Grow Cook Eat: A Food Lover’s Guide to Vegetable Gardening, Including 50 Recipes, Plus Harvesting and Storage Tips

From the Publisher

This book is an invitation to explore the amazing diversity of food that becomes available to you when you plant a plot of land with vegetables, herbs, and fruit, and to gain the confidence to experiment in the kitchen with the delicious raw goods your garden will provide.

Spinach Risotto

Following a three-week trip to Sicily several years ago, my friend Maren returned home and settled upon the task of perfecting risotto. After preparing countless batches for her lucky husband, Mike, she succeeded in developing this light, lemony version.

Snap and Shell Beans

Beans offer wonderful diversity—pods can be purple, yellow, green, cream, or even mottled; slim, fat, round, or flat; seeds can be red, pink, violet, white, yellow, and black.

Potato Leek Soup with Chive Crème Fraîche

This simple, hearty winter soup has a surprising ingredient: a Parmesan rind. The hard rind softens up in the simmering liquid and lends the soup a subtle savory flavor that is hard to put a finger on if you aren’t in on the secret.

Chives

Spotting chive shoots pushing through the soil in early spring always cheers me up. The slender, grassy-green leaves emerge when the soil begins to warm, signaling the beginning of the spring planting season.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Capers

Roasting brings out the natural sweetness in brussels sprouts, and mustard complements their earthy flavor. Serve these sprouts warm with mashed potatoes and roast chicken.

Roasted Jalapeños Stuffed with Goat Cheese

Goat cheese’s mild flavor tempers jalapeños’ heat, and Peppadews—a sweet pickled pepper—add a sour tang to these simple appetizers.

Butternut Squash Tacos with Spicy Black Beans

Butternut squash has a tendency to go mushy when roasted, because squash cubes steam when they are crowded into a pan. I’ve found that scattering the squash in a thin layer across the bottom of a rimmed baking sheet helps the pieces develop crunchy, caramelized bits.

Strawberry-Basil Ice Cream

I make this pretty pink-and-purple-flecked ice cream Philadelphia style, which means the base contains just half- and-half and sugar, with no eggs.

Planting the Garden

Planting vegetables at the right time influences their flavor and how well they grow. When deciding what to plant when, consider your USDA Plant Hardiness Zone, first and last frost dates, soil temperature, and moisture.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sasquatch Books; Illustrated edition (January 17, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1570617317
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1570617317
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.58 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.57 x 0.82 x 10.52 inches