Let them eat cake - and vegetables, too! Award-winning cookbook author Ken Haedrich serves up 150 delicious baked goods that are full of fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs and go far beyond zucchini bread and carrot cake. From Bacon, Cheddar, and Fresh Corn Muffins to Fresh Fennel and Italian Sausage Pizza, Spaghetti Squash and Parmesan Quiche, and Brown Sugar Rhubarb Tart Squares, these scrumptious recipes add nutrition plus amazing flavor to every meal of the day. The breadth of this collection is stunning, and you'll be amazed that baked goods this tasty also deliver your daily dose of fresh vegetables. With plant-based eating taking the spotlight everywhere, noted cookbook author Ken Haedrich shows how to incorporate a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, and herbs into all types of baking with his collection of 150 savory and sweet recipes.
Ken Haedrich is the author of more than a dozen cookbooks, including Pie Academy, The Harvest Baker, Maple Syrup Cookbook, and Home for the Holidays, a winner of the Julia Child Cookbook Award. Founder and "dean" of The Pie Academy, Haedrich is one of America's most respected food writers and a recognized authority on baking - pies, in particular. His articles have appeared in many publications, including Better Homes and Gardens, Cooking Light, and Bon Appétit. He can be found online at thepieacademy.com. Enliven your baking with fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs! With these 150 easy-to-follow recipes from award-winning cookbook author Ken Haedrich, anyone can become a harvest baker. From sweet muffins and cakes to savory yeast breads, pizzas, quiches, and tarts, Haedrich shows delicious ways fresh-picked blueberries, peaches, and cherries, as well as broccoli, kale, fennel, squash, asparagus, and much more, will add flavor and nutrition to your oven's bounty. Preface
Tool Talk: Outfitting the Harvest Baker's Kitchen
Part 1: For the Love of Bread
1 Morning Breads: Muffins, Biscuits, and Scones
2 Sweet and Savory Quick Breads and Tea Loaves
3 Yeast Breads, Rolls, and Buns
Part 2: Crusty Entrees
4 Harvest Pizzas, Flatbreads, Calzones, and Other Stuffed Breads
5 Savory Harvest Pies: Quiches, Tarts, Pot Pies, and More
Part 3: The Baker's Sweet Tooth
6 Cookies and Bars: A Handful of Harvest Goodness
7 Cakes: Pound, Coffee, Upside Down, and More
8 Sweet Pies and Crostatas
Part 4: Top It Off
9 The Harvest Baker's Pantry: Sauce, Glaze, Streusel, and More
Converting Recipe Measurements to Metric
Acknowledgments
Index "These recipes give you several gorgeous, clever, and time-tested ways to include the garden in your baking. And they promise to be delicious, too!" - Deborah Madison, author of Vegetable Literacy and In My Kitchen
"With its down-home and seasonal approach, The Harvest Baker will appeal to both gardeners and bakers, with recipes that are sure to become family favorites." - Kate McDermott, author of Art of the Pie
"The Harvest Baker goes way beyond zucchini bread and shows you wonderful ways to work more vegetables and fruits into your meals. I can't wait to try these recipes!" - Barbara Damrosch, columnist of "A Cook's Garden" for The Washington Post and co-author of The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook
"Ken Haedrich's recipes are always that perfect balance of simple and sophisticated, equally appealing to both the novice and veteran baker. His new book makes me want to sprint to the garden, then to the oven, then back again, ad infinitum. I love this collection!" - Jenny Rosenstrach, author of Dinner: A Love Story
