Hello and meow everyone. It’s your friend Cosmo the Library Cat. I’ve done a lot of digging in my time, but I’ve never taken the other steps necessary to grow a garden. However, I know a lot of you humans worked hard this summer to raise fruits and vegetables and now that it’s harvest time, you may have a lot of them on hand.
If you’d like some good ideas and recipes for enjoying the fruits (and vegetables) of your labors, look no further than Grand County Public Library’s cookbook collection, which spans several shelves– occupying prime naptime real estate for a cat like myself. So do us both a favor and come check out what we have to offer.
For example,“The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Vegetable Cookbook” is full of delicious inspiration, as is the succinctly-named “Vegetable Literacy” cookbook. And “America’s Test Kitchen Best Vegetable Recipes: 33 Recipes from Artichokes to Zucchini” comes highly recommended, too. (It is rumored that zucchini is especially plentiful this time of year.) You can also borrow periodicals like “Cook’s Illustrated,” which has lots of seasonal recipes.
If you have more garden produce than you can eat all at once, why not check out “The complete Book of Small Batch Preserving,” or how about “Canning and Preserving for Dummies”? I thought this title sounded a little insulting, but upon consideration I’ve decided that if my choice is between taking offense at a jokey book title, or accidentally spreading botulism to my friends and family, I know what I’m picking.
Maybe you’re like me and prefer that someone else does the cooking? If you stop by the Youth Garden Project’s Weed ‘n’ Feed on Wednesday, September 4th at 6 PM, and help out in the garden for a while, you’ll get a delicious supper in return, cooked up by vegetable-loving library staff. Happy harvesting, everyone!
