Grow Harvest Cook is the essential guide to planting, nurturing, harvesting and cooking the best seasonal produce available - the stuff from your own back garden. In the age of the farmers market and the farm produce delivery box, Grow Harvest Cook takes the reader one step further with 280 seasonal recipes to cook from the ground up. Celebrating the pleasure of creating and eating from your own edible garden (whatever the size), it's both a guide to living well and the antidote to our fast food, high consumption supermarket culture. Watch your peas grow through winter and in spring, reap the rewards with a Warm Prawn, Pea and Avocado Salad. Plant your beetroot in Autumn and warm those winter nights with a Beetroot and Goats Cheese Tart and celebrate summer with berries, basil, stone fruits and many more mouth-watering ingredients and recipes. Whatever the season, you'll be harvesting a bounty of goodness grown with your own two hands. This gorgeous 400-page book takes the reader through over 80 types of produce - from almonds to zucchini - providing simple information about growing conditions and harvesting tips, then following into recipes and ideas for using up your produce, including preserving, drying and freezing. Based on the blog of the same name, the authors, designer and photographer of Grow Harvest Cook have reinvented the meaning of homemade and created a work that truly celebrates good food.?
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Grow Harvest Cook is the essential guide to planting, nurturing, harvesting and cooking the best seasonal produce available – the stuff from your own back garden. In the age of the farmers market and the farm produce delivery box, Grow Harvest Cook re-establishes the vital link between the vege patch and the plate. Once upon a time, having pumpkins growing rampant at the back fence and hens sitting protectively on their eggs was a common experience for many people. Grow Harvest Cook is about rekindling the thrill of a home harvest, the fulfillment of a pantry stocked with homemade goodness, and the joy of sharing a lovingly prepared meal made with your own produce.
Whether you have a small urban garden or are looking to establish a substantial kitchen garden for your home, Grow Harvest Cook will be your constant garden companion. This stunning 400-page book takes the reader through more than ninety types of produce – from almonds to oranges to zucchini – providing simple, straightforward information about growing conditions and harvesting tips, ideas for making the most of your produce, including preserving, drying, and freezing, and 280 fresh and simple recipes to make all year round. Alphabetised for easy reference, each page is filled with gorgeous full-colour photographs of the produce and the recipes. Food never tastes better than when you've grown and prepared it yourself Grow Harvest Cook will inspire you to green your thumb, don your apron, and share your own good food with friends and family.
