Berries, Tomatoes, Apples, and Peaches

With these 60 recipes, you'll get to savour berries in all ways imaginable: fruit wine, jams, jellies, grilled swordfish with blueberries, clafouti, fois gras with figs, soups, crepes. Jean-Paul Grappe's vast teaching and culinary experience has made him one of the most well-known and well-respected chefs in Quebec.

It's amazing the range of fruits and berries you can grow in Canada when you know the proper techniques. * Healthy: blueberry, cranberry, goji berry and grape * Exotic: banana, citrus, fig, gingko, olive, persimmon and pineapple * Easy to grow: apple, cherry, elderberry, pear, plum, raspberry and blackberry, rhubarb, serviceberry (saskatoon) and strawberry * Nuts: beech, chestnut, hazelnut, pecan, pine nut and walnut * Unusual: cape gooseberry, kiwi, passion fruit and prickly pear * Fun for kids …

Juicy, sweet, tart and sometimes sour, wild berries burst with flavour and goodness. They are a delicious treat any time--especially while you are hiking through the forest--and they could save you from starvation if you get lost. Berries have been used for food and medicine for millennia, and early peoples and settlers preserved them for winter use in everything from pemmican to jams and jellies. In this guide to the wild berries of British Columbia, author Fiona Hamersley Chambers provides: * …

If wild berry foragers followed vague advice such as "berries of red and you'll soon be dead" or "berries of blue will do harm to you" imagine how many of nature's delicacies would be passed by! On the other hand, for anyone who has thought twice before popping that delicious-looking morsel into their mouth, the reality of poisonous berries growing in the wild is reason enough to be berry aware.

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Heritage Apples travels far beyond the grocery store of today to savor the apples of the past. These are the apple varieties—the Gravensteins, the Kings, the red-fleshed Pink Pearl—that link us to history, but through food movements and taste preferences are remerging as the fruit of the future. Heritage apples evoke memories and passion for some; for others they offer delicious, unexplored flavors and a connection to local farmers.

Discover the histories behind the apples, and learn some sta …

This classic, award-winning cookbook offers an array of recipes, from the traditional to the inventive and unusual, for three of Canada's favourite summer fruits.

Apples, Peaches & Pears features 125 recipes for a remarkable range of dishes including cakes, pies, puddings, salads, preserves and pickles. Along with the best traditional recipes--apple pie, peach ice cream, oven-baked pears--there are tempting new recipes--cranberry nut apple pie, baked peaches with almond slivers, and peach and re …

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away!" It's no secret that apples are both good to eat and good for you, and The Apple a Day Cookbook is full of inventive and enticing recipes that will have you adding apples to dishes of all kinds. From appetizers to entrees, soups to salads, cookies to cakes, there's something here for everyone—savoury meals like apple-stuffed spare ribs, delectable desserts like chocolate chip apple cookies, and even an entire chapter devoted to apple pie.

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Tomatoes are a staple ingredient for cuisines from all around the world. They come in many different varieties that are increasingly readily available to the consumer. And cultivar names such as Moneymaker, Gardener's Delight and Mortgage Lifter show that tomatoes appeal to more than just taste buds! This book contains recipes for wonderful fresh tomatoes dishes from restaurants across Canada including Roasted Corn, Prosciutto and Ricotta Ravioli with Creamy Tomato Sauce from The Suede Lounge in …