Ripe From Around Here is a corker of a book (the debut book Get It Ripe is also excellent). The book is almost 15 years old but never dates, because it’s all about local sustainable eating (the extensive intro is worth the price of the book alone) followed by oodles of amazing recipes and meal plans by a vegan chef and baker, who can make wholefood recipes taste as good as any other.
Before cooking, read up on a food safety for people & pets (many human foods are unsafe around animal friends).
If growing your own food, learn how to make gardens safe for pets (includes indoor plants to avoid – avoid facing indoor foliage to gardens, to help stop birds flying into windows.
Jae has since given up writing cookbooks, but these two books are her legacy, and worth reading and cooking from. A woman ahead of her time, she was writing about all the things we’re now discussing (food waste, organic food, community supported agriculture) over a decade ago. Recipes include:
- Mushroom asparagus risotto
- Wild rice with wild leeks
- Roasted fiddleheads with garlic
- Pear parsnip soup
- Strawberry shortcake
- Plum upside-down cake
- Blackberry peach cobbler
- Sweet cherry pie
- Lavender blueberry ice-cream
- Ginger peach ice-cream
