The Spice Kitchen, Review and Giveaway
The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices. Easily my new favorite cookbook! Craig and I have really gotten into spices in the last couple years. Part of that is from some spices I received from TSP Spices, but part of it is just wanting to create easier dinners but with real pizazz!
Whether you are new to spices or have been cooking with them for years there will be a few recipes you want to add to your family file from this book. The first recipe I tried? Clove Spiced Caramel Corn.
OH MY. It is fantastic. I got the book and actually went to the store just a couple hours later because I couldn’t get the thought of the caramel corn out of my head.
Then there is the Coconut Curry Shrimp. The Cumin Lime Pork Chops. Creamy Tomato Basil Soup. Bittersweet Chocolate Chip Ginger Cookies. and sooo many more. Plus the first 30-35 pages are filled with information about spices themselves. The history, where they come from and more.
The Spice Kitchen offers more than one hundred delicious recipes for using herbs and spices to add vibrant flavors to your food at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and any time in between. From Spiced Yogurt and Granola Parfaits, to Strawberry Salad with Cinnamon-Balsamic Vinaigrette, Spiced Guacamole, Tarragon Chicken Potpie, Clove Spiced Caramel Corn, and more, this exciting cookbook is full of inventive recipes, information, and tips for using herbs and spices. Best of all, the recipes are easy and fuss free—a must for busy home cooks who want to spend less time in the kitchen and more time at the family table. And with dozens of full-color photographs and illustrations, The Spice Kitchen is as beautiful as it is practical.
The Spice Kitchen changes everything, using herbs and spices to add special twists to favorite family recipes, from macaroni and cheese, to burgers, chicken salad, deviled eggs, and much more. It’s the only all-purpose cookbook for spicing up everyday meals. Not just exotic extras, spices from around the world make it easier—and much more fun—to turn out delicious and healthy food. The simple but flavorful recipes and ideas in The Spice Kitchen will make old family favorites new again—and bring everyone to the table.
Have a few places you need to take dishes to this holiday season? Bored with taking the same ol stuff? This book is a sure fire win for you. Or would make an incredible hostess gift either alone or with some TSP Spices!
Sara Engram and Katie Luber are the co-founders of The Seasoned Palate, Inc., based in Baltimore, Maryland. Their company specializes in packaging organic spices in one-teaspoon packets for convenience and freshness. Their tsp spices line is sold in more than three hundred retail stores in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and their Smart Spice brand is sold in supermarkets throughout the United States.
And I have TWO copies of The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices
To enter, tell me your favorite spice and the dish you use it in. Easy Peasy!
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Find the Words Review and Giveaway
Susan Halpern has been a social worker and psychotherapist for more than thirty years. Her first book, The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can’t Find the Words, continues to be an important go-to manual for difficult times.
Now in Finding the Words: Candid Conversations with Loved Ones
Finding the Words, drawn from Halpern’s years of experience as psychotherapist, wife, and mother, suggests possible, scripted solutions and positive outcomes for a wide range of situations:
- a partner who needs to talk about the irritations of joint living
- parents of an adult child who requires unexpected financial support
- grandparents who don’t know how to intervene
- siblings who disagree about politics or religion
- and couples in times of crisis, illness, affairs, and divorce.
Presenting life situations along with the words that can be used to cope with them, Halpern offers honesty with a great deal of vitality and wisdom
Reading Finding the Words is like taking out an insurance policy on the most precious of our relationships. It will carry you through times of crisis and enable you to rebuild the relationships that are the foundation of your life, often making them stronger and better than before.” – Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
I have been in so many situations in my life where I had no idea what to say after a friend told me devastating news.
And I know I have certainly told people some stories, that left them speechless, but yet wanting to console me. It is an uncomfortable feeling for both parties. I have made great strides in becoming a better communicator, but I still have miles to go.
I was never a great communicator, but after a really horrible relationship, I had somehow taught myself to shut down. Not to say anything, just leave it. Letting things fester and fester. And by me not sharing, I stopped learning what lessons life and friends might have for me.
This book is so important, and would be a fantastic addition to anyone’s library. The pre-teen, teen, young adult and even Grandma can learn subtle, soothing ways to talk through difficult times. Although some of the book may not be quite right for young adolescents, the first half of the book is for anyone. I know I have learned so many lessons already, and I have only been skimming the parts I want to learn!
I have one copy of Finding the Words for one of you!
To enter, tell me a situation you have needed a book like this for.
You don’t have to get too personal, unless you want to of course!
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What I Learned from the Dog, Review and Giveaway
I just can’t get enough of short stories when I need to relax, but can’t seem to sit still longer then a few minutes. My first love affair with short stories was Alfred Hitchcock. I am sure I still have the book somewhere, but I was only 8-9 and I think the book weighed more then me! It was incredibly thick, and full of amazing Hitchcock stories.
Over the last few days I have been reading short stories from pet owners from the new book in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, titled: Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog: 101 Stories about Life, Love and Lessons
The stories are short, sweet, concise and have a true point. Usually a moral lesson. Just like Hitchcock’s The Twilight Zone.
I know just how boring my life would be with out Bayles and Bleu, and growing up, I would have went crazy had I not always had Mary and Chiquita around. (my two cats)
I have FIVE copies of this heart warming book to giveaway to 5 of you!
To enter, tell me something about your pet, or something an animal has taught you.
Can be a current pet, a past pet, or even a future pet!
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How to Roast a Lamb Review and Giveaway
A rising star in the food world, Michael Psilakis is co-owner of a growing empire of modern Mediterranean restaurants, and one of the most exciting young chefs in America today. In How to Roast a Lamb: New Greek Classic Cooking
A key point to me? The recipes are on one page or dual pages, and the photos are on others. So no interfering with page turning while cooking. love it!
Psilakis’s cooking utilizes the fresh, naturally healthful ingredients of the Mediterranean augmented by techniques that define New American cuisine.
Home cooks who have gravitated toward Italian cookbooks for the simple, user-friendly dishes, satisfying flavors, and comfortable, family-oriented meals, will welcome Psilakis’s approach to Greek food, which is similarly healthful, affordable, and satisfying to share any night of the week.
This book is not for the beginning chef. Most of these recipes do call for some experience, but there are also quite a few that are simple to prepare and have rather simple, but tasty ingredients.
If anything, this book is a coffee table book. It is just gorgeous! It would make a beautiful gift either for the Holidays or as a Hostess gift for all the holiday parties coming up!
I have one hard cover copy of How to Roast a Lamb: New Greek Classic Cooking
To enter, tell me your 3 traditional Thanksgiving dishes.
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Cooking with All Things Trader Joe’s Giveaway
Love Trader Joe’s? This new independent cookbook, Cooking with All Things Trader Joe’s
Many of the recipes are vegetarian or can easily be made vegetarian. Ethnic dishes like Saag Paneer Lasagna are scattered throughout, as well as classic comfort foods like Comfy Chicken Pot Pie. Crowd-pleasing recipes include Peanutty Sesame Noodles, Black Bean Soup, Macho Nacho, Seafood Paella, Curried Chicken Pitas, Wilted Spinach with Attitude, Honey I Ate the Chocolate Bread Pudding, and All Mixed Up Margaritas.
People who don’t know how to cook or don’t want to cook will appreciate the Bachelor Quickies section, featuring frozen and ready-to-heat selections that are matched to create complete and impressive menus.
With full-color photographs for every recipe, wine suggestions, humorous personal stories, and cooking tips sprinkled throughout, this collection is a must for any Trader Joe’s fan.
Just check out these healthy made over recipes! Chicken nuggets, pizza and more! All made healthy, and kid friendly!
I have a copy of Cooking with All Things Trader Joe’s
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