Warm and welcoming, each quilt in this book invites quilters to let go of the "rules" and find joy in the journey. The 12 projects feature traditional blocks such as Log Cabin, Bear's Paw, and Churn Dash, with a twist that makes them fresh and new. Choose from quilts and wall hangings, many featuring folksy applique for added flair. Quilters of all levels will enjoy the relaxed nature of these scrappy projects--imperfections only add to their personality and charm!
At Home with Country celebrates the romance of Cabbages & Roses and shows how Christina Strutt's evocative vintage style is equally at home in city apartments, rural retreats and seaside cottages. From urban high-rises to coastal hideaways, the great manor homes of England to the smallest beach house on the other side of the Atlantic, the beauty of the Cabbages & Roses brand is the gentle but highly visible vintage design. This lavish book embodies all locations—country, city and coast. Chapters encompass Classic Country, Modern City, Island Country and Outdoor Country. Homes that bring together the old and the new, evoking the atmosphere of each season, sit beside city spaces where urban living combines with vintage style—think faded florals and ticking fabrics softening an industrial space, splashes of colour to enliven it and contrasting textures to add interest. Coastal dwellings are fresh, breezy and dreamy—beautifully suited for beach living. The book shows that the country can come to the city, that the city can benefit from coastal settings and that the Cabbages & Roses style is a gentle, unassuming and, above all, beautiful asset to any home as it easily complements all environments.
Including more than 250 easy-to-bake recipes for the classic desserts loved by everyone, two veteran cookbook authors provide the best recipes at the best price--including whoopie pies, blondies, apple cobblers, and raisiny rice pudding--along with little-known food anecdotes and historical tidbits. Original.
A collection of decadent, crave-worthy baked goods featuring beloved classics and new flavor pairings. Includes favorite recipes from top bakeries and bloggers from across the country. In this book you’ll discover just how fun it is to transform the simplest ingredients—flour, sugar, eggs, butter—into irresistible baked foods. With over 100 recipes, starring family favorites and tempting creations from seasoned bakers and popular baking bloggers, this enticing book will become your go-to source for the baked treats you crave. Whether you are new to baking or a pro, or lean toward sweet or savory, there’s something inside for everyone. Sample recipes include: -Bite-size bacon and cheese scones -Lemon-blueberry drizzle bread -Whoopie pies -Cherry pot pies -Savory goat cheese soufflés
Savor the best part of the day. Wake up to gooey cinnamon rolls fresh from the oven, spiced apple pancakes dripping with golden syrup, delicately poached eggs lavished with lemony hollandaise, or thick slices of sizzling maple-glazed bacon. All these recipes and over 100 others can be found in this, the only cookbook you’ll ever need to make your mornings spectacular. In Breakfast Comforts, celebrated cookbook author Rick Rodgers shares his favorite tried-and-true recipes for the morning meal, along with a collection of mouthwatering dishes from beloved breakfast and brunch restaurants across the country. Peppered with Rodgers’ nostalgic, personal tales, it also includes engaging stories behind the featured restaurants and the signature dishes that have made them so popular. Over 100 recipes will satisfy any breakfast craving, whether you prefer a sweet or savory start to the day. Showcasing American regional cuisine, the restaurant recipes include decadent cheese and berry blintzes from New York; chile-laced migas from the Southwest; crab cake Benedict from the Pacific Northwest; and the lightest, flakiest biscuits—with plenty of hearty sausage gravy on the side—from the American South. You’ll also find recipes for all the classics, such as butter- and syrup-drenched waffles; marmalade-stuffed French toast; scrambled eggs bursting with herbs and tomatoes; crispy corned beef hash; and sticky caramel-pecan rolls. Wake up to gooey cinnamon rolls fresh from the oven, spiced apple pancakes dripping with golden syrup, delicately poached eggs lavished with lemony hollandaise, or thick slices of sizzling maple-glazed bacon. No matter what you’re in the mood for, you’ll find inspiration for every palate and every occasion, from a casual family breakfast to a lazy Sunday brunch with friends, in this ultimate collection of comfort-food breakfasts. Restaurants and recipes featured are: San Francisco Universal Cafe http://www.universalcafe.net/ 2814 19th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 Tel: 415-821-4608 Email: [email protected] Chef/Owner: Leslie Carr Avalos Recipe: flatbread breakfast pizza Los Angeles Blu Jam Cafe www.blujamcafe.com 7371 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046 Tel: 323-951-9191 Chef/Owner: Kamil Majer ([email protected]) Recipe: breakfast quesadilla Austin Kerbey Lane Cafe http://www.kerbeylanecafe.com/ Main Office: 2111 Dickson Dr. Suite A., Austin, TX. 78704 Tel: 512-447-3767 Central Location: 3704 Kerbey Lane, Austin, TX 78731 Tel: 512-451-1436 Recipe: migas Portland Daily Cafe (3 locations) www.dailycafeinthepearl.com Daily cafe in the Pearl: 902 NW 13th Ave, Portland, Oregon 97209 Tel: (503) 242-1916 Email: [email protected] Recipe: whole wheat pancakes with berry compote Miami Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink http://www.michaelsgenuine.com/miami Recipe: white chocolate scones with lemon curd New York Sarabeth’s -- www.sarabeth.com Recipe: blintzes Atlanta Highland Bakery www.highlandbakery.com 655 Highland Ave NE # Ne3 Atlanta, GA 30312-1464 Tel: (404) 586-0772 Owner: Stacey Eames ([email protected]) Recipe: Sweet potato & pecan pancakes Philadelphia Jack's Firehouse www.jacksfirehouse.com 2130 Fairmount Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19130 Tel: 215-232-9000 Email: [email protected] Recipe: cheesesteak omelet Seattle Portage Bay Cafe (3 locations) www.portagebaycafe.com Roosevelt: 4130 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle 98105 Tel: 206.547.8230 South Lake Union: 391 Terry Ave N, Seattle 98109 Tel: 206.462.6400 General Managers: Susan Ritchie ([email protected]) and Jeff Smith ([email protected]) Executive Chef: Justin Newstrum ([email protected]) Recipe: Dungeness crab benedict Nashville Sweet 16th – A Bakery http://www.sweet16th.com/ Recipe: grittata casserole Minneapolis Hell's Kitchen www.hellskitcheninc.com 80 South 9th St. Tel: 612.332.4700 Owner: Mitch Omer ([email protected]) Advertising: Cynthia Gerdes ([email protected]) Recipe: Caramel-pecan rolls Denver Snooze Eatery (3 locations) www.snoozeeatery.com 2260 Larimer St., Denver, CO 80205 Tel: 303.297.0700 Recipe: Corned beef hash Chicago HotChocolate Recipe: Monkey bread with orange glaze New Orleans The Ruby Slipper Recipe: BBQ shrimp and grits Santa Fe Cafe Pasqual's Recipe: Homefries with green and red chile sauce Charleston Hominy Grill Recipe: Hi-Rise Biscuits with sausage gravy
A classic bestselling resource for every household, Home Comforts helps you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. “Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food.” —USA TODAY Home Comforts is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. It is a lively and readable guide for both beginners and experts in all the domestic arts. From keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains, folding a fitted sheet, cleaning china, tuning a piano, lighting a fire, setting the dining room table—this guide covers everything that people might want to do for themselves in their homes. Further topics include: making up a bed with hospital corners, expert recommendations for safe food storage, reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical guidebook to the art and science of household management.
Combines and updates two sustainable-living classics--In Harmony With Nature and Country Comforts--providing detailed step-by-step building projects and personal stories. Original.
What time of year do teenage girls search for prom dresses online? How does the quick adoption of technology affect business success (and how is that related to corn farmers in Iowa)? How do time and money affect the gender of visitors to online dating sites? And how is the Internet itself affecting the way we experience the world? In Click, Bill Tancer takes us behind the scenes into the massive database of online intelligence to reveal the naked truth about how we use the Web, navigate to sites, and search for information--and what all of that says about who we are. As online directories replace the yellow pages, search engines replace traditional research, and news sites replace newsprint, we are in an age in which we've come to rely tremendously on the Internet--leaving behind a trail of information about ourselves as a culture and the direction in which we are headed. With surprising and practical insight, Tancer demonstrates how the Internet is changing the way we absorb information and how understanding that change can be used to our advantage in business and in life. Click analyzes the new generation of consumerism in a way no other book has before, showing how we use the Internet, and how those trends provide a wealth of market research nearly as vast as the Internet itself. Understanding how we change is integral to our success. After all, we are what we click.
"Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest." And he came-as a homeless man, a stranger, a friend. Marian Korth and her partner, Mim Jacobson, have served breakfast to thousands of overnight guests in their home, but they didn't bother to offer a cup of coffee to a homeless man huddling on their doorstep one cold winter morning. Why didn't they welcome this "Jesus" into their home? Marian has more to learn about hospitality, even after sixty years of adventures in hospitality. She can tell stories about being hospitable (or not) from: - Growing up on a small dairy farm in Wisconsin - Living in Chicago for twenty years - Returning to Wisconsin and turning their farmhouse into a bed and breakfast - Providing end-of-life care for guests who live with Marian and Mim in their home - Transforming their bed and breakfast into a spiritual retreat center Kindness is the common thread that runs through all these adventures in hospitality. The first verse Marian memorized as a child was Ephesians 4:32, "Be ye kind, one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." (She memorized it and still thinks about it in the King James Version.) In these stories, Marian reflects on what God is telling her about being hospitable. She thinks it's pretty exciting to know that God has told us, "Be ready with a meal or a bed when it's needed. Why, some have extended hospitality to angels without ever knowing it!" (Hebrews 13:2 The Message)
