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Sugar Flowers for All Seasons (The Creative Cakes Series)

Alan Dunn

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

rose lover's dream 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This volume deals with just about every rose ever grown as well as other flowers to accompany them in arrangements and on cakes. I like the step-by-step color photos. There's a cake on page 70 that stopped me dead. I always look for the show stopper cakes and this is one of them. Templates are inclueded.

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When it comes to wedding cakes, everyone wants roses. In this fabulous new book, the art of floral sugarcraft is revealed by authors with experience in these unique techniques, showing readers virtually every kind of rose decoration that can be applied to a cake, as well as sugar roses in bouquets, sprays, posies, and for table arrangements. Sugar Roses for Cakes includes templates and features collections of all different kinds of roses: wild, climber, rambling, traditional varieties and the various modern roses, from full blown modern blooms to delicate, five-petal wild roses. With nearly 200 full-color photographs, this books offers a wide array of designs and cakes, including cakes for occasions other than weddings. The perfect book for brides and wedding planners, Sugar Roses for Cakes picks up on the latest trends in flower arranging to reveal many innovative ways to display sugar roses.

Wine Mondays: Simple Wine Pairings with Seasonal Menus

Frank McClelland, Christie Matheson

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An elegant, practical, 'user friendly' addition to any family or community library cookbook collection 5 out of 5 stars.
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A good wine can make a meal. Conversely, an inappropriate wine can detract from one. That's why "Winde Mondays: Simple Wine Pairings With Seasonal Menus" is so important for any menu planning from ordinary family meals to special celebratory dinners. With the assistance of food writer Christie Matheson, the award-winning proprietor of L'Espalier and Sel de La Terre restaurants, Frank McClelland showcases sixteen of his favorite menus (one for each of the four seasons of the year) with recommended wine pairings for each dish. "Wine Mondays) is enhanced with wine pairing notes, helpful tips and information about wine varieties and regions, and advice for shopping at local markets using fresh, in-season ingredients for best result. "Wine Mondays" is an elegant, practical, 'user friendly' addition to any family or community library cookbook collection.

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This is the perfect book for anyone who loves wine and loves great food, but might not always know what goes best with what. Frank McClelland and Christie Matheson offer up 130 elegant recipes from Frank's award-winning Boston restaurant L'Espalier, adapted here for the home cook. The recipes are taken from the restaurant's very popular weekly Wine Mondays event, at which a 4-course dinner is presented with wine for each course, in a communal, convivial setting. The seasonal menus feature such delights such as Forest Mushroom Risotto with Broccoli Rabe, Pot-Roasted Pork with Chorizo and Clams, and Honey Thyme Apricots, with wine suggestions and wine notes accompanying every recipe. The authors demystify wine pairing in a comprehensive introduction while emphasizing their number one rule--eat and drink what you like, and have fun doing it!

From a Monastery Kitchen

Victor D'Avila-Latourrette

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Delicious recipes for a simple life 5 out of 5 stars.
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From a Monastery Kitchen is a cookbook of natural foods, "natural foods" in the sense of simple, vegetarian foods. The cookbook is divided into the four seasons with recipes assigned to the season their ingrediants are most available. Within each season, there are four sections: (1) Soups and appetizers (2) Main dishes (3) Salads and (4) Desserts. The volume is peppered with quotations, line drawings and other delightful tidbits.

To give you a flavor of the variety of recipes presented: for Autumn we have Escarole Soup, Vegetable Fritters, Saint Hubert Fish Stew, Risotto, Eggplant Omelette, Kasha Salad, Bessarian Avocado Salad, Saint Bruno's Coffee Cream, Cold Spring Rice Pudding, Quick Apple Cake. The recipes are simple to follow, simple to make, and simply wonderful to eat.

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When first published over twenty years ago, FROM A MONASTERY KITCHEN became an instant classic of monastic cookery, admired over the centuries for its emphasis on simplicity, wholesomeness, good taste, and its use of Nature's seasons as a source for many ingredients.
Now newly revised and expanded, Brother Victor-Antoine d'Avila-Latourrette, author of the best seller, Twelve Months of Monastery Soups, has developed more outstanding recipes that will appeal to all those who desire a healthy, all-natural, and always delicious diet.
Enhancing the pleasure of the recipes themselves are charming words and quotes that make this book a treasure for both palate and spirit.
"For this monk, preparing food is prayer."
-GOURMET Magazine

The Summertime Anytime Cookbook: Recipes from Shutters on the Beach

Dana Slatkin

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Nestled in the sand on the Santa Monica coast, Shutters On The Beach is everyone’s favorite luxury seaside resort, serving up fresh and delicious food with style year-round. In The Summertime Anytime Cookbook, Dana Slatkin shares 130 irresistible recipes from her family’s celebrated hotel for any day or night at the beach.

Whether it’s a scorching summer day or a foggy morning in early spring, Slatkin knows better than most that life at the beach truly revolves around the weather. So The Summertime Anytime Cookbook is cleverly divided into the chapters Sunny Days, Cloudy Days, Balmy Nights, Stormy Nights, Misty Mornings, and Beach Basics. Perfect rain or shine, the appealing, fuss-free dishes are Shutters favorites, including Plum Tomato Soup with Baby Grilled Cheese Sandwiches; Dungeness Crab Cakes with Avocado Tartar Sauce; Bull’s-Eye Eggs; and Yogurt Mousse with Honey-Poached Apricots.

Along with recipes for colorful entr?es and side dishes, fresh picnic fare, simple sauces, and fabulous desserts, The Summertime Anytime Cook-book offers inventive style and entertaining ideas for casually elegant beach living, such as Five Wonderful Ways to Spend a Cloudy Day at the Beach, How to Make the Perfect Smoothie, and Six Uses for a Bucket of Sand. Slatkin also shares expert tips on creating over-the-top hotel hospitality, decorating with relaxed sophistication, and preparing homemade spa treatments.

With simple, artful food for every day and night, and stunning color photographs, The Summertime Anytime Cookbook is your secret to bringing the best of the beach into your own home.

The Best Recipe: Grilling and Barbecue

Editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine

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Can you make really good pulled pork at home? Which cut of meat makes the best beef kebabs? How do you keep lean pork tenderloin from tasting like sawdust? What is the secret to great-tasting burgers? Is it possible to make barbecued chicken that isn't dry?

In an exhaustive effort to answer these questions, the staff of Cook's Illustrated magazine lit more than 5,000 charcoal fires to test different grilling and barbecue techniques for The Best Recipe: Grilling and Barbecue.

The Best Recipe: Grilling and Barbecue also contains 300 illustrations that show you how to cut up a chicken, slice a T-bone steak, and remove the pinbones from a salmon fillet. No-nonsense equipment ratings and taste tests of supermarket foods are also included. Find out which commercial barbecue sauce received our highest rating, whether or not a fish basket really works, and what's the best tool for lighting a charcoal fire. You'll also learn which cuts of meat work best in different recipes, how to quickly brine foods to keep them moist over intense grill heat, and how to make the most of a gas grill. (All recipes include both charcoal and gas grill variations.)

More than 400 recipes cover just about everything that has ever been grilled, from steaks and chops to ribs and pulled pork. You'll find recipes for seafood—salmon, tuna, shrimp, and more—as well as instructions and recipes for grilling almost every vegetable imaginable, from asparagus to zucchini.

With The Best Recipe: Grilling and Barbecue at your side, we guarantee that you will never ruin another expensive piece of meat or fish because of some easily avoided mistake. Light the grill with confidence. With this cookbook as your guide, grilling and barbecuing will be easy and foolproof.

The Bibendum Cookbook

Terence Conran, Simon Hopkinson

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Housed in the historic Michelin building, Bibendum restaurant has been an iconic part of the London restaurant scene for 25 years. Celebrated head chef Simon Hopkinson takes the ethos of Bibendum cooking—fine seasonal ingredients prepared simply—and brings it to the home with this unique volume. More than simply a classic cookbook, these 40 superb recipes are a gastronomic testament to an iconic landmark. Try the spiced artichoke salad, Piedmontese peppers, roast mallard with spiced quince compote, or even the infamous Sussex pond pudding. This is stripped-down, stylish food at its best: easy to prepare, generous in flavor, and great to share with others. With stunning color photography throughout, this is a culinary journey worth savoring.

Gooseberry Patch Christmas Book 5: Holiday Recipes, Cheery Gifts, and Ideas For Flurries of Fun!

Leisure Arts

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Not One of Their Best 3 out of 5 stars.
15 of 15 people found this review helpful.

I love the first four of these books and have them all, given them for gifts, etc. But, this one for some reason just looks like it was thrown together at the last minute without any thought whatsoever to the designs, crafts, or the recipes. Some of the recipes are repeats from older Christmas cookbooks which I already have and the crafts, well, they're just boring and very basic. The recipes are not that good and normally, they're just incredible. I have to say that I'm extremely disappointed in this book and wish that I had bought the paperback for this one. Even the design layout of the book in general is just boring. There isn't much in the way of color in this one and it is just lacking all the way around. I know that really isn't that important, but when you're trying to do crafts and recipes, I think photos are pretty important. Better try again Gooseberry!

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Whether you live in the city, suburbs, or rural America, you'll find yourself going 'over the river and through the woods' to a real country holiday with the 5th in this Christmas series from the heartland's Gooseberry Patch-®. Homespun charm shines on every page of this Christmas classic, with over 125 excellent photos and illustrations. From recipes that tempt the palate with old-fashioned goodies like dark chocolate caramels and buttery toffee to the functional charm of a chenille snowman draft-stopper, this is the sort of book that promises and delivers a Christmas to remember. When the goal is the look and feel of a warm country holiday celebration, Gooseberry Patch Christmas-®, Book 5 is the perfect departure point.

PICNIC: 125 Recipes with 29 Seasonal Menus

DeeDee Stovel

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For A Picnic In The Hamptons...Maybe... 1 out of 5 stars.
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I bought DeeDee's book mainly because of the price. I thought an inexpensive book on picnics: some good recipes and tips - forget it.

On my first inspection only one or two recipes interested me. Well, maybe I just wasn't hungry. I put the book away and tried again later. Nope, nothing here.

Most of the recipes, if not all, are for the wine and brie set picnicing in the Hamptons. If your picnic ideas include hummus with creamed cucumber dressing, garnished with figs that are stuffed with walnut and endive, this book is for you, otherwise look elsewhere.

I really think this book was put through a marketing survey and they felt they could only get the ten dollars for it if they were lucky.

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Picnics are fun, casual, and somehow the food just tastes better in a beautiful outdoor setting.

In PICNIC, DeeDee Stovel offers 28 picnic event ideas with more than 125 recipes - packable repasts from an informal Berry Picking Picnic to an elegant Music Festival Picnic. Although PICNIC includes all of the traditional fare, the recipes for the soups, entrées, salads, and desserts are all a cut above the ordinary.

And when lazy summer days turn chilly, enjoy a Sports Booster Picnic, a Fall Foliage in New England Picnic, and an Après-Ski Picnic. Wine and beer selections accompany each menu. Plus picnic lore, packing to go, the perfect picnic basket, rainy day alternatives, and much more. It's an all-American feast!

Local Bounty: Vegan Seasonal Produce

Devra Gartenstein

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Local Bounty shows how a vegan diet, already healthful and environmentally sustainable, yields even greater advantages when seasonal foods are used in the recipes. Ripe produce is at the peak of its flavor and nutritional value. Less fossil fuel is needed to bring local fruits and vegetables to your table. Small scale farmers use less pesticides than commercial growers. Foods in season are abundant and more economical to purchase. And, buying locally is an important alternative to the globalization of the food industry.

You'll be reintroduced to the world of seasonal produce: leafy greens in the spring, tomatoes, peppers, and summer squash during the summer and fall, and root vegetables and winter squash during the cooler months. The recipes are designed to give you a solid starting place for cooking with fresh, local produce wherever you live, even if you don't have much extra time. And these innovative dishes tap into the abundance of seasonal harvests and make it easy to explore new flavors. Cooking with seasonal produce is a delicious way to be ecologically responsible.