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Bluestem, The Cookbook

A repeated nominee for the James Beard Award for "Best Chef Midwest," chef Colby Garrelts and highly respected pastry chef Megan Garrelts offer their culinary techniques inside Bluestem: The Cookbook. From Warm Eggplant Salad and Potato-Crusted Halibut with Herb Cream to delectable desserts such as Honey Custard and Peanut Butter Beignets with Concord Grape Sauce, the Garreltses showcase local, Midwestern ingredients and artisanal producers through 100 seasonally driven recipes.

Including a full-meal lineup of recipes, from amuse-bouche to dessert, Bluestem offers helpful tips from a professional kitchen alongside seasonal wine notes and 100 full-color photographs that capture the simple beauty of Bluestem's composed dishes. Guided by their childhood memories and inspired by the world around them, the Garreltses offer a Midwestern sensibility inside Bluestem: The Cookbook, while enabling cooks of all experience levels the opportunity of replicating Bluestem's contemporary taste and signature dishes at home.

Reviewer: DiabeticSnacker
Review: Jan 9, 2012
Genre(s): Cooking / Food and Beverage
Chef Colby Garrelts also known as The Best Chef Midwest in culinary circles all over the US, along with Pastry Chef guru Megan Garrelts offer their own special spin of techniques with over 100 well thought out and timeless seasonal t recipes. This is by far the absolute biggest edition about cooking I've ever seen and it's called simply; Bluestem The Cookbook. If you want the biggest "Jaws" of cooking topi

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