About Crisis Kitchen: Cooking Through Hard Times: Fast, low-budget recipes for everyday struggle
Crisis Kitchen: Cooking Through Hard Times
This is not a gourmet cookbook. It’s a survival one — for real life, real struggle, and real people doing their best to cook through hard days.
Crisis Kitchen is a collection of honest, practical recipes built for tight budgets, low energy, and limited ingredients. Whether you’re feeding a family, living alone, starting over, or simply stretched thin — this book meets you where you are.
Inside you’ll find:
Affordable meals made from pantry staples, canned goods, simple vegetables, and modest amounts of meat
Sections dedicated to soups, stews, salads, wraps, skillet meals, and even sweets made without luxury ingredients
Homemade yogurt, cheese, sauces, and breads to stretch what you have
A full chapter on cooking with flour, chickpeas, and flatbreads
Comforting desserts that feel warm, not wasteful
Smart substitutions and cooking tips for when shopping isn’t an option
You won’t need fancy tools. You won’t need bulgur, pork, or expensive cuts of meat. Just everyday food, made with care.
This book is for the exhausted parent, the student counting coins, the elder on a fixed income, or anyone who’s ever looked into a near-empty kitchen and thought: “I hope this is enough.”
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Author Bio:
I am Green Lily — a storyteller at heart, and a quiet observer of life’s small, honest moments. I don’t write for one genre or audience. I write what needs to be written — from food to feeling, from memory to imagination.
My first cookbook, Nothing Wasted: The Art of Cooking with Leftovers, was born from tenderness and thrift. Crisis Kitchen continues that journey — a reflection of cooking through hardship, with care, honesty, and a touch of hope.
As a wife and mother, the kitchen has always been part of my world — not glamorous, but sacred. A place where food is stretched, stories are shared, and dignity is kept alive even when life feels heavy.
I chose the name Green Lily because it resembles me more than my real one. It carries the quiet growth of a story unfolding, the calm of resilience, and the softness of things that bloom in silence.