The Pantry Cookbook: How to cook nutritious meals from scratch, on a budget, when time is short. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781467915830)

The Pantry Cookbook: how to cook nutritious meals from scratch, on a budget, when time is short. The American diet is all too often a mishmash of pre-made, mass-produced foods which are expensive, high in calories, and low in nutrients. The popular alternative, gourmet cooking, makes all home cooking appear to take long, and involve expensive, intimidating ingredients. But home cooking doesn't have to be this way. In the Pantry Cookbook, you will learn fundamental recipes and cooking techniques that allow you to whip up nutritious, cheap meals, from scratch, in a minimum of time. This is a user-friendly textbook for beginning cooks, a reference for those who wish to rely less on canned soup and instant side-dishes, and a resource for those who already know how to cook a few things but wish to have a more solid foundation of cooking skills. The Pantry Cookbook has over 130 recipes, including basics like hard-boiled eggs, baked chicken, boiled beans, boiled grain, and saut ed vegetables; classics like beef stew, borscht, and pulled pork; and "Quick Recipes" that can be put together in thirty minutes on a weeknight using ingredients prepared on a weekend. Additional features include shopping lists and menus for a week's worth of meals, an extensive list of substitutions, boxed lunch suggestions, kitchen safety information, money-saving tips, spice mix recipes, ideas for feeding toddlers and other picky eaters, and a complete Thanksgiving menu. The Pantry Cookbook is also a fund raising tool Instead of a standard copyright, the Pantry Cookbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribute which allows non-profit organizations to publish, sell, and collect royalties on the book, so long as the profits are used to support programs that address hunger or nutrition issues.

Author: Michelle Clay
ISBN-10: 1467915831
ISBN-13: 9781467915830
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2011
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.34d

About the Author
Michelle Clay is an artist, a computer game designer, a blogger, and a mother living in Franklin, Massachusetts. The idea for the Pantry Cookbook grew out of an offer to write "just a few" recipes for the Franklin Food Pantry. In what's left of her spare time, Michelle dabbles in writing and photography, spends too much time on Facebook, and searches for American chestnut trees.