Rae lives and farms on Barr Farms with her family. She loves cooking healthy food, trying new things, deep conversations with friends, reading, learning, and playing, especially with her three children.
Recommended Cookbooks and Online Resources for Barr Farms CSA Members:
Cookbooks
An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler. This book focuses on using simple ingredients and leftovers to create delicious meals, using humble items like bones, peels, and odds and ends to build flavor and reduce waste. Adler encourages home cooks to find inspiration and make satisfying food from whatever they have on hand.
Half Baked Harvest Every Day: Recipes for Balanced, Flexible, Feel-Good Meals by Tieghan Gerard - This book takes everyday recipes and elevates them just enough to make them feel gourmet. The ingredients are obtainable, some of the recipes are offered with multiple cooking methods, and it’s easy to swap ingredients too!
How to Cook Everything: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman - A comprehensive cookbook known for its minimalist style, clear instructions, and numerous variations, making it a definitive guide for home cooks of all levels. It focuses on fundamental techniques and provides a vast collection of straightforward, reliable recipes.
It's All Good by Gwyneth Paltrow and Julia Turshen - This book features 185 gluten-free, sugar-free, and low-fat recipes inspired by an elimination diet Paltrow followed for health reasons. The book provides easy, healthy recipes that are helpful for those on a journey to find food they can eat while working through health issues.
Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden and Martha Holmberg. This James Beard Award-winning cookbook organizes recipes by vegetable seasons (spring, early summer, midsummer, late summer, fall, winter), focusing on how to best cook vegetables at each stage of their life cycle, from raw to braised.
The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters - This cookbook teaches how to create delicious, seasonal meals by focusing on fresh, local ingredients and fundamental techniques, reflecting the author’s farm-to-table philosophy. It includes lessons on stocking a kitchen and guidance on everything from growing your own food to preparing balanced dishes.
The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer - A classic, comprehensive American cookbook first published in 1931, known for its extensive collection of recipes, cooking techniques, and ingredient information, evolving with each edition to include modern methods, health considerations, and international cuisines while remaining a trusted guide for home cooks.
The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen - A vegetarian cookbook known for its simple, healthy, and seasonal plant-based recipes, whimsical hand-drawn illustrations, and hand-lettered text. It originated from the Moosewood Restaurant co-op in Ithaca, NY, and has inspired generations with its practical, accessible approach to cooking, earning a spot in the James Beard Award Cookbook Hall of Fame.
Online Resources
Ambitious Kitchen You’ll find a wide range of recipes from indulgent cakes to good-for-you meals to healthier versions of comfort food.
Cookie and Kate A healthy food blog that celebrates whole foods with fresh vegetarian recipes.
Dishing Up the Dirt Recipes come packed with veggies straight from the farm, your local farmers market, or CSA box.
Divas Can Cook Authentic Southern cooking recipes tested to ensure consistent results.
Evolving Table Fast, fresh, family-friendly weeknight dinner recipes.
Feasting At Home Chef-created seasonal plant-powered whole food recipes.
Love and Lemons Easy plant-based recipes that will satisfy any craving!
Nom Nom Paleo Asian-influenced recipes, often California-inspired, and popping with flavor.
Rainbow Plant Life Meticulously tested vegan recipes from New York Times best-selling author and James Beard-nominated recipe developer Nisha Vora.
Save the Food Storage Guide An interactive storage guide - with tips, tricks, and info to keep your food fresh and tasty for as long as possible.
Serious Eats Rigorously tested recipes, science-driven cooking techniques, robust equipment reviews, and stories that provide cultural and historical background for the foods we love.
The Mediterranean Dish Easy, wholesome recipes that celebrate the bold flavors of the Mediterranean with a contemporary take.
The Modern Proper Recipes inspired by local, seasonal ingredients, made from scratch, designed to communicate hospitality and value to those with whom it’s shared.
The Stay At Home Chef Restaurant-quality recipes you can easily make at home.
This Blog Post has a number of really interesting cookbook suggestions!
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