Step into a world where every meal is a celebration of the harvest, where the vibrant tapestry of homegrown flavors creates not just food, but an experience. Dive into "The Harvest Kitchen Companion," your guide to transforming the fruits of your labor into a year-round feast. From the first chapter, you are gently ushered into a philosophy where the kitchen becomes an extension of the garden, and sustainability is a way of life. Discover the secrets of soil and seed, and how they lay the foundation for the remarkable tastes that grace your table. Learn to think ahead with planting strategies designed for maximum yield and harvest timing that optimizes preservation. Witness the love labor that flows from the garden to the drying rack, as you master the art of drying herbs and spices, and learn to blend them into homemade mixes that will elevate any dish. Step below ground to the age-old tradition of root cellaring, where the earth itself cradles your produce in its cool embrace, keeping it fresh and delicious. Embrace the transformation of the humble cabbage into a probiotic powerhouse through the magical world of fermentation, and turn the bounty of the orchard into jewel-toned jams and jellies with classic canning skills. As temperatures drop, explore the techniques of freezing, ensuring that summer’s sweetness lingers on your winter table. "The Harvest Kitchen Companion" will guide you through the smoky secrets of preserving meats and fish. Your journey will be enveloped by the tang of brine as you navigate the pickling process from cucumbers to the most unusual garden delights. The dehydrator and oven work in harmony as you prepare healthy snacks that crunch with every bite, while the art of cheesemaking unravels the mysteries of milk, letting you craft mouthwatering dairy delights. As you knead dough for hearty bread and prepare seasonal pies, the homestead baker within you will rise to the occasion. Unleash your inner brewmaster with chapters on juicing, brewing, and winemaking, and redefine thriftiness with no-waste strategies tailored to a homestead kitchen. Feast your way through the seasons, from spring greens to winter’s stored treasures, as you discover menus that celebrate each chapter of the year. Beyond the kitchen, "The Harvest Kitchen Companion" nurtures a sense of community, sharing recipes and techniques that strengthen bonds, with a nod to the evolving future of food preservation. Forge a partnership with nature while ensuring the safety of your loved ones by adhering to food safety protocols. Curate a harvest table setting that nourishes the soul as well as the body, and instill a love for the homestead life in the next generation. This comprehensive guide culminates with a look at international preservation methods, inviting you to infuse your cooking with a world of flavors. Whether you’re new to the homestead lifestyle or a seasoned practitioner seeking to refine your skills, "The Harvest Kitchen Companion" is a perennial resource that promises to enchant and inspire, meal after magnificent meal. Welcome to the fulfilling world of self-sufficiency and gastronomic delight.

Guild of Food Writer’s Awards, Highly Commended in ‘Specialist Subject Cookbook’ category (2022) André Simon Awards shortlisted (2022) "A beautiful book, and one which makes me want to cultivate my garden just as much as scurry to the kitchen." — Nigella Lawson "At its core this book is about cooking, but it's an essential and valuable resource for folk who love to grow their own herbs and cook. Sorted by individual herbs with detailed notes on how to grow and use them, it's going to be a book I will turn to a lot over the years." — Nik Sharma Herb is a plot-to-plate exploration of herbs that majors on the kitchen, with just enough of the simple art of growing to allow the reader to welcome a wealth of home-grown flavours into their kitchen. Author Mark Diacono is a gardener as well as a cook. Packed with ideas for enjoying and using herbs, Herb is much more than your average recipe book. Mark shares the techniques at the heart of sourcing, preparing and using herbs well, enabling you to make delicious food that is as rewarding in the process as it is in the end result. The book explores how to use herbs, when to deploy them, and how to capture those flavours to use when they might not be seasonally available. The reader will become familiar with the differences in flavour intensity, provenance, nutritional benefits and more. Focusing on the familiars including thyme, rosemary, basil, chives and bay, Herb also opens the door to a few lesser-known flavours. The recipes build on bringing your herbs alive – whether that’s a quickly swizzed parsley pesto when short of time on a weekday evening, or in wrapping a crumbly Lancashire cheese in lovage for a few weeks to infuse it with bitter earthiness. With a guide to sowing, planting, feeding and propagating herbs, there are also full plant descriptions and their main culinary affinities. Mark then looks at various ways to preserve herbs including making oils, drying, vinegars, syrups and freezing, before offering over 100 innovative recipes that make the most of your new herb knowledge.

This charming and personal exploration of Scandinavian food and culture from one of public television's most charismatic cooks engages readers with personal anecdotes and flavorful recipes. Andreas shows the best way to cure gravlaks, make butter, prepare a poached salmon feast, and flambé a pork tenderloin with Scandinavia's favorite spirit aquavit. He shares his passion for traditional recipes such as Pork Rib Roast with Cloves, Mashed Rutabaga, and Norwegian Pancakes filled with berries. In Kitchen of Light readers are transported to Viestad's Norway—fishing for cod, halibut, and salmon; gathering chanterelles, porcini, and wild berries. More than 100 recipes emphasize fresh, simple ingredients in delicious and elegant dishes such as Pepper-Grilled Oysters and Scallops and Roast Dill-Scented Chicken with Leeks and Potatoes. This inspired cookbook, a companion to the public television series New Scandinavian Cooking, is perfect for home cooks, armchair travelers, cultural food enthusiasts, and anyone who yearns for the simple life.

Whether you have a small urban garden or are looking to establish a substantial kitchen garden for your home, Grow Harvest Cook is filled to the brim with all you need to know to grow, harvest and cook your own produce. It comes complete with practical gardening tips, the know how for successful harvesting, and simple, seasonal recipes for putting your home grown produce to use.

From Brooklyn's sizzling restaurant scene, the hottest cookbook of the season... From urban singles to families with kids, local residents to the Hollywood set, everyone flocks to Frankies Spuntino—a tin-ceilinged, brick-walled restaurant in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens—for food that is "completely satisfying" (wrote Frank Bruni in The New York Times). The two Franks, both veterans of gourmet kitchens, created a menu filled with new classics: Italian American comfort food re-imagined with great ingredients and greenmarket sides. This witty cookbook, with its gilded edges and embossed cover, may look old-fashioned, but the recipes are just we want to eat now. The entire Frankies menu is adapted here for the home cook—from small bites including Cremini Mushroom and Truffle Oil Crostini, to such salads as Escarole with Sliced Onion & Walnuts, to hearty main dishes including homemade Cavatelli with Hot Sausage & Browned Butter. With shortcuts and insider tricks gleaned from years in gourmet kitchens, easy tutorials on making fresh pasta or tying braciola, and an amusing discourse on Brooklyn-style Sunday "sauce" (ragu), The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Kitchen Manual will seduce both experienced home cooks and a younger audience that is newer to the kitchen.

Author and herbalist Brittany Wood Nickerson understands that food is our most powerful medicine. In Recipes from the Herbalist’s Kitchen she reveals how the kitchen can be a place of true awakening for the senses and spirit, as well as deep nourishment for the body. With in-depth profiles of favorite culinary herbs such as dill, sage, basil, and mint, Nickerson offers fascinating insights into the healing properties of each herb and then shares 110 original recipes for scrumptious snacks, entrées, drinks, and desserts that are specially designed to meet the body’s needs for comfort, nourishment, energy, and support through seasonal changes. Foreword INDIES Gold Award Winner IACP Cookbook Awards Finalist

Homegrown Kitchen is a complete guide to eating well for those who love to cook fresh food. Beginning with a comprehensive section on the kitchen essentials, including sourdough bread, home preserving and fermentation, the book is then divided into breakfast, lunch and main meal chapters, followed by a chapter on indulgent sweet treats. Inspired by her large garden, Nicola Galloway creates food in rhythm with the changing seasons, with fresh homegrown and local produce forming the base of her recipes. With a young family, her food focus is on simple and delicious family-friendly recipes using pantry staples that are packed with nutrients. Nicola also has a particular interest in healthful traditional cooking techniques, such as sourdough bread and fermentation, and simplifying them so they can fit into our busy modern lives.