num_pages: 288
description: Aimes rural-homesteader upbringing years working as a professional chef and everyday life as a busy mom led to the creation of the hugely popular blog Simple Bites. Raising three young children with husband Danny Aime traded her tongs and chef whites for a laptop and camera married her two passionsmothering and cookingand has since been creating recipes with an emphasis on whole foods for the family table sharing stories and tips and inspiring readers to make the familyfood connection on the Simple Bites blog.Brown Eggs and Jam Jars is Aimes long-awaited cookbook inspired by her urban homesteading through the seasons and the joyous events they bring. It embraces year-round simple food with fresh flavours from celebrating spring with a stack of Buttermilk Buckwheat Pancakes and pure maple syrup to a simple late-summer harvest dinner with Chili-Basil Corn on the Cob and Lemon Oregano Roast Chicken. Autumn favourites include Apple Cinnamon Layer Cake with Apple Butter Cream Cheese Frosting while Slow Cooker Cider Ham is the perfect comfort food for those cold winter nights. But thats just a few of the more than one hundred recipes (like melt-on-your-tongue maple butter tarts and tangy homemade yogurt) that have a touch of nostalgia feature natural ingredients and boast plenty of love.Brown Eggs and Jam Jars will inspire readers to connect family and food right where they are in lifefrom growing their own tomatoes to making a batch of homemade cookies. Enjoy your urban homestead.
language: English
title: Brown Eggs and Jam Jars: Family Recipes from the Kitchen of Simple Bites
publisher: Penguin Canada