(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best entertainment & holiday cooking books

31 days for Augustus

Why do I like August? Because it is the month when the stores finally start to put out Halloween items! :) For months I eagerly await walking into a Michael's or JoAnn Fabrics and seeing fall leaves and ghastly ghost figurines. Then, one seemingly ordinary day in August, it happens. The decorations are out and one can finally start to get ready for this year's festivities! Words cannot describe the childlike glee I display while skipping through the aisles, embarrassing my boyfriend, family, and/or friends who are in the store with me.

Additionally, this current August has been very special because I was finally able to live my dream and be one of the core team on a new Halloween convention, ScareLA. Bit by bit August is becoming the start of the Halloween/fall season! Some people may think that it is a little overkill, I respond to that by saying that I decorate for Halloween year-round so it is not bad at all.

Thanks for doing this contest! Here are my items: Item 1 and Item 2. They are on my Wishlist marked "Reddit".

My vegan cookbook (for Kindle and PC) is available for free all week on Amazon. :) If you would like to say thank you, please leave a review or share this link with your friends.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073GFQ3P2/ref=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_0

If you have Amazon, there are a couple books that you can read with a kindle app (both low cost - free w/ Kindle unlimited - the Mediterranean Diet cookbook, and one for beginners) that are pretty good - both have details to read about, recipes, and sub options for budget shopping.

If you are also learning how to cook, I recommend Alton Brown's Good Eats - he explains the science behind why you should cook the way you do, and it's also entertaining.

http://www.amazon.com/When-You-Fast-Recipes-Seasons/dp/0881412627

Used the amazon link because it's comprehensive. You can likely score this at a library.

I was chrismated Orthodox last year, and one of the ladies in the parish gave me this book. There are some pretty tasty recipes in there that I would heartily recommend. I really like the vegetable curry one:)

Hope it helps. I'll leave it to more experienced Orthodox to let you know the particulars of fasting. The book will tell you what's NOT in any particular recipe so you can find recipes that suit your fasting disciplines.

Yeah, if you hear Christmas music to soon, it is just not special anymore when it should be. So last year I startet hearing some Christmas music on the 100. day before Christmas, and then only every tenth day. So I looked forward to every tenth day hearing it, and it was still special. Don't know, maybe this year I am strong enough to wait for November :D

I just have to look some up. I read them in German, so I have to look for the english version :D Last year I really loved the The Christmas Cookie Club i also love The Christmas Train, but that has some romance if I recall correctly. So I have some more, if you want I can look some more up on monday, as I am not home the next days :D

I just bought Vegan with a Vengeance, Isa Chandra Moskowitz's first cookbook, and I love it. I've already tried a few recipes, and the pancake mix recipe is perfect.

Other than that, my standbys are anything Moosewood, like Moosewood Restaurant Celebrates or Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites. I also like Toni Fiore's Totally Vegetarian, especially for the Italian recipes.

Don't know how to help you find that one as I'm new, but here are a couple of interesting links I found while looking around:

Supper clubs

A book where the author is described as keeping a spreadsheet.

A search of Excel spreadsheets for cooking clubs brought up this which is a site for one family, I guess, but I don't know if the fact that it came up so readily on my Google search means that they aren't trying to hide it from anyone. At the bottom there's a link to a cooking club spreadsheet.

I hope you find what you're looking for.

I adapted it from the vegetarian cookbook Cooking Like a Goddess by Cait Johnson. If you can get beyond (or embrace) the Wiccan woo woo, it's got some great vegetarian-based recipes. Since I'm no longer a veggie-head, I tend to modify with meats, but they're still great recipes.

Most phallic looking item:
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Most "oh god, I would never be seen with this in public" looking item:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1567187072/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TKA3DHDIZYOU&coliid=IR47146VJO5LT

Item which would most make you seem like an old posh Englishman:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0688037216/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TKA3DHDIZYOU&coliid=I1TV3AAMPQQJZY

Most geeky item:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004X6FM8W/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TKA3DHDIZYOU&coliid=I3TPK6ULWW4ZZB

Item which would most help you achieve a goal:
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Best item to bring to a deserted island:
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> It takes a village

[The President and Hillary Rodham Clinton gave $840,000 from the proceeds of Mrs. Clinton's best-selling book ''It Takes A Village'' to charity over the last two years, their tax returns show.]
(http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/14/us/clinton-tax-returns-show-book-proceeds-were-given-to-charity.html)

>Dear Socks

All proceeds from book sales and related publishing rights were donated to the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's National Park Service.

>The unique voice

Assembled by freelancer Osborne without Rodham Clinton's assistance, the book reproduces her comments on topics ranging from her marriage, raising Chelsea and her relationship with her mother-in-law to her religious faith, health care, abortion, the Whitewater investigation and violence on television. - Publishers Weekly

> An invitation to the White House

Originally published: November 14, 2000

> Talking it over

(a newspaper column)

If you're looking for variety and don't want a regional cookbook, I recommend trying one of Jamie Oliver's books. He has one called Food Escapes that covers Italy, Spain,France, Sweden, Morocco and Greece. I don't have this one but have several others of his and have been happy with all.

I have two cookbook projects I'm working on. I'm trying to do two recipes from each book per week (almost never happens).


Gordon Ramsay's Sunday Lunch http://www.amazon.com/Gordon-Ramsays-Sunday-Lunch-Friends/dp/1402797893/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1463258942&sr=8-7&keywords=gordon+ramsay


Marcus Off Duty http://www.amazon.com/Marcus-Off-Duty-Recipes-Cook/dp/0470940581/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1463259217&sr=8-1&keywords=marcus+off+duty

I know not everyone loves her, and ymmv... but Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen isn't bad.

It's fun, a little trashy, and the recipes aren't incredibly hard.

https://www.amazon.ca/Bitchin-Kitchen-Cookbook-Kitchen-Clean/dp/1599214415

Maybe watch a couple of her webisodes first though and see if you're okay with her persona before buying the book.

Alternatively, if you can find it there used to be a book called "Cooking without mom: a survival guide" and it covered simple recipes, gave a run down of cooking terms and equivalent measurements, even some non-cooking things like what the laundry symbols mean. It was the first cook book I ever owned and served me well when I was about 11 or 12.

I got it for my grandma (also a huge fan of the royal family) and she really enjoyed it.

https://www.amazon.ca/Royal-Chef-Home-Seasonal-Entertaining/dp/1942945523

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