Nourished Kitchen book giveaway + easy radish recipe
We are moving this week, out to the country after a near three years in our current rental house. I’m currently sorting through a hefty volume of amassed possessions in the midst of regular work obligations. Meals at home are still happening as usual thanks to my wife’s diligence (and incorporating my homemade project additions), but I taught on Monday night and we ate pizza out after class. Yesterday’s lunch reminded me of why I esteem Jenny McGruther, author of Nourished Kitchen book, and blog.
Early in my journey of figuring out what to eat and why, I acquired Sally Fallon Morell & Mary Enig’s book Nourishing Traditions. An essential volume that provided real science to back arguments about why the mainstream food business isn’t advocating on our bodies’ behalf with things like the low fat crusade that began in the 70’s and the subsequent laurels placed on cooking with vegetable oils. (The big food industries of course pay for the science behind their arguments.)
Cooking from this elemental volume might leave one less than excited about their new nourishing diet as Morell and Enig are/were both nutritionists (Enig passed away this year), not cooks. The recipes need a little extra love in many cases, to make them blog-worthy dishes. Jenny, has been doing just that by coming up with recipes that fit a nourishing, traditional foods lifestyle and making us drool over them since 2007 over at her blog, Nourished Kitchen. From real food meal plans for busy families to teaching folks how to ferment anything, the site is a wealth of knowledge. Her beautiful book of the same name came out in April 2014 and is a cookbook based on seasonal cooking with whole foods and real food ingredients.
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In addition to all the wonderful recipes and things you can find in both the book and on the blog, I appreciate Jenny’s instagram feed because she reminds us that she is a normal person who has an occasional doughnut and that is absolutely fine. We need to be flexible in our food lifestyles enough to remember we’re humans.
Our lunch yesterday was just leftover pizza until I found a simple (move-friendly, even) and nourishing side dish in the book from things already in our fridge, a radish, parsley and butter. This is what Jenny’s book is about for me, not needing to adhere to a strict nutritional code, but finding a way to make more nourishing components of meals and wrapping that into your lifestyle.
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Blistered Radishes
(excerpted from The Nourished Kitchen by Jennifer McGruther)
16 radishes
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1/4 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Freshly ground unrefined sea salt
Chop the radishes into 1/4-inch dice and set them in a bowl while you prepare the remaining ingredients.
Melt the butter in a wide skillet over medium-high heat. When the butter foams, decrease the heat to medium-low and stir in the radishes. Cook the radishes in the butter, stirring frequently, for 8 to 10 minutes, until their skins blister slightly. Sprinkle them with the parsley and season with the salt to suit your preference. Serve warm.
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Win a copy of this book by using the widget below. Please note that 10 Speed Press will be mailing the winner’s copy directly to them and they have requested that I accept only entrants from the Continental U.S. Thank you for understanding their restrictions.
Disclosures: My agent (who is also Jenny’s agent) sent me a complimentary copy of the Nourished Kitchen book, and 10 Speed Press, Jenny’s publisher, will be mailing a copy to the winner of this giveaway. The Amazon links to the books in this post offer a small kickback to me if you purchase via these links.
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Reader Comments (40)
I have lusted after this book for quite sometime. It would be a great additional to our library to help us reach our homestead goals. XO
I love her blog. I would love to read her cookbook.
I am really hoping to cook more at home with whole foods, and to enjoy it - lately its been more of a chore than a pleasure
remembering to eat...
I need to streamline my kitchen. It's small and I want to re-claim the counter space.
making breads out of different flours besides just wheat.
Gorgeous book! I'd love a copy!
Really hope to win this book; I love your work
I am happy to hear about an interesting new book and Instagram feed! Also, that looks like a great way to use radishes; I tend to think of them only as a salad addition. Awesome!
We've got a pretty decent fruit & veg garden, but haven't always been great about using the produce. We've recently started making a more concerted effort to do so, whether eating it fresh, preserving it, or at least trading with someone else for other fresh/real-food items.
I am planting a winter garden to continue growing my own food to feed my family.
This winter I am exploring whole grains, learning how to prepare them in place of some less nourishing starches. Slow but sure!
I want to do more preserving and fermenting.
I am trying to incorporate more real food recipes into my family's meals and would be excited to have this cookbook!
Would love a copy of this book!
Ive delved into the world of fermentation, finally!
Staying healthy and grounded by keeping a Perpetual Bone Broth going in my slow cooker.
I love her blog and would be so delighted to win her book!!
I would like to cook more real foods and get away from all the processed junk in my diet.
Would love to own this book!
I really enjoy the Nourished Kitchen blog. I would love to learn to make more fermented foods.
I have always been locked in a battle with food. I have done a lot of soul searching and am continuing to work on having a healthy relationship with food. It has been a crutch for so long and I would like to use food for what it is, the stuff that keeps my body working the way it is suppose too.
I would love to win this book as I am trying to incorporate more vegetables into our meals in interesting ways. Have read your blog for quite some time. Congrats on the new book!
more fermenting :)
Jenny's blog has been an inspiration and through her i found you!