| Cooking books - Chocolate pizza and quick cooking for less | | Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 2:10:34 PM by Rose Martins | If you are someone who loves to cook, but just has to follow a recipe, don't fear. There are numerous cookbooks available to cater to the needs and delights of every taste and pocket possible. Even making something like pizza that seems so simple and easy, has a number of recipe books written on how to make a simple pizza just that little bit more interesting.
 There is also a recipe for a sweet pizza using cream, chocolate, marshmallows and all sorts of other delights. One can often find free recipes on the side of a bought box, can or tin. Food companies are happy to share free recipes with you that will encourage you to purchase and use their product.
You will also often receive a free cookbook when purchasing an appliance or joining a weight-loss or fitness group. These recipe books will sport recipes that utilize the appliance or fit the structure of the weight-loss or fitness group.
Online cookbooks and recipes are also a great source of interesting ideas that often come free of charge. The internet is a world of usual and usual cooking ideas. Cookbooks that offer recipes that are really quick to make, are popular, as are cookbooks with recipes that help you to save a penny or two.
Children's cookbooks are often a fun idea that allows Mother and Child to spend some happy and fun hours dabbling in the kitchen. Party cookbooks don't only offer recipes, but also complete menus, wine suggestions as well as great d?cor ideas.
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| | | First-graders get excited about books at Chili Book-Off | | Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 2:47:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | Dressed in self-decorated party hats and bright red chili pepper necklaces, the students of Amy Gamel's first-grade class at Townsend Elementary School were in high spirits for the "Chili Book-Off" on Friday. The "Chili Book-Off" is a day of food, fun and reading for the students. It was filled with activities that teach the students that reading can be enjoyable, not just something that's required. "It's a great way to promote reading as a fun activity," Gamel said. The first-graders spent the first part of the morning cutting out images from magazines and pasting them on paper to create a yearbook. They also could read from a large selection of books they picked out of the library at the Vandercook Lake school. At lunchtime, they tasted homemade chili prepared by Gamel, and the rest of the afternoon was spent reading.... | |
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| | | Find the right cookbooks for quick meals | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:47:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | One of the first suggestions I'd make to anyone who needs to cook weekday dinners is, review the cookbooks you have. m m mMany people stock their shelves with cookbooks by the stars. You know, the celebrity chefs whose shows they watch on TV. Those usually are great books with beautiful photography. However, if you're looking for cookbooks with ideas for feeding the hungry masses after the workday, then there are different, better books for that endeavor. We'll call them reality cookbooks. These usually deal with cooking dinner quickly for the family. They're usually from people who aren't cooking in a huge commercial kitchen but rather the home version and understand the situation. The good ones rely on fewer ingredients per recipe. They know the shorter the time involved, the happier the family.... | |
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| | | Treasure Hunt: The long and winding road' to Meridian | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 6:49:15 AM by Blog57 Team | | According to The Guardian, a U. K. newspaper, French President Jacques Chirac once joked to Vladimir Putin and Gerhard Schröder that the only thing the British have ever done for European agriculture is Mad Cow disease. "You can't trust people who cook as badly as that," Chirac added. "After Finland, it's the country with the worst food." I certainly don't agree with Chirac, but I will admit that I have heard on more than one occasion that British food may not be the most gastronomically delightful and tastebud titillating of them all. Ex-pats, locals weigh in; we investigateWhich brings me to what has become an ongoing debate in this column: Does The Bull's Head Pub at 1441 N. Eagle Road A) serve authentic British food and B) Is its food mouth-wateringly delicious? I coerced Bob and my friend John to go with me to the pub for lunch.... | |
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| | | Cook: A special manager has his team at a special place | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 12:55:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | By next weekend, if things go as expected and Detroit beats St. Louis in the World Series that starts tonight at Detroit's Comerica Park, the baseball world will know what Cardinals manager Tony La Russa and at least one of us here figured out a long time ago. "Jim Leyland," La Russa said several years back, "is the most perfect baseball manager I've ever been around." One of the best of all time, too. Even Leyland's most stubborn critics, who always will hold a misguided grudge against him because he left the Pirates a decade ago, will have to recognize his special place in the game if his Tigers take out the Cardinals. A lot of managers have won a World Series -- somebody does every season -- but only 21 have won two or more championships. Leyland would be No. 22. That would separate him from five of the 16 managers in the Hall of Fame and from three of the top nine managers with the most wins, including La Russa .... | |
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| | | Neiman's a jewel among benefactors | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 10:46:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | There's nothing like having a corporate friend on the benefit-party circuit. Jewel Charity, that venerable organization that raises dollars for the sick kids at Cook Children's Medical Center, has lots of them. Neiman Marcus is one. Last week Neiman's hosted a cocktail reception for the second year, and invited everyone who has anything to do with Jewel Charity. Event chairs Priscilla Martin and Lou Martin worked with Neiman's boss Deb McGinnis to make this midweek party a success. The retailer paid all the bills for this event, which featured a sassy little fashion preview of Escada's spring line, but the more than 350 Jewel Charity members, angels, guests and donors who turned out for this soiree gave a $100 or $125 gift to be there.... | |
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| | | QUICK BITES: Cool books | | Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:47:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Not for picky eaters In "Fierce Food: The Intrepid Diner's Guide to the Unusual, Exotic, and Downright Bizarre" (Plume, $14 paperback), Christa Weil describes dozens of foods that may be considered acquired tastes. Here's a sample: Corn smut: This fungus that attacks and ruins corn crops dismays American farmers but brings glee to those tending the soil in Mexico. There, the fungus is scraped from the cob and "used as a rich mushroomy flavoring." Durian: A huge, and hugely popular, fruit in Asia, where it is called the "King of Fruits." Its fragrance is akin to "sewer stench" and "the taste, for some, is just as revolting." Clay: Yes, clay, as in dirt. It can be "eaten ... raw or cooked and seasoned." The method of preparation varies among regions, which include the rural South, Haiti and parts of Africa.... | |
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| | | Tensions in elections office are on public view | | Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 2:46:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | TRENTON -- Mercer County Superintendent of Elections Bettye Monroe and Deputy Superintendent Steve Cook sit in offices on opposite sides of a large room, a space that neither has crossed to talk with the other for more than seven months. It may be unusual for the senior officials in a government office to never speak with each other, but the gulf between the county's top elections officers is so large at this point that they have no interaction. The office is responsible for maintaining voting machines, keep ing voter registration books to be used by poll workers and collecting provisional ballots. The office is responsible for enforcing election law, an area that has been particularly contentious after Monroe offered testimony denying that she instructed that three absentee bal lots be shredded in Trenton's mayoral election in May.... | |
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| | | Area calendar | | Posted Saturday, September 23, 2006 6:47:18 AM by Blog57 Team | | -- Friends of Normal Public Library fall book sale; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Community Room of the library. For donations of books, call (309) 452-2380. Continues Sunday.-- Cissna Park's Pumpkins In The Park Fest; car show 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; games and contest, 10 a.m.; pumpkin bake-off, 10:30 p.m.; pork sandwiches, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; pumpkin decorating contest, 1 p.m.; barbecue pork cook-off, 3 p.m. judging, all events in the Village Park.-- One-Stop Shop open house of home-party product lines; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Deer Creek United Methodist Church. Raffle to benefit the church's food pantry.-- Doughnuts with state Rep. Dan Brady, R-Bloomington; 9 to 11 a.m., Bloomington Township Fire Department, R.R. 13, Bloomington.-- William F. Brady Day of the Dozer (rescheduled); 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Interstate Center, Illinois 9, west of Bloomington.-- Learn plastic canvas weaving with Irene Melton; 11 a.m., Mount Hope-Funks Grove Library, McLean.... | |
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| | | Church sets car care clinic | | Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 8:48:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Friendship Factor (a resource group for single moms) is sponsoring a free car-care clinic for single moms today at the Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church parking lot at 4100 Casper Mountain Road from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free child care will be provided and coffee and refreshments will be served.Our volunteers will be on hand to change your oil, inspect your car and offer assistance with other minor repairs. We also have a free clothing exchange available while you wait. Reservations are necessary. For reservations and more information, call 267-7514 and leave us your name and phone number.Women host flea market today The United Methodist Women are hosting a flea market today at Christ United Methodist Church, 1868 S. Poplar St., in the Fellowship Center. Doors open at 7 a.m., and the flea market continues until 2 p.m.United Methodist Women will have a bake sale table, where refreshments will be available, as well as goodies to take home.... | |
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| | | Dietitian part of movement | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:48:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | Mary Albert didn't make all junk food off-limits for her own children, and she's not about to do so for children at local schools. But the dietitian is part of a new effort between Augusta Medical Center and schools in Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta County to improve the nutritional value of what gets served up to local students. Before they get to making changes, however, the team must analyze what's on the menu today. No one expects to find school menus are terribly unhealthy all three local districts meet state and federal standards for nutrition but there's always room to make things better, Albert explained. .... | |
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