Are you as comfortable in the kitchen as you are in your blue jeans? Would you like to be? Comfortable in the Kitchen, Meredith Laurence, the Blue Jean Chef, helps you settle into your comfort zone in the kitchen with tips, tricks, explanations of cooking techniques, and over 200 recipes. Meredith shares her knowledge acquired from years working in cooking schools, test kitchens and restaurants in France, Canada and the USA. Her delicious, easy-to-follow recipes, interesting tips and informative explanations will help make any cook more comfortable in the kitchen and inspire new meals. Comfortable in the Kitchen is designed to teach basic techniques and then strengthen skills, each chapter contains basic recipes that will give you a solid understanding of how the dish works, and four other recipes that build on that technique, but use different ingredients to create a unique and delicious meal. Once you've mastered the basic recipe and practiced the variations, you'll be comfortable enough with the dish to improvise and make it your own! For example, start with the magically simple Basic Roast Chicken. Next, spice things up with Jerk Spiced Roast Chicken, Chipotle Orange Roast Chicken, Summer Ale Chicken with Caramelized Onions, and Five-Spice Roast Chicken. With chapters on Soups and Salads, Sandwiches and Snacks, Meat and Poultry, Fish and Seafood, Vegetables, Breakfast, and Desserts and Treats, Meredith will help you cover all your bases. We spend a lot of time in the kitchen. You might as well get comfortable!
Meredith's pictorial account of Porsche road cars celebrates the innovative engineering and imaginative design that distinguish the narrow range of superlative sportscars the company has produced over the last 50 years. All the familiar, famous models are illustrated and described - the 356, the 911, the 924. The author also features rare, sometimes unique Porsches that show the versatility of these race-inspired machines. Porsche Road Cars takes the story from the company's foundation in the 1940s, through the classic period of the 1950s, '60s and '70s when the 356 and the 911 dominated production, to the modern era when the company has confirmed its reputation with the Boxster.
Porsche's 356 sportscars established the company's reputation in the 1950s. These lightweight, sleek, air-cooled, rear-engined machines were successful on the race track and on the road. This title is an illustrated introduction to the history of this mould-breaking model. The author recalls its origins and design history, its extraordinary feats at every level of motorsport and its continuous technical development over 15 years. He devotes a section to the 356 specials, the America Roadster, the Speedster and other variants. The book should be of specific interest to all Porsche and sportscar enthusiasts.
Fast Favorites Under Pressure by Blue Jean Chef Meredith Laurence is written with the smaller household in mind. These days, so many pressure cooker recipes are written for bigger pressure cookers and designed to serve 6 to 8 people. When you're dealing with pressure-cooking, however, cutting a large recipe back to feed just 2 to 4 people is not always straight-forward. Fast Favorites Under Pressure does all the work for you, with every recipe guaranteed to work in a 4-quart pressure cooker. The recipes also double very easily so if you're cooking in an 8-quart cooker, you'll have no trouble making twice as many "fast favorites." Fast Favorites Under Pressure also includes tips and tricks for pressure cooking so you can be even more successful with your pressure cooker. Blue Jean Chef Meredith Laurence has created more than 100 recipes for the 4-quart Pressure Cooker that are sure to become family favorites, including Chicken Alfredo Rotini, Red Wine Braised Short Ribs, Lime Shrimp with Spicy Tomato Grits, and Mint Chocolate Fudge Cake with Ganache. From soups to pasta, meat to seafood, grains, vegetarian and dessert, all types of appetites will have choices to get a meal on the table in a fraction of the time.
When Ferdinand Porsche was born Europe was peaceful, developing, capitalist and largely feudal. Britain was the world's only true 'superpower', and America would not emerge as an economic giant for at least forty-five years. Motor cars, aircraft, television, computers, ballpoint pens and other modern conveniences didn't exist. Ninety-five years after Porsche's arrival in the world, cars bearing his name were in action at Le Mans, their 4.5-litre 12-cylinder air-cooled engines propelling them to speeds of 240mph. Conventional wisdom dictated that air-cooling was unsuited to high-speeds. Under the inspired leadership of three generations of the family, Porsche proved, and continues to prove, that traditional rules are there to be broken. With more than a score of books to his credit on the great German marques, Laurence Meredith brings a unique authority to this, his eighth Porsche-related work, and the first to examine the prime movers and master engineers behind this most hallowed of motoring icons.
Traces the history of the Volkswagen Transporter, offers advice on buying and restoring one, and discusses performance modifications and camper conversions
Original Porsche 356 Laurence Meredith Subtitled: The Restorers Guide to All Coupe, Cabriolet, Roadster and Speedster Models 195-65. With the aid of factory records and the accumulated knowledge of Porsche 356 experts, Meredith presents this essential Porsche 356 restoration guide. Filled with original and accurate specifications so thatyour 356 reveals an authentic restoration.
Complete coverage of the classic 300SL through the 190SL to the 'Pagoda roof' SLs of the 1960s. Filled with valuable information on exactly what is 100% original and authentic for every model and year. Contains 200 specially commissioned color photos detailing bodywork, interior and mechanical details.
Laurence Meredith's family history of Herefordshire illustrates a wide range of people in the county over the last 1000 years. Using many hitherto unpublished pictures from the author's collection and a range of archive resources, this title includes a variety of folk: the sacred to the profane, heroes and villains, the working classes and the gentry, and local characters. Behind each image, carefully selected for its quality, there is a story which should be of interest to everyone who knows and loves the unique county of Herefordshire.
Delicious Under Pressure, The Blue Jean Chef Meredith Laurence's second pressure cooker cookbook is full of easy, flavorful, and unexpected pressure cooker recipes, making a pressure cooker a must-have appliance. The book covers the basics of pressure-cooking as well as offers more advanced recipes for more experienced cooks. The result is delicious and the bonus is time, with all these recipes taking one third of the time of traditional cooking methods. Recipes include Tortilla soup, Spinach and Three Cheese Manicotti, Hunter's Beef Stew, Pork Carnitas, Thai Coconut Mussels, Portobello Mushroom and Zucchini Moussaka, Beets and Potatoes with Bacon, Blueberry Polenta with Bananas and Maple Syrup, and Brown Sugar Bourbon Bread Pudding, including all-new chapters on Vegetarian Main Courses and Breakfast Dishes. Don’t settle for the same old pressure cooker foods. Get Delicious Under Pressure.
If your pressure cooker has been collecting dust, then you need to get Comfortable Under Pressure! Meredith Laurence, the Blue Jean Chef, has been cooking on live television on QVC for over ten years. By sharing tips, tricks and techniques with the QVC customers while equipping their kitchens with QVC's professional Technique® and Blue Jean Chef® cookware, Meredith has helped people become comfortable in their kitchens. Now, in this cookbook, Meredith gives you a wide variety of delicious recipes for the pressure cooker, so you can get meals on the table in one third of the time it would normally take. Her recipes, tips, and techniques will help make any cook more Comfortable Under Pressure. With 125 recipes and over 100 tips and explanations, Comfortable Under Pressure will help you create delicious meals while becoming more versatile and at ease with your pressure cooker. Don't let the pressure get to you! Get Comfortable Under Pressure!
Located in the Texas Panhandle, Lake Meredith today is an angler's paradise. For centuries before the lake was created, Alibates flint was the prize that drew people to the bluffs of the Canadian River Valley.
With the aid of factory records and the accumulated knowledge of Porsche 356 experts, Motorbooks presents this essential Porsche 356 restoration guide. Filled with factory specifications and details for all Coup\233, Cabriolet, Roadster, and Speedster models from 1950 to 1965.
Essential Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Laurence MeredithSubtitled: The Cars and Their Story 1955-74. A concise, fact-packed history on the Karmann Ghias from Volkswagen. Filled with specs, performance data, details of production changes, and competition profiles, and backed by numerous top-quality color photographs. Sftbd., 8 1/4x 1 1/4, 8 pgs., 54 b&w, 61 color ill.
The story of the Beetle and Type 3 Volkswagens and their sporting pedigree with chapters on rallying, rally cross, autocross and classic reliability trials. Additional chapters cover the US sporting scene, with special reference to Beetle drag racing.
Original Mercedes SL Laurence MeredithSubtitled: The Restorers Guide to 3SL, 19SL & 23/25/28 Models to 1971. Complete coverage of the classic 3SL through the 19SL to the Pagoda roof SLs of the 196s. Filled with valuable information on exactly what is 1% original and authentic for every model and year. Contains 2 specially commissioned color photos detailing bodywork, interior and mechanical details. Coverage includes identification and production data. Hdbd., 8 3/4x 11 1/2, 112 pgs., 2+ color ill.
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