Download or read book The Secret Ingredient written by Nancy Naigle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A HALLMARK CHANNEL ORIGINAL MOVIE! Love is like a perfect recipe… You never want to lose it. Years ago, Kelly McIntyre and Andrew York were engaged and dreaming of opening a restaurant together. Then he chose an opportunity to study in Paris over the small-town life they’d planned, and their romance came to a bittersweet end. But Kelly’s doing fine. She’s not only the owner of a potbellied pig named Gray, but also of her own bakery. Business is good—so good that she’s invited to compete in a Valentine’s Day bake-off. As she prepares for the contest, she tries not to get distracted by Andrew’s visit to town. When Andrew sees Kelly, it stirs up his old feelings. Little does he know that soon, in New York, he’ll compete against her in the bake-off…and they’ll both realize how much their past is a part of them still. This irresistible romance includes a free Hallmark original recipe for Honey Almond Cake with Berries and Mascarpone Crème Fraiche.

Download or read book The Secret Ingredient written by Gigi Butler and published by Howard Books. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder of Gigi’s Cupcakes shares her personal success story, her hard-won business acumen, and the life-changing inspiration that has helped her follow her dreams in this warm-hearted and encouraging memoir that “will inspire savvy entrepreneurs to invest in their own dreams” (Daymond John, star of ABC’s Shark Tank). Featuring delicious dessert recipes for cupcakes and more in each chapter. As a young child, Gigi knew that if she wanted to succeed, she had to work hard and offer a service that people wanted to buy. At age seven, she sold eggs out of her little red wagon to neighbors. At age fifteen, she bought cleaning supplies and started a cleaning service out of her rural California home. When she moved to Nashville at nineteen, she had her heart set on becoming a country music star. Cleaning houses by day to support herself for over a decade, she realized that God had other plans for her. If she wouldn’t be a successful singer, she decided she would grow a business that she could be proud of. An extraordinary baker throughout her life, she decided to open a cupcake shop with all the money she could pull together. With the help and support of her family, she was able to open her first store in a prime Nashville location. The news of her cupcakes spread quickly, and the franchise became a huge success. Now, in The Secret Ingredient, Gigi reveals how her failure led her to explore her passion for baking and how she became a successful businesswoman. With spunk, humor, and insight, she weaves her hard-won wisdom and business acumen into the fun, fascinating, and instructive stories of her life. Each inspirational chapter concludes with a treasured family recipe for cupcakes and other scrumptious desserts. For anyone with big dreams, Gigi’s message is simple: believe in yourself, walk with integrity, work hard, and trust in God. Your life may not turn out exactly how you expected or hoped, but it will be so much better than you could have ever imagined. “If you ever need to feel inspired by a dreamer, this is a must read” (Tony Brown, music producer).

Download or read book The Secret Ingredient written by Laura Schaefer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While working at her grandmother's Madison, Wisconsin, teashop, fourteen-year-old Annie hears of a scone cook-off, for which the prize is an all-expense paid trip to London for tea, and enlists Genna and Zoe to help her win. Includes proverbs, quotations, and brief stories about tea, as well as recipes.

Download or read book The Secret Ingredient written by Stewart Lewis and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a chance meeting with a psychic, Olivia, a teen cook living in Los Angeles with her two dads and misfit brother, finds a vintage cookbook with handwritten notes inside and pieces together a story that turns a normal summer into a search for her birth mother.

Download or read book The Secret Ingredient Murders written by Nancy Pickard and published by Dell. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A DINNER TO DIE FOR Summoned from her Arizona ranch to take charge of her teenage great-nephew and his twin sister, Genia Potter takes a rental on the Rhode Island coast. Old acquaintance Stanley Parker is only too happy to welcome her. And soon Genia is busily preparing for the tasting party that she and Stanley are hosting that evening at her cottage. An avid cook and recipe collector, Stanley has already roped Genia into collaborating on The Secret Ingredient Cookbook, chock-full of Rhode Island culinary mysteries. Now is their chance to test some recipes and solicit others from each of the invited. Stanley has carefully selected six guests. And each has been asked to contribute a recipe with one secret ingredient. Genia asks no questions–until the lobster bisque is cold and all but one are present. Where is Stanley? Dead. And unlamented. Has one of the guests concocted a secret recipe for murder? Everyone has a motive. And everyone has a secret–including Genia’s troubled great-nephew, the prime suspect. . .

Download or read book Secret Ingredients written by David Remnick and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing–food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons. “To read this sparely elegant, moving portrait is to remember that writing well about food is really no different from writing well about life.”—Saveur (Ten Best Books of the Year) Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker—literally. In this indispensable collection, M.F.K. Fisher pays homage to “cookery witches,” those mysterious cooks who possess “an uncanny power over food,” and Adam Gopnik asks if French cuisine is done for. There is Roald Dahl’s famous story “Taste,” in which a wine snob’s palate comes in for some unwelcome scrutiny, and Julian Barnes’s ingenious tale of a lifelong gourmand who goes on a very peculiar diet. Selected from the magazine’s plentiful larder, Secret Ingredients celebrates all forms of gustatory delight. A sample of the menu: Roger Angell on the art of the martini • Don DeLillo on Jell-O • Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup • Jane Kramer on the writer’s kitchen • Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin • Steve Martin on menu mores • Alice McDermott on sex and ice cream • Dorothy Parker on dinner conversation • S. J. Perelman on a hollandaise assassin • Calvin Trillin on New York’s best bagel Whether you’re in the mood for snacking on humor pieces and cartoons or for savoring classic profiles of great chefs and great eaters, these offerings from The New Yorker’s fabled history are sure to satisfy every taste.

Download or read book The Secret Ingredient of Wishes written by Susan Bishop Crispell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 26-year-old Rachel Monroe has spent her whole life trying to keep a very unusual secret: she can make wishes come true. And sometimes the consequences are disastrous. So when Rachel accidentally grants an outlandish wish for the first time in years, she decides it’s time to leave her hometown—and her past—behind for good. Rachel isn’t on the road long before she runs out of gas in a town that’s not on her map: Nowhere, North Carolina—also known as the town of “Lost and Found.” In Nowhere, Rachel is taken in by a spit-fire old woman, Catch, who possesses a strange gift of her own: she can bind secrets by baking them into pies. Rachel also meets Catch’s neighbor, Ashe, a Southern gentleman with a complicated past, who makes her want to believe in happily-ever-after for the first time in her life. As she settles into the small town, Rachel hopes her own secrets will stay hidden, but wishes start piling up everywhere Rachel goes. When the consequences threaten to ruin everything she’s begun to build in Nowhere, Rachel must come to terms with who she is and what she can do, or risk losing the people she’s starting to love—and her chance at happiness—all over again.

Download or read book The Teashop Girls written by Laura Schaefer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifelong friends Annie, Zoe, and Genna are growing up and beginning to grow apart. When Annie takes a job at her grandmother's tea shop, she's hopeful that her new job will bond the Teashop Girls back together. Discussion questions and a guide to hosting a tea party are included.

Download or read book The Secret Ingredient written by George Edward Stanley and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first Katie Lynn is excited when people start buying the walnut chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies she is baking with her grandmother's secret recipe, but then things get terribly complicated.

Download or read book The Secret Ingredient written by KD Fisher and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This LBGQT romance has “a perfectly rendered cast of characters . . . mouthwatering moments in the kitchen, and a completely charming small town setting” (Booklist). For single mom Adah Campbell, the executive chef job at a posh restaurant in quaint South Bay, Maine is a dream come true—and the perfect opportunity to start over, far away from a home that’s never felt entirely hers. But fitting in has never been easy, and between a new town, a new boss, and the unexpectedly attractive owner of a rival café, things get off to a rocky start. Never did free-spirited Beth Summers think she’d still be in Maine. Travel the world gathering delicious recipes and finding friends and lovers? Absolutely. Step in to run her family’s small-town café? Not so much. However, once Beth commits to something, that’s it. Soon, The Yellow House is the hottest spot in town, but Beth’s out of energy—and out of ideas for moving forward. Until Adah Campbell walks into her life. As sparks fly, both chefs have to decide if they are willing to make sacrifices . . . or if it’s really too many cooks in the kitchen. “This no-nonsense love story will especially appeal to foodie romance fans.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Secret Ingredient written by Jan Markos and published by Quality Chess. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Ingredient is a grandmaster guide to maximizing your chess results, focusing on key elements of practical play which have received little to no attention in previous chess literature. - How exactly can we best make use of computers? - What's the ideal, step-by-step way to prepare against a specific opponent? - How can we optimize our time management at the board? - And what's the one key skill that separates the best players from those who have yet to reach their full potential? GM Jan Markos sheds light on these topics and many more, helped by the world-class insights of his good friend GM David Navara.

Download or read book Secret Ingredients written by Nancy O'Dell and published by . This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a Scrapbooking Idea book with ideas from Entertainment Tonight's Nancy O'Dell

Download or read book The Secret Ingredient written by Kilby Blades and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TV chef Cella journeys to an idyllic seaside town to write an Italian cookbook. She's also mourning a failed restaurant project, dodging her predatory agent, and finding respite from soul-crushing fame. When she learns that her next-door neighbor, hot doctor Max, is the nephew of a late, famed Italian restaurateur, she convinces him to teach her authentic touches that will help her write the book.This is a mixed blessing for guilt-ridden Max, who botched his own attempt to become a chef-a failure that's left his aunt's gorgeous restaurant sitting empty for years. No one has challenged Cella when it comes to her cooking in ages. Max's fiery disposition sparks her intuition and reminds her how to feel the food. But the heat between Max and Cella may be hotter than the flames on the stove. Max's gentlemanly nature and Cella's professionalism stop being enough to keep them apart. With Max's vacation ending and Cella slated to return to L.A., how will they ever say goodbye?

Download or read book Hushed October written by Becky Melby and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tess and inn guest Elliott MacIntosh have found half of a rare slave tag on property that was once part of the Underground Railroad. Tippi Coddlesworth, an old friend - and sometimes rival - from Tess's college days may know more about the tag than she lets on.

Download or read book The Secret Ingredient written by Gloria Hander Lyons and published by Blue Sage Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of recipes using familiar ingredients in an unexpected combination. Some are tried & true favorites like Apple Pie with Ketchup, Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake, Cola Sloppy Joe's & Popcorn Salad. Others are new concoctions like Pork n' Bean Bread, Cheesy Chocolate Fudge, Tomato Soup Crock Pot Cake & Twinkie Ice Cream Shake. More than 90 recipes for beverages, appetizers, soups, salads, breads, main dishes, sandwiches & desserts. You'll want to try them all.

Download or read book The Secret Ingredient written by Tom Soma and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Soma's weekly "musings" on the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington web page have helped him to share and understand all that he's witnessed while working at the Ronald McDonald House. In this follow-up to Soma's first collection, No Small Thing, he shares some of these musings, in what becomes a sort of memoir -- "a fond recollection of the people and experiences that touched me."

Download or read book The Secret Ingredient Cookbook written by Kelly Senyei and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2021 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 125 family-friendly recipes based on the author's popular Just a Taste food site, with each recipe featuring a totally unexpected ingredient Kelly Senyei, founder of the food site Just a Taste, has garnered millions of fans with a delicious hook--every one of her recipes has a secret ingredient, something totally unexpected that takes a dish from common to extraordinary. Some of the 125 tried-and-tested recipes are surprisingly simple, like her Vanilla Bean Drop Doughnuts made with Greek yogurt, or the Sweet and Tangy Baked Chicken Wings made with blackberry jam. Other recipes are nothing short of genius, such as the Kale Panzanella made with croissants, the Healthy White Chicken Chili made with hummus, or the Crispy Slow Cooker Carnitas made with cocoa powder. And just because the secret ingredients are surprising doesn't mean they're expensive or hard to find, either. Kelly is a busy mother of two, and she made sure every ingredient can be found in any supermarket. Her family-friendly recipes cover every occasion, from crowd-pleasing snacks and 30-minute entrées to make-ahead sides and holiday-worthy desserts.