Chicken Soup for the Soul Recipes for Busy Moms or Chocolate Holidays

Chicken Soup for the Soul Recipes for Busy Moms (Chicken Soup for the Soul Series)

Author: Jack Canfield

Chicken Soup for the Soul teams up with nationally syndicated TV personality Mr. Food to give busy moms what they need: fast, easy and nutritious recipes to keep their families happy along with a sprinkle of inspiring stories to warm their hearts as they cook.

In this hardcover, spiral-bound volume, Mr. Food gives moms delicious meal ideas combined with timesaving tips and helpful hints to make it easy to bring the family together at mealtime. Includes four-color photos throughout.

In keeping with the Chicken Soup tradition, heartwarming stories are peppered throughout the book to rekindle mom's spirit after a busy day.

• Recipes are fast, healthy and delicious.
• Fun, easy to use and we've made it unique by including what Chicken Soup is known for great stories.
• Sidebars have serving suggestions, preparation tips, and interesting points about food and/or recipe.
• Attractive spiral-bound package contains beautiful 4-color photographs throughout.

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Chocolate Holidays: Unforgettable Desserts for Every Season

Author: Alice Medrich

Dramatic, seductive, playful, infinite in its variety, otherworldly in its taste: It's chocolate, and here's all the impetus you need to indulge your passion for it every day of the year. The beloved Alice Medrich, renowned for impeccable recipes that produce stellar results, has written Chocolate Holidays especially for people who love to bake but don't have enough hours in the day. Without compromising on flavor, texture, or ingredients, she pares down the preparation steps, teaches us resraint, and comes up with fifty amazing recipes, each a little jewel of elegance and simplicty.

An ideal year in chocolate might start with a New Year's brunch starring Chocolate Blini with Berry Caviar. Then there are Valentine's Day chocolate scones and St. Patrick's Day Irish Coffee Chocolate Mousse. And of course any "holiday" your imagination can conjure up is a perfect reason to indulge: perhaps a decadently rich hot chocolate served in demitasse portions to exorcise those end-of-February blues.

Spring might whisper chocolate Giant Krispy Easter Treats or a Passover Chocolate Nut Sponge Torte, or white chocolate-glazed Apricot Orange Cupcakes for a wedding shower. Summer suggests fruit and ie cream desserts such as the Independence Day red, white, and blue sundaes, followed by autumn's pies and tarts laden with chocolate and nuts. And no matter what you've been putting on the table for Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays past, it will be out-chocolated by Alice's Chocolate Cranberry Pudding and her Chocolate Hazelnut Roulade—both unequivocally year-end musts.

In Chocolate Holidays, Medrich unlocks the secrets of ourfavorite sweet, offering chocolate desserts for every season, for every reason.

Shirley Reis - KLIATT

Medrich says that eating chocolate is a celebration all its own, and all these recipes speak for themselves with an elegant simplicity. Fifty different recipes have been organized into sections based on the season, featuring chocolate in many different forms. Almost every recipe is accompanied by a color photo to provide inspiration. Some of the recipes: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake; Chocolate Cranberry Bread Pudding; Chocolate Pecan Pie; Chocolate Dipped Caramel Apples; Chocolate Banana Blintzes; Bittersweet Chocolate Truffles; Chocolate Blini with Berry Caviar; and Chocolate Banana Waffles. Medrich has won both Cookbook of the Year and Book of the Year from the James Beard Foundation. KLIATT Codes: JSA--Recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2001, Artisan, 132p. illus. index., Ages 12 to adult.