Beautiful heirloom cookbook 20 years in the making! The book has 500 recipes spread across over 250 pages. The author stresses eating healthfully using organic foods if possible. "Cinagro" is "organic" spelled backwards. The book honors the ancestors of the author and includes some very old recipes from the family's Norwegian, Dutch, German, Czechoslovakian and Italian backgrounds. The recipes are easy, healthy and delicious. Truly a must for your collection. Makes a great gift!
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Cinagro Farm is a beautiful cookbook. It has a durable cardstock cover with a lovely picture of a barn on a Midwest farm. The lovely colors of periwinkle, forest green, bright orange make the landscape striking; and there's a cute red barn. It is secured by a green comb binding, which allows the book to rest open easily. There are approximately 500 recipes on 250 pages. This recipe book in its first edition was released this year, but the author has been working on it 20 years. The book honors the ancestors of the author and her husband. It includes some heirloom recipes from the family's Norwegian, Dutch, German, Czechoslovakian and Italian backgrounds. It has some yummy stuff in it, including Cranberry Bread, Swedish Meatballs, Corn Chowder, Italian Wedding Soup, Pesto, Garlic & Oil Pasta, Beef Brisket, Leg of Lamb, Chocolate Pecan Pie. Just thumbing through it will cause the digestive juices to flow. This is a really neat cookbook. I hope that someday Carol will write a book in which she includes stories behind her recipes. She is a very articulate writer. Although the heading of this review says the Cinagro Farm cookbook is unavailable, it is available through the seller. Check on upper right-hand side of the page. Highly recommended! --Mary Lou Cheatham (author) "The Collard Patch"
About the Author
Carol Engan Borrelli has an interesting background that includes work in federal food inspection and food processing facilities throughout Florida, legal work and an extensive work in fine restaurants throughout New England. She has been trained in food safety and quality assurance as well as good manufacturing procedures and microbiology. Raised and educated in New England, she comes from a long line of great "chefs". She has extensive knowledge of food and wine. Her former rural lifestyle has brought with it a host of talents in the garden and the kitchen. Cinagro Farm is her small business. She specializes in fresh-cut, organically grown culinary herbs. Although she is a "working" small grower, she cannot accommodate visitors although plans are continuing to encompass this idea. She has spent 20 years gathering all the recipes and five years typing them all. This cookbook is the realization of a dream.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Must for Cookbook Collectors Who Love Heirloom European Food,
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This review is from: Cinagro Farm, Family Favorites from the Farm and beyond... (Spiral-bound)
Cinagro Farm is a beautiful cookbook. It has a durable cardstock cover with a lovely picture of a barn on a Midwest farm. The lovely colors of periwinkle, forest green, bright orange make the landscape striking; and there's a cute red barn. It is secured by a green comb binding, which allows the book to rest open easily.There are approximately 500 recipes on 250 pages. This recipe book in its first edition was released this year, but the author has been working on it 20 years. The book honors the ancestors of the author and her husband. It includes some heirloom recipes from the family's Norwegian, Dutch, German, Czechoslovakian and Italian backgrounds. It has some yummy stuff in it, including Cranberry Bread, Swedish Meatballs, Corn Chowder, Italian Wedding Soup, Pesto, Garlic & Oil Pasta, Beef Brisket, Leg of Lamb, Chocolate Pecan Pie. Just thumbing through it will cause the digestive juices to flow. This is a really neat cookbook. I hope that someday Carol will write a book in which she includes stories behind her recipes. She is a very articulate writer. Although the heading of this review says the Cinagro Farm cookbook is unavailable, it is available through the seller. Check on upper right-hand side of the page. Highly recommended!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
From Norway to the Mediterranean to America... details,
By Patrick W. Crabtree "The Old Grottomaster" (Lucasville, OH USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Cinagro Farm, Family Favorites from the Farm and beyond... (Spiral-bound)
I review a lot of cookbooks and I really liked this one, (and there are some which I haven't liked very much as you can see by perusing my numerous reviews!)Here we have essentially a family cookbook where author Carol Engan Borrelli has extracted recipes from the European roots of her family ancestry. Not all the recipes are European, many have been Americanized to facilitate convenience; but others seemed to have been added (Mexican, for example) to round out the text. The subtitle is "Recipes to Honor Our Norwegian, Dutch, German, Czechoslovakian and Italian Ancestors" -- and the bulk of the dishes chiefly lean in that direction. You get a whopping 500 recipes, 1-3 recipes per page, over the course of 258 pages, not counting the supplemental information (conversion charts, etc.) in the back. This 2008 text is enclosed in a sturdy and attractive (artwork by Sharon France) softcover GBC binding which allows the book to lie nicely open and flat when in use. I would gauge these dishes in a range from "easy" to "medium" in terms of their difficulty to prepare. While the work is not illustrated with photographs, I did not find this to be particularly thorny since the ingredient lists and directions are clearly conveyed. Taking on the truly ethnically-rooted European recipes first, some of the ones I liked right away included Czechoslovakian Cabbage Soup (p. 59), Cod Stortingsgrata (a Norwegian fish casserole, p. 141), Kielbasa Kraut Supreme (p. 155), and Makkaroni Mit Vier Käsen (four-cheese macaroni, p. 165). I'm familiar with such dishes having spent a good deal of time in Cleveland and Lorain, Ohio, both of which are notably ethno-European (American) cities where I frequently got invited into some great old dining rooms by families who still spoke with native Polish, Czech, Italian, and German accents. And it didn't take much urging to learn to love these hearty dishes. But this cookbook also contains a large number of what I would term as either "farm" or "standby" recipes. These recipes take in dishes such as Pancake Mix Recipe (your own bulk mix is always freshest and best, p. 16), Banana Bread (p. 23), Piccalilli (which I love to home-can, p. 85), Chicken and Dumplings (p. 135), Blueberry Crisp (p. 202), and Carol's Seasoned Salt (p. 253). I've already made the Blueberry Crisp (YUM!) and I also made the Meatloaf (p. 168) which was great and which also told me that all these recipes are probably first-rate. That's my test of a general cookbook -- I always check to see if the meatloaf recipe is solid and if it features any new ingredients which benefit it. This one did (pesto sauce), and the flavor was definitely improved with the infusion of that unique ingredient. A few fusion recipes squeaked in here (e.g., Angloasian Rum Punch, p. 33; East Meets West Cookies, p. 213) and I was also surprised to find a Cream of Fiddlehead Soup recipe (p. 57). I've been using Christmas fern fiddleheads for years in camper salads but this seems a better application for the tender morsels. Just a few of the recipes sport lengthy ingredient lists, not always desirable in our fast-paced society; but I personally savor such intricate treasures as I'm constantly in search of "the very best" and I don't care about the effort it takes to achieve this. One such recipe is the Rustic Dry Meat Rub (p. 89) with a total of 17 ingredients. This is a very nice little general cookbook to supplement more basic and comprehensive texts such as Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006. It's always the smaller cookbooks wherein one finds the real recipe treasures and Carol Engan Borrelli has cached a number of such treats here. The author operates a farm where she grows and sells herbs and appurtenant items and thus perhaps it's relevant to know that "Cinagro" [Farm] is "Organic" spelled backwards! Highly recommended.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Neat Cookbook,
By Alice Ann (North Louisiana) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cinagro Farm, Family Favorites from the Farm and beyond... (Spiral-bound)
I added this one to my collection. It's a neat cookbook with a whole lot of things I have never cooked before.
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