NT -- favorite recipes?

[joyfulheart]

I am new to traditional foods.

I just bought Nourishing Traditions (for $8 - brand new! woo-hoo!). I love reading the supplemental information on the sides of the pages. So interesting.

So, what recipes in NT do you like? Any turn out to not be your fav?

I made my first batch of kim chee this week, so we'll see how that tastes!

Your input is appreciated!!

[raksmama]

I love the book!
You are lucky to get it for that low price!

I have only had the book a few months and have not tried everything, but what I like is many of the "ethnic" recipes seem authentic, at least the Middle Eastern and Latin American ones. I like her salsa.

What I don't like: See my thread on soaking beans. I found soaking with acid makes them tough.
I also don’t like her chicken recipes using chicken that was also used to make broth as she suggested because the meat is too stringy and soft.
I take the chicken out after an hour or two, take the bones out and put them back into the broth.

[Usually Curious]

Originally Posted by jalilah

I love the book!
You are lucky to get it for that low price!

I have only had the book a few months and have not tried everything, but what I like is many of the "ethnic" recipes seem authentic, at least the Middle Eastern and Latin American ones. I like her salsa.

What I don't like: See my thread on soaking beans. I found soaking with acid makes them tough.
I also don’t like her chicken recipes using chicken that was also used to make broth as she suggested because the meat is too stringy and soft.
I take the chicken out after an hour or two, take the bones out and put them back into the broth.

I 'roast' the chicken in the crockpot for four or five hours on high (w/little to no liquid). I remove the chicken and debone. Put the bones back in the hot crockpot, fill with water and cook an additional 24 hours on low. I can get three meals out of a chicken this way (we have a large family).

I start soaking two different kinds of beans on Sunday. I also make a big pot of brown rice. Monday I cook the beans. Viola! Homemade fast food.

[rhianna813]

I have some kim chee that a friend made from NT - it is very good!

I made the baked apples recipe for last year's Thanksgiving and they were a big hit.

I made the dill pickes and LOVED them.

I made the ginger carrots to give to friends who love ginger ( I am not a huge fan). I made mine with grated carrots but next time think I will use baby carrots. The grated carrots seemed really mealy in texture.

I tried the Pineapple chutney which is more of a salsa, but I didn't like it very much. Although I think it fermented too quickly. It got very fizzy and then didn't taste good after about 2 weeks.

Rhianna

[kallyn]

The turkey sausage recipe is super yum. I also adore the sweet potato puree thing with butter and lemon juice - it's my favorite way to eat sweet potatoes.

[raksmama]

Originally Posted by Usually Curious

I 'roast' the chicken in the crockpot for four or five hours on high (w/little to no liquid). I remove the chicken and debone. Put the bones back in the hot crockpot, fill with water and cook an additional 24 hours on low. I can get three meals out of a chicken this way (we have a large family).

I start soaking two different kinds of beans on Sunday. I also make a big pot of brown rice. Monday I cook the beans. Viola! Homemade fast food.

Sounds great! I regret not getting a crock pot! I got a pressure cooker instead not knowing they are not considered healthy
Now I am saving up for a crock pot.

[MamaLea]

I like her baked whole chicken recipe with the garlic in the pan and the pot roast in the oven. Though I rarely do the roast, its just easier in the crock pot!

I also like a lot of the baked stuff and grain recipes, muffins, pancakes, soaked brown rice, didn't like the other one it took longer to cook and was still crunchy.

Love the carrot salad! And the roasted beets.

I use it as a reference guide mostly and often modify the recipes slightly. But I get great ideas. My favorite thing too is just reading the margins!

[joanna0707]

I'm also new to NT, got the book about 2 weeks ago and love it. I've tried few recipes and we liked buttermilk pancakes with sweet cream cheese a lot. Waffles and banana bread are next on my list. I've also made sour kraut, for some reason turned out a little bitter, will try making it again without whey. I've made stock and will be trying her chicken gumbo today. There are so many great recipes in this book, I can't wait to make pickled herrings and salmon.
Two days ago I've made millet casserole,which ended up in the garbage, came out very sour, next time I'll be soaking millet without whey.

I'm planning on buying a dehydrator, would like to make crispy nuts since we eat a lot of them, the lowest temp in my oven is 170.

[Smokering]

To be honest, I don't really use the recipes. I mostly read the sidebars and use the odd recipe as a guide - like "OK, that kind of meat, make a cream sauce, season with these kinds of spices". I did make a soaked flour banana bread recipe, but it was vile. I used her sauerkraut recipe as a base for mine too, and it was good, but I think I changed a few things based on recommendations here...

[Magelet]

I like the pink gazpacho, the marinade for the heart kebabs (We stir fry rather than making kebabs), the red enchilada sauce is amazing (seriously the best enchilada sauce ever!).

I either haven't liked or haven't tried any other recipes. (The ginger carrots were too salty (made with the extra salt for no way. they were inedible. I bet with reduced salt they would be good). The coconut soup was tasty, but bland, and made very little soup. We had to make more and crank up the spices hugely.)

I mostly use it for the side bars (though some of them are totally discredited for me. Sorry, you don't get to quote yourself. (all the SWF quotes are sally fallon) but some of them are really really interesting.), and the info. like, I started soaking beans and grains after that, and soaking oatmeal, and such. also making sourkraut and kombucha, but not by her directions.

[Smokering]

Where are the SWF quotes from - a previous book of hers? I don't automatically discount them - if she can present accurate information in the chapters, I don't see why she can't do the same in the sidebars - but references would be nice. Do the books/articles she's quoting have better references?

[Magelet]

It's just the way she does them. If she presents info that fits with other stuff, then I'm willing to beleive it, and some of it is interesting. If she said where she had written it, so that it was easy to look up her references, then it wouldn't bother me so bad. It's sort of DP's and my pet peeve about that book, that she doesn't even say WHERE she is quoting herself from. It's not terrible, and I guess it doesn't totally discredit the side bars, but it seems like really bad form and is annoying. That said, I still like the book.

[Smokering]

Oh, I agree - it's shoddy, and the whole book could use better references, particularly for the actual scientific studies. But yeah, I still like the book too. Oddly enough I've been reading it a lot while lying on the bed feeling zonked out from pregnancy. So I'm reading all this stuff about the importance of prenatal nutrition and the phytates in unsoaked flour and so on, and trying to choke down crackers at the same time. It has inspired me to try to eat more eggs and fish, though...

[cocobean]

I totally agree! I never use this book as a reference for food when talking to people because she uses so little references. I usually use Nina Plancks books, but I think I'm begining to sound like I work for her!

[karne]

I use NT for the ideas rather than recipes. Frankly, neither I nor my family have liked the recipes, and believe me we tried! Under threat of revolt I moved on to other cookbooks (Grassfed Gourmet was my go to for grass-fed meat/chicken). But the overall ideas were a nice jumpstart to creating what actually did work for my family.

[joanna0707]

I've tried Chicken Supreme today, it was delicious, both DS and DH ate a lot

[Elizabeth2008]

i haven't liked a lot of the recipes. I did like her meatloaf (left out the "spicy" part) and there's a fried chicken recipe that's very good. The hummus was ok too (but pretty hard to screw up hummus)

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