The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook

  

I received a copy of this release from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Title: The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook

Author: Brian Noyes

Publisher: Clarkson Potter

Release Date: 8.2.22

Publisher’s Summary 

95+ recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert from the award-winning Red Truck Bakery near Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, bringing the comfort and charm of the farmhouse where the bakery started into your kitchen

"Original and highly personal, The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook is a joyful love story to many comfort foods."--Jacques Pepin, chef and author

"If a cookbook could be a page-turner, this is the one! Brian not only knows how to create comfort in spades, but he writes both the sweet and savory recipes in such a way that you feel like you're part of those five generations who inspired these vittles."--Carla Hall, chef and author

Brian Noyes, founder of the beloved Red Truck Bakery in Marshall, Virginia, and author of the Red Truck Bakery Cookbook, presents more than 95 all-new, comforting recipes celebrating ingredients and traditions from the bakery's home on the edge of the Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge mountains. With small-town charm, an emphasis on local, seasonal produce, and country comfort inspiration from the 170-year-old farmhouse where the bakery began, The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook features Brian's favorite savory recipes and old-time classics from family, friends, and the bakery archives. This is the food that Brian cooks at home as well as for the bakery's thousands of customers nationwide--plus recipes for favorite Red Truck Bakery dishes that have not been shared before.

From delightful lunch and dinner options like Potato & Pesto Flatbread, Corn Crab Cakes with Jalapeno Mayonnaise, Mid-July Tomato Pie, Pork Tenderloin with Rosemary and Blueberries, and Sweet Potato and Poblano Enchiladas, to knockout desserts like Lexington Bourbon Cake, Virginia Peanut Pie, and Caramel Cake with Pecans (which Garden & Gun magazine called the perfect Southern dessert), the recipes in The Red Truck BakeryFarmhouse Cookbook are what we are all craving--unfussy, homey, Southern-leaning dishes that focus on local produce but don't shy away from decadence. And for those who are eating vegetarian or vegan, there are plenty of plant-based options, like a vegan and gluten-free Coffee Cake, Carrot & Leek Pot Pies, Mushroom-Ricotta Lasagne with Port Sauce, and the Bakery's beloved "Beetloaf" Sandwiches.

True to the spirit of the Red Truck Bakery, the recipes in the Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook deliver unfailingly delicious comfort all year round.

My Review

I find that there are cookbooks that I aspire to use and ones that I know I actually will. The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook is full of the type of food I like to eat. The collection of recipes reminds me of my grandma's church cookbooks--with an updated flair. Biscuits and hand pies are featured alongside Baked Chicken with Oaxacan Mole Sauce. My talents usually fall more in the "cooking" than the "baking" category for most of the year, but I do love to bake in the fall and winter and this cookbook will be heavily used this year.