Amy Pennington - Urban Pantry: Tips and Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable and Seasonal Kitchen

PRAISE FOR URBAN PANTRY

As someone who loves cookbooks (I used to take them to bed and read them like you would a novel) and is primarily self taught from the old greats, I still derive plenty of inspiration from the books that come out every year. Here are some of the standouts that I will be delving into all summer. Among them is Amy Penningtons book Urban Pantry, full of clever recipes for using your kitchen to the max...[She] incorporates many tips on how to grow your own kitchen garden and teaches a kitchen economy for todays urbanitefrom how to stock the pantry, to what to plant when, to how to can and preserve a variety of foods for the winter months.

Gwyneth Paltrow, Goop Newsletter, goop.com

A tasty collection of seasonal and sustainable recipes that can be prepared using staples pulled from the cupboard.

Leslie Kelly, Al Dente, www.aldenteblog.com

A must read!

Urban Farm Hub, www.urbanfarmhub.com

Pennington offers up pithy advice on kitchen economy and stocking a practical pantry. Her recipes, from soups to pickles to temptations like vanilla quinoa pudding, offer ease of preparation and healthful ingredients. But gardeners will cruise through the recipes to savor the chapter called The Pantry Garden on how to choose and grow flavorful herbs and vegetables to cook and eat fresh from the garden, as well as to preserve for the pantry.

Valerie Easton, Pacific Northwest Magazine, The Seattle Times

Tips & Recipes
for a Thrifty, Sustainable
& Seasonal Kitchen

AMY PENNINGTON

PHOTOGRAPHY BY DELLA CHEN

2010 by Amy Pennington

Photographs 2010 by Della Chen

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form, or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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Printed in the United States of America

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Copy Editor: Amy Smith Bell
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Cover photograph: Della Chen

ISBN (paperback): 978-1-59485-346-3
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-59485-347-0

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pennington, Amy, 1974-

Urban pantry : tips and recipes for a thrifty, sustainable & seasonal kitchen / by Amy Pennington ; photography by Della Chen.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-59485-346-3

1. Cookery. I. Title.

TX714.P4455 2010

641.5dc22

2009049748

Printed on recycled paper

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To all of the children I love so very much: Lily Zimmerman and Daniel Abramson; Seth Pennington IV; Michael, Lauren, Katarina, Jaclyn, and Nathalie Bartholomew; Hannah Maloy-Collado; and Lilly, Caleb, and Luke Ackerman. May you be playful in life, confident in the kitchen, and surrounded by friends and good food, always.

BREAKFAST

APPETIZERS

SOUPS

SALADS & SIDE DISHES

MAIN COURSES

GARNISHES, VINAIGRETTES & SAUCES

PANTRY STAPLES

PICKLES & PRESERVES

DESSERTS

I WOULD LIKE to give a shout-out to the best collaborator ever who brought life to the pages of this, my very first bookphotographer Della Chen. Her humor, dedication, and overall Gemini fabulousness is so very appreciated. I owe her a lifetime of free gardening advice.

Big props to the team over at Skipstone who found me out in the garden and followed me into the kitchen, where my heart and soul liveKate Rogers, Margaret Sullivan, and team.

A thank-you to top all thank-yous to my very best friends and urban family who have spent countless hours around the stove and dinner table with meMichelle Ackerman, Marcus White, Jaime Collado, and Patric Gabre-Kidan. I love you all dearly.

A gracious thank-you to Miss Ritzy Ryziak for giving me my first writing job (offered to me in the doorway of a pizzeria) before I even knew I wanted to be a food writer.

I am forever indebted to Tom Douglas for opening the door to a wonderful world of food, and sharing his experiences, wisdom, words, and support, always.

A big thank-you to all of my clever food friends for their inspired and creative suggestions, cooking tips, eager ears, and hours of conversation about nothing but foodJohn Chaffetz, Sheri Wetherell, Barnaby Dorfman, and Katie Okumura. And to my good-food girlsJen Lamson, Kristin Hyde, and Emily Naftlinfor being my tasting guinea pigs and offering me their candid thoughts on everything food related.

I am beyond grateful to all of the people who have given me so much inspiration over the yearsin life and in food. I think of them often and fondly and continue to use their tricks in the kitchen and beyondCarol Zimmerman, Lynda Oosterhuis, and Aliye Aydin.

And finally, Puno hvala mojoj obitelji!

Volim te, Gram! Thanks to my sister and brother, who continue to pepper my life with good stories and laughter; to my mother, who let me cook by myself when I was too short to even see the top of the stove; and to my father, who taught me that the phrase I cant should forever be banished from my lexicon and raised me to be the self-sustaining woman I am today.