The Permaculture Kitchen: How to Cook Delicious, Honest, Seasonal and Sustainable Food from the Garden or Local Market

2014 | Food & Drink

This is the ultimate introduction to economical, seasonal and delicious cooking. The Permaculture Kitchen explains how to make tasty meals, driven by seasonal, foraged, home-grown, local, fresh, free range produce, including meat and sustainably caught fish. Learn how to develop recipe ideas 'on the fly' and the secrets of weekly and seasonal meal planning. This is a cookbook for gardeners who love to eat their own produce, and for people who enjoy a weekly veggie box or supporting their local farmer's market. It is packed with tips and hints for creating a flexible store cupboard, and full of step by step instructions and recommendations for kitchen tools and equipment. Each recipe makes the best use of its ingredients. There are recipes for meals that can be easily cooked in 30 minutes or less with additional tips on how to make further dishes from leftovers. Learn how to make stocks, soups, sauces, pizzas, curries, grills, pilafs and paellas, preserves and more! Every recipe can be cooked according to the recommended ingredients, but will include plenty of ideas for variations so that other ingredients can be included or substituted as desired and available.

Also included are vegetarian recipes, and vegetarian and vegan alternatives to meat dishes. This is the ultimate grow your own and local produce cooking guide written by our own permaculture smallholder and cook, Carl Legge, a passionate advocate of good food with a low carbon footprint. It is the first in a series about low impact, local and seasonal gourmet food.

Carl Legge (Author)