Congratulations to Karen of Ladybug Creek on winning the My Memories Suite Digital Scrapbooking Software.
But everyone is a winner with My Memories. They are also providing all my readers a $10 discount off the purchase of the My Memories Suite Scrapbook Software and a $10 coupon for the My Memories.com store - $20 value!
Are you ready for some swanky cocktail parties this holiday season? Perhaps this long-lasting economic downturn has you wishing you were in the 50's with those nightly drinks as soon as hubby walks through the door. You don't have to know a thing about drinking or mixing drinks with See, Mix, Drink.
It's all quite visual with the info-graphics. Hardly any reading required. Just take a look through the book with the OpenBook widget below to see for yourself.
If you're visual like me, you'll love how this book is organized. It's all color-coded and full of graphics and photos. It's like a visual tutorial on every page, isn't it?
This is just great for beginners who have no idea how to mix a drink, or for more advanced home bartenders who love to mix, but don't have the myriad of cocktail recipes memorized like the professionals do. There's also lots of information and details for those of us who love to learn.
James Bond fans may already know that a Vesper is named after the beautiful female agent Vesper Lynd. The author tells us it was first served to Ian Fleming at the Dukes Hotel in London prior to writing Casino Royale. History buffs might appreciate a Black Velvet was created when England and Queen Victoria were mourning Prince Albert in 1891. The bartender at the Brooks Club thought Champagne was too celebratory so he added stout.
Brian D. Murphy says his book which focuses on the 100 most requested cocktails "empowers readers to become instant cocktail-making experts."
The recovering investment banker includes the Bellini, the Golden Cadillac, the Greyhound and a Moscow Mule to take us to Boston, the Bronx, Acapulco, an Alabama Slammer, a Singapore Sling, and even Paradise itself. The cast of characters gets colorful with Bloody Mary, the Pink Lady, Harvey Wallbanger, Tom Collins, Freddie Fudpucker, Black Russians, White Russians, the Godmother, the Godfather and Jack Rose as they watch the Blue Lagoon for a Tequila Sunrise and a Tequila Sunset. I think some of them might be in the mood for some Sex on the Beach!
It will be a Dark & Stormy night for a Fog Cutter. The Corpse Reviver used Black Magic to bring back Zombies and Mudslides during this Hurricane so we'll need a Hot Toddy before we can rejoin the New Yorker in his Tuxedo and drive from Manhattan in his Ferrari for a Metropolitan Martini and a French Martini at the Waldorf. We'll need lots of Painkillers and Mimosas in the morning, but in the meantime it's Mai Tai!
You too can have this great party enhancing book ... for FREE! There will be two winners of See, Mix, Drink thanks to the generosity of Hachette Book Group. They will mail one copy directly to your street address in the USA or Canada. "Winners will be subject to the one copy per household rule, which means that if they win the same title in two or more contests, they will receive only one copy of the title in the mail."
Just as I was looking for a digital scrapbooking software to preserve family recipes, serendipity struck. My Memories Suite asked me if I would offer my readers a giveaway of their software. Before I agreed, I tried it out because I wouldn't want to offer you an inferior product just because it's offered as a giveaway, and I do turn down plenty of bad offers. Look at what I created in no time at all. I'm excited at how very easy and fast it was. (Click photo to enlarge.)
This is NOT my great-aunt Julia. I got the photo from the Commons at Flickr so that I could show you just one of the creative things you could do with this software. I used one of the software's preloaded templates with a burlap texture. I just pasted the recipe and dragged the Flickr photos onto the template boxes. It was SO fast and easy, despite my complete newbie status. I'm not a digital scrapbooker. This is my first time creating digital scrapbook pages, so if I can do it with this software, so can you.
Of course you can use it for photo albums too. You can make greeting cards and even videos and much more, plus the representative tells me they are always looking for designers so you could even create kits to sell on their site. That's a boon in this crazy economy.
They have plenty of free pages and kits available on their site too. And the software comes preloaded with lots of templates, papers, textures, embellishments, etc., etc., etc. You could do so much without even buying a single item. There's plenty in their preloaded library, and plenty more online both free and for purchase. There's even a dollar store section.
I'm liking this software so much that I'm sure I'll share lots more with you in the future. My Memories Suite is an award-winning digital scrapbook software and it's rated #1 by both Amazon and TopTen Reviews.
Enter to win the My Memories Suite!
There's one winner for the software, a $40 value,
but everyone is a winner with My Memories Suite.
They are also providing all my readers a $10 discount off the purchase of the My Memories Suite Scrapbook Software and a $10 coupon for the My Memories.com store - $20 value!
This giveaway will run until Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 11:59 p.m.
There will be one winner. The winner can choose to either download the software or have My Memories Suite mail a software disk.
I'm celebrating my 3rd Joy of Desserts Blogiversary (and my 4th as a blogger) with a great giveaway for you. I'm so thankful for all of my readers, followers and faithful commenters and participants. Thank YOU! It's been a real pleasure to get to know so many of you, and to blog about such a fun topic as desserts. Thanks also go to Hachette Book Group for providing this giveaway.
Giveaway
The Fearless Baker by Emily Luchetti and Lisa Weiss
Here's what the publisher has written about this cookbook:
What could be more satisfying than presenting friends and family with a perfectly crafted homemade dessert, fresh out of the oven? Yet for many, the idea of baking is intimidating; rolling out pie dough or making a cake from scratch is akin to climbing Mount Everest. THE FEARLESS BAKER is a beginner's baking guide written to empower home cooks with spot-on advice and a cache of go-to recipes. Renowned pastry chef Emily Luchetti guides novice bakers through her amazing recipes to troubleshoot their most common pitfalls. Charming color illustrations and photographs of real-life beginning bakers in action complete the instruction, turning even the most tentative baker into a fearless one.
About the authors:
Emily Luchetti has developed a nationwide following for her innovative yet approachable dessert creations. She is executive pastry chef at Farallon and Waterbar in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has authored five successful cookbooks, and contributed to The New Joy of Cooking and The Farallon Cookbook. She won a 2004 James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef.
Lisa Weiss is a food writer and stylist whose work has appeared in such publications as Cook's Illustrated and Cooking Light. She has co-authored six cookbooks, including The Farallon Cookbook, the James Beard Award-nominated The Seventh Daughter: My Culinary Journey from Beijing to San Francisco with Cecilia Chiang, and the bestselling Complete Meat Cookbook with Bruce Aidells.
Title: The Fearless Baker
Authors: Chef Emily Luchetti and Stylist Lisa Weiss
