Cooked dried beans provide vitamins, minerals, fiber and in combination with grains or dairy products provide all the essential amino acids of complete protein.

This e-handbook describes the different kinds of beans, how to grow your own beans and helpful cooking information. Also included are recipes for soups, stews and other main dishes such as:

• Split Pea Soup
• Black Bean Soup
• Minestrone
• Louisiana Red Beans & Rice
• Lentil-Rice Stew
• Fried Chick Peas with Garlic

With this handy guide, you can use beans more than just bean soup, baked beans, and chili. 36 pages.

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If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic-covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. Coleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged kingdom of vegetable cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the 44th parallel, the same latitude as his farm in Maine.

This story of sunshine, weather patterns, old limitations and expectations, and new realities is delightfully innovative in the best gardening tradition. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter.

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Tarragon has a somewhat licorice-like taste and a gift for making almost any food taste wonderful! Unlike other herbs, it does not grow from seeds and there are many varieties including French, Mexican and Russian.

This e-handbook describes the history of tarragon, how to plant it, its medicinal uses and many recipes including:

• Tarragon Vinegar
• Strawberry-Tarragon Jam
• Creamy Tarragon Dip
• Tarragon-Tomato Soup
• Beef Kebabs with Tarragon
• Mushroom and Tarragon Baked Fish

Tarragon is best known as a flavoring for eggs, poultry and fish. It is a very versatile cooking herb. 36 pages.

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Before the days of supermarkets and drug stores, families learned to use natural and herbal ingredients that were readily available and easy to apply for all sorts of purposes such as beauty aids, health remedies, and household products.

This e-handbook shows you how to make skin care products, tonics, sachets and more. Recipes for home care and maintenance, infants and animals include:

• Syrup to Soothe Sore Throat
• Chest Rubs for Chest Colds
• Basic Soap Recipe
• Sweet Nighttime Sachet
• Fabric Softener
• Diaper Rash Ointment
• Herbal Flea Collar

Your friends and family will appreciate these tried-and-true remedies that come from the heart and carry on traditions begun so long ago. 34 pages.

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