Too Many Tomatoes, Squash, Beans, and Other Good Things: A Cookbook for When Your Garden Explodes [Large Print]

Too Many Tomatoes delivers on its promise: helping gardners turn their bounty at harvest-time into wonderful, fresh, healthy dishes. This cookbook was written before local and fresh were mere marketing slogans, and the authors love for food, for the earth, and for cooking make this cookbook both educational and inspiring. In regards to reviewers who gave the cookbook low ratings for no pictures and recipes with dairy, those folks are missing the boat. There are plenty of us who appreciate the synergy between land and animal, who savor things like sauteed fresh carrots, local butter, and fragrant herbs. If you're inspired by the likes of Kingsolver and Alice Waters, you'll treasure this cookbook as well!

I have owned this book for about nine years now, and every summer when the garden really starts to produce it comes back off of the cookbook shelf. Some of my particular favorites are the Fresh Cream of Tomato Soup and the Eggplant Minestrone, which both freeze well if made in large quantites. The Chocolate Zucchini Cake is also very good. In fact there are a lot of good recipes for zucchini and who isn't looking for zucchini recipes when they grow them - one or two plants produce so much. My mother got used to this book when I still lived at home and helped my father grow a garden. Now she has to keep borrowing it to make her favorites. I have also shared some of my favorites with other family members and cowokers who have all been impressed with the variety and quality of the recipes.

As an example, I never knew how to properly cook beets. But when I followed their simple method the beets turned out great--delicious. And the same is true for the many vegetables highlighted in this great cookbook. This is truly an outstanding reference for preparing fresh vegetables--whether from your garden or from the market. Simple instructions, tested results.

What do you do with a garden full of tomatoes, zucchini, or whatever else you may have over-planted??? This book gives you many ideas for what to do with your abundant harvest. From canning to simple recipes, this book has it all.