Christmas with Mary Engelbreit or Visual Recipes

Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: The Best Christmas Ever

Author: Mary Engelbreit

How can you make your holidays more merry? Add more Mary to your holidays! When you invite Mary Engelbreit into your home this Christmas, you'll discover countless new ways to bring even more fun and festivity to the most wonderful time of the year.

Holiday magic is easy to create when you have the help of America's favorite illustrator. Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: The Best Christmas Ever celebrates all the joys and toys, wrappings and gifts, treats and trims of Christmas.

Overflowing with plans for handmade decorations, unique and meaningful gift ideas, and irresistible recipes, this warm and lively collection offers you everything you need to plan the Christmas of your dreams-all presented with the trademark Engelbreit wit, warmth, and sparkle. Among the clever, original, and easy-to-do (we promise!) craft projects are a variety of wreaths, cut-glass ornaments, and a special shopping tote just for Mom. Several projects for kids will keep restless hands active and curious tots too busy to snoop under the Christmas tree. Recipes include a wide range of cookies, cakes, candies, and cocktails sure to make your holiday gathering the highlight of the season.

Mary's merry illustrations bring extra magic to nearly every page of this exhilarating sourcebook.

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Visual Recipes: A Cookbook for Non-Readers

Author: Tabitha Orth

This cookbook, written for individuals with autism and other developmental disorders, will enable independence and confidence for anyone in the kitchen. The clear photographs, which include all of the small details that a person with autism or a nonreader needs to be successful, are easy to understand.

Wineparty or Oy of Cooking

WineParty

Author: Jennifer Elias

This portable wine tasting party in a box features festive WineWrappers to disguise your wines, StemTags to keep track of your glasses, aroma and flavor sheets, and a guide to create dozens of fun wine tastings. Inside is everything you need to throw an entertaining wine tasting for your friends.

This festive box includes:
24 WineWrappers in four stylish designs to disguise your bottles
36 colorful StemTags in four designs to identify your guests' glasses
12 aroma and flavor guides
50-page tasting note pad
18-page WineTips guide

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Oy of Cooking: A Grandmother's Legacy of Food and Memories

Author: Susie Weinthal

"Having feasted on hundreds, maybe thousands of her meals, I am her greatest fan... Hers is the best kind of food. It's comforting, unbelievably delicious, sexy, mouth-watering, beautiful, and crowd-pleasing... I promise you're gonna love this book!"

-- From the foreword by Suzanne Somers

In The Oy of Cooking: A Grandmother's Legacy of Food and Memories, Susie Weinthal invites us into her kitchen, where she shares her most inspired recipes for the modern family. From appetizers to entrées, from savory to sweet, Susie covers all four courses, and then some, to help you create a sumptuous comfort-food family dinner or a gourmet extravaganza designed to excite the taste buds and inspire scintillating conversation at your next dinner party. Her easy-to-follow recipes include classic Jewish dishes like Matzo Ball Soup and Beef Brisket; seasonal favorites like Summer Tomato Soup and Bruschetta Antipasto; cosmopolitan fare like Lamb with Avgolemono Sauce and Szechuan Sweet and Sour Whole Fish. Susie's eclectic recipes are peppered with warm memories of family and friends, generations of inspired palates whose mealtime favorites are included in this wonderful collection: Great-Grandma Sadie's Potato Soup, Ellen's Moroccan Hot Salad and TV personality Suzanne Somers's Brie en Croûte, to name a few. The Oy of Cooking: A Grandmother's Legacy of Food and Memories offers an essential taste of modern life through generations of family and friends and the all-encompassing symbol of this shared love, as every grandmother knows: great food.

Ken Homs Top 100 Stir Fries or Barkers Grub

Ken Hom's Top 100 Stir Fries

Author: Ken Hom

In this stylishly produced new book, Ken Hom brings us 100 healthy, delicious, easy-to-prepare dishes sure to appeal to every palate. With 20 brand new recipes as well as 80 favorites, this revered cook covers not only Asian stir fries but non-Asian dishes as well, like stir-fry spaghetti carbonara. Ken Hom's Top 100 Stir Fry Recipes is arranged by chapters that include Chicken, fish and Seafood, Beef, Pork, and Vegetarian, and there are also helpful sections on techniques for preparation and cooking as well as recommendations for oils and sauces. As one of the world's top authorities on wok-cooking, Ken Hom shows that the speed, versatility, and convenience of stir-frying never compromise flavor. Teacher and cookbook author Ken Hom travels regularly to America, Asia, and Europe; among his best-sellers are Ken Hom's Quick Wok, Foolproof Chinese Cooking, and Ken Hom's Hot Wok.

See also: Indiana Wine or The Twelve Teas of Inspiration

Barker's Grub: Easy, Wholesome Home Cooking for Your Dog

Author: Rudy Edalati

Canine Cooking That Will Have Them Begging for More
Which do you think your dog would prefer: dry kibble, mushy canned food, or a nice, nutritionally sound helping of Tuna Togetherness? Not surprisingly, most dogs would be happier -- and healthier -- with the latter, considering the dangerous preservatives, questionable ingredients, and mysterious flavoring agents often used in commercial dog food.
That's why Rudy Edalati cooked up Barker's Grub, a cookbook filled with wholesome, easy-to-prepare meals for your mutt or your pedigreed pooch -- and you'll find all the necessary ingredients in your fridge or at the local supermarket. She includes not only fun everyday meals, but healing meals for specific health problems, as well as special diets for different life stages, such as:
* Lo Mein Barking Style: the doggie alternative for Chinese takeout
* Beef Puppy Food: just the right mix for a growing dog
* Davie's Juicy Jiggly-Wiggly Anemia Diet: a blood-boosting dish of liver, rice, and spinach
Barker's Grub is informative (there's lots of canine nutritional information to chew on), inspiring, and just plain fun. The recipes are simple and quick -- after all, it's not just about health and longevity, it's about making the most of the time you and your dog spend together.

Indiana Wine or The Twelve Teas of Inspiration

Indiana Wine: A History

Author: James L Butler

"John James Dufour arrived in America in 1796, looking for land to settle a colony of "vinedressers." After first settling in Kentucky, the colony purchased land in the Indiana territory on the north bank of the Ohio River. Here, in the town they called Vevay, the Swiss winegrowers successfully produced America's first commercial wines. In this richly anecdotal history of wine production in Indiana, John and James Butler relate a vintage story of early triumph, followed by precipitous decline, ending in present-day success." Though the economic decline of the 1820s ended the first flowering of Indiana vineyards, John James Dufour continued his work and in 1826 published the first book written about American grape-growing and wine-making. Thereafter the heart of America's wine production was centered near Cincinnati, Ohio. After that industry collapsed in the 1870s, small wineries could still be found scattered across southern Indiana. With the coming of prohibition, the idea of Indiana wine was lost. It was not until the passing of the "Small Winery" law in 1971 that wine-making began anew in the state. Today some 25 wineries, large and small, produce a wide variety of Indiana wine.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	In the Beginning	1
2	Wandering in the Wilderness	8
3	The Swiss Colony	23
4	The Swiss Settle in Indiana	31
5	Out of the Very Ground They Tread	47
6	The Vevay Winemakers	63
7	Trouble in Paradise	80
8	New Harmony	103
9	Indiana Wine, 1827-1919	120
10	The Modern Indiana Wine Industry	134
11	The Modern Indiana Wineries	152
App. A	Location of Firstvineyard, Kentucky	207
App. B	Indiana Laws Pertaining to Small Wineries	209
App. C	Indiana Bonded Wineries	213
	Notes	217
	Index	239

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The Twelve Teas of Inspiration: Celebrations to Nourish the Soul

Author: Emilie Barnes

Participating in teatime is an act of connection, community, and pure inspiration. Bestselling author Emilie Barnes illuminates 12 themed teas that honor milestones, special people, and everyday moments—

Words to Live By

New Beginning

Role Model

Thankful Heart

A Thing of Beauty

Artist Susan Rios' paintings transport readers to the place of possibility alongside each tea's fresh ideas and delicious recipes. The party-giver needs only to add the fellowship of great friends, family, and neighbors and her own personal touch.