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Title: Charlie Trotter's Vegetables by Charlie Trotter, Tim Turner ISBN: 0-89815-838-9 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: July, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book
Comment: I have had this book for past two years and have tried a lot of the recipes. As a vegetarian, I have always had a hard time to find a book that has recipes that very tasty (I am not a big fan of meat substitute), simple, and beautiful. His books provides them all. His soups are pathetically easy...cook, blend, strain, and serve. He does spend sometime in decoration but these are usually not neccessary (I only ocassionally do that, eliminating them will not impact the overall taste). Unlike other readers, I have not had a hard time finding ingredients but then again, I live in Chicago and shop at numerous places for groceries. Although, Whole foods and Treasure Island (chicago area only) carries every single ingredient he calls for (some obviously are seasonal). It is an excellent book for people who love to cook seasonal vegetables (he breaks his recipes by months).
His dishes are laid out for course meals so the portions are small. I eat very small portions so if I cook the soup (the entire recipe, suggested serving is four) with some bread on side, it is enough for my friend and I.
I disagree with anyone who says that the recipes are hard to use. The time consuming part is roasting, baking, or cooling time (which does not require you spend the entire time in the kitchen, I generally spend that time to go do something else). I usually don't have the flavored oils that he calls for but I just substitute with one of the oils I have or just really good olive oil. I think if you have the time than go for the entire recipe but skipping the oils, or very small amount of sauce is not going to hurt the taste of the dish.
If you are intimidated by his book, I suggest your start with his soup recipe (for example, his Tomato soup recipe calls for taxi tomato...if you don't find taxi tomato, use big yellow tomato or even good quality red tomato).
Rating: 5
Summary: a love for vegetables
Comment: None of these recipies are easy, but if you are willing to sacrafice time and money, the results are pretty amazing. I find CT's Vegetables to be his most versitile book, where Charlie really shows us his most spectacular innovations.
I've cooked successfully out of this cookbook for 4 years, and have come back to it time and time again, when I'm in need of something truly smashing - and in particular, when I'm feeding vegetarian friends.
A word to the wise, buy this book to cook from only if you know your way around a kitchen and the standard resturant vocubulary (he's not going to tell you how to blanch or julienne). Another word of warning - don't try any of this if you're trying to take care of small children at the same time - the recipies demand all of you attention.
Show stoppers are the glorios carmalized onion and potato tart, the chilled cucumber soup, the blue cheese souffle (the brioche is out of this world), the asparagus terrine, and the grits-filled morelles. ymmmm.
Rating: 2
Summary: Beautiful to look at, but puh-leeze!
Comment: The photos are lovely and the chef obviously loves his subject (hence two stars, not one), but really--4 cups kohlrabi juice? 3 tbsp. chopped primroses? Opal basil--like regular won't work? Several recipes with over 20 ingredients each, some of which say "recipe follows" so they're not really an ingredient but another recipe? And no substitutions suggested so just in case your corner store is out of, say, hedgehog mushrooms or Cape gooseberries, you can still make an approximation?
I am an adventurous cook, and can get a lot of ethnic, organic, and/or exotic ingredients, but this sounds more like hard labor than working with the fruits of the earth--the kind of recipes where you cook to impress rather than to enjoy the process or the product.
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Title: Charlie Trotter's Seafood by Charlie Trotter ISBN: 0898158982 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Charlie Trotter's Meat and Game by Charlie Trotter, Michael Voltattorni, Tim Turner, Belinda Chang ISBN: 1580082386 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Charlie Trotter's Desserts by Charlie Trotter, Trotter Charlie, Michelle Gayer, Paul Elledge ISBN: 089815815X Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Charlie Trotter's: Recipes by Charlie Trotter, Tim Turner ISBN: 0898156289 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Raw by Charlie Trotter, Roxanne Klein, Tim Turner, Jason Smith ISBN: 1580084702 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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