Benbrook Public Library

Dinner ready and waiting when you want it - it's all possible with your slow cooker and Betty Crocker! Betty Crocker's Easy Slow Cooker Dinners gives you 50 slow cooker dinners recipes -- from succulent meats and fantastic poultry, to simmering one-pot meals including vegetarian options, as well as heartwarming soups and stews. Plus, you'll find tips and techniques for the best way to use a slow cooker - including extra-special shortcuts, cleaning...

An entertaining homage to a Sunday-supper staple packed with thirty recipes (some from notable chefs), as well as tips, stories, photos, and illustrations. Food writer, cookbook author, and brisket zealot Stephanie Pierson contends, "Some foods will improve your meal, your mood, your day, your buttered noodles. Brisket will improve your life." Brisket is so easy to warm up to, no wonder everyone loves it. Families pass brisket recipes down like...

Lonely Planet's New England is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Mount spectacular summits and drive ocean roads, tantalize your taste buds with succulent seafood and sweet maple syrup, and relish history and high culture – all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of New England and begin your journey now! The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's New...

Beyond its crowded highways, Long Island serves up a plentiful, eclectic bounty with a side of history. Enticing appetites from Nassau to Montauk, food writer and Long Island native T.W. Barritt explores how immigrant families built a still thriving agricultural community, producing everything from crunchy pickles and hearty potatoes to succulent Long Island duckling. Experience the rise and fall of Long Island's bustling oyster industry and its reemergence...

Festive doesn't have to mean expensive. Milk Street Cook Catherine Smart shows host Christopher Kimball how to turn economical beef eye-round into a succulent holiday roast as she makes Prune, Peppercorn and Fresh Herb-Rubbed Roast Beef. Then, a British favorite gets a transatlantic twist as Milk Street Cook Erika Bruce gives us the rundown on Rye-on-Rye Sticky Toffee Pudding. Milk Street Cook Lynn Clark shows Chris how to make Skillet-Charred Brussels...

Here, for the first time in English, is an absolutely authentic, definitive, and most distinctive collection of Vietnamese recipes. Among the somewhat unusual and fascinating ingredients (available most anywhere) are such succulents as bamboo shoots, Chinese cabbage, mushrooms, water chestnuts, bean sprouts, coconut, pineapple, shrimp, and an interesting vermicelli called "bean threads" or "long rice." And when it comes to dried lily flowers, Chinese...

Longing to nurture your houseplant addiction without cramping your space or style? If you can't squeeze another giant leafy friend onto your plant shelf, author Leslie Halleck is here to inform you that tiny is the new BIG! In Tiny Plants, you'll discover a fascinating array of perfectly petite houseplants you can collect and grow-in a minimal amount of space. Yes, tiny plants are the ideal solution for plant keepers who don't have much space,...

Poor Miss Prim! With his mouth-watering muscles and his myriad millions, world-class bachelor Curt Creighton had fabulous females forever swooning at his feet. Yet his famous aqua eyes feasted on painfully proper law clerk Kathryn Prim, as if peeling away her pinstripes would reveal the succulent forbidden fruit he hungered to taste... . Curt's opulent virility made Kathryn's heart throb wantonly behind her stuffed shirt. His extravagant gifts and...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Butterfly comes a provocative, riveting tale of one woman's escape from her haunting past. The rich, the glamorous, the powerful all come to STARS-to gossip, to make deals and to indulge luxuriously in their most erotic fantasies. At the magnificent and secluded Palm Springs mountaintop resort, bodies-and souls-are offered up to save fragile careers or are used to extract the final succulent and satisfying...

The fabled Spice Islands of Indonesia encompass the most astonishing physical and cultural diversity in Asia. This book introduces a sampling of the most popular recipes from across the archipelago. Included are Spicy Padang favorites from West Sumatra, healthy Javanese vegetable creations, succulent satays and barbecued poultry dishes from Bali and Lombok, and unusual recipes from Kalimanta and the remote eastern isles of Indonesia. In addition to...