This might sound weird, but I know I’m not the only one…I read cookbooks like novels. I love to read them cover to cover. You can learn many little things from different kitchens, cooks, chefs, and cultures from around the world. Well written cookbooks flow like a story. They start with a good foundation of learning about the author and chef of the book. They give you some ground rules about techniques that are used throughout the recipes. My bookshelves are loaded with cookbooks from all over the world – from celebrity chefs to self-published home cooks, like myself. I have pulled together some pretty good cookbooks I found on Amazon, and new finds for you to check out.
The Homestead-to-Table Cookbook: Over 200 Simple Recipes to Savor a Sustainable Lifestyle
Simple. Sustainable. Scrumptious. Cooking from home is a great way to cut costs, slow down, and share joy. These tasty recipes, ranging from breakfasts to desserts and all meals in between, will help you enjoy some of the best food that the homesteading lifestyle has to offer. Filled with easy-to-follow instructions and full-color photographs throughout, you’ll enjoy mouthwatering creations including, cheesy garlic biscuits, creamy baked chicken, and chewy oatmeal cookies. Make memories with your loved ones over delicious, home-cooked meals—from Georgia’s table to yours!
Seed to Table – A Homesteading Gardening Guide & Cookbook: A Homesteading Gardening Guide and Cookbook
Grow your own food with confidence-and turn every harvest into simple, nourishing, homemade meals. Seed to Plate is your companion from the garden to the kitchen, guiding you step by step through planting, tending, harvesting, seed saving, and cooking with clarity, warmth, and real-life experience. Whether you’re gardening on a homestead, in raised beds, or in a small backyard patch, this book shows you how to work with the seasons, grow vegetables organically, save seeds, and choose crops that truly feed your family. Then step into the kitchen with cozy, practical recipes that highlight the flavor and abundance of homegrown food.
My Harvest Kitchen: 100+ Recipes to Savor the Seasons
In this new cookbook, Gesine Bullock-Prado invites her fans into her kitchen, where the harvest is local. Whether she’s picked the lettuce from her own garden, visited a farmers’ market, or shopped at the local grocery store, her seasonal cooking is accessible to all readers. Delicious recipes share the page with fan-favorite family stories and tips on growing food, understanding the soil, and more, for aspirational (and actual) gardeners. Bullock-Prado once dreamed of homesteading―living off the land, cooking pies with scavenged berries, keeping bees and savoring the honey, and foraging all things wild―but was not wholly successful. Her hybrid approach is on display here, and she encourages readers to be realistic and celebrate fresh ingredients wherever they were grown. From Zucchini Waffles to Pickled Peaches, Green Mountain Carbonara to Key Lime Ice Cream Pie, Peony Jelly to Preserved Lemons, these are dishes to make time and again.
Make Do with What You Have: 100 Delicious New Recipes from Favorite Old-School Meals
The New York Times bestselling author of The Way Home returns with over 100 fabulous recipes—delicious updates of her favorite childhood meals. From Kardea Brown: Growing up in a household with a single parent taught me how to make use of things we already had. She made gourmet meals with simple kitchen staples. I invite readers to do the same with my twist on Old School Classic recipes. Kardea Brown is back with this practical and flavorful cookbook everyone needs. Offering crowd and palate pleasing dishes from morning to noon, and night
Homemade on a Weeknight
written by yours truly. This is was first cookbook, which I self-published and truly loved writing. It a collection of over 100 recipes that my family has loved over the years. It is a starting point for my foray into the cookbook authorship world and one I hope to follow up soon!
Sun-Kissed Cooking: Vegetables Front and Center – A Top Chef Winner’s Cookbook with Fresh Recipes for Everyone
In her much-anticipated first cookbook, the culinary superstar and Top Chef winner reimagines the role produce plays in everyday meals, moving it from side to center in enticing recipes that add fun and complex flavor to veggie-forward eating—the kind of food we want to enjoy today. A prodigy who started cooking as a teenager, master chef Brooke Williamson has already carved out a résumé full of leading roles and professional achievements in her young career. She won Bravo’s Top Chef Season 14, and on Food Network, was crowned the first winner of Tournament of Champions, and debuted as one of the three titans on the new cut-throat hit competition, Bobby’s Triple Threat
Do you have any favorite cookbooks to share? Do you have any Cookbook suggestions that you want me to check out?
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They all sound wonderful! But there is something about making due with what you have, that will always call me!
I got a few ideas for some books to add to my son’s list! He’s very into farm to table.
I’ve been known to read cookbooks like novels too. I also love to browse old cookbooks that my older relative’s have. My mom has since passed away but I like her old cookbooks and also the old cookbooks put together from the church ladies back in thew day.