Can I Freeze It?

A Newsday Best Cookbook of 2007: can a recipe change your life? A quest for an authentic dish reveals a mythic love story and age-old culinary secrets.

Lydia Lewis owes her love of food, cooking, and entertaining to her aunt Bessie, who invited her into the kitchen during many blissful summer vacations. Aunt Bessie taught her how to raise chickens and rabbits, work a garden, and can the fruits of their harvests. She was the consummate cook and hostess who loved to share her gifts and entertain, and now Lydia wants to pay that great gift forward. She has collected and created recipes her entire life, and now she?s sharing the love.

Whether your goal is to add some delicious homegrown charm to your own cooking, to throw a more entertaining and stress-free dinner party, or to start a new career, she?s got you covered. Her easy-to-follow recipes and instructions will show you how to shine in your own kitchen. She shares helpful tips for setting up (or improving) your pantry, setting a table, stocking a spice cupboard, measuring ingredients, following recipes, and more. She also shares her favorite recipes for appetizers, dips, soups, salads, entrees, side dishes, and desserts.

But helping you improve your kitchen skills is only one of her goals. In the past as the director of the Malibu Women?s Prison Ministry, she is concerned over the lack of post release resources for women. She knew that the creation of a transitional home and training center could help these women build new lives and new careers, and 90 percent of the profits from her cookbook will go to benefit the Second Chance Women?s Center, a 501c3 organization.

Who is a Get 'Em Girl? She's a smart, savvy urban professional with a great job, loyal friends, and plenty of style. Still, the working world can really limit time with loved ones and the big city can get very lonely. But here's a well-known fact: Cooking for special ones is more meaningful (and cheaper) than dining out. The Get 'Em Girls' Guide to the Perfect Get-Together will inspire you to round up those special people and show them just how much they matter!

Birthday, family reunion, picnic, baby shower, dinner party, holiday feast, or just poker night -- whatever the occasion -- The Get 'Em Girls' Guide to the Perfect Get-Together has you covered from tips on organizing to setting the mood for a party and more than 140 easy and delicious recipes, including:

- Maple Pecan Crumble French Toast Casserole for a Sunday brunch to impress your new sweetheart's parents

- Lump crab salad tea sandwiches to add a delicious touch to a baby shower

- Spice-rubbed grilled tilapia for a fantastic family reunion

-Beer-batter shrimp with spicy tartar sauce for a knockout fight night bash

- A sinfully good "Cocoa Cure Chocolate Martini" for an in-house cocktail party

And much more! With their trademark witty commentary and innate flair, the Get 'Em Girls dish the secrets to creating mouthwatering, unforgettable meals that don't require hours of planning, dicing, and fretting -- short on prep time but long on taste. This guide to entertaining is a can't-fail classic and a must-have in your kitchen!

The question is as old as parenting itself: How can new moms and dads eat well when all their time and energy is spent on baby? Finally, we have the answer!

Specifically designed for frazzled, sleep-deprived parents, every recipe in Parents Need to Eat, Too is nutritious, delicious, satisfying, and EASY. As a bonus each recipe includes instructions for preparing baby food from the same ingredients. Plus every recipe has the added advantage of being tested by a group of more than 100 new parents.

Inside you'll find:

Meals you can eat with one hand
Recipes for the new parent's best friend: the slow cooker
More ambitious recipes, broken down into simple stages to perform while baby naps
Un-Recipes for parents who can't cook at all
Recipes that support breastfeeding
Advice from experts, including a pediatric dietitian and a lactation consultant

Here are real solutions for the real problems new parents face in the kitchen. Through comforting, honest, and essential help for stressed out, undernourished moms and pops, Parents Need To Eat Too ensures that nobody will go hungry!

From Chatelaine's test kitchen to yours comes a cookbook for the way we cook today. Packed with 250 delicious, easy-to-make recipes from Canada's leading women's magazine, Chatelaine's Modern Classics is filled with tried and tested recipes for your favourite dishes. From the salty crunch of Pistachio Crusted Salmon to the sweet decadence of Cheesecake Brownies, this book has a recipe for every night and every occasion.

Lavishly illustrated, and including everything you need to cook for any event, from a mid-week family supper to a Saturday dinner party for ten, Modern Classics offers simple, elegant solutions each and every time, making it the only cookbook you need.

• Starting with brunch all the way through to dessert, each recipe has been tested and tasted until it's just right, so you can rely on it to work in your own kitchen every time, on time
• Includes money-saving shopping tips, time-saving menu plans, delicious drink idea, and much more
• More than just a cookbook, Modern Classics features important health and cooking advice for busy Canadian women