For every occasion and time of the year, Fast and Fabulous Dinner Parties presents a delicious and imaginative menu that can be prepared from one day to as long as three months in advance. Featuring over 220 recipes and 24 original seasonal menus, this indispensable cookbook also offers wine recommendations and tips for making dinners faster and easier to prepare.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Three signs you need this book: 1) Chicken fingers qualify as adventurous. (Hey, they’re not nuggets.) 2) You live in fear of the white stuff touching the green stuff. 3) Family dinner? What’s family dinner? When Jenny Rosenstrach’s kids were little, her dinner rotation looked like this: Pasta, Pizza, Pasta, Burgers, Pasta. It made her crazy—not only because of the mind-numbing repetition, but because she loved to cook and missed her prekid, ketchup-free dinners....
This is a napkin-folding handbook. Using only a few elementary techniques, it demonstrates how to make folded napkins with accordion pleats, rolls and knots, as well as fanciful animals and objects. designs include double diamonds, sea shells, lotus blossoms, a triangle flip, arrowhead and a quilt Triangle. There are creative ideas for all kinds of table settings, instructions for making your own napkins and napkin rings, and tips for laundering and ironing.
This wonderful collection of old images recreates the vibrant and varied life of the people and places in the Hampshire town of New Milton during the twentieth century. Using over 200 images, this book illustrates how New Milton has developed into a significant centre of commerce from its origins at the heart of New Forest farms. Alongside images of the famous water tower in the neighbouring village of Sway readers will enjoy reminiscing over photographs of the many businesses, street scenes and...
Quantity food presentation made easy ...and irresistible! When it comes to preparing and presenting food in quantity, having limited time or resources doesn t have to mean limiting the imagination if you know the secrets of Arranging Food Beautifully. This unique guide equips you with a stunning array of practical and effective techniques for presenting hot and cold food attractively on trays, buffets, and steam table lines. Expertly blending art and skill, it shares countless ideas on how to...
Blank Recipe Book (Specialist Books for Cookery, #3) (Specialist Composition Books for Cookery, #9)
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The World at Your Table features transporting tablescapes set with evocative, eye-catching, and exotic items this adventurous spirit has gathered over the years. To enliven her tabletops, Stokes creates experiences in miniature using china, glassware, linens, candlesticks, and cutlery from such widely different destinations as Japan, Cartagena, Budapest, and London. Each conjures the spirit of a particular place: Palm Beach s tropical lushness, Provence s remarkable charm, Portugal s artisanal...
Restaurant Server's Guide to Quality Customer Service (Fifty-Minute S.)
by William B Martin