Cooking has always been an issue with me. I can cook, and pretty darn well. This issue I have is I was taught how to cook by my very old world Italian mother, and everything she makes takes four hours. I don’t have four hours to cook every night so that is out of the question. I have been testing out all sorts of different quick recipes, but my baby bassets have not been a fan of any of them. So, as you can imagine, it has been a bit of a struggle for me. I also get pretty darn grumpy and end up a lot of the time chucking chicken tender in the oven and calling it dinner. Which it is, so there. Last night I decided to roast a turkey breast. My friends told me that it was a good quick dinner, but somehow I had managed to turn it into a four hour long cooking bonanza. I used all of my sauce pans, a roasting pan, one skillet, and kitchen utensils that had an inch of dust on them. Don’t worry..I cleaned them first. The meal turned into a full on Thanksgiving dinner that the kids LOVED!! The whole time we were eating I was looking at the huge mess in the kitchen. Tonight we dine on frozen lasagna.
If you want to check out a few cookie recipes that don’t take ten hours, be sure to check out my new recipes page on Book Basset by clicking here. I will be adding more soon!
Mayhem in Christmas River: A Christmas Cozy Mystery (Christmas River Cozy, Book 2)
by Meg Muldoon
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Mystery | Romance | Women’s Fiction
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It’s July in Christmas River, and the temperature isn’t the only thing flaring out of control.
After a fire destroys her best friend’s ornament shop, pie baker extraordinaire Cinnamon Peters soon discovers that the blaze was no accident.
Just days before the annual Christmas River in July Parade and Play, it becomes clear that a maniac is roaming the tourist-packed streets of Christmas River.
And he’s got a flair for the dramatic.
Will Cinnamon and her sheriff’s deputy boyfriend find out who’s behind the blaze before the rest of the town goes up in flames?
Mayhem abounds in this smoldering sequel to Murder in Christmas River.
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Revelations: Ancient Origins Book 1
by Robert Storey
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Fantasy | Science Fiction | Thrillers
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Mankind’s greatest discovery has been kept secret for a reason.
The origin of our species is not what we thought.
But as all life on Earth is threatened with extinction, that which has lain buried for millennia may yet prove to be our only hope…
MANKIND’S ANCIENT ORIGINS, ITS GREATEST DISCOVERY
AND AN UNSTOPPABLE MASS EXTINCTION.
THREE SECRETS, TWO DESTINIES, ONE WORLD.
THE COUNTDOWN TO REVELATION HAS BEGUN.
An ancient secret. A cataclysmic act of God… humanity’s last stand.
In the near future Sarah Morgan, an English archaeologist, is in a race against time to prove the impossible: that an advanced human ancestor once populated the Earth. But there are those that will kill to protect this most ancient of secrets, and when Sarah finally gets the proof she craves it is cruelly wrenched from her grasp; but never one to lie down Sarah finds another path, a path that propels her into a quest that will span continents and change her life forever.
Simultaneously the world prepares for the arrival of 2011 AG5, an asteroid that will impact off the South African coastline with the force akin to the strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years previous. Humanity has long been planning for this colossal event and many preparations have been made to counteract its after effects in order to preserve the ever fragile global economy and civilization itself. As the world holds its collective breath, below the surface government-run clandestine subterranean facilities are gearing up for the challenges ahead. These facilities are run by the gifted and ever mercurial Professor Steiner who has overseen a global programme charged with the preservation of mankind, as the clock ticks down towards zero hour his schedule is on track; however everything might not turn out as smoothly as he’d hoped…
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Home For Christmas
by Patricia Kay
Genre: Parenting & Relationships
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Quinn Riordan hasn’t been home for Christmas in more than ten years — ten long years since she’s seen her family and Chagrin Falls, the town where she grew up. It’s been that long since the sister she once adored had stolen the man Quinn loved. But when Quinn’s beloved Aunt Fiona has a bad fall and breaks her leg, Quinn can’t stay away any longer. In order to help her aunt, she has to go home and face her past. But along with her past, the trip home brings her an even more difficult challenge in the form of her aunt’s boarder, Peter Kimball.
Peter has been curious about Fiona’s niece ever since he first saw her framed photo in Fiona’s living room. He hasn’t been able to understand how someone Fiona speaks of so glowingly could so selfishly stay away for so long. He’s prepared to dislike Quinn and is stunned to very quickly realize he doesn’t. On the contrary, he’s attracted to Quinn and wants nothing more than to get to know her better. But Quinn isn’t the only one who has been running from her past. Peter has avoided confronting his demons by staying away from the place where he lost everything he held most dear.
Can these two troubled people overcome the problems that have haunted them for so long? Will they be brave enough to forget and forgive and move forward into a future that promises to be filled with more happiness and love than they ever imagined? In the capable hands of best-selling author Patricia Kay, this heartwarming story will be the perfect accompaniment to your own holiday season.
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Disturb – A Medical Thriller (The Konrath Horror Collective)
by J.A. Konrath
Genre: Thrillers | Horror
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A medical investigator tormented by secret guilt.
A beautiful doctor with an illicit desire.
A millionaire businessman indulging a passion for murder.
And a human guinea pig who has been awake for seven straight weeks.
DISTURB by JA Konrath
You’ll never sleep well again…
It’s the pharmaceutical breakthrough of the millennium. DruTech Industries proudly presents N-SOM, a pill that completely replaces eight hours of sleep. Feel totally refreshed, both physically and mentally, in just fifteen minutes a night.
The profit potential is boundless. Mankind’s productivity will go through the roof. One third of a person’s life could be recovered, for only ten dollars a dose.
The FDA sends CDER agent Dr. Bill May to green light N-SOM for American use. The pressure, both political and monetary, is tremendous. But Bill soon harbors fears that N-SOM may not be as safe as early reports indicate…
After meeting brilliant inventors Dr. Nikos Stefanopolous and his beautiful daughter Theena, Bill stumbles into an insidious cover-up that hinges on Emmanuel Tibbets, a human guinea pig who hasn’t had a wink of sleep in over fifty days.
Bill’s investigation soon unearths a snarled tangle of extortion, conspiracy, taboo sex, hidden secrets, and murderous betrayal.
When N-SOM’s deadly side-effects are revealed, along with the shocking truth of how the drug is produced, Bill and Theena find themselves on the run from hired assassins, three letter government agencies, and a breed of psychopath unlike any ever known.
Billions of dollars, and billions of lives, are at stake. Can Bill and Theena survive long enough to expose the truth? Or will the world succumb to an evil that may bring about the extinction of mankind?
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Children’s book about Cowboys Kurious Kid
by Brian Smith
Genre: Children’s eBooks | Children’s Nonfiction | Religious & Inspirational Fiction
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The story is recommended to – read aloud book for preschoolers or a self-read book for beginner readers. Dealing with: Animals, Morals and Learning Fun. (Best friend book) “It’s an – illustrated children picture book” for Early reading And educational children’s book’s – teach kids basic skills :* values*helping others *good deeds ( One of the best Kids books age 3 to 6)
Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Discover… About Cowboys Inside..
With this 40 page book the kurious kid is going to take young readers on a fantastic adventure with that great icon of bravery and loyalty the cowboy in these pages. The young reader is going to be taken along a dusty trail on a cattle drive with the kurious kid as the trail boss.
The young buckaroos will learn all about the Cowboys equipment like a saddle, his boots is horse and his lariat or lasso (the rope for catching cows) it will run about all the jobs that the cowboy did and still does today from building fences (so the cows can’t run a way) and giving the cows medicine.
So they don’t get sick, and marking them (branding). So that they can be told apart from the cows that belong to another ranch, the kurious kid will turn any budding buckaroo into a full-fledged cowboy by the end of the book and the young cowpokes will have all their questions answered about what it actually means to be a cowboy.
The book is divided into easy to find chapters with full-color photos that show everything from the cowboy’s horse to his boots and chaps and his famous hat, which protects his face from the sun and head from the rain and within each chapter is a series of trivia questions that the cowpokes can use to test their cowboy wisdom.
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