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“Bringing a Dish” Just Got Easier
RALEIGH, NC – December 6, 2007 – Early morning shopping, decorating the house, holiday crowds, and a busy time in the kitchen. And to top it all off, your calendar is filling up with holiday parties, family dinners, office potlucks, and school suppers all with that common plea to “bring a dish”. It’s just not as simple or convenient as it sounds during this time of year…or is it? “You Want me to Bring ‘a Dish’?” (www.lulu.com/content/1284044) is a new cook book available now and making the holiday season a little less stressful.
Emmy nominated television producer Catherine Dyer comes from behind the scenes to in front of the stove. With the help of her four irrepressible sisters, Dyer makes it easy to be the culinary life of the party without breaking a sweat (or a nail). Published on Lulu.com, the online platform to create, buy and sell digital content, these five cooking-challenged sisters make bringing a dish as easy as well…pie.
This fun and lighthearted cookbook is full of simple recipes that will leave people thinking you slaved in the kitchen for days – leaving you more time to actually enjoy the holiday season. Included are conversion charts and a handy glossary for those who are not fluent in kitchen-speak.
When these sisters decided to collect the quick and easy recipes, figuring out what the next step was the hardest part. “The very thought of finding a traditional publisher was enough to stop me from moving ahead with the project,” says Dyer. “Knowing that at the end of the whole Lulu process I’d have an actual copy of the book in my hand was thrilling.”
Even some of the easiest cookbooks have complicated recipes, not this one. With recipes like Painless Party Rollups or Easy Chicken Nuggets, being cooking-challenged is no longer a problem.
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Painless Party Rollups |
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Prep: 10 minutes Serves: 16 Ingredients: ½ cup garlic & herb cream cheese spread (1/2 of 8 ounce tub) 2 (4 ounce) packages sliced smoked salmon (you can substitute w/ ham or turkey) ¼ cup crumbled blue cheese (you can substitute feta cheese which is not as pungent as blue cheese) 4 four tortillas (you can use any flavor, but the green spinach ones look good) 1 cup baby spinach leaves Plastic wrap
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Mix cream cheese spread and blue cheese until well blended. Spread evenly onto tortillas. Cover tortilla with salmon slices. Place baby spinach leaves on top of salmon (be sure to tear the stems off). Roll tortillas very tightly (ingredients will shift as you roll). Tightly wrap rolls individually with plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours.(It’s important to chill for at least 2 hours because it solidifies the wraps). Remove plastic just before serving and cut each roll-up into pieces. Arrange on plate and serve!
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Easy Chicken Nuggets |
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Ingredients: 1 car 12 dollars
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Directions: Drive to your nearest grocery store. Go to the deli department. Order 2 pounds of fried chicken nuggets. Return home. Place chicken nuggets in a fancy serving dish. You can serve with them with a dipping sauce if they’re not already made with it (honey mustard, BBQ, teriyaki, etc.). They’ll be the first things to disappear on the buffet table.
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Whether you are skilled in the kitchen or not (like the Dyer Sisters), Lulu.com is the place to share your recipes with family and friends and create your own cookbook – what a great gift idea!
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