Posts tagged cooking
November 29, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged cooking, destiny, family, happiness, inspiration, law of attraction, lightness, optimism, passion, positive thinking, recipes, relationships
Inspired Destiny: Living a Fulfilling and Purposeful Life
By Dr John F Demartini
Published July 2010 (Paperback) HayHouse
Total Law of Attraction: Unleash Your Secret Creative Power to Get What You Want!
Dr David Che
Published May 2010 (Paperback) Blue Note Publications
I’ve been a student of Law of Attraction for close to three decades, gravitating toward metaphysical authors from the very first interviews I did for whatever media outlet would use my work – AP Radio Network, mostly, and a fiercely conservative news-talk station where I called my first book series “New Ways.” At the time, the phrase New Age was emerging. I thought I was being clever.
I read every kind of book there is, and about that same time, I picked up a book on witchcraft. A phrase jumped out at me – and it stayed with me all these years. The phrase – used when you screw up – is “I take it out of the Law.” Only recently did I understand what was going on. Read the rest of this entry »
May 26, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged baking, camera, career, cooking, excellence, food styling, happiness, humor, inspiration, optimism, photography, positive thinking, storytelling, teaching
Food Styling: The Art of Preparing Food for the Camera
By Delores Custer
May 3, 2010 (Hardcover) Wiley
I am often accused of being too deep, thinking too much, being too sensitive. So today, I am going for the beauty. Which, in this case, is more than skin deep.
Food Styling is a gorgeous 400-page book. Not that I need such a book. It’s rare that I cook – what, just for me, why bother – let alone create a plate glamorous enough to warrant taking photos of it. Fortunately, I do have an insatiable curiosity. Did you know Read the rest of this entry »
March 26, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged cooking, healthy diet, learning new things, recipes
Impossible to Easy: 111 Delicious Recipes to Help You Put Great Meals on the Table Every Day
By Robert Irvine
Published March 30, 2010 (Hardcover) William Morrow Cookbooks
The Garlic and Herb Pesto-Crusted Lamb Chops are in the oven. Page 153. It says “this recipe isn’t deceptively easy – it’s jusy easy! Pesto delivers a wallop of flavors without investing a lot of time and effort, but you still get all the credit.”
Let me juxtapose that with what author Robert Irvine says in the beginning of his colorful Impossible to Easy Cookbook. “Anything worth doing (and cooking is worth doing, I assure you) is worth suffering at least a little stress over.”
This has been Read the rest of this entry »
March 9, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, alcoholism, baking, cooking, cupcakes, happiness, mother, princess, recipes, stepfather, trauma, young girls
Pink Princess Cupcakes Cookbook
By Barbara Beery
Published March 1, 2010 (Hardcover with concealed spiral binding) Gibbs Smith
I baked tonight. I know. A shock. I wish I could tell you I baked a cute little cupcake out of my beautiful bubblegum-pink Pink Princess Cupcakes Cookbook . But I found the book after I finished baking my cheesecake pie. About a dozen members of Dinner Grrls are coming over tomorrow – my turn to host the monthly pot-luck.
That cheesecake recipe card pre-dates my high school graduation. Read the rest of this entry »
January 7, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged career, cooking, dancing, diet, fat flush, get thin, goals, healing, healthy diet, inspiration, lose belly fat, lose fat, lose weight, optimism, passion, physical health, positive thinking, recipes, self awareness
Fat Flush For Life
By Ann Louise Gittleman
December22, 2009 (Hardcover) Da Capo Lifelong Books
It is time.
Everything around me calls out to be decluttered and begin anew – my closet, my PC which just died, my baskets overflowing with unread magazines. And me. The wicker basket, emptied of magazines, re-emerges as my cat’s bed. She loves it, and it matches my now decluttered bedroom. The dead PC issue is being solved – it’s odd that I just felt like I should buy a Mac the last day of the year. So I did. A mere week before I needed to.
My body is next in line. It cries to me Read the rest of this entry »
December 24, 2009 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged cooking, diet, goals, happiness, healing, healthy diet, inspiration, Italian sauce, lasagna, lose weight, manifest, self awareness, therapy, workout
Your Inner Skinny
By Joy Bauer
Published December 29th, 2009 (Paperback) William Morrow Cookbooks
It is ironic, I suppose, that as I read Joy Bauer’s newest diet book, I am assembling a lasagna, made with a recipe for sauce handed down to me from my stepfather’s Italian relatives. It’s a recipe I typed out as a kid, on a Remington typewriter on lined, holey school paper. I guess the holy part is right. It is Christmas Eve, and this lasagna is my annual menu.
But Joy’s book contains recipes I could totally eat. Things like Read the rest of this entry »
December 14, 2009 · Filed under Author Interviews, Book Reviews · Tagged 12-step, cooking, diet, family, happiness, healing, health, healthy diet, inspiration, love, magic, motherhood, optimism, passion, physical health, recipes, relationships, sobriety, son, writing
There’s something magical about the smells that fill up a kitchen when the cooking begins. Honestly, there hasn’t been much real cooking in my house since my sons graduated high school and moved in their unique directions – the younger to UC Santa Cruz, where he graduated with a BS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and moved on to a job in water purity, and the elder who today celebrated six months clean and sober, a real trick with that dual diagnosis of bipolar and drug addiction.
It is magical, the difference. Sobriety and celebration go hand in hand.
My younger son Read the rest of this entry »
December 11, 2009 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged Brad Meltzer, Chelsea Cain, cookbook, cooking, diabetes, diet, Elizabeth Berg, feast, fiction, healthy diet, inspiration, Jennie Shortridge, John J Nance, John Saul, Katherine Neville, literary, writing
Literary Feast: The Famous Authors Cookbook
By King County Library System Foundation with Foreword by Greg Atkinson
Published January 2009 (Paperback) Classic Day Publishing
I’ve consumed their words over the years, why not their recipes as well? Literary Feast includes the culinary delights of nearly one-hundred authors, benefiting the King County Library System Foundation.
I have a favorite recipe from the book. I actually made it tonight, and I will reveal it in a moment. Don’t peak. Read the rest of this entry »
November 24, 2009 · Filed under Author Interviews, Book Reviews · Tagged cooking, diabetes, diet, happiness, healing, healthy diet, physical health, recipes, storytelling
Taste of Home Cookbook: Cooks Who Care Edition
Edited by Catherine M. Cassidy and Diane Werner
Published September 8th, 2009 (Hardcover) Reader’s Digest
The top of my refrigerator is bedecked with dozens of unthumbed cookbooks, but there’s something about The Taste of Home Cookbook: Cooks Who Care Edition that makes me feel — well, home. I interviewed one of the editors today, Catherine Cassidy. She says the cookbook is for novice cooks all the way up to the experts. There are more than 1,400 affordable recipes — all from readers, and then tested in the Taste of Home kitchens.
What I love is Read the rest of this entry »
October 14, 2009 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged career, cooking, father, fearless, friendship, goals, happiness, healing, healthy diet, humor, inspiration, marriage, mother, optimism, physical health, positive thinking, recipes, self awareness, storytelling, writing
Cherries in Winter: My Family’s Recipe for Hope in Hard Times
By Suzan Colon
Published November 3, 2009 (Hardcover) by Doubleday
Powdered milk. The thin pale taste of it from my childhood hard times, colored my tongue as soon as I began reading Cherries in Winter: My Family’s Recipe for Hope in Hard Times. The sense vanished instantly as I absorbed Suzan Colon’s colorful writing of her New York family. She does a beautiful job blending and folding her economically-challenged life following her layoff from a woman’s magazine, with her grandmother’s during the Depression.
She heads into the basement to find the treasure trove of recipes from her grandmother, and the stories begin.
Her mentions of liverwurst, light butter cookies, and meat loaf bring back the loveliest food memories Read the rest of this entry »
