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Home, Garden, and DIY July 2017
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The beach house cookbook : easy breezy recipes with a Southern accent
by Mary Kay Andrews
The best-selling author of The Weekenders presents a collection of her favorite summer-season recipes, outlining menu plans based on casual dining and fresh local ingredients while explaining how to prepare such options as charcoal-grilled oysters, buttermilk-brined fried chicken and Meyer lemon bar trifle.
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Mom crafts : DIY crafts for the expectant mom
by Lark Crafts
Shares instructions for craft projects that can be gifted to new mothers and their babies, including a maternity pillow, embroidered linen bib, and night sky mobile
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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. |
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| Homegrown Pantry: A Gardener's Guide to Selecting the Best Varieties & Planting... by Barbara PleasantIf you've ever grown too much zucchini and not enough tomatoes and wondered how to store food for the winter, this book is for you. Experienced gardener Barbara Pleasant explains how (and how much) to grow in order to stock a pantry year-round. Providing growing information about a wide-variety of vegetables, fruits, and herbs, she also explains canning, drying, freezing, cold storage, and fermenting. |
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The backyard bartender : 55 cool summer cocktails
by Nicole Aloni
A delectable compilation of cool summertime cocktail recipes explains how to combine fresh fruit juices, sodas, liqueurs, alcoholic beverages, and other unique ingredients to create a trendy assortment of libations to suit any occasion, from summer supper, to cocktail party, to special-occasion gala.
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Dogscaping : creating the perfect backyard and garden for you and your dog
by Tom Barthel
Explains how to landscape a canine-safe backyard and garden, covering topics ranging from durable plant selection and avoiding pet poisoning to tips on creating a species-specific garden and addressing animal-behavior training, organic-gardening practices and construction and planning advice, in a book that includes profiles of five dog-friendly gardens.
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