Freeze Fresh: The Ultimate Guide to Preserving 55 Fruits and Vegetables for Maximum Flavor and Versatility

I have had freezer disasters and I know I am not alone. But that is because I did not have this really well designed and useful book at hand.It is very informative about freezing in general and this provides a really good basis for understanding the techniques that will turn a freezer disaster into a freezer paradise. And I found the whole section about freezing specific types of foods - apples, peas, beans, tomatoes, ginger, potatoes, mangoes, raspberries, plums, cucumber, herbs, corn, etc - very useful, interesting and often surprising. Everything is presented very clearly and pictures are great. The idea of including recipes one can make with the frozen foods is really nice and can inspire to create your own. I found them all attractive and some are definitely on my list to make like the sunbaked strawberry jam, the freezer pickles, or the pot of vegetable scraps to make my own broth.This book is definitely one for fans of vegetable gardens. Everything grows at once in the summer and there is only so much one can eat fresh. Freezing homegrown vegetable brings your summer vegetable garden on the plate all year long. But even for those like me who do not have a garden, we often can get nice vegetables and fruits from friends, family or the local farm stall and knowing how to freeze them properly will make a big difference to your winter meals.I am confident now my freezing disaster days are behind me because this book will definitely stay at hand in my kitchen.

It is very useful! It is written by a US author so words and names are very American, but that is easily overcome, and I do like that the freezing advice is separate to the recipes. If you can cope with American names and cook with 'cups' of ingredients, then this book is worth having.

At first I thought it was more an individual ingredient manual to understand how to get the best out of items and understand the best way to defrost and guidance on shelf lives. Don't get me wrong that is all packed in, but there is so much more too... it is absolutely packed with yummy recipes and tips on what to do with things like seeds that you might normally throw away as well as 'how to's' so it has made me more resourceful and a better cook too! It's thorough and has about 200 pages and plenty of photos for those tasty recipe pages too. This book would make a great gift and thinking of getting a copy for a new home gift for a friend