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Book Mama s Bayou

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dianne De las Casas
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1455615102
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Mama s Bayou written by Dianne De las Casas and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother rocks her child to sleep as they listen to the sounds bayou creatures make at night.

Book Foolproof Preserving and Canning

Download or read book Foolproof Preserving and Canning written by America's Test Kitchen and published by America's Test Kitchen. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every home cook's essential step-by-step guide to canning and preserving 100 can't-fail sweet and savory recipes, from tried-and-true classics to modern updates. The experts at America's Test Kitchen show you how to easily (and safely) make homemade everything—from fruity jams with beautiful summer berries to piquant pickles from raw vegetables of all kinds—with detailed tutorials, troubleshooting tips, equipment information, instruction on doubling batches, and insight into the science behind canning (How much salt should you use? What's the perfect preserving temperature?). No matter what season it is, which jars you have, or how much time you have, this book has something for everyone, beginner or expert. Sweet Jams & Jellies: Once you’ve turned out flawless favorites like Raspberry & Strawberry, try your hand at Blueberry Earl Grey Jam. Savory Jams & Chutneys: Start with classics like Caramelized Onion Jam and then make a delicious Apple Shallot Chutney to pair with a favorite dish. Vegetable Pickles: Simply cooked in a vinegar brine or long-fermented, every pickle is perfectly crisp. Fruit in Syrup: Enjoy jewel-like fruit, from bite-size to whole, in a syrup made of the perfect ratio of water to sugar. Tomatoes: Intensify their flavor through roasting or lock in summer sweetness with fresh tomato sauce. Canning Books Are Hot More and more people are canning and preserving at home for the satisfaction of tranforming raw height-of-season produce into jewel-like jars of jams, jellies, and condiments, or umami-packed pickles. Step-by-Step Instruction This is the first canning and preserving book from ATK; we take the mystery and fear away and provide detailed and illustrated instructions for every recipe. Timelines for Every Recipe It's helpful to have snapshot of the commitment involved in making the recipe—and when they're ready to eat. Lots of Options for Both Beginner and Experienced Canners There is a lot of interest in handcrafting small batches of fruits and vegetables. The emphasis in this book is on small batch canning (2- or 4-jar yields) with double-it options for all the 4 jar recipes. Beautiful Package Completely illustrated with step photos of the recipes in progress and an easy-to follow design.

Book Pirate s Pantry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Junior League of Lake Charles, Louisiana
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9781455610556
  • Pages : 488 pages

Download or read book Pirate s Pantry written by Junior League of Lake Charles, Louisiana and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirate's Pantry: Treasured Recipes of Southwest Louisiana is a bountiful collection of family and regional recipes, with a spicy lagniappe of local historical lore that reflects the Creole and Cajun flavor of this unique area, steeped in mystique and legend.

Book The Bayou Fairies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cher Hunt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-07-15
  • ISBN : 9781734553215
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Bayou Fairies written by Cher Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s Your Mama  Are You Catholic  and Can You Make a Roux

Download or read book Who s Your Mama Are You Catholic and Can You Make a Roux written by Marcelle Bienvenu and published by Susan Schadt Press LLC. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bienvenu to the quintessential Cajun country cookbook. Dubbed the "Queen of Cajun Cooking," Chef Marcelle Bienvenu provides recipes for every season in this well deserved reimagining of the classic Who's Your Mama, Are You Catholic, and Can You Make A Roux?. Praised by The New York Times as "...having what might be the best-named cookbook in America," Marcelle honors the authentic cuisine and culture of South Louisiana. The lovingly curated family recipes, accumulated over decades, appear alongside hilarious stories of life on the bayou. Featuring a new layout including photographs of recipes, tablescapes, and more by Randy Krause Schmidt set in the Spanish moss-laden Bayou Têche, Who's Your Mama, Are You Catholic, and Can You Make A Roux? will inspire enthusiasts of Cajun and Creole cuisine with Marcelle's enduring passion for great food and storytelling.

Book Orchid of the Bayou

Download or read book Orchid of the Bayou written by Cathryn Carroll and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In graduating from Gallaudet University, finding a job in Washington, D.C., and starting a family with her college sweetheart, Kitty Fischer tacitly abandoned the Louisiana Cajun culture that had exposed her to little more than prejudice and misery as a child. Upon discovering that she suffered from Usher syndrome (a genetic condition that causes both deafness and blindness), however, Fischer began an unlikely journey toward reclaiming her heritage. She and Cathryn Carroll tell the story of her heroic struggle and cultural odyssey in Orchid of the Bayou: A Deaf Woman Faces Blindness. "By this time Mama knew I was 'not right, '" Fischer says of her early childhood. "She knew the real words for 'not right, ' too, though she never said those words. I was deaf and dumb." Initially Fischer's parents turned to folk healers to try and "cure" their daughter's deafness, but an aunt's fortunate discovery of the Louisiana School for the Deaf would rescue Fischer from misunderstanding and introduce her to sign language and Deaf culture. She weathered the school''s experiments with oralism and soon rose to the top of her class, ultimately leaving Louisiana for the academic promise of Gallaudet. While in college, Fischer met and married her future husband, Lance, a Jewish Deaf man from Brooklyn, New York, and each landed jobs close to their alma mater. After the birth of their first child, however, Fischer could no longer ignore her increasing tunnel vision. Doctors quickly confirmed that Fischer had Usher syndrome. While Fischer struggled to come to terms with her condition, the high incidence of Usher syndrome among Cajun people led her to re-examine her cultural roots. "Could I still be me, Catherine Hoffpauir Fischer, had I not been born of a mix that codes for Usher syndrome?" she asks. "To some extent, the history of my people explains the constitution of my genes and the way my life has unfolded." Today Fischer prospers, enjoying her time with family and friends and celebrating the Deaf, Cajun, Blind, and Jewish cultures that populate her life. Her lively story will resonate with anyone who recognizes the arduous journey toward claiming an identity.

Book Tales From The Bayou

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Adam
  • Publisher : Author House
  • Release : 2010-06-10
  • ISBN : 1452016984
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Tales From The Bayou written by David Adam and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales From The Bayou is a compilation of six short stories about South Louisiana, dating from 1814, which was when the Battle of New Orleans was fought, to our modern times. The purpose of the book is to introduce Louisiana culture to those who may not be familiar with this part of America, and to enhance the appreciation of our heritage to local citizens of this very unique region. The book is very special in that it tells the stories of life from a variety of views. From little Cajun boys in the 1930’s and their mischievous antics, the lifelong story of a man of color along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, and of course, the personal tale about Jean Lafitte and his fictitious offspring. The book also tells a heartwarming story from the prospective of a 30-something woman who is the proprietor of the Decator Street Guest House in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It is the author’s desire that all will be entertained, and will enjoy the stories for what they are, and take an inside look at the hopes, the dreams, the triumphs and the failures of his characters.

Book The Underneath

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathi Appelt
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-07-24
  • ISBN : 1416998586
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Underneath written by Kathi Appelt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound dares to befriend this cat, this feline, this creature he is supposed to hate. They are an unlikely pair, about to become an unlikely family. Ranger urges the cat to hide underneath the porch, to raise her kittens there because Gar-Face, the man living inside the house, will surely use them as alligator bait should he find them. But they are safe in the Underneath...as long as they stay in the Underneath. Kittens, however, are notoriously curious creatures. And one kitten’s one moment of curiosity sets off a chain of events that is astonishing, remarkable, and enormous in its meaning. For everyone who loves Sounder, Shiloh, and The Yearling, for everyone who loves the haunting beauty of writers such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Flannery O’Connor, and Carson McCullers, Kathi Appelt spins a harrowing yet keenly sweet tale about the power of love—and its opposite, hate—the fragility of happiness and the importance of making good on your promises.

Book Bayou Magic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2015-05-12
  • ISBN : 0316224863
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Bayou Magic written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids, plus an environmental twist. It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings - the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she can see. Could it be a mermaid? As her grandmother shares wisdom about sayings and signs, Maddy realizes she may be the only sibling to carry on her family's magical legacy. And when a disastrous oil leak threatens the bayou, she knows she may also be the only one who can help. Does she have what it takes to be a hero? Jewell Parker Rhodes weaves a rich tale celebrating the magic within.

Book A to Zoo

Download or read book A to Zoo written by Rebecca L. Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 3583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

Book Ninth Ward

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Publisher : Orbit Books
  • Release : 2010-08-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Ninth Ward written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.

Book Blue Frog

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dianne de Las Casas
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-09-28
  • ISBN : 1455614599
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Blue Frog written by Dianne de Las Casas and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the native Central American tale of how the gift of chocolate came to be shared by the gods with humans.

Book Dinosaur Mardi Gras

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dianne de Las Casas
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-11-29
  • ISBN : 9781589809666
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Dinosaur Mardi Gras written by Dianne de Las Casas and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dinosaurs parade down the streets of New Orleans during the Mardi Gras carnival. Includes glossary and related craft activity.

Book Mamma s Moon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerome Mark Antil
  • Publisher : Hoodoo of Peckerwood Finch
  • Release : 2019-05-07
  • ISBN : 9781732632103
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Mamma s Moon written by Jerome Mark Antil and published by Hoodoo of Peckerwood Finch. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jerome Mark Antil's Mamma's Moon does for Acadiana what Truman Capote did for Tiffany's or Tennessee Williams did for streetcars. This is a novel about a lot of things, including sex, crime, life, and death. But most of all, it's a novel about hope and about love." This novel, Mamma's Moon, is a sequel to the novel, One More Last Dance. It stands alone as an entirely self-contained story, but for those of you who may not have read the earlier novel, I include here a brief description of the main characters and of the events that preceded this story. A bond that can only happen on a dance floor happened in a cafe off Frenchman Street among four unlikely characters. Aging Captain Gabriel Jordan, retired, was given two months to live, three months before he met "Peck"--Boudreau Clemont Finch--a groundskeeper of his hospice on Bayou Carencro, Louisiana. It was at the hospice that Gabe told Peck his dream of seeing the Newport Jazz Festival before he died. They became friends, and Peck offered to help grant his wish by taking him there. Less than a year before the events in Mamma's Moon, Gabe and Peck wandered into Charlie's Blue Note, where the music was live and mellow and the dancing warm and sensual. Here they encountered two extraordinary women, Sasha, a real estate agent in New Orleans's posh Garden District, and her best friend, Lily Cup, a criminal attorney: and amid the music, the dancing, the food, the flirting, and the cigar smoke, the four formed an unusual and lasting friendship that would see them each through a series of crises, disappointments, life-threatening situations, and moments of great joy and satisfaction. In this sequel novel to One More Last Dance - young Cajun French Peck goes from illiterate to earning his GED in nine months in New Orleans. His love, Millie, wants to meet a mother she doesn't know and Peck isn't sure he even has. His best friend, Gabe, who is fighting a skirmish with the law, takes the time to encourage his friend to go find the truth. Peck decides to learn the truth about his past and to find his real mamma. His traveling into dangerous unknown roads back into the swamps and bayous to find the truth are a touching, heartwarming adventure.

Book Madame Poulet and Monsieur Roach

Download or read book Madame Poulet and Monsieur Roach written by Dianne de Las Casas and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A folktale from New Orleans that explains why cockroaches and chickens are not the best of friends.

Book Circle of Secrets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kimberley Griffiths Little
  • Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 054516561X
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Circle of Secrets written by Kimberley Griffiths Little and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year after her mother deserted the family, 11-year-old Shelby goes to stay with her, deep in the Louisiana bayou, where they both confront old hurts and regrets.

Book The Wishing Thread

Download or read book The Wishing Thread written by Lisa Van Allen and published by Large Print Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Van Ripper women have been the talk of Tarrytown, New York, for centuries. Some say they're angels; some say they're crooks. In their tumbledown "Stitchery," not far from the stomping grounds of the legendary Headless Horseman, the Van Ripper sisters--Aubrey, Bitty, and Meggie--are said to knit people's most ardent wishes into beautiful scarves and mittens, granting them health, success, or even a blossoming romance. But for the magic to work, sacrifices must be made--and no one knows that better than the Van Rippers.