The Prairie Table
CBC Books | | Posted: July 26, 2019 3:44 PM | Last Updated: July 29, 2019
Karlynn Johnston
Karlynn Johnston, beloved blogger behind The Kitchen Magpie, knows first-hand that meals made with love — cooked with comfort in mind, and filled with real ingredients — are greeted with the biggest smiles. In The Prairie Table, she captures the magic of families crowded around the kitchen table; of social gatherings, with picnic benches groaning under the weight of a multitude of dishes; of food eaten in wide-open spaces under sunshine-filled blue skies.
Featuring more than 100 recipes — from salads to vegetable dishes; home-baked breakfasts to easy main meals; crowd-pleasing appetizers to portable desserts; a chapter dedicated to the Ukrainian heritage of the prairies, and much more! — The Prairie Table is filled with Karlynn's approachable and tasty dishes. Paired with gorgeous photography and candid stories, every recipe in this book can easily be cut in half for a smaller family meal or doubled for a large event, and there are even quick "cheater" recipes for when you are in a hurry. You can then complement each dish with the array of cocktails and mocktails featured in the final chapter of the book, written by special guest and popular Kitchen Magpie contributor, Karlynn's husband Mike (aka Mr. Kitchen Magpie).
Whether it's Grandma Ellen's Cold Picnic Barbecue Fried Chicken, perfect for a hot summer day; Sweet and Sour Meatballs to bring to your community potluck; Mango, Avocado and Arugula Salad that even the pickiest of eaters will love; Piña Colada Sour Cream Squares for unexpected visitors; or pitcher-friendly cocktails like Strawberry Rhubarb Gin Fizz, The Prairie Table brings quintessential prairie cooking to kitchens everywhere. (From Appetite)
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From the book
Living in the Prairies is all about socializing, spending time with those we love, and enjoying tasty food. The last meal of the day has always been the most important. Breakfast is often toast in the car when my kids are running late for school. Our family eats lunches at school with friends or outside the home with clients. Even farmers are up and out the door before the sun, and lunch is often a packed sandwich eaten out in the field. But supper? Supper is together at the table. Supper is almost always at home, with everyone congregating together for perhaps the first time that day. This need to reconnect at the end of the day with the act of breaking bread at a table together is still just as important today, for farm and city folk alike, as it was in the past.
From The Prairie Table by Karlynn Johnston ©2019. Published by Appetite.