Urban Pantry: Tips & Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable & Seasonal Kitchen

This is another book I had seen in the library a few years ago and decided to check it out (many times)! As a gardener and food preserver, I understand going from soil, seed to pantry! This book gives some nice tips for newbies and reminders for the more experienced. Since we've experienced food shortages during COVID (and this fall promises to continue in that manner), stocking the pantry for the fall/winter is not such a bad thing! Amy Pennington's book is as current today as when it was first published!

The whole book is marvelous. I am an experienced home cook with 4 decades of cooking for a family under my belt. Amy’s recipe for roast chicken seems ridiculous in its simplicity and yet it makes the most consistently perfect moist chicken EVERY time. And I’ve tried dozens. This one recipe is worth the price of the book.

I have 155 cookbooks. No, I'm not some crazy fanatic who counts her cookbooks. I'm a crazy fanatic who keeps all of her cookbooks in her virtual library on Goodreads. I have seriously cut back on my cookbook buying, so when I do get a new cookbook, I expect a lot from it. Amy Pennington's Urban Pantry: Tips and Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable and Seasonal Kitchenwas everything I hoped it would be and more.Normally, I wait until I've made several recipes out of a book before I review it, but this was just so lovely, I had to share it now. First of all the pictures of her pantry with all the food in jars totally won me over immediately. Put some polenta, or beans, or grains in jars and line them up in your pantry, and I am in love. Then take those simple, lovely ingredients and turn them into simple, lovely meals, I am yours forever.She divides the book into chapters titled: Breakfast, Appetizers, Soups, Salads & Side Dishes, Main Courses, Garnishes Vinaigrettes & Sauces, Pantry Staples, Pickles & Preserves, and Desserts. Picking just one recipe from each chapter:*Hippie Hotcakes*Onion-Thyme Tart*Herbal Minestrone*White Bean & Preserved Lemon Salad*Over Easy Tomatoes with Polenta*Steeping Fruit*Homemade Bread Crumbs*Boozy Blood Orange Marmalade*Vanilla Quinoa PuddingAnd there is lots more! Really, I've marked practically the whole book to make. The vanilla quinoa pudding is next on my list. I was trying to decide last night, what I could quickly make, so that I would have at least tried one of the recipes. I settled on Quick Pickled Chiles, because I love all pickles and because I had just picked some peppers from my garden. These were quick, simple, and a nice spicy garnish for a simple fish dish.

When I first saw the title I knew I had to have it. Urban Pantry, Thrifty, Sustainable, Seasonal? Amy's words spoke right to me.I am a new stay at home mom and we are on a real tight budget, $200.00 every other week for a family of five. I decided to base our grocery list this pay day off of her recipes mainly for two weeks. We spent 190.00 total at Costco for the basics, PCC for a few extras, and our family sized box from our CSA that we receive weekly. We've been eating like kings, and organic none the less! The recipes are so simple yet have that little extra something special. I just made the perfect roast chicken tonight and my husband asked me to marry him...again! Maybe that recipe should be renamed "love bird" or "proposal chicken", no kidding.I am looking forward to trying EVERY recipe and taking up canning for the first time, and next spring planting a back porch garden all with my new BFF. This book has been so inspirational. I also live in Seattle and my front porch view is dumpsters and a parking lot. I used to think I couldn't wait to have a real yard, but now I can see there's no reason to wait to plant a garden. I used to think my "two butt" kitchen wasn't big enough for canning but, now I can't wait for small batch preserving.Amy makes the most daunting tasks simple and savvy. Her words are inviting and friendly. Her tips and advice are smart and timely.I own MANY cook books and just this one speaks to my soul.I just subscribed to edibleSEATTLE because I heard she's a contributer because, I as well can't wait for her next book.

A small book with an introduction to some very do-able recipes which people seem intimidated by. Bread basics, a little lesson (with recipes) on canning, a simple how-to- impress-the-inlaws pavlova recipe.The best part might be all her great ideas for creating good meals from mostly what you have tucked away in your pantry (that is, after she tells you how to stock said pantry). I live a long way from the nearest supermarket, and will go out of my way to avoid having to get in the car and drive almost 20 miles round trip to a small grocery (with big prices). Amy Pennington has saved the day for me in the few months I've been using her book.If there is anything I think she's left out, it's homemade yogurt. So easy, tasty and can be made from full-fat to skim- and flavored/sweetened per your tastes. Maybe we'll see that in her next book...?

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Perfect. I originally wanted to get this for my sister, but I ended up getting this for myself. It's a really nice addition to my cookbook collection. It is useful and interesting and the recipes are neat. I wish it had more photographs though, like the cover. It would be neat to see different "urban kitchens:" how they're organized, stacked, are jars used more than orgional packaging, paint colors, etc. While it is a useful cookbook, hence the high and appropriate rating. It lacks a visual and everyday useful appeal, one that I anticipated and was excited for before purchasing.

Full of lovely recipes using wholefood ingredients. Also have lots of advice on how to stock your pantry, which ingredients are really worth having, what plants and herbs are the easiest to grow for maximum yeld and flavour for an urbanist who doesn't have much growing space. I really love this book and cook from it often, I just wish that there were pictures of every meal in the book.

Fabulous Book. So glad I bought it. Educational and TASTY!!!