The Natural Cook
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The Natural Cook is an inspirational book for the way we eat now. It puts fresh, flavoursome, veg-focused food centre-stage, and features recipes that make use of every ounce of an ingredient. Each of the 26 seasonal 'hero' ingredients featured is represented first by three simple cooking techniques that teach you how to make a delicious simple dish.These techniques are then followed by three world-inspired recipes, which make use of the prepared ingredients as well as drawing in other seasonal fruit and vegetables. At the end of
each recipe, the 'Cook's Notes' give clear tips and ideas for turning uneaten extras into other delicious meals, ensuring that absolutely nothing is wasted. To give examples: a simple roast pumpkin with sage can be transformed into a salad with chickpeas and kale, a risotto with sage and crispy bacon or an aromatic pumpkin pie with cardamom and maple syrup, while the seeds can be toasted and made into a tasty snack. Rhubarb can be stewed with sultanas,
roasted with vanilla or poached with white wine, and then added to a tagine, baked into custard tarts or layered with granola and yogurt in a breakfast pot. So head to the market and pick the freshest, ripest veg off the shelf, or look in your fridge for that fennel or bunch
of radishes you bought, knowing that there's an inspiring recipe (or ten) waiting for you.
Author
Tom Hunt is an acclaimed eco-chef working on projects to revive our cooking heritage and support all aspects of our food sovereignty. He works closely with various food charities and organisations including Feed the 5,000 events worldwide, FareShare and FoodCycle,
highlighting important concerns in the food industry by creating banquets that promote debate around the food served. He is also the founder of Poco, an award-winning restaurant in Bristol as well as a mobile restaurant made up of an eccentric collection of homemade
yurts and canopies that tour the festival circuit serving seasonal tapas and featuring thrifty cuts of meat, sustainably sourced fish and seasonal vegetables, 75% of which have been sourced within a 50-mile radius.
each recipe, the 'Cook's Notes' give clear tips and ideas for turning uneaten extras into other delicious meals, ensuring that absolutely nothing is wasted. To give examples: a simple roast pumpkin with sage can be transformed into a salad with chickpeas and kale, a risotto with sage and crispy bacon or an aromatic pumpkin pie with cardamom and maple syrup, while the seeds can be toasted and made into a tasty snack. Rhubarb can be stewed with sultanas,
roasted with vanilla or poached with white wine, and then added to a tagine, baked into custard tarts or layered with granola and yogurt in a breakfast pot. So head to the market and pick the freshest, ripest veg off the shelf, or look in your fridge for that fennel or bunch
of radishes you bought, knowing that there's an inspiring recipe (or ten) waiting for you.
Author
Tom Hunt is an acclaimed eco-chef working on projects to revive our cooking heritage and support all aspects of our food sovereignty. He works closely with various food charities and organisations including Feed the 5,000 events worldwide, FareShare and FoodCycle,
highlighting important concerns in the food industry by creating banquets that promote debate around the food served. He is also the founder of Poco, an award-winning restaurant in Bristol as well as a mobile restaurant made up of an eccentric collection of homemade
yurts and canopies that tour the festival circuit serving seasonal tapas and featuring thrifty cuts of meat, sustainably sourced fish and seasonal vegetables, 75% of which have been sourced within a 50-mile radius.