The Gardeners' Community Cookbook


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Offers four hundred recipes from contributors who share their best creations featuring ingredients from their own gardens




The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook


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Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman are America’s foremost organic gardeners—and authorities. Barbara is the author of The Garden Primer, and Eliot wrote the bible for organic gardening, The New Organic Grower. Today they are the face of the locavore movement, working through their extraordinary Four Season Farm in Maine. And now they’ve written the book on how to grow what you eat, and cook what you grow. The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook is two books in one. It’s a complete four-season cookbook with 120 recipes from Barbara, a master cook as well as master gardener, who shows how to maximize the fruits—and vegetables—of your labors, from Stuffed Squash Blossom Fritters to Red Thai Curry with Fall Vegetables to Hazelnut Torte with Summer Berries. And it’s a step-by-step garden guide that works no matter how big or small your plot, with easy-to-follow instructions and plans for different gardens. It covers size of the garden, nourishing the soil, planning ahead, and the importance of rotating crops—yes, even in your backyard. And, at the core, individual instructions on the crops, from the hardy and healthful cabbage family to fourteen essential culinary herbs. Eating doesn’t get any more local than your own backyard.




The Vegetable Gardener's Cookbook


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Easy meals that capture the flavor of every season Danielle Majeika’s vegetarian recipes harmonize the garden with the kitchen for the best-tasting veggie dishes all year round. These simple plant-based meals show you how to use every part of your produce in recipes that let the vegetables shine, including: • Autumn Slow Cooker Minestrone with Kale, Butternut Squash and Cranberry Beans • Butternut Squash Galette with Caramelized Onions and Blue Cheese • Stuffed Poblanos with Farro and Pinto Beans • Ember-Roasted Beets and Their Greens with Calabrian Chili Aioli • Parmesan-Baked Parsnip Gnocchi with Marinara • Fresh Pea Soup with Arugula Salsa Verde Gardening and harvesting tips are perfect for farmers and gardeners, and the delicious, plant-based recipes are great for vegetarians, farmers’ market enthusiasts and people just looking to add more veggies to their diet. Bring your harvest to the plate each season and enjoy the (cooked) fruits of your labor.




Grow Cook Eat


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Conscious foodies will love this easy-to-follow guide on creating garden-to-table meals—with tips on growing and storing your own harvest, plus delicious recipes From sinking a seed into the soil through to sitting down to enjoy a meal made with vegetables and fruits harvested right outside your back door, this gorgeous kitchen gardening book is filled with practical, useful information for both novices and seasoned gardeners alike. Grow Cook Eat will inspire people who already buy fresh, seasonal, local, organic food to grow the food they love to eat. For those who already have experience getting their hands dirty in the garden, this handbook will help them refine their gardening skills and cultivate gourmet quality food. The book also fills in the blanks that exist between growing food in the garden and using it in the kitchen with guides to 50 of the best-loved, tastiest vegetables, herbs, and small fruits. The guides give readers easy-to-follow planting and growing information, specific instructions for harvesting all the edible parts of the plant, advice on storing food in a way that maximizes flavor, basic preparation techniques, and recipes. The recipes at the end of each guide help readers explore the foods they grow and demonstrate how to use unusual foods, like radish greens, garlic scapes, and green coriander seeds.




The New Southern Garden Cookbook


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In The New Southern Garden Cookbook, Sheri Castle aims to make "what's in season" the answer to "what's for dinner?" This timely cookbook, with dishes for omnivores and vegetarians alike, celebrates and promotes delicious, healthful homemade meals centered on the diverse array of seasonal fruits and vegetables grown in the South, and in most of the rest of the nation as well. Increased attention to the health benefits and environmental advantages of eating locally, Castle notes, is inspiring Americans to partake of the garden by raising their own kitchen plots, visiting area farmers' markets and pick-your-own farms, and signing up for CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) boxes from local growers. The New Southern Garden Cookbook offers over 300 brightly flavored recipes that will inspire beginning and experienced cooks, southern or otherwise, to take advantage of seasonal delights. Castle has organized the cookbook alphabetically by type of vegetable or fruit, building on the premise that when cooking with fresh produce, the ingredient, not the recipe, is the wiser starting point. While some dishes are inspired by traditional southern recipes, many reveal the goodness of gardens in new, contemporary ways. Peppered with tips, hints, and great stories, these pages make for good food and a good read.




Fearless Food Gardening


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If you've ever wanted to grow your own food, but aren't quite sure how, this book is for you. It's designed for beginners, organized month-by-month, and gives specific advice for the Chicago growing region. Experienced food gardeners will benefit as well from the range of topics in this step-by-step guide.




The Armenian Table Cookbook


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‘There are some fine recipes here that you’re not likely to find elsewhere... If you’re looking for a new cuisine to explore, this is very satisfying.’ - New York Daily News ‘For cooks, it’s Armenian 101 and much more - a great way to learn about the cuisine. Wise has made a concerted effort to make the recipes approachable and easy to execute.’ - Los Angeles Daily News A veteran cookbook author returns to her delicious culinary heritage in this savoury and passionate recipe collection. Victoria Jenanyan Wise grew up with the flavours, scents and seasonings of Armenian cooking - a cuisine that combines Mediterranean tastes with Persian, Arabic and Russian accents. In her first Armenian cookbook, Wise presents traditional favourites and inspired contemporary variations. The author takes us on a comprehensive tour of the typical Armenian pantry, with its nuts, seeds, herbs, spices, fragrant extracts and wealth of fresh ingredients. Each chapter begins with advice and commentary on essentials, such as fresh yogurt, starters (maza), breads, salads, pilafs, meatballs and other meat, fish and vegetable dishes as well as sweets. There is also a chapter on the Armenian people and its homeland. Recipes include: - Lavosh, Armenian pizzas, and other savoury breads - Shish kebab, moussaka, and other lamb dishes - Baked and roast chicken prepared with yogurt, dill, turmeric and pomegranate - Grilled mackerel with lemon and dill; red snapper stew with tomato and artichokes - Stuffed vegetables (dolmas) and stuffed vine leaves - Baklava and other fillo-pastry sweets; lemon yogurt cake, yogurt panna cotta with cherry sauce; almond and rice-flour pudding with toasted almond slices. This authentic and warm-hearted cookbook will be met by a ready audience of Armenians, as well as lovers of Greek, Turkish, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines, and other culinary adventurers.




Better Homes and Gardens Fresh Cookbook


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The best of fresh, seasonal cooking from Better Homes and Gardens As the farm-to-table movement grows, more people every day are choosing to cook healthier meals using fresh local foods. Better Homes and Gardens Fresh presents 300 appealing recipes for seasonal produce. No matter where you live, this book shows you how to prepare simple, delicious meals using fresh ingredients at their peak. Enjoy recipes for snacks and appetizers, breakfast, salads, soups, casseroles, main dishes, meatless meals, sides, and desserts. In addition, one-pan recipes help you keep it simple, as well as fresh. The book also includes a beautifully illustrated produce guide to help you pick and prepare food at its peak. Features 300 recipes for fresh, flavorful meals every day Illustrated with hundreds of full-color food photographs and 65 photos in the produce guide Includes a section of menus to help you craft a wide variety of meals From coast to coast, people are discovering just how delicious and rewarding it is to cook and eat local foods. With Better Homes and Gardens Fresh, you'll find a wealth of recipes and resources to help you eat fresh, seasonal meals every day.




America I AM Pass It Down Cookbook


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The smells in the kitchen, the unforgettable flavors—these powerful memories of food, family, and tradition are intertwined and have traveled down from generations past to help make us the people we are today. Now, Tavis Smiley’s America I AM exhibit has joined forces with Chef Jeff Henderson and Ramin Ganeshram to create the America I AM Pass It Down Cookbook. This special keepsake preserves African Americans’ collective food history through touching essays, celebratory menus, and over 130 soul-filled and soul-inspired recipes. There’s something for everyone—from traditional southern cooking like Apryle’s Seafood Gumbo, Craig Robinson’s Mom’s Buttermilk Fried Chicken, and Russel Honoré’s Barbecued Boston Pork Butt, to healthy new millennium twists, including the Duo Dishes’ Honey Dijon Spiced Pecan Coleslaw, Ron Johnson’s Crunchy Collards, and Scott Alves Barton’s Fragrant Jerk Chicken. Irresistible desserts like Mama Mabel’s Apple Dumplings and Saporous Strawberry Cheesecake, and beverages like Very Exciting Fruit Punch and Tom Bullock’s classic Lemonade Apollinaris are sure to delight.As you read this book, you’ll discover the voices of real cooks and their triumphs in the kitchen, and the ways in which African Americans have impacted the way the whole nation eats. You’ll learn healthy cooking variations filled with heart and soul, and how to make cooking with kids fun. There’s even a section for you to add your own family recipes and "pass it down" to the next generation.It’s time to turn the pages and join us at the table. After all, our shared experience is the greatest feast of all.




The Pressure Cooker Gourmet


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What cook isn't looking for recipes that are fast, delicious, and nutritious? The Pressure Cooker Gourmet provides just that, with 225 dishes that are simple to prepare, cook in as little as 15 minutes, and retain all the natural nutrients that can be lost with other cooking methods. The beauty of pressure cooking is that it allows the home cook...