La Petite Assiette
Simple Gluten-Free Baking
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La Petite Assiette means the small plate. That was the inspiration for this first in a series of gluten-free cookbooks. This first book focuses mostly on baking, with a few extra surprises thrown in. Patricia Harrington has spent many years in the catering business, creating menus and preparing food for a wide variety of tastes. She started cooking gluten-free about ten years ago, after she was diagnosed with a gluten intolerance. Patricia has always enjoyed baking and through persistent experimentation she has written really wonderful glute-free recipes that will remind you of the baked goods your Mom or Grandmother used to make.
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This gluten-free cookbook takes the stress out of making really good tasting cookies, muffins, scones and more. Patricia has written recipes that are simple to follow, do not require a lot of 'exotic' or hard to find ingredients and She has also reduced the amount of sugar and fat in her recipes, without comprimising taste or texture. In La Petite Assiette, Simple Gluten-Free Baking, Patricia's recipes require just rice flour and leavening to achieve light, buttery cake like muffins, cupcakes, scones and more. Friends and family say they cannot tell the difference between Patricia's gluten-free goodies and those made with wheat flour. Patricia has filled this gluten-free cookbook with beautiful and whimsical pictures that will stimulate your senses and get you wanting to be in the kitchen to bake.
About the Author
Patricia Harrington is a gluten-free cook and baker living in Portland, Oregon. She grew up in central California in a family of foodies; both her Mother and Grandmother were published cooks known for their recipes. Her Grandfather, also a published chef, was a hot sauce entrepreneur in Santa Barbara, California. Over the years Patricia has worked for popular catering companies in Portland, Oregon and in Santa Barbara. She has owned several small catering companies, including an on-site food service for film crews. In her most recent venture, La Petite Assiette, the small plate, Patricia prepared delicious dishes to compliment the weekly wine tasting in a Portland wine bar. The chefs and their cookbooks that have most influenced her approach to cooking include James Beard, Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, Graham Kerr, Nigella Lawson, Jamie Oliver and Alice Waters, as well as the wonderful women in her family who always put a fresh tasty meal on the table. Travels through France and Spain and a love of the fresh produce of the Pacific Northwest have influenced and inspired Patricia to blend the sophistication of city meals with the ease of country cooking while making it all gluten-free. The results are the wonderful recipes in this book! Patricia can be reached at: lapetiteassiette@gmail.com