Erma Gray is a pioneer and leader in the world of entrepreneurship—and has worked hard all of her life to be the best at anything she put her mind to. Her mother and grandmother were known and respected in the community as great cooks. Erma had no choice but to start out cooking with her mother at an early age. Her mother was a perfectionalist and Erma had to help her mother prepare the meals daily. Therefore, Erma learned how to prepare, cook, and serve her family with delicious, healthy, satisfying meals that were wholesome and yet simple for anyone to make. From Mississippi to Texas, Erma’s southern soul food style cooking has made room for her with individuals, families, groups, and businesses. Erma is no stranger to the kitchen. Her phones never stop ringing after people sample a taste of Erma’s cooking. You’ll want to contact her for a special occasion or event. She knows how to take a simple meal and make it taste fabulously delicious. People in Dallas and Ft. Worth call Erma when they want the best and need to impress for a special occasion.. My mother always told me that too much of anything can hurt or harm you. Your body was not designed to overindulge itself. I think that people try so hard to make sure that their food taste good, but, overdo it by adding too much grease, salt, sugar and extra spicy preservatives. I focus on flavor, not just on adding seasoning. There are members in my family who deal with health issues. Therefore, I cook food that everyone can eat and enjoy. The trick is knowing how to put in the right amounts of seasonings so that the food will look good and taste good. Follow me, step by step. Don’t deviate, and get off course. You’ll enjoy healthy cooking at its best and so will your family. Stop making people sick with salty, greasy food that is clogging up their arteries and digestive system. I want you to experience the flavor, the texture, and the taste as you bite into these wonderful meals. If you have bad teeth or no teeth at all, I want you to experience the taste of flavorful, tender meats that are mouth watering, delicious and easy to eat. Once you learn my simple recipes and simple cooking hints, you will want to prepare more meals for your entire family. Another thing that I want to address is young, newly wed couples crying out for help in the kitchen. You would be surprised to know that there are a lot of couples that cannot cook. If they don’t learn how to cook, their finances will continue to decrease if they continue to eat out on a daily basis. As this cycle continues, their children will form the same habits. Remember, we are all creatures of habits. Therefore, we must work hard, but learn how to cultivate good cooking and eating habits. Erma has a variety of recipes for everyone to enjoy. She has recipes for meals that can be ready in 30 minutes or less. Also, she has included her mouth watering desserts that will stimulate your taste buds and satisfy your cravings. Erma has her favorite selections of holiday foods and tips that have made meals flavorful, attractive, and awesomely delicious. Her method of cooking combines her family’s secrets with her personal style, fresh ingredients, and the formula for making every meal a success. My recipes are recommended to anyone and especially to couples that do not cook because they can’t cook, but are tired of eating out all the time and would like to learn the art of successful cooking. If you learn how to cook, you can save money and spend quality time with your loved ones or friends. I especially want to focus on young married couples getting off to a good start in the kitchen. The kitchen can be a great place for unity and communication. I believe that the world would be a better place if families could come together and enjoy one another. When couples sit down together and enjoy their meals, guess what? When the children come into the picture, they will grow up and carry the same tradition. Where there is love, good food and unity, you can find peace and joy. As a child growing up, I saw how my family solved problems and pulled together when we sat down together in the kitchen, prayed over each meal, and communicated with one another. It was a beautiful experience and today people are so busy and caught up that no one has the time to enjoy a family meal together in the kitchen.

No Description Available.

Caribbean Delights offers a bonanza of authentic Caribbean cuisine. Pamela Chin is also the author of Exquisite, Divine Vegetarian with a Caribbean Twist. In this, her second cookbook, she shares more of the delicious tastes of the West Indies. From spicy jerk fish to the Pam’s mango curry turkey, these dishes are filled with the richness of Jamaica, the tradition of the Caribbean, and some culinary ingenuity. The Island of Jamaica is known for its exotic vacation destinations, beautiful beaches, nice weather, reggae music, and exotic fruits. As a child growing up, Chin helped her grandmother in the kitchen, always paying close attention to whatever she was preparing for meals. She taught Pam all the basic and more, giving her a lifelong love of food and cooking. Through the delicious recipes in the Caribbean Delights, you can discover why dishes of the West Indies are used to help celebrate life with great family and friends. Jamaican-born Pamela Chin brings international culinary experiences to her writing. She lived in England before moving to America in 1983, where she continued building her passion for food. She has enjoyed preparing cuisine from the West Indies her whole life and is delighted to share it with you all.

This vegetarian book is very unique and has a lot of flavor with a twist of the Caribbean to it. Exquisite, Divine Vegetarian brings international culinary experience to a broader scope with many different ideas in a healthy way.

Cookies, A sweet cake, typically round flat and crisp and one of the fastest and easiset things to make and every one just love to have a bite of it. A collection of popular cookie recipes, chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies and all the other favorites from around the world in one book.

Cookies, A sweet cake, typically round flat and crisp and one of the fastest and easiset things to make and every one just love to have a bite of it. A collection of popular cookie recipes, chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies and all the other favorites from around the world in one book.

Cookies, A sweet cake, typically round flat and crisp and one of the fastest and easiset things to make and every one just love to have a bite of it. A collection of popular cookie recipes, chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies and all the other favorites from around the world in one book.

This is not a cookbook! You Can Do This! Cooking Up a Happier You for You and Yours is instead a self-help guide to happiness. “This book is a sort of Self-Confidence 101,” says author Jim Te Selle. When his life was at its lowest, he came up with a plan to get it back on track. In his own words: “This is a product of what I had to learn in order to get my life squared away. I woke up one morning in a treatment center. My wife had left me. I was almost broke and was raising twin boys by myself. I couldn’t believe it. I had done all the things an American dad is supposed to do: college, marriage, job, mortgage, kids. And yet I was totally unhappy and not a little bit screwed up. What happened? I had no clue.” If your life isn’t going quite the way you’d like it, if your dream seems out of reach, don’t worry. “I had to learn to believe in myself. This book offers one way to do that. “You can do this!”

This is not a cookbook! You Can Do This! Cooking Up a Happier You for You and Yours is instead a self-help guide to happiness. “This book is a sort of Self-Confidence 101,” says author Jim Te Selle. When his life was at its lowest, he came up with a plan to get it back on track. In his own words: “This is a product of what I had to learn in order to get my life squared away. I woke up one morning in a treatment center. My wife had left me. I was almost broke and was raising twin boys by myself. I couldn’t believe it. I had done all the things an American dad is supposed to do: college, marriage, job, mortgage, kids. And yet I was totally unhappy and not a little bit screwed up. What happened? I had no clue.” If your life isn’t going quite the way you’d like it, if your dream seems out of reach, don’t worry. “I had to learn to believe in myself. This book offers one way to do that. “You can do this!”

This family cookbook morphed into much more for me during the writing process. It began by contacting friends and family to collect recipes for what I thought would be a simple process. During those conversations and with my own memories, a flood of personal history evolved in my mind. What began as a repository of food recipes became much more to me, and I decided to collect the process in the form of this book, The Diary of a Mad Chef, to also include photos of those people and selected short stories. Food has always been the center of our family’s common narrative thread, and I attempted to place the face and the stories of my friends and family with the recipes as I remember them. Along with the feedback and photos from my friends and family, it became a two-year-long effort to compile, edit, and publish this book. The journey has been a magnificent experience for me, and I am grateful to have had the time and opportunity to write this book.

When Shelley Leroux first visited her fiancé’s parents, they were eating hare. After her future father-in-law took one bite, he said to his wife (while still holding his knife and fork), “I wanted a Saskatchewan hare. This is an Alberta hare.” While Leroux wondered if she should marry this picky man’s son out of fear he would be the same, she had no idea she would soon learn how one man distinguished the difference between two hares—simply through taste. And so began Leroux’s foray into the international world of cooking and tasting fabulous foods. In her collection of recipes and stories spanning more than eighty-five years, Leroux shares not only entertaining anecdotes about her life, but also simple recipes that tantalize the palate and celebrate flavors from around the world, including Belgium, Asia, and the United States. From Waterzoie de Volaille to Oriental Meatballs to Cape Cod Turkey, Leroux provides a delicious recipe for every palate—all while amusing with stories about unsuccessful dinner parties, yacht club sailboat races, the Pygmies, and vintage airplanes. The anecdotes and recipes included in The Secret Ingredient will encourage both novice and experienced cooks to explore international flavors right in their very own kitchens!

This book is a combination of recipes from Mom and me and friends, as well as some from family members.

I hope you enjoy this book.

I love writing these books. It helps me to unwind, and it is also my therapy. Try these recipes. I am sure you will get great reviews each time you make a dish.

Erma Gray is a pioneer and leader in the world of entrepreneurship—and has worked hard all of her life to be the best at anything she put her mind to. Her mother and grandmother were known and respected in the community as great cooks. Erma had no choice but to start out cooking with her mother at an early age. Her mother was a perfectionalist and Erma had to help her mother prepare the meals daily. Therefore, Erma learned how to prepare, cook, and serve her family with delicious, healthy, satisfying meals that were wholesome and yet simple for anyone to make. Follow me, step by step. Don’t deviate, and get off course. You’ll enjoy healthy cooking at its best and so will your family. Stop making people sick with salty, greasy food that is clogging up their arteries and digestive system. I want you to experience the flavor, the texture, and the taste as you bite into these wonderful meals. Erma has a variety of recipes for everyone to enjoy. She has recipes for meals that can be ready in 30 minutes or less. Also, she has included her mouth watering desserts that will stimulate your taste buds and satisfy your cravings. Erma has her favorite selections of holiday foods and tips that have made meals flavorful, attractive, and awesomely delicious. My recipes are recommended to anyone and especially to couples that do not cook because they can’t cook, but are tired of eating out all the time and would like to learn the art of successful cooking. If you learn how to cook, you can save money and spend quality time with your loved ones or friends. I especially want to focus on young married couples getting off to a good start in the kitchen. The kitchen can be a great place for unity and communication. I believe that the world would be a better place if families could come together and enjoy one another. Erma was born and raised in Shelby, Mississippi. She attended Broad Street High School. Erma worked for such companies as Baxter Laboratory, St. Regis Paper Company, Hormel Foods and Quaker Oats. Friends and family members constantly needed her help and expertise in the areas of cooking and apparel designs for special occasions. This prompted Erma to launch out on her own as an entrepreneur and offer services for catering and apparel design. Erma and her husband, Marvin Gray, are happily married and live in Dallas, Texas. She has three sons, Darrell Gray, Johnny Gray, Cupid Gray, one daughter, Jacqueline Gray and, a grandson, Pkedric Gray, who inspired me to write this book.