Urban Pantry: Tips and Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable and Seasonal Kitchen

(https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/1362760/1357141/) CLICK HERE to download two recipes & the section on growing your own pantry garden from Urban Pantry * Timely recession-proof tips for getting the most out of your pantry and produce * Great gift for home cooks, gardeners, and canners * Focuses on small-batch preserving for home owners and apartment dwellers Urban Pantry is a smart, concise guide to creating a full and delicious larder in your own home. It covers kitchen essentials, like what basics to keep on hand for quick, tasty meals without a trip to the store, and features recipes that adapt old-fashioned pantry cooking for a modern audience. Avid chef and gardener Amy Pennington demystifies canning and pickling for the urban kitchen and provides tips for growing a practical food garden in even the smallest of spaces. Her more than sixty creative recipes blend both gourmet and classic flavors while keeping economy in mind, and include: Whole Grain Bread Indian-Pickled Carrots Herbal Minestrone Apricot Chickpea Salad White Bean &Lemon Salad /br Over Easy with Tomato & Chocolate-Buttermilk Cake Toasted Almond Crackers Potato Gratin with Cashew Cream Walnut & Chicken Fig & Batidos Milk-Braised Pork Shoulder with Sage Rhubarb Jam Boozy Blood Orange Marmalade Urban Pantry holds sustainability at its center: Take advantage of local ingredients, eliminate wasteful kitchen practices, and make the most out of the food you buy or grow. (http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Assets/ClientPages/misc_pantryshorts.aspx) Also available, check out Amy's (http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Assets/ClientPages/misc_pantryshorts.aspx) e-Shorts of her use of in-season vegetables, month-by-month! (http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2011/04/best-of-green-food-and-health.php?page=13) (http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/heart-of-green-awards/2011-heart-of-green-award-winners#fbIndex11)

a Modern, Sustainable Approach For Stocking An Efficient Kitchen

• Timely Recession-proof Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Your Pantry And Produce
• Great Gift For Home Cooks, Gardeners, And Canners
• Focuses On Small-batch Preserving For Home Owners And Apartment Dwellers Urban Pantry Is A Smart, Concise Guide To Creating A Full And Delicious Larder In Your Own Home. It Covers Kitchen Essentials, Like What Basics To Keep On Hand For Quick, Tasty Meals Without A Trip To The Store, And Features Recipes That Adapt Old-fashioned Pantry Cooking For A Modern Audience. Avid Chef And Gardener Amy Pennington Demystifies Canning And Pickling For The Urban Kitchen And Provides Tips For Growing A Practical Food Garden In Even The Smallest Of Spaces. Her More Than Sixty Creative Recipes Blend Both Gourmet And Classic Flavors While Keeping Economy In Mind, And Include:

• Whole Grain Bread
• Indian-pickled Carrots
• Herbal Minestrone
• Apricot Chickpea Salad
• White Bean & Preserved Lemon Salad
• Over Easy With Tomato & Polenta
• Chocolate-buttermilk Cake
• Toasted Almond Crackers
• Potato Gratin With Cashew Cream
• Walnut & Garlic Chicken
• Fig & Flower Batidos
• Milk-braised Pork Shoulder With Sage
• Rhubarb Jam
• Boozy Blood Orange Marmalade

Urban Pantry Holds Sustainability At Its Center: Take Advantage Of Local Ingredients, Eliminate Wasteful Kitchen Practices, And Make The Most Out Of The Food You Buy Or Grow.

Amy Pennington Is An Organic Gardener And All Around Food Enthusiast. She Worked For Renowned Chef Tom Douglas Asa Marketing Manager And Radio Producer For Several Years Before Launching Two Businesses Of Her Own: Go Go Green Garden, An Edible Gardening Business That Creates And Maintains Sustainable Gardens For Urbanites, And Urban Garden Share, A Service Connecting Gardeners Without Dirt To Neighbors Willing To Share Their Yards. A Regular Contributor To Edible Seattle, Amy Lives In Seattle, Washington.

A recent reader review from the comment section: "The best part might be all her great ideas for creating good meals from mostly what you have tucked away in your pantry (that is, after she tells you how to stock said pantry). Amy Pennington has saved the day for me in the few months I've been using her book." Urban Pantry is a smart, concise guide to creating a full and delicious larder in your own home. It covers kitchen essentials, like what basics to keep on hand for quick, tasty meals without a trip to the store, and features recipes that adapt old-fashioned pantry cooking for a modern audience. Avid chef and gardener Amy Pennington demystifies canning and pickling for the urban kitchen and provides tips for growing a practical food garden in even the smallest of spaces. Her more than sixty creative recipes blend both gourmet and classic flavors while keeping economy in mind. Urban Pantry holds sustainability at its center: Take advantage of local ingredients, eliminate wasteful kitchen practices, and make the most out of the food you buy or grow. A guide to stocking a small kitchen that explains the essential spices, ingredients, and equipment to have in order to create nutritious, easy meals, with more than sixty recipes to fit the urban lifestyle List of recipes Stocking the pantry Kitchen economy Whole grains Beans & peas Cooking with eggs Nuts Milks & yogurt Small-batch preserving The pantry garden Acknowledgments.