Desperation Dinners

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

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Mills, Beverly

Ross, Alicia

Quick & Easy

Workman Publishing Company

Desperation Entertaining!

Socially inclined but time-deprived? Want to see friends for dinner, but can't do more than order takeout or meet in a restaurant? Well, help is here. From Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross-whose nationally syndicated column reaches millions of readers through 115 papers comes the perfect cookbook for the harried would-be host and hostess. Desperation Entertaining! is filled with 200 marvelous recipes for impressive dinner party food. Desperation Entertaining! is a complete game plan for having guests over (children included) without having to spend more than 20 minutes on a dish, or 20 minutes per cook-ahead phase. There are tips on saving time (buy pre-peeled garlic, doctor supermarket potato salad with fresh chopped onions and paprika); sanity (tie the bottle opener to the cooler); and money (sangria costs less than wine). But of course the genius of the book is in the recipes: Cajun Catfish Gumbo, Cabernet Pasta Sauce with Italian Sausage, Greek Stifado with Artichokes, Citrus Shrimp Kebabs, Grilled Pork Chops with Southern Peach Salsa. Plus plenty of homemade desserts that won't break the host, including Rocky Road Brownie Sundaes, Berkshires Blueberry Crisp, and Sunset Key Lime Pies. Who's coming over next week?

Not a penny-pinching cookbook—a "get smart!" cookbook. No more staring helplessly at rising grocery bills or, too harried for time, shelling out twenty-five bucks for mediocre take-out. The work of two brilliant problem-solvers, Cheap. Fast. Good! cuts through both the budget dilemma and the time dilemma with 275 recipes for great, family-pleasing dishes, most of which take under 25 minutes to prepare and average out to cost less—and usually far less—than $2 a serving. Home Ec simplified Saving money in the kitchen is as simple as one four-letter word: Cook. But cooking to save means cooking food you and your family are going to love—and cooking (and shopping) smart. In dozens of time-and-money-saving tips, techniques, strategies, and solutions, the authors show how to make the right choices again and again. They'll never know you're thrifty Pan-Fried Pork Chops with Pepper Medley Stuffed Peppers with Kielbasa Rice Zesty Chicken Sauté Bayou Stew Catfish with Pecan Crust Cinco de Mayo Skillet Quickie Cacciatore Perfect Spinach Pesto Pizza Moroccan Meatballs Over Couscous Salmon Pasta with Tomatoes and Dill ...Even when it's time to s-t-r-e-t-c-h Onion Chopped Steak with Easy Gravy Oven-Baked BBQ Chicken Thighs Fall Sausage and Cabbage Sauté Ultra-Easy Veggie Quesadillas Pasta e Fagioli My Beef and Barley Soup Ziti Mexi-Cali

Cheap. Fast. Good!

Cooking Methods

African Americans of Central New Jersey: A History of Harmony and Hostility (American Heritage)

Through grit and determination, the founding Black families of Sourland Mountain and surrounding Central New Jersey put down roots, built homes, established churches and navigated their lives in an unforgiving world. Through extensive research and interviews authors Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills reveal stories of the families who shaped the region for generations.

History

Sharon Buck

Americas

The History Press

My grandma, Beverly Mills, born in 1925 in San Francisco, was a mother of four, a grandmother of seven, and a great grandmother of two (so far). She started her own print production company in San Mateo, CA that she ran for over twenty years, but this is just a sliver of her story. She was an entertainer at heart. She danced and sang for charities, performed in musicals and wrote comedy skits locally, and concocted elaborate themed parties for friends and family. It's even rumored that she tried to start her own party planning business called The WindMills (more on puns later), where they would put on big events and hire caterers. My grandma was always looking for the next opportunity to entertain.A common thread through all of this, was my grandma's love for entertaining through words. She recorded her lively and entertaining life through poetry. She wrote thousands of poems over the years: to celebrate someone's birthday, to say thank you for someone treating her to dinner, to invite friends to a party, to make an observation about something peculiar, to accompany her gift to someone on Christmas, to demand a change to something, to ask for help, and even to thank a doctor for successfully completing her boob job in the 1960s. Poetry rolled off her tongue, and this book is a celebration of that. What ensues is a selection of my grandma's poems that will give you a glimpse into her adventurous life. More importantly, these are stories about the value of family and friends, the importance of gratitude for life's big and little moments, as well as the value of being present and observant. But please strap in. These stories often have an extra serving of spice for an added kick. My grandma, a lady filled with charisma and energy, and a streak of up-to-no-goodness, brings a unique perspective to all of her observations and writing. The poems are filled with plays on words and layered meanings (hope you enjoy puns). At times, the poems are slightly risque, and bounce right back to lighthearted and fun. My grandma's poems will make you chuckle, will stir up nostalgia for life in a different era, will make you think about your own loved ones, and will at times make you blush over the subject matter.I spent a year sitting with my grandma sifting through her endless poetry, and listening to the stories behind each one. So each poem has a brief description to provide context, as each poem needs a "Rhyme and Reason". There is no chronological order to the poems - you will find a poem from the 1960s buried in the middle, and a poem from the 1990s in the beginning.We hope you enjoy the poems (and puns), and that they inspire you to always see life with a wink and a smile.

Rhyme and Reason: A Lifetime of In-Verse Relationships

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Outskirts Press

Buck, Sharon Elaine

History PR

If These Stones Could Talk: African American Presence in the Hopewell Valley

Biographies & Memoirs

Buck, Elaine

Community & Culture

Tree of Life Books

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