Celebrate with Babs

Celebrate with Babs
Author: Barbara Costello
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2022-04-12
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0744059410

USA Today Best Seller As seen on the Today Show, Good Morning America, QVC, The Rachael Ray Show, Woman’s World, Bon Appetit, Food52 and Seventeen.com Selected as one of GMA’s highly anticipated spring cookbooks It only takes two years to start a tradition! From New Year's Day to Christmas and every holiday in between, your adopted grandmother Babs shares all of the holiday recipes and motherly advice you need to make every celebration special. With menus for festive moments throughout the whole year, you'll always know what to serve. Babs bestows upon you 100 of her family-favorite recipes—passed down from family and friends through the generations, recorded on tattered and torn recipe cards, and all stored in her old wooden recipe box. She also shares the holiday traditions her family has grown to love so you can pass them down to your family, too, and elevate all of life’s gatherings into memorable occasions. From little party hacks and entertaining tips, hosting the holidays will become less stressful and more meaningful. Celebrate with Babs will insert itself at the center of all of your gatherings for generations. What are you waiting for? Start your new traditions today!

Breakfast at Babs'

Breakfast at Babs'
Author: Simon Peters
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2010-06-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1445733013

The gritty tale of a team of Royal Marine Commandos on a special mission in Iraq. A terrorist training cell is preparing child suicide bombers. The story begins with the last training mission at sea with a nuclear submarine, the last party, and the last girl. We follow the almost comical problems that they face to go to war. Once there the team jumps from a helicopter into a black lake at night in an unknown and hostile environment. After lying in wait they find and intercept the terrorists, a fire fight ensues, they are surprised to find the children and the lead character is shot whilst trying to protect them. He watches as he is left behind by his friends, the enemy know he's there and been left for dead, going through various emotions and struggling to stay focused on surviving, finally cornered by his adversary, now outgunned and surrounded Mike has to fight for his life with what is around him, a fight to the death ensues. Will they return safely to celebrate with a 'Breakfast at Babs'

Braving Home

Braving Home
Author: Jake Halpern
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2015-02-10
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0544635388

A journalist visits five of America’s disaster-zone towns and the devoted residents who chose to stay despite hellish conditions. As a young reporter, Jake Halpern became obsessed with stories about "some outlandish and often hellish place inhabited by a handful of stalwarts who refused to leave." His fellow reporters joked with him and nicknamed him the Bad Homes Correspondent. But the more he learned about these people, the more he was drawn to them. Braving Home is Halpern’s irresistible portrait of these hometowns and his friendships with their most loyal residents. In North Carolina, Halpern meets a retired mill worker who single-handedly manned his hometown in the wake of a devastating flood. In Alaska, he visits a lone snowbound high-rise at the foot of a glacier. At the base of a Hawaiian volcano, he stays with a hermit whose house was surrounded by molten lava. Among the glitterati of Malibu, a longtime "hillbilly" teaches him the traditions of firefighting. And on a barrier island off the coast of Louisiana, a legendary storm rider tells of surviving hurricanes—even if it means tying one's hair to a tree. Throughout his journey, Halpern explores the value of rootedness in an age when American society is more mobile than ever.

Breakfast at Babs

Breakfast at Babs
Author: Simon Peters
Publisher:
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2011-11-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781549668043

The gritty tale of a team of Royal Marine Commandos on a special mission in Iraq. The story begins with the last training mission at sea with a nuclear submarine, the last party, and the last girl. The CIA and M16 are watching a terrorist training cell preparing child suicide bombers we watch the transformation from innocent child to unwitting murderer.We follow the almost comical problems that the team of chosen men faces to prepare to go to war.Once in theater the team insert from a helicopter into a black lake at night in an unknown and hostile environment. After laying in wait they find and intercept the terrorists, a fire fight ensues, they are surprised to find the children and Mike is shot whilst trying to protect them.Mike watches as he is left behind by his comrades, the enemy know he is alive and been left for dead.Alone and deserted Mike goes through many emotions as he struggles to stay focused on surviving, he is finally tracked down and cornered by his adversaries, now outgunned and surrounded Mike has to fight for his life, a fight to the death is certain.Will they all return safely as a unit as Mike had promised and celebrate together with a 'Breakfast at Babs'Based on a real mission, many of the anecdotes are based on fact or near misses, a must read for anyone interested in modern Military fiction or fact!

To You, Madam

To You, Madam
Author: James Norman
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2016-11-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524555789

Most love stories are pretty much the same. A man and a woman come together, fall in love, and pursue their dreams of happiness. Yet each story is as unique as the individual lovers. In this story, the couple struggle against great odds not only for their love for each other but also for the continuation of a family line that is threatened with the real possibility of extinction. The driving force comes from the love, strength, wisdom, and spirituality of the matriarch. She supplies the strategy and determination that is needed to save the bloodline and the vast holdings of the Covington family.

Thin Ice

Thin Ice
Author: Bill Stackhouse
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1105469050

With a left leg shattered by a drug dealer's bullet, former Detroit homicide captain Ed McAvoy accepts a job as Police Chief of Peekamoose Heights, in New York's Catskills. He figures it will be semi-retirement, sort of like running a country club. After all, how much crime can there be? McAvoy soon discovers that his homicide skills will not atrophy from lack of use. Murder, as it turns out, is an equal-opportunity crime that not only resides in large bustling cities like Detroit, but in sleepy, little Catskill villages as well. In the sixth Ed McAvoy Mystery, the festive atmosphere of the annual Winter Carnival is shattered by an act of vandalism on a food truck during the first night of the week-long fair and accusations run rampant among rival vendors. But when the two-time National Champion is attacked and injured at the National Figure Skating pre-trials and one of the mobile chefs is found shot to death, McAvoy must get to the bottom of things quickly before the food-fight turns even deadlier.

Poppy Cooks

Poppy Cooks
Author: Poppy O'Toole
Publisher: Appetite by Random House
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 052561205X

"[Poppy’s] recipes are unshowy, unfussy (for all her Michelin training) and simply make you want to go skipping into the kitchen to cook."—Nigella Lawson, Nigella.com With Chef and TikTok sensation Poppy O’Toole you'll learn the basics, up your cooking game, with delicious results every time. This is a cookbook with no judgement. Together, we’ll learn how to make incredible food at home. We’ll start with the basics: 12 core recipes (or go-to skills) that everyone needs to know, like how to make a pasta sauce, roast a chicken or make a killer salad dressing. Then we’ll use these core skills as a base for delicious and adaptable recipes that will up your cooking game—the Staple, the Brunch, the Potato Hero (of course they make an appearance) and the Fancy AF. So, once you’ve nailed that classic tomato sauce (which I promise will become the new go-to in your kitchen), you can stir it through pasta, or bake it with eggs for the perfect Shakshuka and, before you know it, you’ll be getting real fancy and making a show-stopping Chicken Parmigiana to impress your friends. I'll walk you through 75 delicious recipes, including: White Sauce: think Mac and Cheese and Bacon-y Garlicky Gratin. Dough: easy flatbreads for Halloumi Avo Breads and Salmon Tikka wraps. Emulsions: Chicken Caesar Salad with homemade mayo and next level Steak Béarnaise with Hollandaise and Crunchy Roast Chips. Meringue: from Eton Mess Pancakes through to Simply the Zest Lemon Meringue Pie Whether you’re completely new to the kitchen or looking to elevate your basics with clever tricks, my step-by-step guidance will help you nail delicious food every time. As a Michelin-trained chef with over ten years’ experience in professional kitchens, I’ve done the years of training so you don’t have to. It’s okay to make a few mistakes along the way, and together, we'll help you fix them and achieve incredible results at home. I am passionate about the importance of great food at home, every day—it’s what we all deserve. This is not just the food you want. It’s the food you need.

Caring For Crabgrass

Caring For Crabgrass
Author: Beverly M. Rathbun
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2013-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1483603202

Book Summary Fully capable and fiercely independent at the age of seventy-four, Marjorie Palmer is unexpectedly reunited with her wayward daughters-in-law, Sandra and Kate, to perform a rather unpleasant task. Unrelated by blood yet bound by family ties, the three women have diametrically opposed personalities and can barely tolerate each other. All of them harbor hidden agendas and well kept secrets. When a twist of fate threatens to prolong their unintentional cohabitation indefinitely, tempers flare and things begin to unravel. Beautifully set in the White Mountains, Caring for Crabgrass is about the precarious journey these three women must travel together before any of them can reach the summit of resolution.