The GIY Diaries: A Year of Growing and Cooking
Join the food revolution with this beautifully illustrated diary of a year in the vegetable patch. Month by month you will learn how to create a space that gives you fresh, wholesome fruit and veg that tastes far better than anything you can find in the shops.

Michael Kelly’s down-to-earth, informative accounts of his own growing year impart hard-earned wisdom and inspiration for you to do the same. His expert advice will guide you whether you are a complete beginner or a more experienced grower, and regardless of the amount of space you have. From feeding your soil and saving seeds, to taking cuttings and preserving your produce, you will learn how to get it right in an Irish climate. And, best of all, each month features delicious recipes so that you can feast on the results of your work.
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The GIY Diaries: A Year of Growing and Cooking
Join the food revolution with this beautifully illustrated diary of a year in the vegetable patch. Month by month you will learn how to create a space that gives you fresh, wholesome fruit and veg that tastes far better than anything you can find in the shops.

Michael Kelly’s down-to-earth, informative accounts of his own growing year impart hard-earned wisdom and inspiration for you to do the same. His expert advice will guide you whether you are a complete beginner or a more experienced grower, and regardless of the amount of space you have. From feeding your soil and saving seeds, to taking cuttings and preserving your produce, you will learn how to get it right in an Irish climate. And, best of all, each month features delicious recipes so that you can feast on the results of your work.
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The GIY Diaries: A Year of Growing and Cooking

The GIY Diaries: A Year of Growing and Cooking

by Michael Kelly
The GIY Diaries: A Year of Growing and Cooking

The GIY Diaries: A Year of Growing and Cooking

by Michael Kelly

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Join the food revolution with this beautifully illustrated diary of a year in the vegetable patch. Month by month you will learn how to create a space that gives you fresh, wholesome fruit and veg that tastes far better than anything you can find in the shops.

Michael Kelly’s down-to-earth, informative accounts of his own growing year impart hard-earned wisdom and inspiration for you to do the same. His expert advice will guide you whether you are a complete beginner or a more experienced grower, and regardless of the amount of space you have. From feeding your soil and saving seeds, to taking cuttings and preserving your produce, you will learn how to get it right in an Irish climate. And, best of all, each month features delicious recipes so that you can feast on the results of your work.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780717195077
Publisher: Gill Books
Publication date: 11/29/2022
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Kelly is founder of GIY, a social entrepreneur, author, TV presenter and grower. He worked in the IT industry for 10 years before starting GIY in 2008. GIY is now a leading social enterprise, with its home GROW HQ in Waterford. Michael co-presented and produced three series of ‘Grow Cook Eat’ for RTÉ, which is now watched around the world on Amazon Prime. He writes columns on food for The Irish Times, Irish Independent and Food & Wine Magazine. He was the 2017 Local Food Hero in the Food & Wine Awards. He lives in Dunmore East with his wife Eilish and two young children.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

January 5

Kale and smoked cheddar risotto 10

Winter frittata 19

Spiced parsnip burgers 24

February 31

Parsnip chips 35

Ribollita 43

Borscht 48

March 59

Nicky Kelly's rhubarb crumble 65

Potato, kale and roast garlic soup 72

Raw kale salad 79

April 85

Sausage and beer stew 89

Beetroot and goat's cheese salad 101

Chargrilled cauliflower steak with cauliflower leaf gazpacho 109

May 113

Wild garlic pesto 115

Nettle tonic 121

Roasted baby beetroot 137

June 139

Courgette salad 143

Vika's new potatoes and egg salad 151

Kohlrabi, carrot and green onion slaw 161

July 165

Beet burgers 171

Marinated beef tomato and cherry tomato salad with gazpacho, rocket and goat's cheese 182

Saturday morning eggs 189

August 193

Zingy cucumber pickle 199

My go-to tomato sauce 207

Panzanella 211

September 219

Carrot and turnip soup with fresh thyme 223

Fermented hot chilli sauce 229

Apple traybake 236

October 247

French onion soup with garlic and smoked cheddar toasts 253

Kale and pinto bean soup 259

Roast squash with caramelised red onions, cashel blue and hazelnuts 265

November 275

Pickled chillies 276

Warm bulgur wheat salad with squash 287

Jerusalem artichoke and fennel seed hummus 299

December 303

Minestrone soup 308

Celeriac remoulade 317

Brussels sprout and carrot fondue with smoked bacon 327

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