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Aug
16
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Thanks to the generosity of From Storey Publishing, I have two yummy books to giveaway! in Put ‘em Up: A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook, by Sherri Brooks Vinton and Recipes from the Root Cellar by Andrea Chesman.
My love of things in mason jars is well documented on this blog, so it’s about time I looked into the original purpose of jars: preserving. Everything you ever wanted to learn about canning and preserving can be found in Put ‘em Up: A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook. Author Sherri Brooks Vinton easily won me over to the virtues of “putting Up” (aka preserving). She writes “The jams are fruitier, the pickles are more flavorful, and the chutneys and relishes will trick out your dinner table like nothing else.” Aside from greater tasting food, preserving allows you to rely less on imported produce and go green by preserving locally grown foods. The book opens with a section on all the techniques you need to know, the equipment you need and step-by-step instructions with illustrations for each method of preserving. Much of the book is devoted to over 150 recipes for herbs and every fruit and vegetable from apples to watermelon, including such gems as pickled asparagus, szechuan beans, candied citrus rind, charred chilies, fennel confit, rhubarb chutney and spiced pear vodka.
Recipes from the Root Cellar also celebrates the bounty of local harvests, but with an almost contrary premise: that of enjoying local, fresh vegetable in their seasons rather than import say, asparagus in January. As author Andrea Chesman writes, “Between an awareness that processed and exotic foods bring with them a significant carbon footprint and a shortfall in many household economies in the grip of a global recession, eating more humble vegetables makes sense.” The collection offers over 250 recipes with inspiration to enjoy seasonal veggies through the coldest months and pulls hardy greens, winter squashes, and root vegetables from hiding. After a hearty introduction covering how to buy and store individual greens and veggies and how to cook and prepare them. The book is filled with recipes aplenty, from soups and salads, vegetarian main dishes, main dishes with seafood, poultry and meat, and even desserts. Recipes include Curried Rice Salad with Mango Chutney Dressing, Carrot-Mustard Slaw, Apple-Squash Bisque, Portuguese Kale Soup, Rutabaga Chips, Leek and Goat Cheese Pizza, Lemon-Braised Chicken with Turnips, Spicy Meat Lo Mein, and Pumpkin Waffles.
And now for the GIVEAWAY!!!! Leave a comment to this post before midnight August 30 EST and I will choose a winner randomly to win both Put ‘em Up! and Recipes from the Root Cellar. (Be sure your comment links somewhere with contact information or you leave an email address in case you win.)
[tags]giveaway, books, green, preserving, canning, root vegetables[/tags]
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By Meaghan Mountford
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94 Comments so far
Oh how nice it would be to have a new book to reference…beach plums are going to be had very soon!! lkielt@msn.com
I just love your site. I visit several times
a day. Keep up the good work
I’d love to win this!
Always looking for new and interesting recipes for canning. I’ve been canning for 40 years and someone always has something new & interesting. Would love to win these.
I keep meaning to start pickling! And preserving. With the kids nearly back in school, this might be my chance.
I just tried my hand at canning for the first time last year. Pick me!
It would be great to win these books!. I REALLY want to learn how to can and preserve in order to feed my family healthier foods, save money and our planet. These would be especially great now that I have a huge veggie garden and more berries than I know what to do with!
Thanks for the opportunity!
Lynn
awesome!!!
These would be perfect for my dear friend Laura – she is the most awesomest jamstress I know.
I’d love them for all of the preserves I’m doing for my wedding!
What great books! Thanks!
Just what I need to help me take care of all of the stuff in my garden!
Wow, great giveaway. Thank you!!
myclaybliss@gmail.com
I would love to win this, my garden is amazing this year!
Oh wow! This would be a great way for me to actually figure out how to preserve some foods. Thanks for the chance to win.
I’ve been making jams for a couple years and last year was the first time I really started canning (apples and tomatoes). I’d love to learn how to do more! Great giveaway.
My friend is just beginning to enjoy the fruits (and vegs, for that matter!) of her first ever allotment. The pair of us could have hours of fun if I won these books… x
One of my fav things to do is can. I would love these books and know more about the history of preserving. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve started gardening and really want to learn how to use what I grow more.
This is great. I’m canning on my own this year and could use all the help I can get.
I spent years watching my Mum can, with no interest. Now that she’s gone, I have great regrets. I want to put food by!
Great timing with fall just around the corner and my plans to try more canning! Thanks for the chance!
Someday I’ll have a house…a yard…a garden…and vegetables/fruits to jar! Dreams can come true one small step at a time!
These books both look great!
would love these!
I would love to learn about preserving. Great giveaway!
Great selections! Thanks!
I was eyeing Put ‘Em Up when I was at the bookstore.
I love all the new things you talk about and I patiently wait every morning for your newsletter. Then I hang on to every word. Thank you so much.
As for the canning book, my daughter and I were just talking about the idea of starting to can. The mango tree is full and so much goes to waste, we thought of putting some up. This book would give us the information to do that. Please keep us in mind. Thank you again.
I would LOVE a reference like these to help me learn more about preserving!
Started a huge garden this year-Idefinitely need this!
juliegalagan@yahoo.com
My son and I have been trying to can pickels without too much success… the canning part went fine, the pickles, not so hot. So we could use any help we can find!
I’ve been washing out my honey jars and practically everything else in a jar or made of glass …so please pick me and I will blog and photograph my creations for you
homesick American gal, Susan xoxo
I would love to win these cookbooks. I try to use whole foods when cooking and love trying new recipes!
would be nice to win so i can fill the millions of pretty jars i have collected over time
I *love* both these authors. Great giveaway! Yay!!
My husband would love these books! He’s the canner in our house, but so far it’s just applesauce and pickles. Some new recipes would be great to try.
I started canning this year, and we’re putting a root cellar in our new house, so I would love to win!
i’d like to make jams and pickles, sounds delicous.
I love the real food cookbooks! and your site!
Ooh, these books look great!
I love trying new recipes, thanks for the chance to win!
Great giveaway! I could use both these books with my CSA stash and eventually when my own garden is created! Thanks for the chance!
crafts[at]oursideofthemountain[dot]com
Just started canning — can’t get enough!
Oh goodness, these look so awesome!!
soluckyducky(at)gmail(dot)com
What great timing! The garden is just beginning to yield more than we can eat in a couple of days (and that is with 7 in the family)and I do have to find time to put some of it up through canning or freezing. To have new ideas would be so helpful. Then, in the middle of Feb. or March I am sure I will be able to put the other book to use because I will want some really new ideas for using what I have canned. Thanks for the opportunity.
Shari in Colorado (ladyjspice@aol.com)
These cookbooks look great. I eat a lot of root vegetables, and more ways to cook them sounds great! The canning cookbook may teach me how to do it. That would be super.
looks like a great reference guide! fingers crossed!
I’ve recently tried canning plum jelly and grape juice…what a great thing! I would love to learn more!
oohhh! i think the only thing i love more than glass jars are glass jars full of jam
cant wait to make a batch… mmmmmmm jaaaammmmm…
xxx sarah
Love this, hope I win some
It would be great to win these books! Thanks for the chance!
ricettebarbare at gmail dot com
It’s so nice of u to have a giveaway! This is quite different from all my book of recipes and cakes!!!
These books look great!
Ohhhh!! These cookbooks look wonderful!! I LOVE to cook, bake…you name it! I am one of those kind of moms who tries a new recipe at least once a week!! Needless to say…I am a cookbook fanatic!
I just found out I got accepted to the local market basket program. Would love to win so that I know what to do with all the lovely veggies!
I would love some new ideas for canning. I love this site. What a great give away. Debbie
I just got my mom into canning too! We started with pickles and salsa they turned out great! The only issue we have is the top to our canning pot is warped – any suggestions on a new canning system? I’ve looked online and the price varies – I would want an affordable one.
PICK ME PLEASE!!!!
I love to cook and can so these books would be a great addition to my collection. I know I’d enjoy using them both.
joosbornenc@yahoo.com
Wow these are some awesome books! I checked out put’um up from the library, and was going to copy a few of my favorite pages, but they are all so great, I figured I should just get the book instead. The root cellar book is right up my alley too! If I don’t win these books, they will both end up on my amazon wish list by September 1
Thanks for the giveaway!
I love cookbooks! Or any books about food!
Wonderful giveaway! I would so love to win!
ap_lemos at yahoo dot com
I am always looking for more recipes and instruction for preserving food. This is exactly where my focus and energy are going these days. This would be a perfect gift.
Would love to have this to complement my collection.
Cool site. Storey Publishing brought me here! Please submit me for the lucky drawing.
I like the “one in the jar, one in my belly, one in the jar…” system for handling summer produce.
I would love this book! This is my second year of having my own organic garden and I need ideas on how to preserve all my fresh produce. I am also working on trying to integrate more local products into my diet. Thanks!
I really have a things for Mason Jar too!
I often use one as a glass
I started doing this after I went to a bar where they serve drinks only in jars.
I love canning and these would make a great addition to my cookbook collection!
Great books! Please enter me to win!
i LOVE BOOKS ABOUT FOOD
I just checked out several books on the subject of preserving food from my local library – but these look better!
Those look like great books!
I’ve been meaning to strat making my own jams and pickles, this would be a great incentive!
abrilgmolina at gmail dot com
My son, who has just started his apprenticeship as a chef, would love these.
Thanks for the comp.
Love to cook! Love your website
I have just started canning, so the put em up book would be perfect. I also struggle with interesting ways to cook root veg, so that book would be great as well.
Wow! I’d love to try the pumpkin waffles recipe.
I’ve been canning for several years and my daughters are learning to do the same. These would be great books for them in the future. Thanks!
Two new books on putting food up! I am thrilled. These will need to become part of my cookbook collection.
This would be great! I’ve been wanting to start canning for awhile now. I remember doing it with my Grandma as a child and want to share it with my children, too. Plus, it all tastes so yummy!
I just had my first garden this summer. We’ve been canning salsa, pizza sauce, pasta sauce & green beans and have frozen limas and corn. These books would be awesome for me as we are already starting to plan our sophomore garden…which is being enlarged to about 1/2 acre…yippee!!
These books sound great! Love any type of “back to the land” books. Thanks for the giveaway.
Would love to win this book. Might help me to eat more vegies, not to mention the kids. This book can only be helpful and improve my diet and lifestyle.
would love to get my hands on those books
huge fan of your site!!
Oooh love these books x
I’ve been on a jam making spree lately finding inspiration on the blogs, but I’d love to try out some of the recipes in these books. Thanks for the opportunity
Looks like two GREAT books!
oh, I don`t have any of such books so it would be really useful for me
I just canned some peach salsa! Would so love to learn more. Pick me!
I am new to this site and have just taken up crochet and trying to learn to cook – both are having some interesting results! So I got myself a crochet book and now just need some nice lovely cook books to help me on my way ?
I love canning but I have only been doing fruit. I would love to really branch out and get more brave.
ohhhh – I’ve wanted to learn to can and preserve. This cookbooks would be great!