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Home, Garden, and DIY July 2017
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Vegetarian Any Day : Over 100 Simple, Healthy, Satisfying Meatless Recipes
by Patricia Green
Whether eating meatless meals once a week or every day, a vegetarian-based diet is anything but boring, considering the selection of vibrant, whole foods available in grocery stores and markets. Vegetarian Any Day will show you how to incorporate more tasty vegetables, ancient grains, and whole foods into your daily routine with satisfying and fool-proof recipes the whole family will love. No one will feel the loss of meat in their meals when these comforting and healthy dishes hit the table! Includes more than 100 delicious, easy vegetarian recipes.
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| Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat; illustrated by Wendy MacNaughtonThis is not your typical cookbook. Yes, it includes recipes, but it's more like a (fantastic) cooking course in a book. Using an approach she's perfected over the years, acclaimed chef Samin Nosrat explains four basic elements -- salt, fat, acid, and heat -- that will cut your apron strings to recipes. Complemented by lovely watercolor art, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat just might be to cookbook of the year. Want more books about cooking science? Try J. Kenji López-Alt's The Food Lab, Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking, and various Cook's Illustrated guides. |
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Container gardens : over 200 fresh ideas for indoor and outdoor plantings
by Southern Living Magazine
Compiled by the expert garden editors at Southern Living, and filled with helpful tips and practical step-by-step advice, this comprehensive and colorful gardening guide inspires gardeners of all skill levels to create beautiful plant combinations for all areas of their home.
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Fashion Jewelry : A Beginner's Guide to Jewelry Making
by Courtney Legenhausen
Learn how to make beautiful jewelry from an up-and-coming designer with her own line! Bead stringing. Wire wrapping, Pearl knotting. This beginner-friendly guide, created by Courtney Legnhausen (owner of Lotus Jewelry), teaches all the basics of fashioning fun and attractive bracelets, rings, necklaces, and earrings. Detailed instructions and easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs lay out the techniques--including jewelry stamping and applying hammered texture--and 17 projects. Even novices can make chandelier earrings, a pearl bracelet, a stone pendant, and more.
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| Audubon Birdhouse Book: Building, Placing, and Maintaining Great Homes for Great Birds by Margaret A. Barker and Elissa WolfsonWhile it's true that birdhouses make fun craft projects and cute garden decorations, this well-researched book favors function over fashion. Here, anyone can learn how to construct and place specialized birdhouses for over 20 North American species of birds, including waterfowl and raptors. The birdhouse designs cover all skill levels, and each includes easy-to-follow blueprints, cut lists, and photographic instructions. This appealing, practical guide offers all the clarity of Popular Woodworking's Birdhouses You Can Build in a Day, but with the scientific, bird-centered perspective you'd expect from the National Audubon Society. |
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Diy Solar Projects : Small Projects to Whole-home Systems: Tap into the Sun
by Eric Smith
Put the sun to work in your home with the new, expanded edition of the popular 2011 title DIY Solar Projects . Like the original, this edition offers small-scale, achievable solar projects that homeowners can build and install themselves. From cooking in solar ovens to mounting solar panels on your roof, this book teaches how to take advantage of solar energy. It's all possible with relatively small investments and minimal DIY building experience.
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Potted : make your own stylish garden containers
by Annette Goliti Gutierrez
Outdoor style often comes at a high price, but it doesn't have to. This lushly designed guide empowers you to create your own show-stopping containers made from everyday materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, terracotta, rope, driftwood, and fabric. The 23 step-by-step projects are affordable, made from accessible materials, and most importantly, gorgeous. They include new spins on old favorites, like the cinderblock garden made popular by design blogs or hanging planters made from enamelware bowls, along with never-before-seen ideas like a chimney flue planter and wall planters made from paint cans. Packed with color photographs and simple instruction, Potted is for anyone who wants to turn an outdoor space into a stylish oasis.
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100 Easy-to-grow Native Plants for Canadian Gardens
by Lorraine Johnson
Lorraine Johnson's 100 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants for Canadian Gardens is the ultimate source for achieving a lush and stunning garden with ease. Whatever the conditions--sunny, shady or in-between--and whatever your style--formal, informal or a mix--there are native plants to help you achieve your gardening goals. Either add to your garden or start fresh with the help of this reader-friendly guide.
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