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Home, Garden, and DIY May 2021
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| Jew-ish: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch by Jake CohenWhat's inside: an entertaining modern take on Jewish cooking; over 100 recipes; color photos; pantry must-haves; holiday menus; tidbits about Jewish history and traditions.
Recipes include: Jake's Perfect Challah; Bagel Chips; Roasted Garlic Hummus; Pastrami Biscuits and Gravy; Spinach-Artichoke Kugel; Saffron Chicken Noodle; Matzo Tiramisu; Sour Cherry Rice Pudding.
Read this next: Sababa by Adeena Sussman; King Solomon's Table by Joan Nathan; Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. |
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Cook, Eat, Repeat : Ingredients, Recipes, and Storiesby Nigella LawsonThe best-selling author of Nigella Bites combines narrative essays on the family experiences that inspired her career with recipes for such seasonal options as Chicken with Garlic Cream Sauce and Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake.
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| Rodney Scott's World of BBQ: Every Day Is a Good Day by Rodney Scott and Lolis Eric ElieWhat it is: a sprinkle of DIY (how to build a BBQ pit and burn barrel), a dash of memoir, and lots of mouthwatering recipes from the James Beard Award-winning pitmaster and restaurateur.
Recipes include: Hog Seasoning; Macaroni and Cheese; Pimento Cheese; Fried Catfish; Smoked Chicken; BBQ Bacon Burgers; Chicken Perloo; Hushpuppies; Corn Bread with Honey Butter; Banana Pudding.
Reviewers say: "[Rodney] Scott’s intensely flavorful recipes and masterful grill techniques are exceptional" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| Laundry Love: Finding Joy in a Common Chore by Patric Richardson with Karin B. MillerWhat's inside: a fun, practical ode to laundry and textiles; instructions for doing washing right and getting stains out; details for dealing with dry-clean-only items; personal stories (complete with a cast of characters).
About the author: Patric Richardson, who's loved clothing since he was a toddler in Kentucky, founded the popular Laundry Camp at Minnesota's Mall of America and stars in a new TV series, The Laundry Guy.
Want a taste? "My mission is to help you make laundry faster, cheaper, kinder to the environment, and more fun." |
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| Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest & Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms by Erin Benzakein with Julie Chai; photographs by Michèle M. WaiteWhat it is: a lovely, well-organized guide to growing flowers all year long; an award-winning debut by a renowned flower farmer whose most recent book, Floret Farm's Discovering Dahlias, came out in March.
What's inside: advice for selecting your garden space; a seasonally arranged overview of planting and harvesting 175 flower varieties; inspiring photos.
Don't miss: the helpful instructions for floral arrangements and décor. |
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| DIY Watercolor Flowers: The Beginner's Guide to Flower Painting for Journal Pages... by Marie BoudonWhat's inside: friendly, well-illustrated instructions for beginning watercolor artists; details about equipment, doing warm-up exercises, mixing colors, using wet and dry techniques, and making your own compositions.
Who it's for: those who want to paint loose-style flowers to create wall art, decorate journals or notecards, etc. |
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| Seasonal Flower Arranging: Fill Your Home with Blooms, Branches, and Foraged... by Ariella Chezar with Julie Michaels; photographs by Erin KunkelWhat it is: a beautifully written guide with inspiring photos arranged seasonally that encourages the use of locally grown flowers and provides flexible, step-by-step instructions for 39 floral projects.
Don't miss: the section on creating a cutting garden.
Reviewers say: "a delightful companion for gardeners, florists, or armchair naturalists" (Publishers Weekly). |
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Growing Flowers : Everything You Need to Know About Planting, Tending, Harvesting and Arranging Beautiful Blooms by Niki Irving In the mountains of Asheville, NC, Niki Irving’s boutique flower farm grows specially cut, mountain-fresh flowers with sustainable, natural practices. Now, she brings her organic gardening techniques to your home, helping you grow, harvest, and arrange lush, seasonally inspired flowers. Revel in flowers in bloom. This beautifully photographed book features simple, and engaging know-how enabling you to grow, harvest, and arrange a cutting garden of flowers. An instructional guide to gardening for beginners or if you’re looking to hone your botanical skills, Growing Flowers teaches everything from caring for a cut flower garden to making simple-yet-gorgeous flower arrangements and botanical bouquets. An indispensable gardening guide for homebody horticulturists and floral foragers. A flower book with a whimsical twist, Growing Flowers is a go-to reference for those new to herb and flower gardening. Discover flower arranging techniques using blooms, greenery, and even artichokes, vines and berries. Learn about tools of the trade. Get down and dirty with dirt, seasonal rotation, starting from seeds and/or seedlings, and more.
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Paper flower art : create beautifully realistic floral arrangements by Jessie Chui"An inspirational book showing you how to create realistic, everlasting paper flowers and foliage for use in stunning bouquets, buttonholes and table displays. Clear step-by-step photographs and instructions will guide you in making 25 delicate paper blooms for focal pieces, accents, or for height and texture. The flowers include both dramatic and romantic species, such as rose, peony, anemone, cosmos, lisianthus, phlox, baby's breath, magnolia and foxglove. As well as comprehensive chapters on tools, materials and techniques, including paper manipulation and colouring, there is a fascinating section on the fine art principles of flower arranging. This includes colour scheme considerations, scale, positive/negative space, and how to create movement, texture, depth, shape, form and line. Finally, there are instructions on making a range of exquisite bouquets, plus guidance on the aftercare and handling of the finished pieces."
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