When you grow your own food, shop at a farmer's market, or join a CSA, suddenly you have lots of veggies to deal with. This is a good thing, but it sometimes necessitates learning new and creative ways to deal with beets or greens. What to do?
1. Your public library is an Awesome Resource. You can check out that book on Italian or French or Indian or Chinese cooking without spending a fortune, only to find out you really don't like that style of cooking very much. Ours is building its vegetarian/ vegetable-based section to a magnificent thing.
2. Blogs galore exist with recipes for every cooking style imaginable. Here are some cool ones:
These are a tiny sampling of the ones I have bookmarked- family style, Californian, and New Yorker. You can find Indian cooking videos from Manjula's kitchen on You-tube (these are especially helpful, because a lot of Indian cooking is passed mother to daughter, and thus is difficult to get from a written book), and even blended styles in some blogs.
3. Do not discount the farmer's groups (Northwest Cherries, Sweet Bytes (for sweet potatoes), The Mushroom Channel, Pulse Canada), which often post recipes to encourage people to purchase their food. I hate to call food a "farm product", though it is, simply because I consider that an inadequate description. Food is ideally something grown with care, nurtured through spring floods, bug onslaughts, and summer droughts, and finally brought to the table in triumph and joy. This beauty a "farm product"? I think not. Go fishing online- you might come up with something good.
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