Posts tagged recipes
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 »
September 1, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged 444, abuse, angels, inspiration, Jeshua, Nick Bunick, pedophilia, rape, recipes, self awareness, The Messenger, trauma
Time for Truth: A New Beginning
By Nick Bunick
Published September 1, 2010 (Paperback) Hay House
It is Time for Truth. This sense – mandate, almost – seems to be flying from all directions. And, Nick Bunick’s book may be a harbinger.
You may remember Nick Bunick from his best-selling book The Messengers. In it, he revealed that he was Paul, Jeshua’s friend. I interviewed Nick about that book. I remember reading The Messengers, and as I closed the book, which was stuffed with references of the number 444, indicating angelic presence, I looked up and saw the clock – precisely 4:44. I ended up being interviewed by USA Today about Nick. I’ll have a chance tomorrow to interview Nick about Time for Truth. 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 »
February 26, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, African dance, dancing, healing, healthy diet, history, hoodoo, inspiration, licorice, magic, magick, manifest, medical injustice, passion, recipes, storytelling, tribal, vodou, writing, yams
The Big Book of Soul: The Ultimate Guide to the African American Spirit
By Stephanie Rose Bird
Published February 5, 2010 (Paperback) Hampton Roads Publishing
Do you remember those textbooks we had in school — the history books that told his-story, you know, the dominant white guy’s story? Well, The Big Book of Soul is the antithesis of that. This rich, full paperback – that I wish was hardcover and filled with colorful images – traces how the banned religions of Africa went underground and re-emerged in America in forms that sustained the culture as best they could.
There’s Hoodoo and vodou and magick, dancing and blessing and spells and mojo bags and connecting with the spirit in nature. Read the rest of this entry »
February 17, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged bestseller, cleaving, divorce, fearless, julie & julia, love, marriage, meat, reading, recipes, relationships, self awareness, storytelling, trauma, writing
Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat & Obsession
By Julie Powell
Published December 1, 2009 (Hardcover) Little, Brown and Company
I interviewed Julie Powell many years ago at a downtown Portland hotel. She was escorted in as if she were a princess, and, perhaps, in a way, she was. She’d hit the NY Times bestseller list with her first memoir Julie and Julia. You’ll recognize the title from the movie that’s just out, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. Cleaving is Powell’s follow-up.
I selected the book from my stacks this afternoon the way I always do. Intuitively. But, I’m not digging Read the rest of this entry »
January 15, 2010 · Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Ann Louise Gittleman, diabetes, diet, Eat This, fearless, Food Network, Good Deal, healing, healthy diet, inspiration, physical health, recipes, Sylvia Browne
The 10 Things You Need To Eat
By Dave Lieberman and Anahad O’Connor
Published January 1, 2010 (Paperback) William Morrow Cookbooks
Maybe I’m torturing myself. I’m midway through the five-day Hot Metabolism Booster diet because I’ll be interviewing Fat Flush for Life author Ann Louise Gittleman on Monday, and I chose my book of the day – The 10 Things You Need to Eat. I suppose I’m prepping myself for what comes next since I can’t go back to my Diet Coke, dark chocolate and sugarless gum. Not according to Ann Louise.
My after-dinner “snack” is the red-hot metabolism tomato drink. It is so freaking good – spicy, nutritious, filling. And, tomato is the first of the ten foods that we need to eat – that’s what Dave Lieberman and Anahad O’Connor say. 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 25, 2009 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, bipolar, Christmas, fiction, grace, gratitude, healing, inspiration, inspirational, mogul, music, Nobel Peace Prize, novel, recipes, redemption, relationships, Scrooge, storytelling, transformation, trauma, writing
The Christmas List: A Novel
By Richard Paul Evans
Published October 6, 2009 (Hardcover) Simon & Schuster
Take a modern-day Scrooge, add in economic tragedies from the front pages, blend in Richard Paul Evans’ gift for writing Christmas stories, and you have a recipe that you will enjoy — with a requisite packet of tissues. Evans’ latest, The Christmas List, tells the story of a real estate mogul’s personal reckoning after he financially screws old friends, young women, couples with dreams, and family members. No one is safe, if they have something that James Kier wants.
It’s tricky business, seducing the reader to care for a nasty character like Kier, but Dickens managed it in A Christmas Carol, and Evans does, too, in The Christmas List.
Evans mentions in his novel 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 »
