A Quilting Life

A Quilting Life
Author: Sherri McConnell
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2013-02-12
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607056607

“With its diverse selection of fabrics and designs, A Quilting Life is a fine pick for any quilter looking to produce family-oriented keepsake results.” —The Needlecraft Shelf Bring the handmade tradition home with these charming quilts and home accessories. Inspired by a grandmother who loved to sew for her family, quilter and blogger Sherri McConnell gives traditional patterns like hexagons, stars, snowballs, and Dresden Plates a new look featuring fabrics by some of today’s most popular designers. Nineteen cozy projects include pillows, tote bags, table runners, and larger quilts—quick and easy designs that make great gifts. “Sherri’s book is a treasure! It’s full of fun and straight-forward patterns for quilts, table toppers, pillows, bags and more—all the goodies to make a cozy home.” —Thimbleanna “Would you like the opportunity to make tomorrow’s heirlooms in today’s vast selection of prints? . . . If so, this could be the reference book that will get you started. There are 19 projects, mainly focusing on handmade household items but including some larger quilts too.” —Fabrications Quilting for You “Beautiful inspiration if you are a seasoned quilter, but also a great resource with clear and in some cases, simple patterns for newbies as well.” —Diary of a Quilter “Color photos of finished needlework projects accompany step-by-step diagrams and assembly patterns, while at-a-glance sidebars covering materials and cutting allow needleworkers to gauge the complexity of each project.” —The Needlecraft Shelf

The Easy Homemade Cookie Cookbook

The Easy Homemade Cookie Cookbook
Author: Miranda Couse
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2017-10-31
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1623159806

Classic Cookies, Crazy Easy Everybody loves hot cookies fresh out of the oven. The Easy Homemade Cookie Cookbook is for baked-treat lovers everywhere. Bursting with irresistible American classics—including old-fashioned chocolate chip cookies, thin mints, and pumpkin spice shortbread—this cookie cookbook is filled with easy-to-follow recipes that are fantastic for new and experienced bakers alike. The Easy Homemade Cookie Cookbook includes: 150 Beloved Recipes—From sugar cookies and oatmeal cream pies to gingerbread men and turtle bars, learn to make familiar treats everyone will love. Sweet Tips—This cookie cookbook makes things simple with guides to stocking your kitchen, helpful tools, and baking basics. Yummy Tricks—Learn how to really mix things up with advice for handling leftovers, varying recipes, and using substitutes. It's easy to satisfy your sweet tooth—and everybody else's—with The Easy Homemade Cookie Cookbook.

Baking with Less Sugar

Baking with Less Sugar
Author: Joanne Chang
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2015-04-21
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1452139601

Recipes for mouthwatering desserts with minimal refined sugar from the James Beard Award–winning pastry chef and author of Flour. Trust Joanne Chang—beloved author of the bestselling Flour and a Harvard math major to boot—to come up with this winning formula: minus the sugar = plus the flavor. The sixty-plus recipes here are an eye-opener for anyone who loves to bake and wants to cut back on the sugar. Joanne warmly shares her secrets for playing up delicious ingredients and using natural sweeteners, such as honey, maple syrup, and fruit juice. In addition to entirely new go-to recipes, she’s also revisited classics from Flour and her lines-out-the-door bakeries to feature minimal refined sugar. More than forty mouthwatering photographs beautifully illustrate these revolutionary recipes, making this a must-have book for bakers of all skill levels.

Honey Buns

Honey Buns
Author: Cat Johnson
Publisher: Cat Johnson
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

She’s a small town baker. He’s a big city workaholic. Opposites definitely do attract…until business gets in the way of pleasure . Never have a romantic dinner with a charming stranger. It won’t work out well. Trust me. I know. One dinner and now mister handsome hottie’s two new Main Street enterprises are about to drive my bake shop out of business. Apparently, I was just a pawn in his little game of Mudville Monopoly. Fine. He’d better hold on to his hotels, because I’m about to show Mister Moneybags exactly what it means to mess with a girl who spent some time on the wrong side of the B.&O. Railroad tracks. That would be easier if he weren’t so devastatingly distracting. And if my only option for survival wasn’t for him to become my new boss. Honey Buns features a single billionaire workaholic, a feisty small-town baker with a sewer grate-sized chip on her shoulder, some hundred-year old love letters guaranteed to make you cry, addictive diner fries, a dumpster diving stray cat and all of the small town crazy you’ve come to expect from Mudville. Honey Buns is a standalone, enemies to lovers, small town, romantic comedy novel. If you love Lucy Score, Claire Kingsly, Emily Henry, Tessa Bailey, Melanie Harlow, Julia Kent, Pippa Grant, Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland, Helena Hunting, Jami Albright, Lili Valente, and similar laugh out loud romance reads, you'll love New York Times and USA Today bestselling contemporary romance author Cat Johnson's steamy small town, feel good romance.

Chickens in the Road

Chickens in the Road
Author: Suzanne McMinn
Publisher: HarperOne
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780062223715

Suzanne McMinn, a former romance writer and founder of the popular blog chickensintheroad.com, shares the story of her search to lead a life of ordinary splendor in Chickens in the Road, her inspiring and funny memoir. Craving a life that would connect her to the earth and her family roots, McMinn packed up her three kids, left her husband and her sterile suburban existence behind, and moved to rural West Virginia. Amid the rough landscape and beauty of this rural mountain country, she pursues a natural lifestyle filled with chickens, goats, sheep—and no pizza delivery. With her new life comes an unexpected new love—"52," a man as beguiling and enigmatic as his nickname—a turbulent romance that reminds her that peace and fulfillment can be found in the wake of heartbreak. Coping with formidable challenges, including raising a trio of teenagers, milking stubborn cows, being snowed in with no heat, and making her own butter, McMinn realizes that she’s living a forty-something’s coming-of-age story. As she dares to become self-reliant and embrace her independence, she reminds us that life is a bold adventure—if we’re willing to live it. Chickens in the Road includes more than 20 recipes, craft projects, and McMinn’s photography, and features a special two-color design.

Dessert Person

Dessert Person
Author: Claire Saffitz
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1984826964

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her first cookbook, Bon Appétit and YouTube star of the show Gourmet Makes offers wisdom, problem-solving strategies, and more than 100 meticulously tested, creative, and inspiring recipes. IACP AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Bon Appétit • NPR • The Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Salon • Epicurious “There are no ‘just cooks’ out there, only bakers who haven't yet been converted. I am a dessert person, and we are all dessert people.”—Claire Saffitz Claire Saffitz is a baking hero for a new generation. In Dessert Person, fans will find Claire’s signature spin on sweet and savory recipes like Babkallah (a babka-Challah mashup), Apple and Concord Grape Crumble Pie, Strawberry-Cornmeal Layer Cake, Crispy Mushroom Galette, and Malted Forever Brownies. She outlines the problems and solutions for each recipe—like what to do if your pie dough for Sour Cherry Pie cracks (patch it with dough or a quiche flour paste!)—as well as practical do’s and don’ts, skill level, prep and bake time, step-by-step photography, and foundational know-how. With her trademark warmth and superpower ability to explain anything baking related, Claire is ready to make everyone a dessert person.

BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts

BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts
Author: Stella Parks
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 645
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0393634272

Winner of the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award (Baking and Desserts) A New York Times bestseller and named a Best Baking Book of the Year by the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Bon Appétit, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, the Boston Globe, USA Today, Amazon, and more. "The most groundbreaking book on baking in years. Full stop." —Saveur From One-Bowl Devil’s Food Layer Cake to a flawless Cherry Pie that’s crisp even on the very bottom, BraveTart is a celebration of classic American desserts. Whether down-home delights like Blueberry Muffins and Glossy Fudge Brownies or supermarket mainstays such as Vanilla Wafers and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream, your favorites are all here. These meticulously tested recipes bring an award-winning pastry chef’s expertise into your kitchen, along with advice on how to “mix it up” with over 200 customizable variations—in short, exactly what you’d expect from a cookbook penned by a senior editor at Serious Eats. Yet BraveTart is much more than a cookbook, as Stella Parks delves into the surprising stories of how our favorite desserts came to be, from chocolate chip cookies that predate the Tollhouse Inn to the prohibition-era origins of ice cream sodas and floats. With a foreword by The Food Lab’s J. Kenji López-Alt, vintage advertisements for these historical desserts, and breathtaking photography from Penny De Los Santos, BraveTart is sure to become an American classic.

The Prairie Homestead Cookbook

The Prairie Homestead Cookbook
Author: Jill Winger
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1250305942

Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table. With a foreword by bestselling author Joel Salatin The Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader. Jill teaches people how to make delicious traditional American comfort food recipes with whole ingredients and shows that you don’t have to use obscure items to enjoy this lifestyle. And as a busy mother of three, Jill knows how to make recipes easy and delicious for all ages. "Jill takes you on an insightful and delicious journey of becoming a homesteader. This book is packed with so much easy to follow, practical, hands-on information about steps you can take towards integrating homesteading into your life. It is packed full of exciting and mouth-watering recipes and heartwarming stories of her unique adventure into homesteading. These recipes are ones I know I will be using regularly in my kitchen." - Eve Kilcher These 109 recipes include her family’s favorites, with maple-glazed pork chops, butternut Alfredo pasta, and browned butter skillet corn. Jill also shares 17 bonus recipes for homemade sauces, salt rubs, sour cream, and the like—staples that many people are surprised to learn you can make yourself. Beyond these recipes, The Prairie Homestead Cookbook shares the tools and tips Jill has learned from life on the homestead, like how to churn your own butter, feed a family on a budget, and experience all the fulfilling satisfaction of a DIY lifestyle.

Bizz and Buzz Make Honey Buns

Bizz and Buzz Make Honey Buns
Author: Dee Leone
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0448479281

Bizz and Buzz want to make honey buns. They try to follow their friend Bear's recipe, but the two bees get a little mixed up. Instead of addling Oflour, O they find a little Oflower.O Ideal for learning language skills, this Core Concepts book covers homophones, friendship, and problem-solving. Full color.

The Best of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

The Best of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
Author: Jeff Hertzberg, M.D.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1250277442

WITH A FOREWORD BY ANDREW ZIMMERN "What Zoë and Jeff have done with the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes series is prove that the world’s easiest yeasted loaf, the most versatile bread dough recipe (even pizza!), can be taken in so many directions and have so many applications that it has created a series of hits." —From the Foreword by Andrew Zimmern From Jeff Hertzberg, M.D., and Magnolia Network's Zoë François, the authors of the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day series, comes a collection of all time favorite recipes and techniques. With nearly one million copies of their books in print, Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François have proven that people want to bake their own bread, so long as they can do it easily and quickly. But with five very different “Bread in Five” books to choose from, bakers have been asking: “Which one should I get if I want a little of everything: the best of European and American classics, whole-grain recipes, pizza and flatbread, gluten-free, sourdough, and loaves enriched with eggs and butter?” With The Best of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, Jeff and Zoë have chosen their absolute favorite 80 recipes from all five of their books, bringing them together into a single volume that is the only bread book a baker needs. In addition to old favorites, the book pulls in a few new tricks, tips, and techniques that Jeff and Zoë have learned along the way. With this revolutionary stored-dough technique—along with color and instructional black-and-white photographs—readers can have stunning, delicious bread on day one. The Best of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day will make everyone a baker—with only five minutes a day of active preparation time.