A book to buy just for its cover! The recipes are organised by season and within each season by produce of the season. The book is unashamedly quirky, full of Maggie's reminiscences of people and places in between her lush, produce-focussed recipes, and particularly produce from the Barossa Valley. In this book, while there are plenty of tempting recipes, she also ventures into ever more exotic culinary realms with many recipes whose ingredients would be hard to obtain for the average home cook. Also I would have preferred far fewer Barossa Valley landscapes and more illustrations of the actual dishes, and it was frustrating to find some of the tastier looking dishes illustrated had no corresponding recipe. I'll always love Maggie though for reviving our interest in quinces, figs, prunes, parsnips, chestnuts and many other delicious and overlooked fruit and vegetables, and there are plenty of those recipes here too.
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Maggie's Harvest
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Recipe reviews
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This 2008 cookbook by Maggie Beer contains 4 indexed recipes with an average rating of 4 out of 5 from member reviews. The most-reviewed recipes include Bread and Butter Pudding, Quince and Prune Tart, and Sour-Cream Pastry. The cookbook itself holds an overall rating of 4 out of 5 based on one member review.
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