Laurent Tourondel

Fresh From the Market is a big, beautiful cookbook full of luscious photographs. It is broken up into seasons falling the current trend of cooking local, seasonally available foods. He includes menus for the holidays of the season. This is an elegant, complex, company kind of cookbook, the recipes are not of the everyday, easy to whip up variety. In general I found the recipes to produce good to amazing results but to be very time consuming and expensive. Here are a few of the recipes I tried:

Green Garlic Bread - Okay, this one i simple but delicious. Basically a parsley, garlic, shallot, butter in a nice baguette I thought this was a real winner. I can see taking this to a potluck or dinner at a friend's house. Nice color, great flavour, this will be my new standard garlic bread.

Ginger Marinated Heirloom Tomatoes with Watermelon, Burrata & Spicy Arugula - Really tasty, different flavors, and lots of complexity for a salad. This was a big hit, but time consuming. I would make this again for a super fancy, company dinner.

Veal, Pork, & Ricotta Meatballs - Very good, but too complicated for meatballs. The recipes are so specific in some cases - Meadow Creek Grayson cheese and ground veal shortribs - that it is frustrating! The meatballs were good, but I have made other recipes that are far easier and taste just as good.

A Real Steak au Poivre with Green Oak and Homemade Boursin -
Wow! Fabulous steak and well worth the expense and little effort. This was a real stand out and will likely be requested as a special meal in the future. The peppercorn crust and rich sauce were the perfect balance to the velvety steak. Only downside here was the Homemade Boursin - yuck! All those great fresh ingredients and then he calls for onion powder. To me the whole thing tastes of onion powder and I'm sorry I wasted some good fresh cheese on it.

Many more recipes I'd like to try - Wild Mushroom Manicotti, Roasted Root Vegetable Salad with Marcona Almonds, and Bartlett Pear & Cranberry Muffins with Cinnamon - Walnut Topping among them.… (lisätietoja)