Punch Bowls & Pitcher Drinks

                                   


                                           Punch Bowls & Pitcher Drinks.. Recipes for delicious Big-Batch Cocktails.

                                                                   
                                                                       By: Jeanne Kelley & Sarah Tenaglia








What can I say? I LOVED this book! This book has 107 pages full of delicious drink recipes. From punch recipes, alcohol and non-alcohol drinks, to cocktails and a yummy apple cider drink. I love how all the recipes have beautiful pictures of the recipe. So far I have made the Apple-Thyme sparkler, Mai Tai Punch, Skinny Moscow and Watermelon Tequila. So good! The recipes are simple and easy and taste great. My kids liked the Peppermint Stick ice cream drink.

This drink book is so easy and simple. I love cookbooks like that. The pictures are just beautiful!

I would recommend this book to everyone!


*I received this book from Blogging for Books for my honest review*

The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden

One of my favorite gardening books. Loads of info for "square foot gardening." Loads of information for gardeners with space limitations. Informative, laid out well, interesting to read. All around great resource. I think this is the perfect book for today's lifestyles. Many people have small yards and busy schedules. A postage stamp garden will not take up much room, you can even go the container route and have it on your patio, it provides lots of produce that will benefit your family's health and save on your grocery bill and it doesn't take near the amount of time or work that a regular size garden takes. This is a great book to have around!!!!!


*I received this book from Blogging for Books for my review*

Lighten Up, Ya'll

                                                      Lighten up, ya'll  Classic Southern Recipes made Healthy & Wholesome
                                                                                        By: Virginia Wills




I loved this cookbook! Tons of great recipes with some great colorful pictures to go along. I also enjoy how the recipes are wholesome, healthy and light. I enjoy how Virginia takes you back in her time and tells you a story about her growing up along side with the recipes. I love when cookbooks are like that!

We have already make a handful of the recipes in this cookbook. Baked Zucchini Crisps on page (75) were a hit. So was the Makeover Broccoli Mac and Cheese on page (96)

The Biscuits, Breads and Baked Goods chapter was my favorite. The Buttermilk Biscuits were a hit.

The Baked Apple Hand Pies were also a sweet treat hit. They were fun to make. So were the Brown Sugar-Strawberry Shortcakes on page (198)

I would recommend this book to everyone who loves to eat healthy, light and who enjoys cooking wholesome foods. Easy recipes to follow. Beautiful pictures and easy to follow recipes!


*I received this book from Blogging for Books for my honest review*

Supermarket Healthy

Very good book! Great recipes that are easy to follow. Filled with nutritious, healthy meals that actually taste good This is a good cook book for those starting to learn how to eat healthy! Has some very good recipes to add to my menu. The author understand that not everyone has the money need to eat organically and with different more expensive products. She helps the ordinary human rise to a higher standerd of living by pointing out we all can do it. I am delight with this book!

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It Was Me All Along

This is a memoir of a girl who was fat, became morbidly obese, and then lost weight. I mean lots and lots of weight. You would think her problems would be gone after that, right? Well they weren’t.
Andie Mitchell grew up with an alcoholic brother, a hard-working mother, and brother. Food was always around to comfort her, whether it was a processed snack cake or cupcake, lovingly made by her mother. Eventually her father died, and her brother left for college, so it was just Andie and her mother. As Andie continues through middle school, high school, and college, she gets bigger and bigger. However, she does have close friends and a great social life. When she gets to college, she also starts dating.
She has attempted to lose weight along the way and is sometime successful. When she has the opportunity to spend five months in Italy, she develops a healthier relationship with food and loses over 100 pounds. Yet, when she returns to the U.S. she begins to obsess about what she will eat or how many calories she will burn. It isn’t until then that Andie deals with issues that have been with her for her entire life.
This was a wonderfully written debut piece and I look forward to reading more. The author has a gift for describing every piece of food in the book. It is not surprising she has her own food blog (Canyoustayfordinner.com). I felt like I really got to know her and could see being friends with her. She was that likable!                   

*I received this book from Blogging for Books for my honest review*

The 13th Girft

                                                                        The 13th Gift by Joanne Huist Smith





How do you keep putting one foot in front of the other when the rock of your family has passed away and Christmas is around the corner? Days seem dreary and energy is lacking for Joann and her kids. Their grief is pulling them under and they can't seem to find a way back. Joann wants to just forget about the holidays but the youngest, Megan, seems determined to have a Christmas tree in their house.

On the run to try and get to school on time one morning, they discover a poinsettia plant on their front porch. Along with the plant is a card. The card has a revamped verse for the Twelve Days of Christmas. Angry at everything, Joann just wants to throw it away but Megan saves it and encourages her mom to keep it. The next day, another gift arrives. They all soon become wrapped up in the gifts that arrive each day and whether they will be able to solve the mystery of who is sending them and how they do it without being detected.

This true story is heartwarming and shows how people can do small acts of kindness that can mean much more than they can imagine to the recepients.  

I loved this book. A great read for sure!

*I received this book from Blogging for Books for my honest review*         

Monstrously Funny Cartoons

                                                   "Monstrously Funny Cartoons" by Christopher Hart




What a great book! This is a step-by-step drawing guide for making funny cartoons. Once you've drawn his drawings enough, the theory is that you can start to modifying them to make your own drawings. He covers Vampires, aliens, monsters that go bump, weird and bizarre, and scenes and backgrounds. This book would be perfect I think for teens. My kids had fun drawing from pictures in the book on their own. A lot of fun and entertaining!


I received this book from Blogging for Books for my honest review.