Most of you know I have bootstrapped my way through the last year as an entrepreneur in the trailer food scene. I started my company, Trailer Food Diaries, with this very blog. We expanded to co-produce the first annual Gypsy Picnic trailer food festival with C3 Presents (free). We have printed two guides/magazines on trailer food in ATX (also free). I have collected beautiful pictures from local photographers and oddly-gourmet recipes from all of our favorite street food vendors in Austin and pieced them together to create the first volume of the Trailer Food Diaries: COOKBOOK. It is being published & printed locally through Greenleaf Book Group. And this is where I need your help. We created a kickstarter campaign so that you can prepurchase the cookbook while helping me pay for the production and printing of this fun project. ***The campaign ends this Wednesday 4/27. Please pledge your support of $25 or more here (via this link) and I'll send you a signed copy from the first batch that is printed.***
Or - go to www.kickstarter.com and search: trailer food diaries. The more you pledge, the more fun stuff you can get rewarded with.
Why might you snag a copy of this cookbook?
- you LOVE trailer food as much as I do
- you love Austin- you love trailer food and austin
- you collect cookbooks
- you need some gifts for your peeps (birthdays, christmas, mothers day)
- you want to give your sweetie some ideas in the kitchen
- you want to support a hometown girl and her vision to help inspire entrepreneurs while eliminating childhood hunger while providing scoop on the trailer food scene
- you believe in paying it forward and good kaaaaarmaaaah (most days)
Recipe teaser: Homemade Basil Lemonade
Courtesy of That’s Amore on East Riverside by the Amli
- 2 C fresh squeezed lemon juice
- 2 C basil simple syrup*
- 2 C cold San Pellegrino sparkling water
*To make simple syrup:
- 1 bunch fresh basil
- 2 C sugar
- 1 C water
Cook on stove top, bring water to a boil and add sugar and basil, stir until sugar dissolves. Place in a bowl on an ice bath. Run liquid through strainer when cooled.
To make lemonade:
Mix simple syrup into remaining ingredients. Serve over ice. Yield: 4 to 6 servings.
