Love International foods but can’t afford the expense of restaurants? Now you can cook better at home without the big cost. Garden enthusiasts and prolific writers Dave and Lillian Brummet, show how to deliciously make use of highly nutritional ingredients. From One Small Garden is the ultimate guide to utilizing fresh fruits and vegetables. Inspiring, creative recipes filled with exciting flavors will make you love cooking again! Enjoy recipes inspired by cultures across the planet, using locally grown harvests. - Packed with agricultural, historical and nutritional information. - Tips on saving water, reducing energy costs and food waste, and other frugal ways to extend your budget. - Handy index to scan for recipes when you need to find a use for any vegetable at hand. - Feel inspired again and enjoy the delicious, rewarding feasts produced from local farmers Large font for easy reading, and filled with historical and personal stories, energy-saving tips and nutritional information, this is more than just a collection of recipes. Bring international cuisine to the table with your own copy of this cookbook today! Locally grown food has a profound positive impact on your contribution to global warming and food security issues. ... What readers say: " The nice part about this cookbook is that there are variations included for a lot of the recipes so you can customize or adapt the dish to your mood or even which vegetable you have on hand. It has given me more confidence in the kitchen when it comes to garden harvest time or when I bring a load of goodies come home from the farmers market. " ~ Pam Johannsen; Good Food Magazine " Absolutely pure, fresh flavours; easy and delicious. This book should be in every kitchen. It is so easy to follow the description when preparing a delicious meal. You won't regret having this cookbook creating wonder in your kitchen ." ~ Celia Pringle " Since COVID I haven't been able to afford the rising cost of eating at my favourite restaurants anymore. Then along came this wonderful collection of recipes called From One Small Garden that taught me how to cook with variety and flavour! One of the most used books on my shelf now. " ~ Greg Maldon ... Other books include: From One Small Garden - Over 300 Delicious Nutritious Recipes - (cookbook) Trash Talk: It's Easy To Be Green - (a green living series) * Book 1 * Book 2 Playing With Words (a poetry series): * Towards Understanding: A Poetic Journey Of Valiant Survival * Rhythm & Rhyme : Poetic Observations Of Life's Experiences, Nature, Love and Music * Poetic Wanderings Purple Snowflake Marketing (a writing guidebook series) * Book 1: How to make your book stand out in a crowd. * Book 2: The next step (*coming this fall) Down The Road (memoir) I was so excited to receive my copy of From One Small Garden - Over 300 Delicious Nutritious Recipes in the mail - for several reasons. First, I know the authors. They are our neighbors and friends. So of course I really was looking forward to holding their book in my hands and showing my support of their work. They do a lot for the community here from donating gift certificates to fundraisers or produce from their gardens, cleaning litter from the streets, and so much more including performing (Dave's a musician) for charitable events. As their neighbor I also benefit from seeing their stunning gardens; I watched them transform their property into this heavenly garden scape, and the smells wafting out of their kitchen on a regular basis is super enticing! That aside, I took a real unbiased look at the book. First thing that struck me was the beautiful cover design! But then I saw just how large this book is - 275 pages. I love the large font size - no more squinting in the kitchen trying to find my place in the recipe! Then I started browsing the chapters and saw titles like Thai Lettuce Rolls, Tomatillo Salsa, Peanut Sauce, Brocco-shroom Salad, Sweet Wheat Germ Bread, Homestead Mushroom Soup and Falafal Patties . I can hardly wait to try them all! The really interesting part comes at the end of the book. There's this chapter with quite a few helpful recipes for the household, like: natural hair spray, sprays to keep away pests, household cleaners and air fresheners, herbal tea concoctions for headaches, digestive issues, hormone or illness... and there's even stuff for the dogs; skunk remedy and doggie treats. No longer will I have an endless pile of recycling and trash to deal with because I'm making these at home! Reducing plastic bottles, plastic wrap, paperboard boxes and so on. Reducing my exposure to chemicals... I love it! I like how the index is created too - it is designed so that when you've taken advantage of peak harvest season at the farmers market and got an amazing price to boot, then what are you going to do with it all? It is easy. Just look up the veggie or fruit you have on hand and start browsing the enticing re