Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories by Fanny Singer

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    • Categories: Egg dishes; Breakfast / brunch; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: eggs; sourdough bread
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  • DKennedy on May 15, 2020

    A quarantine addition to my collection. Perfect for making use of the simple things we all have on hand these days. I am really enjoying this book. Fanny's words paint a loving, albeit eccentric picture of her mother's world, which in many ways reminds me of my own. The recipes peppered through the page are uncomplicated (with a few notable exceptions). I was inspired to make each and every one. So far I've worked my way through several - all were perfect in their simplicity. Vinaigrette, Roast Chicken, Stock, Garlic Chix Noodle Soup, Rose Petal Simple Syrup, Beans, Pasta, Aioli, Sandwiches, Eggs, Salmon.

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  • Chicken stock

    • kbrooks on February 11, 2025

      Made this delicious stock with the leftover carcass and meat from the roasted chicken recipe. Then made Rainy Day Chicken Soup from a different recipe source.

  • Roast chicken

    • DKennedy on June 19, 2020

      This is a fantastic recipe. I made the roasted chicken, stock, and soup. All were delicious. Perfect COVID activity.

    • kbrooks on February 10, 2025

      I've roasted a lot of chickens in a lot of different recipes over the years. This is absolutely one of the best I've ever made! Don't be put off by the high temperature roasting technique. My chicken stayed beautifully moist and tender with an amazing crispy skin. And the leeks were sooo delicious.

  • Herby chicken paillard lunchbox sandwich

  • Aioli

    • DKennedy on June 19, 2020

      Very well balanced.

  • Garlic toast

    • kbrooks on March 04, 2026

      Your basic Italian bruschetta. Good side for almost anything.

  • Egg fried in a spoon in the fireplace

    • DKennedy on July 12, 2020

      Intrigued so I bought a large cast iron spoon (not "the" spoon, too spendy for me). The egg came out quite delicious. I could see doing this with quail eggs go top a salad as a special touch.

  • Simple Chez salad dressing

    • DKennedy on June 19, 2020

      Did not have banyulus. but would not make again unless I have the right vinegar.

    • kbrooks on February 11, 2025

      Made with red wine vinegar and white balsamic vinegar. Reduced the olive oil to 4-5 Tablespoons. Good basic template for a vinaigrette, varied by the choice of vinegars.

  • Green coriander seed pasta

    • DKennedy on July 12, 2020

      Made this with green coriander seeds from my garden. This is basically a cacio e pepe with green coriander added. I found the seeds to be somewhat overwhelming, but the pasta was still quite good. I am grateful for the lesson about coriander seeds. Drying the remaining ones right now.

  • Salmon baked in a fig leaf

    • DKennedy on July 12, 2020

      Made this using Costco salmon. Easy and delicious. the fig leaf imparts a herbaceous note to the fish.

  • Simple black beans

    • DKennedy on July 12, 2020

      Another home run recipe.

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  • ISBN 10 1524732516
  • ISBN 13 9781524732516
  • Linked ISBNs
  • Published Mar 31 2020
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 336
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Knopf

Publishers Text

A cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of revered chef/restaurateur Alice Waters: a story of food, family, and the need for beauty in all aspects of life.

In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother--and herself--Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice Waters, chronicles a unique world of food, wine, and travel; a world filled with colorful characters, mouth-watering traditions, and sumptuous feasts. Across dozens of vignettes with accompanying recipes, she shares the story of her own culinary coming of age and reveals a side of her legendary mother that has never been seen before. A charming, smart translation of Alice Waters's ideals and attitudes about food for a new generation, Always Home is a loving, often funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely written look at a life defined in so many ways by food, as well as the bond between mother and daughter.

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