Product Description

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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1225074 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-25
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 258 pages

Review
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.

Customer Reviews

An artistic cookbook of heirloom quality!
Author Carol Engan Borrelli calls this little gem her "heirloom cookbook," and I can see why. It's a lovely work of art ... from the peaceful farm scene on the cover to other farm scenes dividing each section. The scenes are original acrylic paintings by well-known artist Sharon France; they complement the book to perfection, as do the graphically-enhanced "list pages" described below.

Cinagro Farm, Family Favorites from the Farm and beyond... is one of the best organized cookbooks I've ever seen. Borrelli not only has a Table of Contents and sections for various categories of food, she also has a Helpful Hints page at the beginning of each section, and there are several pages throughout where the cook/chef can make notes. Not only that, there's also useful lists at the back of the book: Pantry Basics, Herbs and Spices, Baking Breads, Baking Desserts, Cooking and Drying Time Tables for Vegetables and Fruits (including tips on buying them), Napkin Folding, Measurements and Substitutions, Equivalency Chart, Counting Calories, Food Quantities, Quick Fixes and Cooking Terms. In other words, everything a good, conscientious cook needs to know.

But if the "proof of the pudding is in the eating," then the proof of this book is in the recipes and how your family enjoys them. WOW--what delicious recipes! There's something for everyone in the family ... for every taste palate. Marching across the pages are "yummies" from appetizers to decadent desserts, and ending with a Miscellaneous and Unusual section. Many traditional American recipes are included, as well as recipes honoring the author's Norwegian, Dutch, German, Czechoslovakian and Italian ancestry.

There's even a recipe for Maine Ketchup, but when I stumbled across Cream of Fiddlehead Soup, I was puzzled. What's a fiddlehead? I thought, but the author had anticipated that not everyone would know, so had placed a note of explanation. Can you guess, or did you seasoned cooks already know that it's the bud of an immature fern. I haven't tried this yet (will I ever get brave enough?), but the author states it's "one of the most wonderful gifts from the wild."

And she should know since she's a former food inspector for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and now owns a small, home-based business, Cinagro Farm--Organic spelled backwards--specializing in fresh-cut, organically grown herbs, infused olive oil, vinegar and signature baked breads. The recipe for the bread is included in this book.

In addition to the aesthetics of the book, it's a quality product, printed on excellent paper with a spiral binding, allowing the pages to lay flat so the cook can refer to the recipes easily. Other helpful features are that the recipes are alphabetized within each section and there's an Index of Recipes in the back.

Cinagro Farm, Family Favorites from the Farm and beyond... is a must for every serious cook or chef; an awesome addition to your collection.

Now if only I could get someone to prepare some of these fine meals for me, I'd be a happy diner!

Reviewed by: Betty Dravis, October 2008
Author of: Millennium Babe: The Prophecy

Neat Cookbook
I added this one to my collection. It's a neat cookbook with a whole lot of things I have never cooked before.

A Must for Cookbook Collectors Who Love Heirloom European Food
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!