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A Seasonal Guide to Cooking, Preserving & Natural Homekeeping
A Seasonal Guide to Cooking, Preserving & Natural Homekeeping
By Erica Strauss
Photographs by Charity Burggraaf
By Erica Strauss
Photographs by Charity Burggraaf
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Sep 29, 2015 | ISBN 9781570619915
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Sep 29, 2015 | ISBN 9781570619922
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About The Hands-On Home
A fresh take on modern homemaking,The Hands-On Homeis your go-to manual for DIY homecare and living more sustainably
From cooking, canning, and preserving to making your own nontoxic home and personal care products, author Erica Strauss offers instruction and inspiration for tackling at-home projects on your own. In this book, you will learn how to:
• Organize and stock your kitchen for easy meal preparation, and then whip up simple but satisfying recipes the whole family will love (Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Granola, Forager Spring Greens Soup, and Simple Crispy Chicken with Roasted Lemon Pan Sauce).
•Use basic food preservation techniques such as water-bath canning, pressure canning, and lacto-fermentation along with a handy year-long food preservation calendar of what to put up when. Preserving recipes are organized seasonally and include Rhubarb Syrup, Pressure-Canned Chicken Broth, Korean-Spiced Turnips, and Cranberry-Pear-Walnut Conserve.
•Create your own home care and personal care products—from Fizzy Bath Bombs and Refreshing Peppermint Foot Scrub to Nontoxic Laundry softener.
With less focus on consumerism and more on saving time and money,The Hands-On Homewill help you create a home you love with simple resources and easy-to-learn skills.
About The Hands-On Home
A fresh take on modern homemaking,The Hands-On Homeis your go-to manual for DIY homecare and living more sustainably
From cooking, canning, and preserving to making your own nontoxic home and personal care products, author Erica Strauss offers instruction and inspiration for tackling at-home projects on your own. In this book, you will learn how to:
• Organize and stock your kitchen for easy meal preparation, and then whip up simple but satisfying recipes the whole family will love (Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Granola, Forager Spring Greens Soup, and Simple Crispy Chicken with Roasted Lemon Pan Sauce).
•Use basic food preservation techniques such as water-bath canning, pressure canning, and lacto-fermentation along with a handy year-long food preservation calendar of what to put up when. Preserving recipes are organized seasonally and include Rhubarb Syrup, Pressure-Canned Chicken Broth, Korean-Spiced Turnips, and Cranberry-Pear-Walnut Conserve.
•Create your own home care and personal care products—from Fizzy Bath Bombs and Refreshing Peppermint Foot Scrub to Nontoxic Laundry softener.
With less focus on consumerism and more on saving time and money,The Hands-On Homewill help you create a home you love with simple resources and easy-to-learn skills.
About Erica Strauss
Erica Strauss is the founder ofNorthwest Edible Life, one of the most popular and well-respected urban-homesteading and gardening blogs in the country. A professionally trained chef, she shares her fun and punchy perspective on garden-to-table eating and living a slower… More about Erica Strauss
About Erica Strauss
Erica Strauss is the founder ofNorthwest Edible Life, one of the most popular and well-respected urban-homesteading and gardening blogs in the country. A professionally trained chef, she shares her fun and punchy perspective on garden-to-table eating and living a slower… More about Erica Strauss
Product Details
Category: Home
Hardcover | $35.00
Published by Sasquatch Books
Sep 29, 2015 | 416 Pages | 8 x 9 | ISBN 9781570619915
Category: Home
Ebook | $15.99
Published by Sasquatch Books
Sep 29, 2015 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9781570619922
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Praise
“A lifestyle guide for eco-conscious consumers.”
—Publishers Weekly
“This title enables an easy start down the path to a homemade, fun, environmentally responsible lifestyle. Home cooks will discover fresh recipes and adopt techniques the author shared from her professional kitchen experience.”
—Library Journal
“Offers tips for sustainability-minded modern homemaking. With recipes and instructions for ‘urban homesteading,’ this book explores reducing consumption and living healthfully.”
—Alaska Beyond, Alaska Airlines magazine
“Strauss chronicles her homemade life inThe Hands-On Home.The beginner-friendly book features 77 food recipes (think green herb lamb chops with preserved lemon oil) and 38 home and body-care recipes.”
—Seattle Magazine
“[Erica Strauss is] something like a one-woman Sunset magazine for home cooks and gardeners in the Seattle region. In this “seasonal guide to cooking, preserving, and naturalhome keeping” she relays recipes and advice for making your kitchen and home as DIY as you like, from making your own tortillas to making your own toothpaste. An attractively photographed, empowering doorstop of a book, whether readers want to learn canning or want to change their lives.”
—TheSeattle Times
“The book is separated by season, offering simple tips and tricks for the quiet, cozy activism of taking back your home, from seasonal recipes and preserving tips to guides to making your own Bronners-style Castile soap, DIY oven cleaner, and lip balm.”
—Portland Monthly“The Hands-On Homeby Erica Strauss is a practical primer for modern, natural homesteading with advice on cooking, preserving, cleaning, and personal care. Organized by season, it offers a years’ worth of do-able projects for DIY living, plus enticing recipes like Swiss Chard Gratin and Short Ribs in Red Wine.”
—Yahoo! Food
“Erica Strauss acts as your seasonal guide to cooking, cleaning and caring for yourself and your family in a more active way, and making your house truly feel like a home.”
—Red Tricycle
“[The] bath bombs are fun to make and the reward for your efforts is a long soak in a heavenly scented bath. Kids love them and if you can bear to give them away, they make great gifts.”
—The Simple Things
“[The Hands-On Home] includes creative, money-saving tips covering just about every aspect of homekeeping.”
—Allrecipes.com
“Pinterest-perfect craft[s] that are as useful as they are cute.”
—Mother Earth News
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