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Simple Food {for spring} Cookbook

May 11, 2011 By Sylvia 4 Comments

Just look at this beautiful book! Shannon over at Nourishing Days has put together what is destined to become one of my favorite cookbooks. Its called Simple Food {for spring} Cookbook.

Isn’t it a pretty book? And the recipes sound delicious. I think what I like most about this cookbook is that the author has used fresh, easily obtained ingredients to make healthy and delicious dishes.

This week I have decided to try Dandelion Green & Caramelized Onion Pizza, Lamb Stew with Peas &
Potatoes and Spring Colcannon.

Look what is included in Simple Food {for spring}

80 pages.
28 (brand new!) grain-free recipes.
full-color photos with every recipe.
5 essays encouraging sustainability and homegrown living with information about cleansing and wild edibles.

Salads: Raw, Cooked, & Dressed
Basic Cream Dressing
Blue Cheese Salad Dressing
Honey Mustard Dressing
Ranch Salad Dressing
Radish & Sour Cream Salad
Beet & Feta Salad

Main Dishes: Meat-Free
Asparagus, Spinach, & Spring Onion Tart
Braised White Beans Scented with Rosemary
Dandelion Green & Caramelized Onion Pizza with Sprouted Garbanzo Crust
Greens Burgers
One Pan Baked Eggs with Spinach
Roasted Asparagus & Cheddar Soup

Main Dishes: Omnivorous
Chicken & Two Pea Curry
Lamb Stew
One-Pan Deconstructed Stuffed Shells
Roasted Leg of Lamb with Garlic & Rosemary
Spring Colcannon
Spring Vegetable & Ground Beef Thai Stir Fry
Sprouted French Lentil, Ham, & Asparagus Salad

Side Dishes: Vegetables & Baked Goods
Grain-Free Scones
Mediterranean Pea Mash
Quick Southern Style Greens
Ranch-Flavored Pea Mash
Skillet Garbanzo Flat Bread (Socca)

Food Preservation
Dehydrate Greens for A Better Greens Powder
Chimichurri Sauce
Lacto-Fermented Asparagus
Lacto-Fermented Radishes

CHK is an affiliate of Nourishing Days, so if you purchase the cookbook using our links, we receive a percentage of the sale.

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Surviving Off Off-Grid ~ New Book

March 4, 2011 By Sylvia 3 Comments

Today, March 4, 2011, is Book Bomb day at Amazon .com for Michael Bunker’s new book called Surviving Off Off-Grid. What that means is that as many people as possible are buying this book today in order to get Michael’s book into Amazon’s Top 100 Books listing and keep it there for an entire day. Right now, as of this post, it is #57.

You may have heard of living Off-Grid. That’s a lifestyle marked by growing one’s own food and producing one’s own electricity and pumping in water.

But, according to the author, living off-grid really just sets you up to live on another grid system. And if something goes awry with that grid, what then?

The author isn’t a conspiracy theorist, he just believes that living completely off grid, no electricity, no city water, etc. is the best way to live. Here’s a quote from the book:

“We want to learn the old ways, not just because they are old or because they are historical, but because they work and because they are sustainable. I do not mean “sustainable” in quite the way the modern eco-friendly folks do, though there is something to that as well. I mean “sustainable” in its literal meaning. We learn these ways because we will be able to continue in them even if the grid beast collapses and dies. We can continue in these ways without … without being stained or harmed by too much dependence on what the world calls “necessities.” Michael Bunker, Surviving Off Off-Grid

Oh, he isn’t suggesting that there is some magical formula to live like this. He isn’t saying that we won’t need to work. That’s the problem with all of us today, we’ve forgotten what it means to work hard. Read this next quote.

If you realize that you can do the things you want to do with hard work, with industry, and with your own labor without paying $24,000 for an off-grid solar power system, then you will have just saved $24, 000 and all you have to do now is learn to replace stuff with skill and know-how. –Michael Bunker, Surviving Off Off-Grid

Living Off Off-Grid isn’t for everyone, obviously. But if you’ve ever given it serious thought, if you’ve been working in that direction but can’t seem to find the encouragement or motivation to keep going, I think this could be the extra help you are looking for.

If you purchase Surviving Off Off-Grid through the links on this page CHK will earn a commission from Amazon. CHK was not paid to recommend this book, I just thought it looked like a great book! And here is a link to the Kindle version of Surviving Off Off-Grid!

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