Rustic Recipes The Woodburner cookbook by Jennifer Lunenborg - Review and #Giveaway

And now for something completely different .... Today I am reviewing a recipe book and bringing news of a #giveaway of this book

It's called Rustic Recipes - the Woodburner Cookbook by Jennifer Lunenborg

My Review:

The author has drawn on her own experience of cooking without power to create this collection of recipes which, in addition to being cooked by the more usual oven methods, have been tried and tested for cooking on your woodburner stove. This would have been SO handy the Christmas we had a power cut in a holiday cottage with only a logburner to keep us warm, we could have cooked on it, but I didn't even try.

So, whether you're coping with a sudden power-cut, or are a complete eco-warrior living off-grid in a Yurt, you too can produce tasty hearty meals from your woodburner stove.

The first recipes are all for hearty soups perfect to come home to after a day outdoors, from hearty minestrone to delicious pumpkin soup and there's even a recipe for stinging nettle soup which sits alongside a host of recipes using foraging as the inspiration. My taste is more for the delicious leek and potato.

In the Savoury dishes collection there is something to suit every palate, whether you fancy Stilton and leek tartlets (yum), or pizza, curry or the enigmatic sounding Dutch Stamppot, which can also be made as a vegetarian dish. I will be trying several of these (but using my trusty electric oven).

Completed with a handful of accompaniments, basics and puddings (Jam roly poly included of course) there are even some festive recipes to impress your guests with.

I am quite intrigued by the idea of cooking on a wood stove, this is a nicely thought out collection of recipes which will appeal to anyone hankering after the Good life and would make an ideal gift for your friend who loves to gather sustainable wood for their stove and enjoys a quick forage whilst they're in the woods, even if it is between quick trips to Waitrose.

A copy of this book is available as a prize giveaway I am helping organize on the Homecare supplies Facebook page (They also sell some amazing woodburners, multifuel stoves, Gas fires, range cookers and accessories for your stove so please visit it, have a browse and enter our competition to win this book)

Alternatively you can find it here

The Blurb:

More than just a recipe book, but a lifestyle change, encouraging time out from busy schedules to learn from a simpler time. This book not only contains 50 recipes, ranging from hearty soups to rustic French, Italian and Dutch dishes, to a section on foraging; but also gives snippets of information on each recipe, for example; how the chocolate truffle was invented, why carrots are orange? etc.

The book is intended as a rough guide, encouraging its readers to try cooking on their woodburner when they have time, but equally it can be used as a standard recipe book.
This book is a way of bringing that desire for ‘The Good Life’ into everyday living.