Saturday, January 3, 2009

Candy Making For Dummies or Little Big Book of Comfort Food

Candy Making For Dummies

Author: David Jones

How sweet it is! More than 100 recipes plus terrific tips and tricks

Explore the art of cooking candy and create sweet masterpieces!

If you want to concoct irresistible treats for your friends and family, this book gets you cooking! You'll discover proper techniques and use them to create incredible candies. Recipes range from fondues to fondants, simple meltaways to decadent truffles, fun kids' treats to cream-filled delicacies. Indulge!

Discover how to




• Choose the proper utensils and ingredients


• Melt, temper, and mold chocolate


• Fine-tune your skills with professional secrets


• Create special holiday treats


• Bag, box, or wrap candies for gifts




Interesting book: 150 Desserts or Penin Guide to Spanish Wines 2006

Little Big Book of Comfort Food

Author: Katrina Fried

Comfort food makes you feel good, makes you feel at home, and puts you in the frame of mind to curl up on a sofa, in front of a roaring fire, with family, with friends, with a great book. It's what you want when you come in from the cold or when you've got a cold, or when you want to enjoy a cozy evening with loved ones. Welcome’s The Little Big Book of Comfort Food is crammed with over 200 family recipes. Collecting the best, basic, foolproof, simple-to-make recipes from real kitchens, from real friends and real families was Welcome’s objective when publisher, Lena Tabori and her daughters, Senior Editor Katrina Fried and Managing Editor Natasha Tabori Fried, set out to make this book. In the belief that comfort food is, by its very nature, food that has passed down through generations, it seemed appropriate, not to mention charming, to illustrate these tried and true recipes with cozy vintage art.
A great giftbook, the recipes will include the Best of:
Breakfast: Apple Pancakes with Cider Syrup, Corned Beef Hash, Waffles, Scrambled Eggs. Breakfast Burritos and warm Popovers with Strawberry Butter.
Lunch and Snacks: Creamy Tomato Soup, Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Potato Leek Soup, Sloppy Joes, Hamburgers, Matzo Ball Soup and Chicken Finger.
Cookies, Sweets, and Snacks: Pumpkin Bars, Sugar Cookies, Nana's Buttery Scones, and Chocolate Fudge.
Dinner: Macaroni and Cheese, Chicken Parmesan, Pork Chops with Apple Sauce, Southern Fried Chicken, Chili and Corn Bread, Meatloaf and Twice Baked Potatoes.
Sides: Garlic Bread, Creamed Spinach, Mashed Potatoes, and Roasted Vegetables
Beverages: Hot chocolate withpeppermint whipped cream, chocolate malt, homemade lemonade, root beer, smoothies and Hot Toddies.
Desserts: Cranberry Apple Crisp, Classic Rice Pudding, Chocolate Layer Cake, Strawberry Shortcake, Lemon squares and Banana Cream Pie.
Holiday Meals: Honey Baked Ham, Maple-Roasted Acorn Squash, Roast Turkey with Giblet Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Mulled Cider, and Pumpkin Pie.



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