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Sunday, September 30, 2012

TASTE OF HOME: BEST LOVED RECIPES: A RECIPE AND REVIEW

Posted on 9:01 PM by Unknown
WELCOME TO BOOKIN' WITH BINGO'S
"BRUNCH WITH BINGO DAY"  
I AM EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THIS  
WEEK'S BRUNCH BOOK CHOICE IS.....
BEST LOVED RECIPES
1,485 Favorites
BY TASTE OF HOME

ABOUT THE COOKBOOK:
Home Cooks Sharing Their Best!

They're what makes Taste of Home one of America's most popular -- and most trusted -- names in home cooking. Over the years, we've featured tens of thousands of recipes in our magazines and on our website. But you'll find the very best of those dishes, 1,485 of the most beloved recipes, injust one place -- right here.

Taste of Home Best Loved Recipes includes 26 chapters covering everything from appetizers and beverages to entrees and sides, breads and desserts. You'll find must-have comfort foods, potluck and bake-sale favorites, secret family recipes, and special features spotlighting our Grand Prize Contest Winners, Favorite Contributor Meals, and the Top 100 Recipes from our first 20 years.

Each recipe includes everything that millions have come to love and expect from Taste of Home -- easy, everyday ingredients, step-by-step instructions, prep and cook times, tons of can't-fail cooking tips, and 400 gorgeous full-color photos. Come join our community and discover your own favorite recipes! You'll be glad you did -- and your family will reap the delicious benefits that can only come from home-cooked dishes made with care and love.

ABOUT THE "AUTHORS":
Taste of Home is a go-to resource for the holidays and any time of the year for information on food, cooking and entertaining. Each year, thousands of great home cooks from across the United States and Canada submit more than 40,000 recipes, of which 3,000 are published in Taste of Home magazines and online, making Taste of Home one of the largest and most successful practitioners of user generated content. Before being published, every recipe is tested in the Taste of HomeTest Kitchen to ensure that it can be prepared with affordable, everyday ingredients from regular grocery stores. Taste of Home content is available in print; online at Tasteofhome.com; in books; via digital download on iPad, mobile apps and Kindle; and Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. 
  
Look at all you get:
  • 1,485 tried-and-true recipes from our readers—cooks like you.
  • Yummy recipes for every meal, every occasion—from quick & easy weeknight meals to Sunday sit-down dinners to holiday-special feasts.
  • BIG variety—savory main dishes, tasty sides, comforting soups, quick appetizers, delectable desserts and more!
  • Giant hardcover book with 928 pages, 26 well-organized chapters.
  • Luscious full-color photos throughout.
  • Everyday, easy-to-find ingredients and clear step-by-step instructions.
  • Recipes tested and selected for taste, accuracy and ease by the Taste of Home Test Kitchen—guaranteed to work every time.
  • Kitchen tips & shortcuts that help you spend more time with your family.
  • Prep and cook times for every recipe.
  • Easy-to-use index for super-fast lookup.
A SAMPLE RECIPE...JUST IN TIME FOR OCTOBER:
PUMPKIN CUPCAKES
Excerpted from Taste of Home: Best Loved Recipes: 1485 Favorites from the World's #1 Food & Entertaining Magazine
By Taste of Home 
Yield: 16 cupcakes
Prep: 30 min.

Bake: 20 min. + cooling

A unique mix of pineapple and pumpkin creates a cupcake with mouthwatering flavor.
-- Mary Relyea, Canastota, New York

Ingredients:
  • 2/3 cup shortening
  • 2 eggs
  • ¾ cup maple syrup
  • ½ cup 2% milk
  • 1-½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1-¼ teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon ground ginger
  • ½ teaspoon ground allspice
  • 1 cup canned pumpkin
  • 1 can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple, drained
  • 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
  • ¼ cup butter, softened
  • 1-½ cups confectioners' sugar
Directions:

1. In a large bowl, beat shortening until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition (mixture will appear curdled). Beat in syrup and milk. Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, ginger and allspice; add to shortening mixture and beat just until moistened. Stir in pumpkin and pineapple.
2. Fill paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to a wire rack to cool completely.
3. For frosting, in a small bowl, beat the cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add confectioners' sugar; beat until smooth. Frost cupcakes.

MY THOUGHTS/REVIEW:
Thanks to Leyane at FSB Associates, I received a copy of TASTE OF HOME: BEST LOVED RECIPES to review (and enjoy). With 1,485 recipes, TASTE OF HOME BEST LOVED RECIPES has it all! TASTE OF HOME has chosen 100 reader recipes and each includes comments from readers just like you who help to give each recipe sensible and valuable ideas. Using simple ingredients, often already found in your kitchen, the easy to follow recipes make this an extremely easy and practical cookbook.

Each of the 26 chapters features eight pages of pictures so readers can see what these tempting recipes look like. The chapters range from standard topics like appetizers, desserts, and beef to TASTE OF HOME uniquely themed chapters such as Cooking for One or Two, Potluck Picks, and Mom Made It Best. Each recipe has the name of the reader who submitted the recipe and a little about the cook. You do not have to be a great chef to make these recipes and the cookbook itself makes for interesting reading. With the cooking tips, easy-to-follow directions, and the Top 100 Favorite recipes, TASTE OF HOME BEST LOVED RECIPES is sure to be a favorite in your kitchen and one you will use over and over again.
 
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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Posted on 7:30 AM by Unknown
BOOKIN' WITH BINGO...
AN UPDATE!
 HOPE YOU ARE AN EMAIL SUBSCRIBER...
During September, I posted a couple of times,
but due to life happening, I took most of the
month off. I had some minor surgery and 
all is well and went fine.

 Also, a big decision was made and 
things happened rather quickly.
We are moving! 
Having lived 95% of our lives in Florida,
 we decided it was time to move to Texas
 where our only child lives with his lovely
 wife and our precious grandson.

 With the new house bought and our moving 
the first week in October, it may be mid-October
 before I begin to blog again. If you subscribe
 via email, you will know when I do start back
 full time. Thank you for your patience and
 understanding with this "Time Out"!
SEE YOU SOON!
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

NIGHTSHADE'S JONELLE PATRICK GUEST BLOGGING WITH BINGO!

Posted on 9:01 PM by Unknown

NIGHTSHADE
An Only In Tokyo Mystery
BY JONELLE PATRICK

REMINDER ABOUT THE BOOK: 
Last month, I introduced my readers to Jonelle Patrick's new thriller, NIGHTSHADE. If you missed that post (and giveaway), I hope you will enjoy my Review and brand new Guest Post by Jonelle Patrick. 
 
NIGHTSHADE is the first in an all-new series of mysteries that could happen only in Tokyo.

Yumi Hata went to school in the U.S., but now—back in Tokyo, living with her parents  and working as an English translator—she no longer fits in with the fiercely traditional Japanese. If not for her friend Rika, Yumi would feel completely isolated, so when Rika is found dead—suspected of jisatsu, taking part in a suicide pact—Yumi is devastated.

Fortunately, the police investigator in charge of Rika’s case is Yumi’s old schoolmate Kenji, who also wants to clear Rika’s name. As Yumi and Kenji dig up more evidence, they discover that Rika’s “suicide” is not what it seemed.
 
Chasing Rika’s murderer, Yumi and Kenji encounter doll-faced Lolita fashionistas, trendy bars inhabited by the social elite, and the dark side of a suicide pact website. The clock is ticking as they race to find the killer before the next victim is targeted...
Includes more than two dozen photos of Japan!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jonelle Patrick divides her time between Tokyo and San Francisco and speaks Japanese well enough to go everywhere from kabuki theatres to maid cafes.  In addition to writing the next book in the series, she chronicles amusing cultural oddities in her blog Only in Japan and runs The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had website, which features photos, directions, and descriptions of off-the-beaten-path destinations that visitors don’t usually get to see unless taken by a local.  Visit her online at www.jonellepatrick.com.

MY THOUGHTS/REVIEW:  
Jonelle Patrick’s first book in her new Only In Tokyo Mystery Series is NIGHTSHADE. I read this as an eBook and must say I was pleasantly surprised. This debut showed an author who appeared to have much more experience than to be writing her first novel. The extensive background Patrick includes about the culture of Japan is fascinating and one can tell how much of herself is put into her work. The main plot is that of Yumi and Kenji trying to prove that their friend Rika didn’t commit suicide but rather she was murdered. If you'd like to read my review posted earlier, please visit my blog post HERE.

GUEST POST BY AUTHOR JONELLE PATRICK:
People always ask me how a girl who grew up eating Lucky Charms for breakfast can love Japan so much, and the answer has a lot to do with why Japan is also God’s gift to mystery fans.
 
At first, it's a familiar-feeling, westernized country, but if you dip below the shiny surface, you find that everything from pizza (topped with squid and seaweed) to wedding gifts (cash, in unused bills, facing the correct direction in the proper envelope, with the honorific suffix written after your own name crossed out) has been subtly tweaked to fit Japanese tastes and the Japanese way of doing things. People are people the world over – some are polite, some are rude, some are generous, some are greedy – but their motives for committing crimes can be so different in Japan that readers are still guessing whodunnit right up to the very end.
 
I think one of the great pleasures of reading mysteries set in other cultures is that without realizing it, you pick up really interesting stuff you didn’t know before about places that are strange and wonderful. (Please don’t tell my dinner party guests that the sole source of my scholarly knowledge of Navajo culture is Tony Hillerman, and my insightful comments about the inner workings of Venetian politics are straight from the pages of Donna Leon’s latest…!) Because I do this myself, I know how important it is to make all the cultural details as accurate as possible. I’ve lived in Japan off and on for a long time, and worn out many pairs of shoes exploring every neighborhood just for the pleasure of it, but while I was writing Nightshade, I still spent about ten days running around Tokyo with a long list of questions. Like, are there benches at the Nezu Shrine, or do my characters need to find a rock to sit on? Does the Komagome subway station have stairs or an escalator? A character with heavy luggage is going to be struggling with it if she has to lug it up three flights of stairs.
 
And it’s because I love everything about Japan – even the irritating bits – that writing about the weird and wonderful stuff I see here every day is such a pleasure. As annoying as it is to stand in line at the bank in order to exchange used banknotes for new ones, only to be told that even for wedding gifts "we don't provide that service unless you fill out this long form in Japanese," thinking about WHY that happened is always fascinating.
 
For example, Nightshade explores the questions: why would a modern, college-educated woman choose to have an arranged marriage? Why would three people who don't know each other decide to commit suicide together? Why do Gothic Lolita girls dress like Little Bo Peep Meets Lestat?
 
I hope that as Nightshade’s readers wend their way through the book, they’ll end up loving Japan as much as I do, and by the time they read the last word, understand not just with who dunnit, but why.
 
Nightshade was published by Penguin/InterMix on August 14th, and is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble online, and the iBookstore. If you’re interested in the strange and often funny things that cross my path every day in Tokyo, I invite you to visit my blog Only In Japan(www.jonellepatrick.me), follow jonellepatrick on Twitter or check out my Facebook page by searching Jonelle Patrick Author. If you’re planning a trip to Tokyo, my website The Tokyo Guide I Wish I Had (www.jonellepatrick.com) has wild and wonderful pictures, descriptions and directions to places most people don’t get to see unless they’re taken around by a local. 

--Jonelle Patrick
   Author of Nightshade
   Published by Penguin/InterMix
 
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Sunday, September 16, 2012

SEPTEMBER IS "TIME OUT" FOR BINGO!

Posted on 2:48 AM by Unknown
 BE SURE YOU ARE AN EMAIL SUBSCRIBER...
During this month, I might post once or twice
but due to personal issues, I am taking the
month off. If you subscribe via email, you
will know when I am posting and when I
start back full time. I wish you all a 
great September and thank you for
your patience and understanding with
this "Time Out" this month!
HAVE A GOOD SEPTEMBER!
 
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Saturday, September 8, 2012

MORE WINNERS TO ANNOUNCE

Posted on 6:00 PM by Unknown
WELCOME TO BOOKIN' WITH BINGO'S
WINNERS' ANNOUNCEMENT!
 
  THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED  
BY EMAIL AND HAVE UNTIL NOON,
SEPTEMBER 10, TO REPLY WITH THEIR
INFORMATION OR A NEW WINNER
WILL HAVE TO BE CHOSEN!
************************************************
THE INN AT ROSE HARBOR
BY DEBBIE MACOMBER
THE WINNER IS:
#9 Beachreader
*******************************************
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TEN GIRLS TO WATCH
BY CHARITY SHUMWAY
THE WINNER IS:
#131 Colleen Turner
****************************************
NAUGHTY IN NICE
A ROYAL SPYNESS MYSTERY
BY RHYS BOWEN
THE WINNER IS:
#37 cyn209
**************************************
THE SHOEMAKER'S WIFE
BY ADRIANA TRIGIANI
THE WINNER IS:
#76 petite
*************************************
The Prisoner of Heaven
BY CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
THE WINNER IS:
#2 Steve Capell
*************************************
THE WORST THING
BY AARON ELKINS
THE WINNER IS:
#31 traveler
********************************************
BAD LITTLE FALLS
BY PAUL DOIRON
THE WINNER IS:
#102 holdenj
********************************************
  KILL YOU TWICE
BY CHELSEA CAIN
THE WINNER IS:
#46 Linda Kish
*****************************************
 BEAUTY TO DIE FOR
A Spa Mystery
BY KIM ALEXIS
AND MINDY STARNS CLARK
THE WINNER IS:
#101 Natalie J
********************************************
NIGHTSHADE
An Only In Tokyo Mystery
eBOOK BY JONELLE PATRICK
THE WINNER IS:
#29 Carol N Wong
*********************************************
MURDER BY MOCHA
A Coffehouse Mystery
BY CLEO COYLE 
THE WINNER IS:
#58 ann
*****************************************
THE INN AT ROSE HARBOR
A Random House Audio Book
Read by Lorelei King 
BY DEBBIE MACOMBER
THE WINNER IS:
#49 Maria D.
********************************************
 WHEN IN DOUBT, ADD BUTTER
BY BETH HARBISON 
THE WINNER IS:
#7 debbie
******************************************  
 
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WINNERS' ANNOUNCEMENT!

Posted on 6:01 AM by Unknown

WELCOME TO BOOKIN' WITH BINGO'S
WINNERS' ANNOUNCEMENT!
 
  THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED  
BY EMAIL AND HAVE UNTIL NOON,
SEPTEMBER 9, TO REPLY WITH THEIR
INFORMATION OR A NEW WINNER
WILL HAVE TO BE CHOSEN!
************************************************
 WHERE WE BELONG
BY EMILY GIFFIN
READ BY ORLAGH CASSIDY
THE WINNER IS:
#143 holdenj
*********************************************** 
THE NEXT BEST THING 
BY JENNIFER WEINER
THE WINNER IS:
#18 CMash
****************************************
PERIL IN PAPERBACK
A Bibliophile Mystery
BY KATE CARLISLE
THE WINNER IS:
#144 Karen B
**************************** 
  MIDDLE SCHOOL: 
GET ME OUT OF HERE!
An Audio Book
BY JAMES PATTERSON
and CHRIS TEBBETTS 
THE WINNER IS:
#17 traveler
********************************************
A SPOONFUL OF MURDER
A Soup Lover's Mystery
BY CONNIE ARCHER
THE WINNER IS:
#100 ann
****************************************
GUILT BY DEGREES
AUDIO BOOK
BY MARCIA CLARK
THE WINNER IS:
#73 Linda Kish
***************************************
 BRUJA BROUHAHA
A Mind for Murder Mystery
BY ROCHELLE STAAB
THE WINNER IS:
#74 Carol N Wong
***************************************
THE LAND OF STORIES
The Wishing Spell
BY CHRIS COLFER
READ BY CHRIS COLFER
THE WINNER IS:
#35 Tore
********************************************** 
 
 SOUR APPLES
An Orchard Mystery
BY SHEILA CONNOLLY
THE WINNER IS:
#86 justpeachy36
************************************** 
THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY
A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
BY LOUISE PENNY
READ BY RALPH COSHAM
THE WINNER IS:
#11 Steve Capell
**************************************************
 
 MORE WINNERS TO BE
 ANNOUNCED LATER TODAY!
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