DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE COOKBOOK?
Recently Natalie has suggested I open up the topic of favorite healthy cookbooks. It's not easy to find one that has recipes with healthy fats, grass-fed meats, homemade broth, etc., but they are out there.
Here is my favorite:
As you probably guessed, I love Nourishing Traditions, since it was a big part of my “food conversion“, and it has taught me many new things that I never had a clue about before I read it there. (Things that most people only a generation or two ago were very familiar with.)
However, I have to admit, I usually just take any recipe, from any source, and adapt it by using healthier ingredients.
So how about it?
Will you e-mail me your favorite cookbook? AND don't forget to tell us why you love it, and what your favorite recipe is inside. When I get a few, I'll compile them into a post. 🙂
THANK YOU!
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MommaofMany says
“Fannie Farmer” was written by Marion Cunningham. That’s a good one.
I also use “More With Less” by Doris Jantzen Longacre. I have benefited from “The New Natural Foods cookbook” by Jean Hewitt, as well.
Martha Greene (of Marmee’s Kitchen) has put out several wonderful cookbooks.
I always ignore when soy is hyped as a health food. That stuff is dangerous!
birthhappy says
I love “Super Natural Cooking.” It is fairly new to me, but it is informative and beautiful and yummy and pretty eclectic.
Michigan Mom2three says
Kelly, I do the same as you – I’ve used Nourishing Traditions as my “primer”, and re-worked many of our family favorites.
However, A couple of cookbooks that I do love:
“The Grassfed Gourmet” by Shannon Hays *This cookbook that educates the benefits of pastured, grass-fed, traditionally raised meat and egg as Nourishing Traditions is to educating about traditonal diets!
“The Fannie Farmer Cookbook” – can’t recall the author…. it’s in nearly every library, and most bookstores. This is a comprehensive “how to cook anything from scratch” cookbook. All whole food ingredients, some mentions of margerine, but rarely. It was first published in the turn of the century, before the big margerine push, and it continues to be reprinted. The hardback version is expensive ($40?) but the paperback is cheap (about $10) although you need to be able to read small print to use the paperback!
My new favorite cookbook – one I just got this year: “Farmer John’s ‘The Real Dirt on Vegetables’ ” This cookbook is FUN (published by Farmer John and his CSA) and will tell you everything you can possibly do with ANY produce item you bring home from a CSA or the Farmer’s Market.
Shauna