Stacy Lyn's Harvest Cookbook: Cook Fresh Food Every Day of the Year

About this book

Co-host of "The Sporting Chef" shares her tips and more than 100 recipes for food from the garden pasture woods and water. With nine mouths to feed on a daily basis Alabama chef Stacy Lyn Harris keeps it simple but doesnt skimp on elegance. Her seven kids enjoy homegrown food prepared beautifully and sustainably thanks to a few chickens in the back a year-round kitchen garden milk from a dairy farmer just outside of town and locally-sourced free-range meats. Always served up in Stacy Lyns rustic-refined style her dishes are classic Old South but with a fresh healthy beautiful twist. Featuring full-color photos Stacy Lyns Harvest Cookbook includes more than 100 field- and farm-to- table recipes that meet her three-part criteria: family friendly (easy with simple ingredients) fresh and tasty. There are cherished family recipes free-range meat dishes derived from her husbands hunting obsession and lighter takes on decidedly southern classicsall prepared simply in the freshest way possible. The book covers food from the garden pasture woods and water in four sections: "The Garden" features Fried Green Tomatoes Jalapeo Poppers Corn Chowder Fried Squash with Tomatoes and Pesto and other recipes to make you wish it was summer all year long. "Beyond the Garden" delves into beekeeping and raising chickens for an amazing Honey Butter to pour over Cinnamon Pear Buns and your favorite Egg Salad Sandwiches with Refrigerator Pickles. "From the Pasture" focuses on free-range pasture-fed game recipes like Braised Short Ribs Black-Eyed Pea Gumbo and Juicy Pork Chops plus a how-to on sausage-making. "Seafood and Fish" includes Stacy Lyns favorite entertaining recipes Best Ever Clam Bake and Perfect Fish Tacos. Included are 15 "how-to" articles sprinkled throughout the book offer steps for cooking and eating sustainably in any settingincluding container gardening saving seeds preserving foraging composting and more.