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Millions of people love their gardens but wish they weren't quite so demanding. Imagine growing simple fruit and vegetables quickly, equipping yourself with a list of the best plants to buy for your garden in every situation, and losing fewer plants to pests and diseases. Gardening Shortcuts can show you how. Packed with effective techniques, sparkling ideas, and shameless shortcuts for every corner of the garden, Gardening Shortcuts contains all the advice needed to create the garden you want and still have time to sit on the patio with a glass of wine.

In this book of astonishing kitchen secrets, Joey Green explains inventive ways to avoid and salvage cooking disasters, store and prepare ingredients, keep appliances running smoothly, clean cookware, and prepare food-based folk remedies. These ingenious kitchen hacks may sound quirky and unusual at first, but they really do work—and you'll love putting them to the test. You'll learn how to revive hardened brown sugar with a slice of bread, slice cake with dental floss, clean a copper pot with catsup, rescue burnt gravy with peanut butter, and much, much more! Last-Minute Kitchen Secrets presents the unique and impeccably researched tips arranged by category. Flip to any page and you'll discover a fascinating and surprising kitchen tip, along with detailed step-by-step instructions and photographs that explain how to put each tip into action in just minutes. Overflowing with interesting sidebars and boxes, loaded with "Strange Facts," and jam-packed with little-known cooking tips, this handy book reveals amazingly simple tricks of the trade, clever shortcuts, and ingenious secrets that can turn cooking disasters into gourmet-level rescues, using nothing but what you're most likely to have on hand. This perfect combination of simplicity and ingenuity makes a great gift and a practical guide for anyone looking for simple ways to cook up some magic.

The practical, yet ingenious advice jam-packed in this guidebook includes fast and handy tips for household problems that are faced daily, from how to keep fingernails clean while gardening to the perfect use for old socks.

Spice-packed, punchy, and fresh Indian-inspired dishes to get on the table in 30 minutes or less from the creator of Mowgli Indian restaurants These punchy and delicious Indian-style recipes will take you from couch to curry in 30 minutes or less. These recipes are big in flavor but also light, healthy and made from accessible ingredients, often just using what's already in your cupboard or fridge. Tantalize your tastebuds with such recipes as “Quick Angry Tandoori,” “Yogurt Coriander Turkey”, “Back of the Fridge Curry” or “Million Dollar Green Dahl.” For super usability, the chapters are themed around ingredients: • Poultry • Meat • Fish • Vegetables • Desserts • "Ma, Look Away!" (for Nisha's favorite pasta dishes) The recipes range from light lunches to substantial dinners and are all tasty and nutritious meals to whip up without fuss.

From the guru of brand-new uses for brand-name products come ideas and tips for culinary fun, cleaning shortcuts, and kitchen cabinet remedies Joey Green has fascinated readers for more than a decade with his quirky and innovative tips to make domestic engineering a lot more fun. Now fans will be completely intrigued and entertained by Joey's kitchen--and pantry-focused ideas, like using Canada Dry Club Soda to buff stainless steel appliances and flexible fabric Band-Aids as labels for frozen foods. Filled with time- and money-saving ideas, Joey Green's Kitchen Magic offers clever ways to make household items do double duty, like using ReaLemon for revitalizing wilted asparagus, L'eggs Panty Hose (clean, of course) for removing corn silk, and Oral-B Dental Floss for slicing layer cake. He shares unusual ideas for kitchen troubles, like stirring in Jif Peanut Butter to save burnt gravy and using Efferdent to clean the coffeepot. Joey even tosses in home remedies from the kitchen (soothe a blister with Carnation Nonfat Dry Milk) and simple recipes (try Slow-Cooker Brisket with a Coca-Cola marinade). Whether it's a quick fix (Eggo Waffles for hot dog buns, anyone?) or an emergency substitution (Bounty Paper Towel for a coffee filter), there are loads of useful and entertaining tips for making the most of brand-name purchases.

From avoiding predators to navigating through the jungle without a compass, this innovative guide provides kids with the vital tools one would need if lost in the Amazon. Offering practical survival techniques based on real stories, children will learn lessons that can be adapted to almost any outdoor situation, such as making fire, deciphering animal tracks, and using the natural world for all to create necessary supplies. Opening with an informative section on the region and its people, this essential resource combines history and science in a fun and engaging way. Facts and sidebars on the local creatures and plants are interspersed along with 15 activities for the home or classroom—from making a fishing spear to determining how much water is needed to stay healthy.