My French Family Table: Recipes for a Life Filled with Food, Love, and Joie de Vivre

Food stylist, photographer, and award-winning blogger Peltre (La Tartine Gourmande) takes a "relaxed, modern approach to classic French cooking" with a healthy twist. These 120 gluten-free recipes provide home cooks with attractive, nourishing everyday meals for the family table based on French cooking traditions along with global influences and flavors. Recipes include morning foods, lunch soups, savory tarts, salads, snacks, recipe favorites cooked with daughter Lulu, main and side dishes, and sweet treats. A savory kale and salmon breakfast quiche features a hazelnut crust. Corn, chorizo, and fennel soup is topped with steamed clams and parsley oil for lunch. Afternoon go%C3%BBter includes chocolate cr%C3%AApes and buttery madeleines, and there's wine-braised lamb stew with spring vegetables as a main course. Recommended equipment includes a scale, food processor, and mandoline as well as various pastry molds. For best results in baking, Peltre says, cooks need to keep seven types of sugar and multiple gluten-free nut and grain flours on hand. These refined recipes, depicted in Peltre's stunning photos, promote her philosophy that a "healthy relationship with food is essential to happiness." Her obsession with "beautiful food" is infectious, reminding readers that family togetherness comes from moments created around lovingly prepared home meals. (June)