On May 1st Frances Lincoln Ltd. released a new cookery book: Kitchen Garden Experts by Cinead McTernan, horticulturally trained writer and gardening editor of The Simple Things magazine.
Kitchen Garden Experts features the chefs and gardeners at twenty of the UK’s most exciting restaurants, hotels, pubs and cafés, focusing on how they produce the best fruit and vegetables to appear on their menus. With this book you can:
• Explore the kitchens and gardens of twenty celebrated chefs, from Terence Conran and Raymond Blanc to River Cottage and L’Enclume;
• Gain extraordinary access to 20 recipe books and 40 signature dishes;
• Discover key ingredients and special growing methods that help these chefs win awards for excellence;
• Follow the simple steps from plot to plate, learning new growing skills;
• Savour the flavour of fresh local produce – either at your own table or by visiting the restaurants themselves.
This hardcover book contains a whopping 192 pages crammed with growing tips from the gardeners of twenty celebrated chefs and recipes from the chefs themselves on how to get the most out of local produce.
From a busy Mum perspective I can’t see myself using this book very often. Quite a few of the ingredients are not easily obtainable unless you grow them yourself (fennel pollen, mallow leaves, chrysanthemum shoots?) and who has the time to delicately arrange the food just so on each plate before serving it up to a hungry family?
However, if I was a keen gardener with a little less fast paced lifestyle this book would be ideal inspiration for a posh dinner party serving my own home grown produce.
With recipes including seakale with brown shrimps and lemon butter sauce, scorched onion with crispy rocket and pesto and desserts including poached rhubarb with buttermilk pudding, honeycomb & ginger wine or rose geranium panna cotta & blackcurrant sorbet, this book is filled with beautiful inspiring flavours and photographs by the award-winning Jason Ingram.
Frances Lincoln have offered my readers the chance to win a copy of this book. To enter fill in the Rafflecopter form below.
Book: Kitchen Garden Experts
Author: Cinead McTernan
ISBN: 978-0-7112-3496-3
Publication Date: May 2014
Cover: Hardback
RRP: £20-00
How to Enter
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Terms & Conditions
This giveaway is open to UK entries only. Entrants must be age 18 or over. The winner will need to respond within 48 hours of being contacted; failure to do this may result in another winner being selected.
The prize is offered and provided by Frances Lincoln. The prize is one copy of Kitchen Garden Experts by Cinead McTernan. There is no cash alternative and the prize is not transferable.
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Closing date is midnight on Monday 19 May 2014 and one winner will be announced that day.
Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary was sent a copy of Kitchen Garden Experts for review. All opinions expressed are our own. This is not a paid post.
bev
Looks like a great read!
Natalie Crossan
tomatoes x
Hazel Christopher
At the moment we’re growing potatoes, onions, beetroot, herbs and peppers 🙂 I love the taste of homegrown potatoes can’t beat them,
Gillian Holmes
Tomatoes
Miss. Lucinda Fountain
I am unable to grow my own produce, but i do love to buy fresh orgainic & hand-grown fruit and veg from my local farmers market.
Katherine L
I’ve started growing herbs and a few other vegetables last year. Parsley and Thyme are my favourites .. low maintenance and survived a winter!
Tracy Nixon
I grow various salad veg and I particularly enjoy my tomatoes – I grow a few varieties and they seem to taste so much more juicier home grown! My parents grow leeks, cabbages, potatoes, cauliflowers and other veg but they have a bigger garden and no kids at home anymore to trample over them lol!
winnie
i dont have a garden so I dont grow anything 🙁
Maxine
I’ve got some chillies on the windowsill alongside a multitude of herbs. Outside I’ve got lots of soft fruit bushes (hope that the birds don’t get them all this year!)
Lauren
I don’t have a garden so I grow what I can on my window sill – chilis and mini tomatoes are my fave to grow!!
kellyjo walters
we have grown produce for many many years, unfortunatly not for the past 2 years as we are supposed to be finding a new house… we grow all the salad item, cucumbers, tomatoes, salad leaves, radish, peppers, beetroot plus pumpkins, carrots, swede potatoes 4 kinds .. we have done brussles but they didnt turn out right 🙁 we also have several fruit trees
Elizabeth
Sounds lovely! Best of luck with finding a new house so you can start up your gardening again.
clair downham
i like growing herbs
frances hopkins
Yes only tomatoes and chilli though
Tracey Peach
I haven’t grown my own produce before but I would love to start.
melanie stirling
I am trying to grow tomatoes at the moment,I hope they grow because there is nothing like sun warmed home grown tomatoes!
Vohn McGuinness
I have a windowsill full of seedlings on the go – very unhappy cat! My favourite is peas and pea shoots. I’m looking forward to trying my home-grown popcorn – if it works! x
Sarah
We have a small vegetable area so love to grow more unusual things – I have 9 tomato varieties, 6 different squashes/courgettes, 4 types of cucumber as well as peas, beans and salad. It looks a super book – I’d love to win a copy! Thank you