Vegetables, Grow them, Cook them, Eat them

Grow and cook your own vegetables. This book is about how to grow 40 of the most popular vegetables with a look at their history and nutritional values. Recipes that accompany each vegetable provide an abundance of ideas for preparing and cooking them.Grow your own - squashes and pumpkins; mouthwatering purple-sprouting broccoli; delicious beetroot; crunchy mangetout; luscious leeks; succulent curly kale or wonderful deep red radicchio - to name just a few. With careful planning you should have a succession of vegetables all year round. Included are more than 200 recipes - soups; main courses and side dishes in the form of souffles, purees, fritters, gratins and tarts; salads; chutneys; even cakes, scones and muffins. Try:Jerusalem artichoke and butternut squash soup; creamy cabbage bake; cauliflower and stilton souffle; broad beans with cream and bacon; purple-sprouting broccoli with walnut butter; parsnip, date and ginger loaf; beetroot and chocolate cake; carrot muffins.The recipes are mainly vegetarian but some include fish, chicken or bacon. All use wholesome easy-to-find ingredients and are mostly quick and simple to prepare.They are down-to-earth, nutritious recipes for the family cook.Once you've planted, harvested and tasted your own produce, you'll never be satisfied with anything else!

Author: Charlotte Popescu
Publisher: Cavalier
Extra Details: Pictorial Card Covers 6 x 9 inches tall, 192 Pages,illustrated with Colour photos .