THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET quick authentic recipes for every season by JULIA GARCIA
Since my husbands heart attack and talking to the nutritionist we switched to mainly a Mediterranean lifestyle so I was excited to find this cookbook.
Starts out with what a Med diet consists of and then goes into the recipes. Never though of making our own olive oil and we do use enough of it and this book talks about what kind is the best for your needs.
Love how the chapters are broken up into and also has a 7 day meal plan along with shopping list, also a conversion tables and other charts. Like food pyramid and the explanations of what one should have every day vs. once a month.
We have high amounts of fresh grown vegetables in the summer months and our pantry has over 30 spices and herbs to choose from so we are right on track.
Process of making kefir seems to be similar to yogurt-not sure where to get the ingredients kefir grains. We do make our own yogurt in our pressure cooker and it's now after much experimentation coming out great.
Love the color photos. Each recipe has a beautiful color photo of the dish, which allergy free dish, and a summary of the dish.
Prep and cooking time along with servings. Some traditional historic facts about the dish are told.
Fresh ingredient list and how to make the dish along with some nutritional information-FAT content is NOT broken up into good and bad fat and there is no sodium levels.
Tomato stew with rice would be our choice to try. Find some fo the ingredients a bit out of my league: sea bream, eel, squid but i might use the recipe for fish we do eat.
Love the suggestions of making the dish different and other variations to try also for the reicpes.
Cabbage rolls using turkey sounds awesome! Fascinated by the marinades where you can make a dish something completely different with spices used.
Excerpt from another book by the author is included.
What I like about this book is it's not only about the recipes of good clean eating but it's a lifestyle where other components come into play: sleep and activity.
Love how the book is broken up into the chapters and all the information is included about the dish-love the summaries and historic facts. Even though some of the names sound a bit too high class you can always substitute for the foods you do buy due to your own dietary needs.
Received this from the author via LibraryThing and this is my honest review.
A KEEPER!
A Family Affair by Fern Michaels
Have read many of the authors other works and have enjoyed them. This is another great one!
Start out with Trish and she's a show dancer in Las Vegas. A man in the audience offers her a thousand dollars to have a drink with him. She declines and others have found she's sick with the flu and get her out the door to go home.
The story also follows Malik who has attended college along with his best friend and they meet so many good guys through the years. He takes care of Trish til she's better and gets a call that he must return home to Dubai at once.
Rather predictable for a bit then the twists and turns appear. Story also follows Malik's sister and her husband in Dubai and also follows Trish and her sister Claire who's recently divorced and living in poverty due to her ex husband.
Love how this story got it's name and didn't realize it til near the end. Sad to hear of the law and how the government worked in Dubai after five years of marriage...love the travel to different places and most especially to NJ where Claire is furnishing a house.
So many surprises and easy to follow as there are just a handful of characters.
I received this book from The Kensington Books in exchange for my honest review
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, ridge runner rescue by Graf_ Mike
1940's and we find the family at the great smokey mountain national park. The twins and parents backpack 26 miles and we learn all about the animals they encounter.
The girl comes down with a disease and they are not sure what it is or how to cure it. Love all the places they visit on their journey and yes we've been to several.
Loved learning about the different forests in the park and how elevation determines what grows there in each.
Loved hearing of the other national park books in the series and can't wait to read all of them as we have visited quite a few of them.
Really good advice about dangers of walking and other hiking tips.
Loved that the mother had her father's journal when he worked at the mountains with CCC in 1930's
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
Self-Driving Cars by Marsico_ Katie
Information about how they are being produced and what it might mean to those who buy them
and how it might effect the climate. Talks about what features are in effect now and when they were introduced in cars.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
Keeping warm, a sensible guide to heat conservation by Fossel_ Peter V
Practical information that might help you also. Starts out with the signs in New England of the winter months on your door step.
He does an audit on his house and tells you where to look for leaks in your house. Like different sections of heating your house and with what means.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
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