jbarrett5: Books read Dec 30

Santa and the Border Collie by Angelo Dirks
Starts out with Santa and he's located in Seattle, love hearing of a city we've visited many times and enjoy.
He'll be ringing a bell at the museum in hopes others will put money in the kettle.
He meets a young man with his dog and daily they exchange hi's and even a meal some nights. Christmas eve he doesn't see them but gets a call and terrible things have happened.
Hate hearing what this young man had to face-glad Sam the dog was nearby.

Elijah, epic poetry book 2 by Abdiel LeRoy
Start out with a table of contends broken up by book.
Like preface because the author explain how the book should be read or narrated.
I hardly ever read poetry but this book the way it's laid out told me a story in different form and I liked some of the ways the words would rhyme with one another while lighting up the scene before my eyes.
I had no problem picturing the scenes in my mind. Book is referenced heavily throughout to go along with the bible and many of the stories I had read.
Also liked how the author got his name, fascinating.

The Hot Sauce Book: Recipes for Making Your Own Hot Sauces and Cooking With Them (The Essential Kitchen Series Book 3) by Sarah Sophia
Book starts out with a thank you ebook from the author and a table of contents where recipes are not in any special order.
Also has recipes for the different meals using the sauce recipes which is most helpful.
Shrot intro about the star rating of food, the hotness.
Each recipe starts with a title spice level, list of ingredients and how to make the sauce.
There is NO nutritonal information and there are NO pictures.
For the recipes that contain the freshly made sauce there is a title, servings, and list of ingredients, which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat and low sugar products.
How to make the dish is included. Like some of the food combinations.

Sugar Free Baking Recipes: Healthy And Delicious Sugar Free Dessert And Baking Recipes (Sugar Detox Diet Cookbook Book 1)by Jennifer Anderson
Start out with a table of contents where recipes are broken up into muffins, cookies, cake recipe sections.
Short intro about the book. Each recipe starts with a title and list of ingredients. You should be able to substitute some ingredients for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sugar and low sodium products.
I don't care for the use of Spelenda so i would cut down or substitute for that in the recipes.
Some recipes have a lot of ingredients-be sure you have everything before you start.
Directions are given how to prepare and cook the items. There are NO pictures. There is NO nutritional information.

Slow Cooker Recipes / Crockpot Recipes: Top 25 World-Class Recipes From Around The Globe (World-Class Recipes From Around The World Book 1)by Steven J Smith
Starts with table of contents where recipes are not in any order.
Intro about slow cooking. Each recipe has a title, short summary of the dish and list of ingredients which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sugar, low sodium, and low fat products.
Some recipes have over 20 ingredients. How to make it also included.
There are no pictures or nutritional information.
Like that the foods are from around the world. Like hearing of the combinations of spices.

European Food: Easy European Cooking with Delicious European Recipes by BookSumo Press
Starts out with offer of free ebooks, about the author section and short introduction about the series.
Table of contents where recipes are broken up into countries and what are they most famous for.
Coomon abbreviations are included.
Each recipe starts with a title, list of ingredients and directions how to make. There are NO pictures.
You should be able to substitute for your healtiher dietary needs: low sodium, low fat, and low sugar products and fresh vs canned.
Servings, prep and cook time and some nutritional information is available: calories, fat-NOT broken up into good or bad, carbs, protein, cholesterol and sodium based on 2000 cal diet.

30 Minute Meals: Quick and Easy Recipes You Will Love by Hannah Abedikichi

Starts with a table of contents where recipes are broken up into meals, free ebook gift offer.

Abbreviations and conversions are listed.

Tips are given and then recipes start.

Each recipe starts with a title, servings, list of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sugar, low sodium, low fat products. How to make the item is included.

There are NO picture or nutritional information. Some include a link to another recipe in the book that would go along with the meal-muffins, etc.

Other works by the author are inlcuded at the end.

Australian Cuisine: A Cookbook with Recipes from Down Under and the Outback by J.R. Stevens
Starts out with offer of a free ebook, table of contents where recipes are broken up into meals.
Each recipe starts with a title, prep, cook times and servings. List of ingredient and how to make. Some are healthy but not sure where to find all the meat products-what we could use in the US.
There are NO pictures. There is NO nutritional information.
BBQ shrimp would be my choice to make, sounds very appetizing.

Australian Food: Top 30 Delicious And Nutritious Appetizer, Dessert And One Dish Meals From Australia by Sadia Saeed
This book starts out with the offer of free ebooks. Table of contents where the recipes are broken into meals.
For each recipe there is a title, prep and cook time and servings. List of ingredients and some i'm not sure what you could subsitute them for in the US.
Directions are given but NO pictures and NO nutritional information.