Grow Harvest Cook

by Meredith Kirton, Mandy Sinclair

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 vegie 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, a sprawling yard or an overflowing fridge, or are looking to establish a substantial kitchen garden for your home, Grow Harvest Cook will be your constant companion, both in the garden and the kitchen. The book offers more than 280 recipes and ideas for using up your produce, reinventing the meaning of homemade and celebrating truly good food. Filled with delicious recipes, tips and tricks for harvesting, and practical gardening advice for aspiring green thumbs, Grow Harvest Cook provides an essential handbook to growing, preparing and sharing more than 90 different types of fruit, vegetables and nuts. Food never tastes better than when you’ve grown and prepared it yourself. Preserve your parsnips, dry your dill and freeze your fennel - and never let good food go to waste again! Alphabetised for easy reference, each page is filled with gorgeous full-colour photographs of the produce and the recipes.

Genres: Cookbooks, Gardening, Food

400 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 2014

Reviews

[Kylie]

Pretty basic gardening information. I liked the given recipes and although I would have liked more I feel like this gives you a bit of an idea of whats possible. If you want more in-depth information you'll probably continue reading elsewhere.

[Sam]

There are several of these seed-to-table type book floating around, but this one happens to be the one I read and now love having for a quick reference. I love that it is stylish, useful, and beautifully illustrated. This book now permanently sits on my coffee table because it never makes it back to the shelf.

[Jaq]

Usefully set out around the individual crops, it was again limited by the lack of recipes to use when you're experiencing a glut.