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Home, Garden, and DIY May 2020 Available on Libby/OverDrive
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What's inside: 87 unique stitches and 14 edgings, this all-in-one guide's crochet patterns include the multiples needed to create the look of the stitch and translate them into new designs. Two sampler afghans are featured and can be made using stitch patterns found in the book, which include bobbles, shells, popcorn, ripple, textured, and open weave. Each design offers a close-up color photograph plus instructions and illustrations.
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What it is: a different take on classic recipes that invites you to try alternative cooking pathways. A delicious lasagna can be ready in about an hour, or you could turn it into a project: try making and adding some homemade sausage. Ruhlman tells you how to explore the limits of from-scratch cooking. What's inside: look at 10 favorite meals, including roast chicken, the perfect omelet, and paella—and then, through 175 recipes, explores myriad alternate pathways that the kitchen invites. There are easy and more complex versions for most dishes, vegetarian options, side dishes, sub-dishes, and strategies for leftovers.
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What's inside: 40 fabulous recipes especially designed for cast iron, from a full English breakfast to chilaquiles, pan pizza, cheesy beer fondue, Korean fried chicken, vegetarian chili, mango curry, party nuts, two kinds of cornbread, baked apples, gingerbread — and the perfect grilled cheese sandwich!
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| Plans for Small Gardens: Design, Build, Maintain, Enjoyby Anne-Marie PowellWhat it is: This is a book that starts from scratch to allow even gardening novices to build their perfect patch. Choose your recipe – shady, courtyard, family, or edible; collect your ingredients – turf, slabs, containers and plants; and follow the simple method to put the garden together. What's inside: Detailed planting and construction plans, color photographs, and a handy practical section at the back of the book ensure you have all the resources you need. Year-by-year maintenance guides guarantee that your garden will continue to flourish for years to come. |
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What's inside: more than 20 hands-on projects that showcase current trends in visible mending that are edgy, modern, and bold—but draw on traditional stitching. It does all this through just four very simple mending techniques: exterior patches, interior patches, slow stitches, darning, and weaving.
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The Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation: Suiseki and Its Use with Bonsai by Vincent T. CovelloWhat it is: an exploration into the art of suiseki—small, naturally formed stones selected for their shape, balance, simplicity and tranquility.
What's inside: descriptions of suiseki characteristics, the various systems of stone classification, how to display a suiseki to its best advantage, and incorporating suiseki alongside a bonsai tree.
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The Permaculture Handbook : Garden Farming for Town and Country by Peter BaneWhat it is: Permaculture is about working with the earth and with each other to repair the damage of industrial overreach and to enrich the living world that sustains us.
What's inside: a step-by-step, beautifully illustrated guide to creating resilient and prosperous households and neighborhoods. This comprehensive manual casts garden farming as both an economic opportunity and a strategy for living well with less money.
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Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma LakshmiWhat it is: the host of "Top Chef" presents a memoir about her immigrant childhood and complicated life in front of the camera, tracing her formative experiences in her grandmother's South India kitchen and her relationships with people who influenced her culinary skills and career.
What's inside: a memoir rich with sensual prose and punctuated with evocative recipes, it is alive with the scents, tastes, and textures of a life that spans complex geographies both internal and external.
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