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.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,but thedemands of everyday life often mean our morning feeds.are imited topouring cereal out of a box. No.more! From delicious homemade Dowerbars, protein smoothies and vitamin-oacked juices to exquisite eggdishes and fibre-rich muffins, the options in this collection aredesigned to be nutritious and fulfilling breakfasts that carry youthrough the morning alert, energised and sated.

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.

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.

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.

A nervous breakdown seems like a great idea: all that lying in bed and watching daytime TV. But who's going to have it? Will it be housewife Clodagh, who spends her days microwaving pasta for her demanding toddlers and waiting for her beautiful husband Dylan to come home? Or Lisa, hard, brittle and shiny as an M&M, reeling from the shock of a demotion from her fabulous job in London to a one- horse magazine in Dublin? Or Ashling, so normal she's weird? 作者简介： Marian Keyes is the international bestselling author of Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story and Anybody Out There. Her latest novel is This Charming Man. She is published in twenty-nine different languages. Two collections of her journalism, Under the Duvet and Further Under the Duvet, are also published by Penguin. Marian lives in Dublin with her husband.

This phrase book for travelers includes 100 key words to unlockthe secret of instant communication. The idea is simple- learn 100words and say 1,000 things. This book presents the basic vocabularythat will be used over and over again. All words are repeated indifferent combinations, building familiarity without effort. Allphrases are given in both simplified Chinese characters andstandard Hanoi Pinyin romanization. A brief guide to pronunciationallows the user to say the phrases correctly.

"365 Dish a Day" provides a little inspiration for every day of the year, making sure you don't miss out on the month's freshest ingredients and seasonal specialties. You'll find warm, hearty comfort food in the fall and winter months and healthy, light and refreshing dishes in spring and summer. The recipes are quick, easy to follow. Full-color photographs.

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.

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

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.

Asian cuisine is fusion cooking. With ancient Chinese influencesat its root, Asian culinary culture is one that is founded on abalance of flavours, well-being, refinement and artfulpresentation. 500 Asian Dishes is crammed full of the mostdelicious Asian recipes - taking you on a culinary journey of Asianflavours. Giving the inside track on authentic Asian kitchen tips,techniques and ingredients, these 500 recipes evoke the passion forcooking found in al Asian cuisine.

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.

Imagine the adoring praise from family and friends when they smell the aroma of freshly baked treats! Don't be fooled into thinking that baking take too much time. A batch of tasty biscuits or delicious savoury cheese scones can be created in less time than a trip to the shops! Recipes divided into four easy-to-use sections; Family Treats,Sweet Delights, Savoury Bites and Festive Feasts Home Baking includes classic recipes such as Carot Cake,Victoria Sponge Cake and Double Chocolate Brownies Savoury delights include Bacon & Polenta Muffins and Cheese & Mustard Scones Essential advice on equipment,technique and top tips to ensure successful baking every time

Book De*ionHave you ever wondered： * Why Asians love "Hello Kitty"？ * What the tattooed Chinese characters really say？ * How to achieve feng shui for optimum make-out sessions？ * Where Asian cuties meet the white guys who love them？ Then you'll laugh， you'll cry， you'll realize this book is better than a Broadway production of Cats when you read scenes that include： * twenty-something Lindsey Owyang mastering the intricacies of office voicemail and fax dialing * an authentic Chinese banquet where Number One Son shows off his language skills by speaking "Chinglish" * dating disasters with grandsons of Grandma's mahjong partners * the discovery that the real China looks nothing like the pavilion at Disney World * karaoke And all the while Lindsey is falling in lust with the "white devil" in her politically correct office. But will Grandma's stinky Chinese ointments send him running？ Or will Lindsey realize that the path to true love lies somewhere between the dim sum and the pepperoni pizza？

A cookie compendium, filled with 500failsafe,melt-in-the-mouth recipes. Crammed with advice oningredients, basic techniques, conversions and even troubleshootingtips for when things go wrong. A beautifully illustrated andeasy-to-follow guide to creating perfect cookies every timegoldenbrown, crisp on the outside, sublimely moist on the inside.

Over 60 deicious recipes including healthy hot broths, hearty noodles dishes,cool salads, and spicy stir-fries; Essential information on cooking and preparing different types of noodles to ensure perfect results every time; Comprehensive illustrated glossary explains traditional Asian ingredients; Recipes drawn from a diverse range of cooking traditions.

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

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.

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。