The VEGIE PATCH COOKBOOK through the year

Over 200 recipes, pick and store tips and preserving ideas

edited by Caroline Bretherton

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New softcover book, 352 pages. First published 2011, this edition published 2013. Beautiful full-colour photography.

The Vegie Patch Cookbook is the recipe book for gardeners who would like to know how to cook delicious seasonal dishes to help make the most of their home-grown produce. Featuring over 200 recipes for popular crops such as apples, berries and herbs, this is packed with imaginative and inspiring ideas to turn your produce into healthy, fresh meals.

Including techniques and expert advice to help you harvest, preserve and prepare your crops successfully, this is the perfect veg-grower's kitchen companion.

Contents include:

• Spring
  • Asparagus
  • Peas
  • Broad beans
  • Silverbeet
  • Cauliflowers
  • Spinach
  • Lettuce
  • Rocket
  • Radishes
  • Rhubarb
  • Technique - preserve vegetables in oil
• Summer
  • French beans
  • Runner beans
  • Globe artichokes
  • Tomatoes
  • Capsicums
  • Chillies
  • lots more vegetables
  • Herbs
  • Many berries
  • Stone fruits
  • Techniques - many including freezing vegetables, herbs and fruit, drying vegetables and herbs, making jam, pickles and conserves
• Autumn
  • Pumpkin
  • Onions
  • Celery
  • Beetroot
  • Carrots
  • Apples
  • Pears
  • Quinces
  • Techniques - storing onions, garlic and shallots, making jelly and chutney, oven-drying fruit
• Winter
  • Broccoli, brussels sprouts & cabbages
  • Leeks
  • Asian greens
  • Celeriac
  • Swedes, turnips and parsnips
  • Technique - salt vegetables
• Acknowledgements and index

The Vegie Patch Cookbook is an Australian publication. Recipe measurements are in metric, metric cup & spoon and imperial

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The Vegie Patch Cookbook by DK Books