Ebook Grow Cook Eat A Food Lover Guide to Vegetable Gardening Including 50 Recipes Plus Harvesting and Storage Tips Willi Galloway Jim Henkens 9781570617317 Books

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Product details Paperback 304 pages Publisher Sasquatch Books (January 17, 2012) Language English ISBN-10 1570617317

Grow Cook Eat A Food Lover Guide to Vegetable Gardening Including 50 Recipes Plus Harvesting and Storage Tips Willi Galloway Jim Henkens 9781570617317 Books Reviews

• This book is great. Well written with lots of information. It tells you everything you need to know to get started growing your own food. From the various parts of the plant that are edible, for example the leaves of beets are much like Swiss chard because the two plants are related to each other. She covers when the best time to harvest a plant ( it's not always easy to tell) and then follows with great recipes. These are not your run of the mill recipes, the are filled with delicious unusual combinations. If you only buy one book about growing your own food this is the one to get. It's an excellent practical and informative handbook.
• This is a book for gardeners and cooks. It begins with a chapter on gardening fundamentals (soil, planting, watering, fertilizing and pest control), and then moves on to chapters based on plant type -- herbs, greens, legumes, squash, cabbage, roots and bulbs, warm-season vegetables, and fruit. Each chapter covers 4-12 specific plants; for example, in the chapter on warm-season vegetables, several pages each are devoted to corn, eggplant, peppers, tomatillos and tomatoes. Each entry has one or two color photographs and a paragraph on planting, growing, harvesting, storing, cooking ideas and varieties, followed by a recipe using that ingredient.
  
  The pictures are beautiful and the recipes seem interesting. (I've made two and they both were very good.) The gardening information has already been quite helpful, and is detailed enough that there are some plants I haven't worked with before but I may try.
  
  A beautiful and valuable book, it is on the large side, about 8-1/2 by 11", typical for a gardening book.
• I saw this book in my local schmancy grocery store and was immediately struck by it's sheer beauty. The photos are simply stunning. I was also intrigued by the concept of growing more food in my yard and eating food grown on my postage stamp lot. Still wary, I downloaded the sample on my kindle. Fabulous!!! The writing is exactly how I would write if I could write simple, straight forward, every word packed with utility. I bought the kindle version straight away and proceeded to bookmark what seems like every other page. I NEVER bookmark! Now I'm thinking I need the print version as well. This will be my go to book for garden planning. The only con really is that I'm on a kind of no wheat, little dairy kick lately and a lot of the recipes have wheat and dairy, but I'm sure that that concern is really personal to my tastes. This book is beautiful, well-written, inspiring, day-dreamy, perfect. You won't regret this purchase.
• Galloway vastly increases the edibles from your garden by explaining the good taste of parts of the plants we typically throw away. For instance, eating broccoli leaves (with a little oil and garlic)and the "scapes" or stems of onions and garlic. They are yummy sauteed and caramelized a little in the pan. Her tips on garden tools and favorite varieties of vegetables are so helpful too. The book is beautifully laid out and easy to read and use as a reference book. If you love to read, learn or garden, this book is for you. My only wish is that she would move to the south for a few years and write a Southern gardening book.
• LOVE this book! I'm a moderate gardener and this book is perfect for me.
  There aren't many recipes (one for each plant), but there are ideas on how/what to prepare with it. I LOVE the growing and storage sections for each plant...super helpful.
  The pictures are beautiful and there are many plants covered - from 'typical' to a few more uncommon plants.
  This book isn't too lengthy that I was overwhelmed, but rather concise and helpful. I found myself reading about plants I didn't even grow this year.
  I ususally Google info I need about plants, but this was worth the money - everything is right there!
  Overall, super helpful and I definitely recommend!
• Grow, Eat, Cook is perfect if you are wondering what to do with your abundant harvest. It is organized by vegetable so look up is easy. Galloway provides information on everything from when to pick to what parts of the plant are edible including the not so obvious - like peas, there's more to peas than you think. Plus she has food prep and storage tips and recipes. Not complicated recipes with tons of ingreadients to shop for, but recipe ideas you can build on. I love that. I don't collect cookbooks and wouldn't normally read one in bed before going to sleep but Galloway is so enthusiastic about her garden, I enjoyed her commentary.