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    Home Made Summer
    Home Made Summer
    Home Made Summer
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    Home Made Summer

    By Yvette van Boven and Oof Verschuren

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    “A grab bag of summer flavors and dishes . . . Think of van Boven as the activities director of your own culinary summer camp.” —The New York Times

    The author of Home Made and Home Made Winter returns with a new cookbook filled with tasty recipes, beautiful photos, clear instructions, and hand-drawn artwork throughout. Home Made Summer presents her absolute favorite recipes for spring and summer. Inspired by her childhood in Ireland and her summers in Provence, van Boven has created a collection sure to tempt you to step into the kitchen. Using seasonal ingredients, such as freshly picked apples and berries, delicate summer lettuces and fresh herbs, she presents recipes for Breakfast, Brunch & Lunch, Snacks, Beverages, Appetizers, Main Courses, and Dessert.

    “Home Made Summer is a happy book, fun to look at, fun to read. It’s downright frivolous, in fact. And that’s what summer is all about.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “In the last two years, she has published three cookbooks, Home Made, Home Made Winter and Home Made Summer, that exemplify the indie spirit: They're filled with her illustrations and do-it-yourself recipes, like hand-cranked ice cream, from-scratch mustards and Dutch-style beef sausages and croquettes.” —Food & Wine

    “Flipping through the pages feels a bit like stepping into a fantasy land, one with jars and jars of citrusy-tomato mayonnaise awaiting crab cakes and stacks of powdered sugar-dusted ‘ultimate puffy pancakes’ (topped with crème fraîche and berries in lieu of syrup).” —LA Weekly

    “Stunning savory dishes.” —Serious Eats

    “Yvette’s attitude, like her recipes, is lighthearted and friendly, her header notes charmingly personal, and her thorough instructions chatty and fun.” —BookPage
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStewart, Tabori Chang
    Release dateMar 26, 2013
    ISBN9781613124734
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      Book preview

      Home Made Summer - Yvette van Boven

      From You Are My Sunshine, an American folk song

      My sister and I loved to sing this song during family road trips.

      * ALL RECIPES SERVE 4, UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED.

      * 1 TBSP = 15 G * 1 TSP = 5G

      * BAKING TIMES MAY BE LONGER OR SHORTER IN DIFFERENT OVENS. THE BAKING TIMES IN THIS BOOK ARE THEREFORE SUGGESTIONS. PLEASE RELY ON YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH YOUR OWN OVEN.

      * I OFTEN USE CAGE-FREE EGGS (LARGE), BUT I MUCH PREFER USING FREE-RANGE OR ORGANIC EGGS.

      * 1 LITER = 10 DL = 100 CL = 1000 ML

      * ALWAYS USE FREE-RANGE OR, EVEN BETTER, ORGANIC MEAT AND THIS IS MANDATORY!

      YES! → THAT’S ME INDEED’.

      PHOTOGRAPHED: BY OOF (110 YEARS AGO)

      PUBLISHED IN 2012

      BY STEWART TABORI & CHANG, ANIMPRINT OF ABRAMS

      YVETTE VAN BOVEN

      OOF VERSCHUREN

      LIESKE VAN DE SEYP THIS PAGE

      HENNIE FRANSSEN-SEEBREGTS

      FOR ABRAMS

      EDITOR: NATALIE KAIRE

      DESIGNER: LIAM FLANAGAN

      TRANSLATOR: MARLEEN REIMER

      PRODUCTION MANAGER: ANET SIRNA-BRUDER

      CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR AND MAY BE

      OBTAINED FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

      ISBN 978-1-61769-015-0

      © 2012 YVETTE VAN BOVEN

      ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 2011 BY FONTAINE UITGEVERS

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PORTION OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED, STORED IN A RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, MECHANICAL, ELECTRONIC, PHOTOCOPYING, RECORDING, OR OTHERWISE, WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE PUBLISHER

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      introduction

      After a season full of travel, summer has finally arrived. My books now speak a lot of languages, and I am awfully proud of that. You’ll often find me simply beaming, with rosy cheeks. You don’t expect that from your books. I didn’t raise them this way; they did it themselves. I wave to them like a proud mother every time they go off on a trip around the world, and sometimes I even go along—such fun!

      But, I must say, one can get pretty tired of all that traveling, and that’s why I’m glad summer is here. From my hammock I wave good-bye to my latest book with a large handkerchief. I’m excited about all the recipes it’s going to bring to so many people, but I’m happy that now I—and you, too—can take it easy for a bit.

      Summer offers so many fresh fruits and vegetables that there’s almost no need to cook them: They are inherently tasty. And I know from experience that on hot summer days, few people are keen on spending long hours in the kitchen anyway.

      That’s why I wrote this book.

      Her older sister, Home Made Winter, was filled with comfort-food recipes inspired by my childhood in cold, wet Ireland, with a nod to the Netherlands, my home, and France, my other home.

      This Summer book is about my life now, in Amsterdam and Paris, but most of all it’s about the summers my husband and I spend in Provence. From the time my husband was taking his first steps, he has spent his summers with family friends who own an orchard near Avignon. This family and Oof’s family have known one another for generations, and now they have been friends with me for half my life.

      The old Georges has taught me a lot. He takes me on walks and shows how they tie bottles to the blossoms on apple and pear trees, hoping they will bear fruit inside the bottle, which they can use to make liquor in the fall. Together we make jars of marmalade for the entire family and we create little labels for them. We inspect the beans and the artichokes in the vegetable garden.

      We are lucky enough to accompany our friends to feasts at the neighbors’ houses, and they teach us the region’s customs. We host grillades (barbecues) in Norbert and Valerie’s garden and watch the stars until deep in the night, drinking homemade spirits and generous glasses of wine from the village’s cellar. Everybody prepares a part of the meal, so it’s never much work for anyone in particular, which is nice.

      That was the inspiration for how I organized my book.

      Therefore I’m giving you recipes for dishes that usually don’t take too much effort, and for dishes that essentially look after themselves. I’ve included ideas for long barbecue nights with family and friends, with lots of different side dishes, so everyone can make something and share the work. I’m giving you recipes for lots of festive summer drinks, too, so you can raise your glasses when I thank you for all the enthusiastic comments and cheerful reactions that I’ve received in the past months.

      Thank you, and CHEERS!

      To SUMMER!

      Yvette

      Wim Bijma’s garden, Amsterdam

      Near Marken

      breakfast, brunch & lunch

      cakes & sweet things for tea time

      drinks

      to start

      main courses

      dessert

      recipe index

      general index

      avocado, cucumber & lime shake

      FOR 1 GLASS

      ½ avocado, peeled

      ⅓ cucumber, chopped

      juice and zest of 1 lime

      3 or 4 ice cubes

      salt and freshly ground black pepper

      Combine all the ingredients in a blender and puree. If you find the shake too thick, add some water.

      frozen fruit smoothie

      Like a liquid ice pop.

      FOR 2 LARGE GLASSES

      9 oz (250 g) mixed frozen fruit (or just one kind, like raspberries)

      1 cup (200 ml) organic apple juice

      1 tbsp chopped fresh tarragon

      Combine all the ingredients in a blender and puree. Drink at once.

      watermelon & yogurt smoothie

      This smoothie isn’t pictured, by the way.

      FOR 4½ CUPS (1 L)

      1 lb (500 g) watermelon, chopped

      2 tbsp honey or date syrup

      2 tbsp chopped fresh mint

      17 oz (500 g) plain yogurt

      1 tbsp cardamom pods, seeds ground in a mortar

      Combine the watermelon, honey, and mint in a blender and puree. Add the yogurt and pulse a few times—briefly, or the smoothie will become too liquid.

      Pour into glasses and sprinkle with the cardamom.

      the ultimate puffy pancakes

      If we have a hangover (which of course hardly ever happens), we make these pancakes in the late morning. I know: There are hundreds of recipes for pancakes … but this is truly the Ultimate Recipe. And you know I never lie.

      FOR A BIG PILE OF 20 PANCAKES

      2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour

      pinch of salt

      1 tbsp plus 1 tsp (20 g) baking powder

      1 tbsp sugar

      2 tsp (1 envelope) vanilla sugar, or 1 tsp vanilla extract

      7 tbsp (100 g) butter, cut into chunks, plus more for the pan

      1½ cups (350 ml) milk

      2 large eggs, beaten

      FOR SERVING

      ½ pint (200 g) raspberries

      ¾ cup (200 g) crème fraîche

      superfine sugar for garnish

      In a big bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking powder, and the plain and vanilla sugar (if using extract, add it later). Combine the butter and milk in a saucepan and heat over medium heat until the butter melts. Add the vanilla extract, if using.

      Pour the warm milk-butter mixture into the flour mixture in the bowl while stirring, then whisk until all the lumps are dissolved.

      Beat in the eggs.

      Heat 1 teaspoon butter in a skillet over medium heat and pour three ladlefuls of batter into the pan, slightly apart so you have three small pancakes.

      Cook for about 3 minutes, or until small holes break out on the surface, then flip and cook them for 2 minutes on the other side. Repeat with more butter and the remaining batter. Keep the cooked pancakes warm on a plate covered with foil in a low oven while you cook the rest.

      Serve with raspberries, crème fraîche, and a sprinkle of super-fine sugar.

      It’s a piece of cake. All you need is patience. If you use skim milk you’ll get skim-milk quark; if you use whole milk you’ll get whole-milk quark. Isn’t life simple?

      1. In a large saucepan, combine 6½ cups (1½ l) milk and 3 cups plus 2 tbsp (750 ml) buttermilk and warm over medium-low heat to 100°F (40°C). I check it with my meat thermometer, but if you don’t have one then heat the milk until it’s the temperature of hot bathwater and you see the milk begin to thicken.

      2. remove the pan from the heat, cover it, and wrap it snugly in a towel. Place the pan in a warm spot for 24 hours, until the milk is thick.

      3. pour the milk into a sieve lined with a clean lint-free towel or several layers of rinsed and squeezed cheesecloth and set the sieve over a bowl. Let it drain for a few hours.

      4. Now you have at least 2 cups (500 g) quark. keep the quark in clean jars in the fridge.

      cherry, blueberry, and/or blackberry jam with orange & basil

      2¼ lb (1 kg) pitted cherries, blueberries, and/or blackberries

      ½ cup plus 2 tbsp (150 ml) orange juice

      5 cups (1 kg) jam sugar, or 5 cups (1 kg) granulated sugar plus 1 (1.75-ounce/50 g) envelope powdered pectin

      1 small bunch of fresh basil (about ⅔ oz/20 g), stemmed

      EXTRA:

      4 to 6 half-pint jars, boiled for 10 minutes and set on a clean dish towel

      Combine all the ingredients except the basil in a large nonreactive pot and bring to a gentle boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer for about 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and puree the mixture with an immersion blender. Place 1 teaspoon of the jam on a saucer in the fridge for 10 minutes to see if it’s thick enough. (It’s up to you.)

      If the jam isn’t thick enough, put the pot back on the heat and simmer the mixture until it’s the right consistency. Remove from the heat.

      Add the basil leaves and puree the jam again. Immediately ladle the hot jam into the

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