| Happy Nowruz: Cooking with Children to Celebrate the Persian New Year
Nowruz--the Persian New Year--is one of the world's great festivals, a full month of activities celebrating the earth, the arrival of spring, and the rebirth of nature. Most of all, it is a festival for families. Children and adults alike can share in preparing special meals, decorating the house, and performing the many ceremonies that welcome the New Year. This book is a guide to customs thousands of years old yet as vital as ever--enjoyable for families no matter where they live or what their beliefs. Happy Nowruz offers twenty-five fun, easy, and innovative Nowruz recipes, with lots of photos to show you what to do. This is an ideal guide for parents, teachers, and kids--age six and older--to know more about the origins of Nowruz and to get everyone involved in preparing for the arrival of spring by:
baking Haji Firuz cookies germinating seeds in eggshells coloring eggs making a Nowruz garland jumping over fires setting the Haft-sinn (seven-s) holiday table planting narcissus and hyacinth bulbs selecting and buying goldfish banging spoons for trick-or-treating cooking the Nowruz dinner enjoying the Outdoor Thirteen picnic
Each book is shrinkwrapped with a stainless steel cookie cutter in the shape of the herald of the New Year--Haji Firuz--for making and decorating Haji Firuz Gingerbread Cookies.
Saving cash without sacrificing your style
Buying all the best brands? Not so frugal. Picking through your neighbor's trash? Not so fabulous.
With the country's economic health on the line, how can you save money without suffering style? Here are some ideas to live the fabulous life while still being frugal:
Do your own darn toenails. The only people who might look at your feet closely enough to know the difference between a DIY pedicure and a fancy spa treatment won't judge you for it anyway, suggests Megan O. Steintrager, 35, an editor in New York. Use pale colors; a bright red coat might show if it's out of the lines.
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PARIS Hilton gave Fight Club star Jared Leto a lap dance at the Sundance Film Festival. She reportedly followed him from party to party and couldn't keep her hands off him. A source told the New York Post newspaper: "Paris kept bothering Jared during the Camp Freddy concert at Village at the Yard". Meanwhile, the 26-year-old's little sister Nicky and her boyfriend David Katzenberg indulged in a lap dance themselves, taking intimate photo's at Club Stereo at Doolin's Bar on Main Street on Friday night. BANG Showbiz / AP .
Salmon Stuffed with Crab, Shrimp and Brie
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Rinse and pat the salmon dry. Cut a slit vertically down the center of the fillet, just to the skin. Do not cut through the skin. In a small bowl, mix together the crab meat, shrimp, brie, mayonnaise, dill, salt and black pepper. Generously stuff the crab filling into the slit of the salmon and pack it tight, mounding it on top. Place the stuffed salmon in a pie plate or other sided baking dish. Add enough of the wine so it comes three-fourths of the way up the fillet. Place the fish in the oven and bake, uncovered, about 15 minutes or until the salmon is cooked through and tender. Most of the wine should absorb into the fish, but there should be some pan juices remaining. Transfer to heated plates and serve.
Book helps spice up cooking
The art of seasoning is simple if you think of adding herbs and spices as an opportunity to get acquainted with their flavors. A sprinkle or a pinch of a particular seasoning can completely change a dish. Just think how a change in spices can transform a pound of hamburger; chili powder, cumin, garlic, oregano and thyme with some tomato sauce result in something quite different when the chili and cumin are left out. You have a dramatic change from the base for chili to Italian spaghetti sauce. .
Warmth a precious commodity for reservation homes
Wearing sweaters, cooking pizzas in a toaster oven and turning down the water heater are not popular rules at Aldena Pretty Weasel's Eagle Butte home, but they are necessary steps the single mother of six and grandmother has taken to conserve propane. .
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