Welcome to Backyard Gardening and Home Cooking! At GRuB, we believe that good food is a basic human right. Growing, eating and gathering around healthy food is a simple and powerful way to connect people to each other and to important work in our community. We hope you, your family, and your neighbors see your garden as the beginning of a new way to build connections with one another. As your seeds sprout and grow into hearty vegetables and you harvest the fruits of your labor together, you can look forward to cooking delicious meals using some of the fabulous recipes we've compiled in this cookbook. The proceeds from this book will go to support our work with low-income youth and families in our community. Happy Cooking! Love, GRuB WHAT'S INSIDE: Overrun with zucchini? Too many tomatoes? Wondering how that innocent package of seeds or those vegetable starts turned into the bushels of produce filling your garden? Have no fear. GOOD GRuB will help you take advantage of your garden's bounty. Packed with 240 tasty recipes, the chapters are organized by vegetable families to make finding that just right recipe quick and easy. Try dishes like Arugula & Beet Salad, Summer Vegetable Pie, and Zucchini Lasagna. Warm yourself up with Pumpkin Caraway Soup, Creamy Carrot Soup, or North African Stew. Appetizers, beverages, breads, and desserts are among the recipes that round out the collection, all using fresh produce from the garden. There are also chapters devoted to fruits, herbs, and edible flowers, and one that will help you create gifts using garden ingredients. The final chapter, The Cook's Helpers, includes such helpful information as culinary terms, food equivalents, substitutions, and stocking the pantry. From Easy Tomato Sauce to Rhubarb Crumble, you are sure to find both old favorites and new winners in this collection.
About the Author: WHO WE ARE: GRuB's Mission As a non-profit organization, our mission is to inspire positive personal and community change by bringing people together around food and agriculture. To fulfill this mission we partner with youth and low-income families to create empowering individual and community food solutions by offering activities, trainings, tools and resources to help build a just and sustainable food system. We work in Thurston and Mason counties in the South Puget Sound region of Washington State. GRuB's Vision We envision a world where everyone has a place at the table; Everyone is nourished by healthy, sustainably grown food; Everyone has a sense of belonging; and Everyone is an inspired & honored contributor to our community. Our Editors Jennifer Grant and Linda Bondurant are two amazing Super-Volunteers at GRuB. They spend their spare time as Guest Chef's, teaching youth in our program how to cook amazing, healthy meals using farm-fresh produce. They reviewed, edited, and compiled hundreds of recipes submitted by the GRuB community to put this fabulous cookbook together.