The story of a distance runner who had to miss 25 years of running because of two total hip replacements. Runners and athletes in any sport will be able to relate to the will to persevere and try to run again. Just because someone has a joint replacement does not mean that you can never exercise again.
Are you ever tired of the same old food day in and day out ? Tired of ordering out because you don't want to cook at times? Well in this book, Chef Randy R. Duke gives you plenty of ideas on what to cook for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. In this Cookbook Chef Duke gives you over 150 recipes you can cook from scratch to make you feel as empowered like a real Chef, even if you don't really cook that often. You follow the recipe and you will have your family and friends eating like they are in a five star restaurant. Randy R. Duke is not just a Chef, he is also a Chocolatier and Caterer. He started out as a young man watching his Mother Marie Duke and his Grandmother Rosemarie LaMantia cook in the kitchen and he enjoyed it to. He would love to help as well as eat whatever they made. As he got older he started to read a lot of cookbooks his family had in the house and would try making things, asking his Mom or Grandmother for help with measurements and so on, until he got the hang of things as he gotten older. At the age of fourteen years old he got a job as a Stock boy at a local Deli his Uncle Danny LaMantia, worked at. As the years went on, under the supervision and training his Uncle Danny gave him, he learned the Deli business and quite frankly enjoyed it and is still in the Deli business till this day. Randy R. Duke hopes everyone enjoys this Cookbook as much as he enjoyed writing it. Randy is often asked for advice and he sums it up for everyone, “If you have a passion for something in your life and you know down deep your good at it whatever it may be, GO FOR IT, Don't sit there and talk about it, DO IT. Go for your dreams because only you can write your future.” Randy R. Duke Lives in Staten Island, New York.
Do you want to impress someone with a classy night in? I designed this cookbook for you to impress a date, significant other, friends, or family with dishes that are not box meals or one-pot recipes. These recipes help you demonstrate your skills and willingness to go the extra mile and prepare an elegant meal experience. Start the night off with handcrafted cocktails and restaurant-quality appetizers. Then move along and wow with elegant entrées and side dishes. Cap the night off with delectable desserts that dazzle sweet tooths. The Gentleman’s Guide to Cooking has a wide range of recipes; this is not a single-track cuisine cookbook. You will find recipes from around the globe—Asia, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and North America. Most of the dishes found in this book can be tailored for all dietary restrictions, with directions to make the dishes vegetarian-friendly as well. With the step-by-step directions I laid out for each recipe, anyone can make these dishes and impress!
Melody Foster has a PhD in marine biology and a master’s in genetics, specializing in octopuses all over the world. When COVID stops all funding for her Octolab, she takes a consulting job in the Cook Islands for a deepsea mining operation, looking for metallic nodules that litter the Pacific floor and contain the rare minerals needed for the electric vehicle industry. Issues with surprisingly intelligent guerrilla octopuses are monstrously hindering the operation, so billionaire Chinese mogul Jack Pa instructs “Dr. Mel” to fix the problem, or else. With her very life at stake, Melody enters the operation’s saturation chamber at 500-feet sea depth, trying to put an end to the deliberate killing of her babies, while threatened by convicted rapists and murderers who are undergoing career rehabilitation from Chino Prison’s famous diving program. Will she survive it all long enough to discover the fate of her long lost brother, adopted away from her during childhood, and secure the funding needed to keep her lab open another year?
This collection of true (and often amusing) stories is brought to print by Randy Cook, who has played, coached and officiated the sport of tennis for over 50 years! A "must read" for all tennis enthusiasts!
Shake Shack’s first-ever cookbook, with 70 recipes and plenty of stories, fun facts, and pro tips for the home cook and ShackFan, as well as 200 photographs. Follow Shake Shack’s journey around the world; make your own ShackBurgers, crinkle-cut fries, and hand-spun frozen custard shakes at home; and get a glimpse into the culture, community, and inner workings of this global phenomenon.
Shake Shack's first-ever cookbook, with 70 recipes and plenty of stories, fun facts, and pro tips for the home cook and ShackFan, as well as 200 photographs. Follow Shake Shack's journey around the world; make your own ShackBurgers, crinkle-cut fries, and hand-spun frozen custard shakes at home; and get a glimpse into the culture, community, and inner workings of this global phenomenon.
Get into the Word, and the let the Word get into you. Be prepared to be changed. These ready-to-use 7-session courses have less lecture and more participation, less theory and more practical application, less information and more revelation.Challenge your group to go deeper into the solid ground of their faith and reap the riches of God's truth from authors you know and trust. Reproducible handouts let you photocopy the exact amount you need for each group time.
Amy and Randy are a 40ish, middle class American couple living in Florida with five children, one daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren. Randy works as a Network Security Admin and Web Developer, so Amy can stay at home. Amy comes from a strong Northern Wisconsin-Polish background and was raised to show love with food-more butter, more sugar, sausage, Pierogies, etc. It didn't take long for Amy to start showering Randy with three full meals a day plus desserts and treats. Over the course of four years, Amy fattened him up to well over 300 pounds! Then Randy started having chest pains, so he went to the doctor. He was a young man in his thirties with somewhat high LDL (bad) cholesterol and EXTREMELY low (good) HDL cholesterol, which put him at high risk for a heart attack. It was scary, especially with four children in the house. Amy was literally loving her husband to death, so they had to make a change. She had to cook healthier foods. But Randy was spoiled with treats, and there was no way he was going to eat salad and drink diet soda. With that in mind, they took it slowly-really, really slowly. It took about two years. Randy lost over 120 pounds, and his cholesterol is healthy. He runs 5 to 10K four times a week and hits the weights pretty hard. There are no tricks to it, no special diets to follow or some voodoo gimmick that will make the pounds disappear. As Amy and Randy learned more about healthy living, the sneaky people started to stand out. There were so many of them preying on others with promises to make you thin and beautiful if you just pay their price. Thus, the creation of Health-Actually.com. Amy and Randy share products they tried, exercise that worked, and recipes that fit it into their family. Their goal: to make your life better by offering you the long version of how they did it.
Get into the Word, and the let the Word get into you. Be prepared to be changed. These ready-to-use 7-session courses have less lecture and more participation, less theory and more practical application, less information and more revelation. Challenge your group to go deeper into the solid ground of their faith and reap the riches of God's truth from authors you know and trust. Reproducible handouts let you photocopy the exact amount you need for each group time.
Randy Shore's father and grandfather grew up on farms, yet he didn't even know how to grow a radish. Author of "The Green Man" column in the Vancouver Sun, he spent five years teaching himself how to grow food for his family and then how to use the resulting bounty to create imaginative and nourishing meals the year round. In Grow What You Eat, Eat What You Grow, Randy reveals the secrets to creating and maintaining a fully functioning vegetable garden, from how to make your own fertilizer to precise instructions on how best to grow specific produce; he also offers advice for those with balcony or container gardens and others who live in small urban spaces. He then shows how to showcase your bounty with delicious, nutrient-packed recipes (both vegetarian and not), including instructions on canning, pickling, and curing, proving how easy and fulfilling it is to be a self-reliant expert in your garden and your kitchen. Grow What You Eat is equal parts a cookbook, gardening book, personal journal, and passionate treatise on the art of eating and living sustainably. In his quest for self-sufficiency, improved health, and a better environment, Randy Shore resurrects an old-school way of cooking that is natural, nutritious, and delicious. Randy Shore is a food and sustainability writer for the Vancouver Sun; he is also a former restaurant cook and an avid gardener.
When his wife was diagnosed with TMJ (temporomandibular joint) problems and needed surgery, the oral surgeon told Randy Wilson that his wife would need to eat soft foods for six months. The author took this as a challenge and developed 200 meals that were soft, appealing and nutritious. The self-published version of the book sold 33,000 copies. It has been endorsed by oral surgeons, exhibited at conventions of the National Oral Surgeons, the American Dental Association, and the Registered Dietitians Association. Many medical professionals use the book in their daily practice, and the author now wants to reach a larger audience. The book contains helpful hints, a foreword by an oral surgeon, and a chapter by a registered dietitian. It is not a liquid diet book, nor is it a blender cookbook. The recipes all have nutritional analyses. The book offers new and creative ways to prepare food for the person on a soft food diet. The rest of the family will also enjoy these recipes.
Chances are if you've ever asked a cook for his or her recipe for a favorite dish, the answer you've received is, "Oh, I don't have a recipe for that. I just use a pinch of this and a dash of that". Well, to clear up the frustration once and for all, Johns has compiled a treasury of just those kind of "recipes"--a grand compendium of delicacies passed down from generation to generation.
Learning how to cook continues in the second book of "What's For Dinner" 2 More complicated cooking directions that just the basic which was covered in the first book. This book gets into some still easy, but serious cooking and helps you prepare many great dishes for dinner. Using a system called, "Build upon what you know" will help you learn some basic things and then expand on what you know, making nicer and more complete dinners. This book is also going to give you a couple of super easy Deserts and a little more help with baking in general. Cooking is an adventure and this book continues the adventure and kicks it up a notch.
To save the world from being consumed by an alien technology that you inadvertently unleashed, you must use your wits, cunning, and of course... your ereader! In this exciting universe, you are the hero. You direct the lead character as your avatar in exploring the mysteries of an alien race as you attempt to discover the source of immense technological power while trying to correct the cause of the destructive events unfolding around you. The Vortex combines classic elements of both Text Adventure games and Choose Your Own Adventure books to provide an interactive quest that is sure to entertain. Like a CYOA this interactive novel is decision driven, however, the navigation and exploration of the virtual world are clearly rooted in the traditional text adventure style of game play. This is a gamebook where your actions as well as your ability to solve mysteries through deduction are the keys to survival. The Vortex provides you with a location oriented environment that you move through encountering puzzles and obstacles that actually require you to carefully observe and think your way through. This is a work of modern interactive fiction designed for today?s eReaders and tablets.
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