Introducing: Simple Food {for winter}, my cookbook and how-to guide
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Three months ago I was looking through a little notebook I keep for jotting down recipes and meal ideas. In the pages I found Slow-Cooker Sprouted Ethiopian Lentils, Grain-Free Biscuits, and Cod Cioppino.
During this time I was finishing up a mad dash of food preservation. The dehydrator was running non-stop, our refrigerator was filling with gallons of fermented vegetables, and we were making hoop houses and digging root cellars.
To top it off I was preparing for our no groceries project. I was making lists of the foods that I knew our bodies would need to thrive during the coldest days of the year. I was dreaming up recipes that would include our two bushels of turnips and the dozens of winter squash I had tucked away. After all, if we really are going to eat what we grow then I needed to feed my family so that they would thrive, not just survive, through the winter.
Then one day I looked at my husband and said "Maybe I should write this stuff down." And so I have. All of the recipes, thoughts, encouragement, information, and tips that I have come up with for nourishing my family while eating seasonally through the winter are now in this book.
Friends, I present to you what I have been doing for the past three months. Simple Food {for winter} is finally complete and available in ebook format. Soon it will be available in print. Just add your name to the list below if you’d like to know when.
As I developed these recipes it occurred to me that I have a lot more to share. Coincidentally there are spring and summer and fall recipes sitting in my little notebook and Lord willing I would like to share them with you someday as well.
But for now, I give you Simple Food {for winter}, and not a moment too soon.
Congratulations, Shannon. This is an impressive project! The work and thought that has gone into this book is apparent. Well done!
How exciting, Shannon! Can’t wait!
How wonderful and resourceful, Shannon! What a great way to share your knowledge and experiences with everyone else.
Very impressive Shannon. What a wonderful idea to share with others your tips encouragement and recipes you developed with others so we can do the same. It sounds like a tremendous project, but very worthwhile. Can;’t wait to read it. Congratulations!
excellent cookbook! i love that you are preserving what you produce and cooking from that. i hope to have a root cellar {someday}! i love your essays and say amen!!
the recipes sound wonderful. i’ll be trying one out tonight but i’m having such a hard time deciding which one… i love that i have most of the ingredients stocked, even with my limited kitchen space right now.
great job! looking forward to more!
Congrats my daughter. I am so proud of you.
Congratulations, Shannon! What a great accomplishment! I’m so excited to read this! This is exactly what I need right now – inspiration and information for winter cooking using what I’ve stored or preserved. My winter menus have been feeling a bit…blah. I think the first recipe I try will be the cheeseburger soup – sounds wonderful! Thank you for such a wonderful and timely book, and for all your excellent and helpful writing!