Looking forward to digesting "A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen"

They say you eat with your eyes first. The title and the cover are just the beginning--like the appetizer that is drawing us into the whole multi-course meal!

So looking forward to reading, trying, failing and succeeding at the methods and recipes in Kate's book.

In our part of the world, we had a freeze event a few months back. As a kid from a more northern climate, and in a larger family then than what folks grow these days, we were taught many skills without knowing we were being taught. Skills such as canning (water bath, oven, preserves), freezing, cooking indoors and out, foraging the forests for roots for teas, berries for our beloved jellies to top our toast in frigid winters, gardening and "prepping" when prepping wasn't a word or concept but a normal way of life...during the warmer season. All these things pour into my life now. But, off-grid? Not yet there, except for that trial event a few months back...back to that.

The skills from the kid-phase came in handy for that week-long freeze (yes, only a week without water and power). We had water (collected from the roof, pre-freeze and during thaw), cooking capacity (propane stove), and plenty in store (frozen meats and veggies and canned food from hunter, fisher, farmer, grower, gatherer, preserver lifestyle). As a result, we had great meals and nothing to complain about. But, I say with a twinkle in my eye and an eager growl from my belly, why stop at a trial event?

"A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen" is luring us into elevating the experience and we welcome the read and the recipes with gusto! Thanks, Kate, for inviting us to the table--we look forward to days, weeks, months and years of dining with you--and to sharing with, and passing what we learn on to, our grandkiddos as we gather in the kitchen where more than cooking happens - it is where families make and trade memories, recipes, skills and resources.