No calorie counting, no pre-calculated index, no exclusionfoods- just chopsticks... And healthy, balanced dishes to help youlose weight with ease.

Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards' career is destined for high-rise New York when suddenly she's diverted to low-rise Dublin.But what can she do she do about it? Ashling Kennedy，Lisa's super-organized assistant.worries abort everything from her lack of waist to the lack men in her life. She's even anxious about a little bit of raw fish…… Clodagh Kelly is Ashling's best friend and has her prince，her beautiful kids and a lovely house-everytheng in fact that Ashling ever wanted.And yet，she's still not satisfied. Three women on the verge of happiness and even closer to complate breakdown.Whech way will they fall?

Even though there are so many new and unusual eating experiences available to us, sometimes the old and familiar tried-and-tested recipes seem best, and we tend to hark back to them when we want to have a comfortable night in at home.The Best Ever Home-style Cookbook is full of those homely and welcoming recipes,the dishes that we may have put on the back burner while experimenting with more exotic and unusual recipes cooked with the most recently available and fashionable ingredients. Containing over 100 beautifully presented recipes, with clear step-by-step instructions,handy tips and hints, money-saving ideas, and recipe-specific shopping lists to ensure that you'll always have the vital ingredients to hand, The Best Ever Home-style Cookbook will ensure that you'll always be able to turn out a delicious and comforting meal.

Are you a professional cakemaker or a student learning yourcraft? Are you eager to learn new skills and brush up on old ones?And do you want to create an outstanding range of cake. decorationsthat will get those new commissions flowing in? This book is packed with design ideas and essential methods andtechniques for creating unforgettable wedding cakedecorations. Contains advice on design and planning, a directory ofinspirational decorative techniques and a chapter dedicated tosugar flower modelling.

With this single book, learn everythingyou need to know about making frozen treats and delights. The 500fabulous, easy, cool, and glorious indulgences featured in thisbook include classic ice creams, sorbets, and Italian-stylegelatos; as well as elegant water ices and granitas, show-stoppingice cream cakes and gateaux, kid-friendly frozen goodies, andincredible edibles for the health- and calorie-conscious.

A handy guide to the Chinese language, Survival Chinese contains basic expressions and key words that are necessary forgetting around. The notorious tonal changes in the pronunciation ofChinese words are a challenge for any beginner in the language. DeMente shows how these variations become a breeze to learn with hisadditional guidelines on how the Pinyin phonetic alphabet lettersare pronounced when used in Chinese words. Together with thestandard pinyin pronunciations, these English phonetics serve as anexcellent guide to approximating the correct Chinese pronunciationas closely as possible.

Cocktails are back－fresher and tastier than ever. The days when a cocktail meant an over－sweet, garish concoction, garnished with a pineapple chunk and a paper umbrella, are over. Today's cocktails are made with fresh, high－quality ingredients, with the intention of producing sometimes subtle, sometimes startling flavour combinations.

This soup compendium is brimming with500 mouth-watering recipes, all of them clear and easy to follow.Every page is filled with ideas and tips for everykind ofsoup,broth, bisque, chowder, potage and consomme. Casua weekendlunch, simple supper,sophisticated starter, winter warmer or summercooler - you name it, there's a perfect soup for it.

Impress your guests;mix with the best; passthebartender's test withflying colours!

Fill your kitchen with the mouthwatering aromas of basil and parmesan and whisk yourself away to sunny Italian climes. From traditional Lasagne to Stuffed Squid with Romesco Sauce, from soups and starters right though to entertaining and those classi

Fantasic Brain Gamesis packed with a wide-range of full-colour puzzles and intellectual tests。Many of the puzzle entries come complete with a fascinating fact or item of trivia from the fields of arts，history and science，as well as an accompanying quote from some of the greatest minds from history。 SO in the pages ahead， tackle the puzzles，study the facts and be inspired by the words of wisdom。This is a fun and enjoyable way to put your brain through its paces… “You know you’ve got to exercise your brain， just like your muscles。” Will Rogers

Easy ways to get—and stay—slim from the authors of The Black Book of Hollywood Beauty Secrets, and their celebrity sources How do the stars get so thin? (and how do their trainers keep them that way?) Kym Douglas and Cindy Pearlman are back with exercise tips and eating strategies from a Who’s Who of Hollywood beauties. The Black Book of Hollywood Diet Secrets takes readers inside the fridges and out to the gyms of the stars, uncovering the daily regimens that keep celebrities like Cameron Diaz, Demi Moore, and Beyoncè Knowles in A-List shape. They’ll dish on stars’ daily diet plans and tell us how the stars bounce back after baby, stay slim after forty, drop a quick twenty pounds, outsmart a Fat Day, and see fast results from exercise. Kym and Cindy have done it again, from (A)niston to (Z)eta-Jones. From The Black Book of Hollywood Diet Secrets: Heidi Klum and Cindy Crawford eat a salad dressed with vinegar BEFORE they go out to dinner. The vinegar is an appetite suppr

From light leafy snacks and wholesome pasta, rice, andcereal dishes to hearty seafood and meaty one-dish meals Healthy healing recipes include Pecorino with Pears ManukaHoney,Sicilian Orange Salad, and Apple Salad with Yogurt.Nutritious, one-dish salad meals include Pasta Salad with Tuna,Cherry Tomatoes Olives, Brown Rice Salads with Apples Walnuts, Seafood Salad, and Pork Salad with Fresh Fruit.

Classic recipes include Rum Raisin, Rocky Road, andChocolate Chip ice creams, Lemon, Strawberry Yogurt, and BitterChocolate sorbets Coffee and Lemon granitas, and Sicilian Cassataand Black Forest Ice Cream Cake. But you will also find someinnovative recipes, such as Nutty Spumone, Basil Sorbet and MojitoGranita.

From crisp fragrant panini, to warm chewy wraps and delicioussandwiches, here you will find a host of great ideas forsnacks,lunch boxes and picnics. Rediscover classics such as toasted Caprese panini with freshmozzarella cheese and tomatoes or old-fashioned Reuben panini withcorned beef and sauerkraut on rye. Create vegetarian delights,likeCurried tofu wraps and Spicy provolone green applessandwiches.

A compendium of chocolate delights, filled with 500 deliciouschocolaty recipes, all of them clear and easy-to-follow. Packedwith advice on techniques, equipment and ingredients, as well asinspired presentation suggestions, this book will be the only bookon chocolate you will ever need. An introductory section covers the basics:techniques, equipment, ingredients and presentation ideas. Chocolate delights for everyoccasion—celebratory party cakes, lunchbox traybakes, elegantpastries and sophisticated desserts. A staggering variety of recipes featuringchocolate, from classic hot puddings, to creamy ice creams, and theultimate hot chocolate, this is a true compendium for chocolatelovers.

DISCOVER WHICH ONES SHOULD BE SHAKEN AND WHICH SHOULD BE STIRRED AND IT DOES MATTER WITH THIS SUPERB COLLECTION OF 'CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY COCKTAIL RECIPES. EASY TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS WILL SOON ENSURE THAT YOU ARE HIXING, SHAKING, STIRRING AND POURING WITH ALL THE CONFIDENCE AND ELAN OF A PROFESSIONAL BARTENDER IN ANY OF THE WORLD'S GREAT COSMOPOLITAN CITIES IN YOUR OWN HOME. YOU'LL ALSO FIND HELPFUL ADVICE.ON ESSENTIAL BAR EQUIPMENT, GLASSES, HEASURING AND MIXING THAT WILL GUARANTEE SUCCESSPLUS SOME TIPS OF THE TRADE FOR THAT EXTRA SPECIAL TOUCH. THERE ARE FAIL SAFE RECIPES FOR EVERY KIND OF COCKTAIL FROIvl FAMILIAR FAVOURITES TO EXCITING NEW CONCOCTIONS AND FROH LONG REFRESHING COOLERS TO VIBRANT LITTLE SHOOTERS, USING ALL IHAGINABLE INGREDIENTS.WHETHER YOUR TASTE IS FOR THE TRADITIONAL AND SUBTLE, THE EXOTIC AND FLAMBOYANT, THE COLOURFUL AND CREAMY, OR THE FRESH AND FRUITY, YOU ARE SURE TO FIND THE PERFECT MIX FOR EVERY SPECIAL OCCASION.

From super-healthy fruit and veggie smoothiesand juices to wicked dessert smoothies，here you will find more thanl00 ideas for quick breakfasts，snacks，and desserts Health—enhanching recipes include Cilantr0＆Almond DetoxSmoothies．Spinach，Soy＆Wheat Juice with Gink0，and Banana e PeachSmoothies with Wheat Germ．At breakfast time．try hour Man90＆Yogu rtSmoothies or Citrus and Pa rsley Juice．For a quick dessert，whip upChocolate Cappuccino Smoothies or Banana Smoothies withChocolate＆Nuts．

In this wonderfully evocative book you will find all those old family favourite recipes from times past，together with some newer ones from the modern Grandma’S repertoire。Indulge yourself in the delicious traditional and more contemporary dishes that havebeen part of your life for as long as you can remember。This collection includes the classic roasts，delicious desserts and festive specialities that Grandma used to make，as well as their modern equivalents which have entered into our present—day eating patterns。It features much—loved recipes that have been brought back from holidays and give US warm memories of special people and places visited。They are all here：eomfort food recipes to remind US of childhood；growing-up food from when we started to experiment and travel；food to reminisce over when we remember special occasions。and recipes that hopefully you will want to pass on to your own grandchildren。

If you love cooking but are short of time, then The Big Book of One Pot will be indispensable. As the name suggests, all the dishes can be cooked in a single pot, leaving you with very little to wash up but plenty of time to get on with other things. These days most of us lead action-packed lives so time-consuming meal preparation, let alone clearing up afterwards, just doesn't fit in very easily. However we want to eat nutritious home-cooked food. This book contains a wealth of recipes to suit all tastes and there is beautiful photography of every dish. You'll find chapters on main meal soups, and meat and poultry - both of which develop marvellous flavours and succulent textures when cooked in a single pot. There are plenty of tempting desserts too - the one pot treatment works equally well for crumbles, cobblers and brownies, and even ice cream. It's the ideal food for solitary suppers or for feeding a crowd. Just put the pot on the table and tuck in!

This talian pIlection contains 500 mouthwatering recipes forevery meal, simple gathering and special pccasion. From asimple minestrone to a more elaborate lobster risotto, or a rusticand wholesome dessert, you'll find just what you need everytime. An introductory section covers all the preparation and cookingessentials, inclucling equipment, ingredients and troubleshootingadvice: Includes recipes for meat, vegetables and fish such as chickenscallopini, baked stuffed tomatoes and octopus and radicchiosalad. " Create traditional pastas, risottos and soups with inspirationfrom all of Italy'.s culinarily diverseregions.