Outdoor Kitchens: Designs for Outdoor Kitchens, Bars, and Dinning Areas (Quarry Book)

Outdoor Kitchens: Designs for Outdoor Kitchens, Bars, and Dinning Areas (Quarry Book) Review

Outdoor cooking has far surpassed the days of the simply grilling on the patio. Incorporating everything from fully-stocked bars to full-size kitchen appliances in its plans, open-air cooking has soared to new levels of creativity, design, and technique.

With Outdoor Kitchens you will be able to personalize the outdoor cooking space that perfectly suits your lifestyle. Superb photography creates a catalog of options, inspiring you to design a space that exactly meets your desires, climate, cooking style, and budget. This book equips you with all the information you need to successfully set up an outdoor kitchen, from tips on choosing the right decor to proper equipment selection, allowing you to make all the correct decisions along the way.

Kelly's Kitchen Sync: Insider Kitchen Design and Remodeling Tips from an award-winning expert

Kelly's Kitchen Sync: Insider Kitchen Design and Remodeling Tips from an award-winning expert Review

"80% of consumers want to redo their kitchens." -- Kitchen and Bath Design News 

And most of them will want to pull their hair out at some point in the process! Appliances or cabinets don't fit or open right . . . the sink is so tight that the faucet gets a wedgie . . . the floor or walls aren't straight or plumb . . . the range hood is a head-banger . . . your contractor forgot to ask you about . . . everything! 

Create your dream kitchen and avoid the nightmares

From DIY go-getters to reluctant remodelers to smart consumers who just want to stay on top of their projects, everyone who dabbles in kitchen design and remodeling needs some "I wish I'd thought of that" help and support.

Packed with truly insider kitchen design secrets and remodeling tips shared in a humorous, realistic way, Kelly's Kitchen Sync has answers to questions you didn't know you should ask. Don't let your project get bogged down by your own horror story! Let Kelly help you get it done right, on time and on budget. 

You'll learn how to:

* Separate expectations from the reality of what will work for you and your kitchen 

* Figure out where to go, who does what, when to get outside help 

* Ensure your design matches the space, appliances, and how you use your kitchen 

* Choose materials that will work best, and when and where to splurge 

* Keep costs down by making good choices and avoiding costly mistakes

Cast Iron Cooking For Dummies

Cast Iron Cooking For Dummies Review

In some cooking circles, cast iron gets a bad rep – people think it's old-fashioned, heavy, and hard to take care of. And really, how often do folks nowadays need to hitch up a mule and wagon and leave civilization and Teflon-coated sauté pans behind?

True, cast iron is old; it's been around since the Middle Ages. And it is heavy. No one can dispute that even a small, cast-iron pot has a heft to it that no other cookware has. Nevertheless, cast-iron cookware has a place in today's kitchens, and that doesn’t mean simply hanging on the wall for decoration. Cast iron has much to offer modern-day cooks; it's easy to use, easy to care for, economical, versatile, and durable, and let's face it, it has a nostalgic appeal that no other cookware has. But more compelling than all those reasons is that it's a great cookware that makes great food. In fact, most cast-iron cooks will tell you that food cooked in cast iron tastes better than food cooked in anything else!

Cast-Iron Cooking For Dummies is for those cooks who may want to inject a little adventure and variety into their cooking. If you've never even thought of using cast-iron cookware, or you have a few cast-iron pots lying around, you'll discover all you need to know about making great food using cast iron. Here just a sampling of what you'll find in Cast-Iron Cooking For Dummies:

• Selecting the right cast-iron cookware for you
• Seasoning a new cast-iron pan
• Caring for your cast-iron cookware
• Discovering techniques to enhance your cast-iron cooking
• Enjoying cast-iron cooking in the Great Outdoors
• Tons of delicious recipes, from main and side dishes to desserts and international dishes
• Top Ten lists on ways to make your cast-iron cookware last longer, the best dishes suited for cast iron, and tips for achieving success in cast-iron cooking

So, whether you're a cooking novice or an experienced chef, you can find plenty of enjoyment from cooking with cast iron – and Cast-Iron Cooking For Dummies can show you the way.

Outdoor Style: The Essence of Southwest Living

Outdoor Style: The Essence of Southwest Living Review

Finely crafted, artfully designed, and expertly written, Outdoor Style offers readers countless starting points for creating spaces that reflect personal style. So take some time out of your busy day, find your favorite outdoor space, and enjoy this book.

Homes & Courtyards: 28 Beautifully Designed Homes for Outdoor Living

Homes & Courtyards: 28 Beautifully Designed Homes for Outdoor Living Review

Filled with stunning color photos, floor plans and site layouts, this book takes readers on an amazing tour of 23 new homes and 5 to-be-built projects featuring marvelous courtyards, patios, decks and other outdoor spaces. Published by the creators of the national bestseller, Tuscan & Andalusian Reflections, this new book is a "must-have" for consumers, home planners, builders, architects, interior designers or anyone who enjoys superb indoor and outdoor living.

The Newlywed Kitchen: Delicious Meals for Couples Cooking Together

The Newlywed Kitchen: Delicious Meals for Couples Cooking Together Review

According to marriage counselors, cooking together is one of the biggest complaints newlyweds bring to the table; with more than 80 recipes, this accessible book makes the kitchen a happy place for couples.

From the editor of Seattle Bride and one of the Northwest's up-and-coming chefs and food writers comes a cookbook for newlyweds aimed at helping couples forge good cooking habits that will last a lifetime. Offering more than 80 recipes that gradually increase in complexity, The Newlywed Kitchen serves as the building blocks for beginner cooks as well as a guide on how to happily and peacefully cook a meal together. The book is cleverly divided into categories such as 'Carry Me Over the Threshold Starters and Snacks,' 'Who Gets the Remote Control: Comforting Pastas for Lazy Nights In,' and 'Happily Ever After Desserts and Sweets' with plenty of mouth-watering pictures. Also includes stories from happily married foodies to inspire and guide newlyweds to a lifetime of delicious meals together.

Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love

Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love Review

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An Outside-the-Box Guide to Outdoor Living. Let's face it: most of us have the confidence to improve the inside of our homes with a fresh coat of paint, new rugs, furniture, and fixtures. But when it comes to the outside of our most prized possession, we don't know where to start. That's where Julie Moir Messervy's Home Outside comes in. The acclaimed landscape designer walks the reader through the process of turning any property into the home outside you've always dreamed of. Focusing on key concepts like Finding Your Comfort Zone and Placing the Pieces, Messervy presents breathtaking plans for remarkable front and back lawns, entertainment areas, and contemplative retreats, as well as innovative ways to create a better flow between the inside and outside of a house.

Outdoor Kitchens: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Design and Construction (Better Homes & Gardens Do It Yourself)

Outdoor Kitchens: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Design and Construction (Better Homes & Gardens Do It Yourself) Review

• Insights and ideas for the cook, as well as smart tips for the builder.
• Imaginative and detailed plans for outdoor kitchens in a variety of locations.
• Addresses both form and function to help homeowners assess their needs for cooking and storage space.
• Color photos provide inspiration on how to apply designs to any setting.
• Special section provides all-time favorite grilling recipes and tips for outdoor cooking from the Better Homes and Gardens experts.

IdeaWise: Kitchens: Inspiration & Information for the Do-It-Yourselfer

IdeaWise: Kitchens: Inspiration & Information for the Do-It-Yourselfer Review

The kitchen is the heart of any home, and when remodeling, it's important to get it just right. To get it right, there is no better place to start than with this innovative new book, IdeaWise: Kitchens-Inspiration & Inspiration for the Do-It-Yourselfer.

This book is a perfect preliminary planning guide-a place to find not only inspiration, but practical background information on what it takes to remodel a kitchen.

The book opens with an introductory planning and design chapter, then moves into detailed chapters that discuss the crucial elements that make up a good kitchen: style, layout, lighting, storage, work space, dining space, appliances, and decorating. Written specifically with the do-it-yourselfer in mind, the book is arranged so each beautiful kitchen photo is a miniature case study. Includes all the background information needed to plan a DIY approach to recreating each idea.

In addition to these inspirational photos and the practical case study text, the book is filled with side bars, charts, and DIY tips that make this book truly useful. The book also includes helpful consumer guide sidebars showing you the vast range of materials and construction options available to the DIYer.

Adding that extra Room

Adding that extra Room Review

Get a step by step project plan for building a 16 x 16 room onto your home. This book guides you through every necessary step needed to build that extra room.

This instructional guide covers all phases of building from the foundation to the final inspection, along with all materials needed to complete the project.

Jamie Durie's The Outdoor Room

Jamie Durie's The Outdoor Room Review

Product Description
Jamie Durie, international award-winning horticulturalist and landscape designer, reveals the secrets behind his incredible designs on the ever-popular HGTV series The Outdoor Room, now viewed in over twelve countries. With dynamic photography, including Jamie's personal travel photographs and a sneak peek of his private garden, this information-packed companion to his smash-hit t.v. show is as hardworking as it is stunning. Complete with detailed site plans, zonal plant lists, and helpful eco-tips, it covers everything from the basics of landscape design to practical, hands-on information, such as how to design your own private garden using Jamie's philosophy. From an exotic Balinese-inspired dining pavilion to a private English-style garden with an adjoining children's play area, Jamie shows you how to incorporate his techniques and design principles to create a personal and truly unique garden, giving you and your family and friends the opportunity to reconnect with nature in the privacy of your very own outdoor room.

A Look Inside Jamie Durie's The Outdoor Room
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For as long as I can remember nature and the outdoors have been the touchstones of my life.	Garden care instructions and a plant list.	A natural extension.	If you have the right setting don’t be afraid of color.

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Knife Skills: In the kitchen

Knife Skills: In the kitchen Review

Written by three Michelin-starred chefs: Charlie Trotter, Marcus Wareing, and Shaun Hill, this book covers every cutting technique-chopping, slicing, dicing, carving, filleting-for every relevant ingredient: meat, fish, shellfish, vegetables, herbs, and fruit. As more and more men are taking up cooking as a hobby-and they are particularly intent on perfecting their knife skills-and knife skills classes become more and more popular at cooking schools, this is the perfect time for a book geared for the layman (and laywoman) cook at home.

Outdoor Decorating and Style Guide

Outdoor Decorating and Style Guide Review

Your home doesn't have to stop at its four walls - not if you don't want it to. With a little creative decorating, you can extend your living space beyond the house, creating special outdoor spaces that combine the comfort of indoor living with the glory of Mother Nature. With this beautiful book, now in paperback, you can learn how to transform your outdoor space into a splendid retreat that celebrates nature, fulfills your rest and relaxation needs, serves as an elegant entertainment room for friends and family, and soothes your soul with its peacefulness. Learn how to make patios and terraces, sunrooms and porches, gazebos and summer houses, decks and loggias, garden rooms and conservatories, and trellises, archways, arbors, and pergolas.

Fire Outdoors: Fireplaces, Fire Pits, Wood Fired Ovens & Cook Centers (Schiffer Book)

Fire Outdoors: Fireplaces, Fire Pits, Wood Fired Ovens & Cook Centers (Schiffer Book) Review

From warm weather climates to properties built on permafrost, homeowners everywhere are discovering anew the allure of fire outdoors. With zoning laws, resources, and proximity often limiting the open bonfire enjoyed by our ancestors, fire is being tamed in a variety of attractive ways by creative landscape architects, designers, builders, and manufacturers. Today's outdoor fires radiate warmth for chilly evenings, add an attractive glow to gathered faces, form focal centers for outdoor gatherings, and provide a means of food preparation al fresco. This book presents a wide variety of ideas of outdoor fireplaces, fire pits, and cook centers. Manufactured outdoor hearth products and custom handmade masterpieces address a huge array of styles to satisfy a broad range of tastes and budgets. A selection of outdoor cook centers is also included, complete with wood burning pizza ovens. Over 200 images of designs by professional landscape architects, contractors, custom homebuilders, kitchen designers, and hearth product manufacturers were compiled to provide inspiration and present the most complete book on the subject ever published.

The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens

The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens Review

Creating the perfect loaf of bread--a challenge that has captivated bakers for centuries--is now the rage in the hippees places, from Waitsfield, Vermont, to Point Reyes Station, California. Like the new generation of beer drinkers who consciously seek out distinctive craft-brewed beers, many people find that their palates have been reawakened and re-educated by the taste of locally baked, whole-grain breads. Today's village bakers are finding an important new role--linking tradition with a sophisticated new understanding of natural levens, baking science and oven construction.
Daniel Wing, a lover of all things artisinal, had long enjoyed baking his own sourdough bread. His quest for the perfect loaf began with serious study of the history and chemistry of bread baking, and eventually led to an apprenticeship with Alan Scott, the most influential builder of masonry ovens in America.
Alan and Daniel have teamed up to write this thoughtful, entertaining, and authoritative book that shows you how to bake superb healthful bread and build your own masonry oven. The authors profile more than a dozen small-scale bakers around the U.S. whose practices embody the holistic principles of community-oriented baking based on whole grains and natural leavens.
The Bread Builders will appeal to a broad range of readers, including:

Connoisseurs of good bread and good food.

Home bakers interested in taking their bread and pizza to the next level of excellence.

Passionate bakers who fantasize about making a living by starting their own small bakery.

Do-it-yourselfers looking for the next small construction project.

Small-scale commercial bakers seeking inspiration, the most up-to-date knowledge about the entire bread-baking process, and a marketing edge.

Memories of a Cuban Kitchen: More Than 200 Classic Recipes

Memories of a Cuban Kitchen: More Than 200 Classic Recipes Review

Authentic Cuban recipes offer a mixture of Spanish, Indian, African, Chinese, and Portuguese cuisine, from appetizers like Green Plantain Chips, to such entrees as Roast Pork Creole, to tropical rum-based drinks and desserts.

Filled with reminiscences and evocative halftone photos of Randelman's childhood in pre-Castro Cuba, this book presents more than 200 traditional recipes for Cuban dishes, a cuisine that lusciously combines Spanish, Indian, African, Chinese, and Portuguese influences.