Buy Translated Cookbook; Eat Great Veggies
As we all know, there are the cookbooks we actually use and then there are cookbooks that look impressive, but actually just take up space on our bookshelves.
Cookbooks by top chefs often fall into the latter category - but not Les Légumes de Mon Moulin by French chef Roger Vergé.
I was pleased to find while researching a recent blog post that this book was translated into English about eight years ago. From the availability on Amazon, I’m not sure Roger Vergé’s Vegetables in the French Style is still in print, so you might want to act quickly if you are interested in acquiring this lovely and practical vegetable cookbook.
Vergé’s ratatouille recipe is tops, and last weekend I tried out his Cremée de Navets et de Pommes de Terre — basically a turnip and potato gratin. There are a few extra steps compared to a normal gratin recipe, such as half pre-cooking the vegetables and then gently warming them in a cream sauce before baking the dish, but the result is worth the effort.
This book’s vegetable dishes do go beyond the basics — but just a bit.
They are generally simple to cook and call for everyday ingredients. If you want to pep up your vegetables “in the French style,” I would definitely recommend you get your hands on this translation — before it’s too late!
