Great artists produce magic with palettes, brushes, canvas, and clay. Great music is created by the musician's touch to inspired notes and the wave of a baton. And the art of great food preparation begins in the kitchen of the author, Marlene Petersen.
Discover how to turn "dry" into delicious! This book combines gourmet attributes with the most basic food storage (dry food and home-canned goods). The author has taken her extraordinary talent for gourmet cooking and applied to to creating tantalizing dishes from the food storage cupboard. Best of all, the recipes are easy to prepare. As you learn to cook with stored foods, watch your budget stretch! The recipes can also be easily adapted to ingredients found on the local grocery store shelves.
As additional features, Marlene includes "starting from scratch" recipes such as homemade noodles, cottage cheese, cream cheese, sourdough starter, English muffins, tortellini shells, and more. Also throughout the book are tips on nutrition and hints on organizing and purchasing food for storage. Departing from the main theme of the book, Marlene has included a section of her all-time favorites for holiday cooking!
Even if you already own food storage cookbooks, this one gives a refreshing twist. Nobody would ever guess that these dishes came from the food storage shelves! This book is likely to become one of your most cherished and well-worn cookbooks.
