Recipes include a one-pot lamb tagine warmed with coriander and harissa, a rib-sticking fish casserole, and a chocolatey take on Eton mess that swaps meringues for brownie chunks. Diverging from its predecessor, this book groups foods by category (cold-weather soups, rice and pasta specials, eggs) rather than by menu. VERDICT With its easygoing charm and inviting photographs, this title will draw lovers of simple, hearty home cooking.

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