First up is Mary Rolph Lamontagne with her new book “EATS – Enjoy All the Seconds.” Mary says:
My inspiration for this book was a lightbulb moment while working at a bush camp in Botswana. We were low on stock and the leftovers were building up in the fridge. High paying guests were expecting a memorable meal and the rest is history…
EATS offers:
27 master recipes
108 alternate recipes
135 recipes in all
• Cut, peel, purée, poach or freeze 12 different fruits to take full advantage of their flavour.
• Roast, steam, bake, braise, sauté or grate 15 different vegetables to then reinvent them into other recipes.
• Learn tips and tricks to be used while cooking to reuse food items that might have been thrown out.
• Acquire tips on how to buy, why to buy and how to store 27 different fruits and vegetables.
• Pick up green tips on growing fruits and vegetables in gardens or in containers.
In addition to a diverse and colorful collection of recipes, EATS also provides practical solutions for saving and reusing ingredients to create new meals. Mary’s simple tips on reinventing leftovers will help you eliminate waste, save money, and challenge your culinary creativity. For more ideas or questions on reusing leftovers, visit SavourandSave.com
Mary Rolph Lamntagne
Mary Rolph Lamontagne has been active in the food industry for the past 20 years. After graduating from Middlebury College in the US, with a BA in art History, Mary attended the Ritz Escoffier Culinary School in Paris. Married and starting a family, Mary moved back to her hometown of Montreal where she worked as an event planner, as well as a food journalist for a French Canadian magazine.
Since arriving in South Africa in 2005, Mary has worked as a food consultant for the Protea Hotel group, as well as for various upscale South African Bush camps. In her free time Mary can be found making discoveries in the kitchen, tending to her worm farm or climbing Table Mountain.
In the second half Marty Johnson from Johnson’s Garden Center will be telling us all about the August 24 “Food Truck Iron ChileHead Cookoff” where 5 of Wichita’s top Food Trucks will compete for top honors with recipes featuring fresh Hatch Green Chiles.
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2011 Mulderbosch Sauvignon Blanc from South Africa
This racy bottling single-handedly put South Africa on the map as a source of world class Sauvignon Blanc. One of the Cape’s most heralded and sought-after wines, it garners 90+ scores vintage after vintage. Vivid citrus and tropical fruit aromas give way to zesty flavors of green fig, lemon-lime and passion fruit, with grassy, herbal undertones and a complex, chalky minerality. Briny saline undercurrents cut through the racy, mouthwatering finish.