Smart gardening, uncomplicated cooking, having time to sit in the sun among the courgettes and cabbages: that is the philosophy in Mme Zsazsa's Vegetable Garden.

It all started with an old horse pasture where I put a trailer and planted a vegetable garden. While I was ordering seeds – curly cabbage, cherry tomatoes, butternut squash – she had to think of someone. Someone who would cook with the harvest. Dorien Knockaert. Every week that followed, Kim, Dorien and photographer Els Menten came together in the garden. To dig and cook, to look and taste. Everything they liked found its way into this book.

A book of no less than 4 full centimeters thick, 352 pages of vegetable fun including:

• A complete guide to organic vegetable gardening, the basics for beginners, the more in-depth work for experienced gardeners
• 75 Vegetable Recipes and Cooking Tips That Will Last You a Lifetime