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In an old farmhouse on the slopes of a mountain lying between Tregaron and Aberystwyth, Elisabeth Luard brings the produce of the land into her kitchen and turns it into delicious food. This book is her response to the changes she sees in her garden and the surrounding countryside throughout the seasons, with distinctive recipes at the end of each month's chapter. It is the story of a year spent planting and picking in the garden, roaming the countryside with her grandchildren and introducing them to the pleasures of rural living. Elisabeth's cooking is rooted in the culture of the Mediterranean where she once lived, as well as being inspired by traditional Welsh recipes and by her own garden. In winter she stirs up warming dishes like Spanish biscocho or Welsh winter cawl; in the spring she waits until the first mayflower comes to bloom before planting lettuces, mangetouts and broad beans in her garden. She relies on locally sourced meat for dishes like Partridges with baby onions and cinnamon in red wine, Rabbit with tagliatelle, cream and mustard or Ceps with potatoes and bacon, and rakes the countryside for ingredients like fruit for Hedgerow jelly, nettles for soup, elderflowers for cordial, cake or even fritters. With full colour photography by Clare Richardson that perfectly captures the sense of life in the Welsh countryside, this is a unique and beautiful book.
About the Author
Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning food-writer, journalist and broadcaster. Her cookbooks include European Peasant Cookery and European Festival Food. She has written three memoirs, Family Life, Still Life and My Life as a Wife. She is currently a contributing editor to Waitrose Food Illustrated, has a monthly column in the Oldie. She reviews regularly in the Daily Mail, the Jewish Chronicle, the Scotsman and the Literary Review.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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What a way to spend a year!,
By Emz "Emz" (North Wales) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Cook's Year in a Welsh Farmhouse (Hardcover)
As a proud Welshwoman I am always on the look out for exciting Welsh cookery books. My excitement was doubled when I noticed that here was a book not only about cooking in Wales - but it was also by one of my favourite cookery writers! (I loved her European Peasant Cookery).The book is not brimfilled with the traditional Welsh recipes I had hoped for - but there are enough...... along with many exciting additions........ it's the sort of book that has you drooling within the first couple of pages. Partly because you want to eat the food - and partly because you are so very eager to cook the food. (Not sure I'll be trying the squirrel or snail recipes anytime soon though...... but never say never). The recipes in general do not require a cupboard full of expensive and hard to source ingredients. (I do wish cookery writers would realise that we do not all live in big cities with access to Asian/Mediterranean Grocers).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: A Cook's Year in a Welsh Farmhouse (Hardcover)
I do agree with the previous review - this is a lovely collection of recipes conveniently organised by the calendar. I have cooked a couple of the June recipes - broadbeans (cooked unpodded with ham which was new for me - and absolutely delicious) and roast welsh lamb which I can lay my hands on. Instructions are very clear and specific.But it is not a cookbook that requires access to Welsh products (prawn laksa anyone?)in order to use and enjoy. There are many very straightforward - and one or two more complex recipes - but they all look very practical and delicious. I can see myself using it throughout the year: apple bread and Caribbean pepper pot are on the list for next week. Physically it is an attractive book - well illustrated. Perhaps a tiny bit too much text and not quite enough recipes but that is a small quibble. Handsomely illustrated cover - I am of the old school, however, I prefer a dustjacket for my cookery books but again not an important point. The recipes are the thing and these are excellent.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Louard at her best,
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This review is from: A Cook's Year in a Welsh Farmhouse (Hardcover)
One of the reasons I am so enjoying this book, is the children and what they get up to when they are staying with the Granny. It evokes so many memories of my own childhood. I love the chapters before each month, and I love her style of writing.As for the recipes, well they are mouthwatering and simple and I cant wait to get going.
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