Desperation Entertaining!


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Presents advice on hosting a variety of get-togethers with minimal effort and includes recipes for over two hundred dishes.




Desperation Dinners


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What's a Desperation Dinner? How to feed your family well when your spouse is late, the kids are losing it, and the dog is scratching at the door. Features over 250 tempting, nutritious recipes that take brilliant advantage of convenience foods-from individual quick-frozen chicken breasts to chopped ginger in a jar-plus innovative techniques to cut time and "push" flavor. Desperation Dinners Promise: 1. These recipes are not hard. 2. These recipes do not require expensive equipment. 3. These recipes do not lie-every one can be made in 20 minutes, start to finish. 4. Expect to be working, but only for those 20 minutes. 5. These recipes taste good. A Slightly Desperate Cook's Answer to "What's for Dinner?" Skillet Shepherd's Pie Topsail Spaghetti Pork au Poivre Chicken Chili Quesadillas Garlic-Roasted Salmon Buttered Rum-Glazed Ham Fish Florentine Confetti Stuffed Peppers And When You're Really Desperate Southwestern Chicken on the Spot Minute Minestrone Tuna and Fusilli Alfresco Miracle Baked Pork Chops Practically Perfect Peach Crisp "The dinner dilemma is solved! The Desperation ladies deserve to be stove-side in every busy home." -Nathalie Dupree, author of Nathalie Dupree Cooks Quick Meals for Busy Days




Desperation


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Welcome to Desperation. Once a thriving copper mining town in the middle of the Nevada desert, Desperation is now eerily abandoned. It's the last place that travellers like the Carver family, bound for vacation, and writer Johnny Marinville, astride his Harley, would expect to be stopped and charged. But Desperation still has a local cop - a unique regulator who patrols the wilderness highway. The secrets buried in Desperation are as terrifying as the forces summoned to encounter them. A terrifying transformation is taking place and the travellers will soon discover the true meaning of desperation . . .




Party Dips!


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Sally Sampson is an expert at easy, speedy, inexpensive-yet stylish party food and here are 50 of her best dip recipes. She covers all the basics of stocking the refrigerator and pantry and offers presentation ideas.




Weeknight Grilling with the BBQ Queens


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With 100 easy, versatile, absolutely delicious recipes for weeknight dinners on the grill, this book is a life-saver for busy cooks looking for delicious, stress-free meals during the week. All the recipes are included on a two-page spread for maximum convenience, the ingredients called for are either readily available in grocery stores or already sitting in the pantry, and most can be prepared in 45 minutes or less. The BBQ Queens explain a variety of grilling techniques, such as skewering and stir-grilling; offer Time-Saving Tiara Touches providing shortcuts and other ways to streamline dinner prep; suggest side dishes to round out a complete meal; and include recipes for turning grilled leftovers into wonderful new dishes.




The Frantic Woman's Guide to Life


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Prescriptive, delightful, and packed with girlfriend-style advice that is right on the money, this funny yet practical, month-by-month guide helps busy women strike a balance between family, work, and home.




Grey Faction


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Grey Faction, the worlds most elite fighting force, is used by governments around the world as a last resort against serial killers, terrorist groups, and people with magic/superhuman abilities. However they are about to face their toughest challenge yet, and even though the leaders of Grey Faction have spent five years dealing with countless deadly opponents, through combat and assassination, the small group will be hard pressed to survive what is to come. The Magistas Syndicate have commissioned the scientist Siegfried to mass produce Seraphim flame clones to eliminate Grey Faction, however Siegfried isnt one for being controlled, and with the help of the Violet Witch and the fruits of his secret research, he will throw the world into chaos to fulfill his own goals. In the midst of this, a young woman named Reina is hurled into this world, possessing remarkable powers bestowed by the demon Incubo. Could she be the answer to our hopes from the release of war, or bring the world further into chaos? Time will tell.




Potato Salad


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"Potato salad is not just a starchy buddy to your hamburger. It has a proud place in cultures around the world, from German oil-and-vinegar salads with bacon to dill-accented Scandinavian delights. And, of course, it's the all-American side dish at every Fourth of July picnic. But this great dish deserves to shine year-round. In this book are the flavors of beloved favorites, but with new twists. Other recipes bring in international touches. So, take potato salad to stardom. Go spud wild." —From Potato Salad




Cheap. Fast. Good!


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The creators of Desperation Dinners! explain how to save time and money in the kitchen with 275 delicious recipes that are quick and easy to prepare, economical, healthy, and family friendly, and include helpful tips on stocking the pantry, shopping, menu planning, creating one's own convenience items, food substitutions, and cooking techniques. Simultaneous.




Be Thrifty


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Encourages thrift behaviors including planting a garden, cooking at home, cutting one's own hair, exercising with a gym membership, and avoiding or repaying credit card debt.