Lone Star Book Blog Tours - Gourmet On A Hot Plate by Judy Alter

GOURMET ON A HOT PLATE

by

Judy Alter

Genre: Cookbook / Cooking Tips / Tiny Kitchen
Publisher: Alter Ego Press
Date of Publication: November 6, 2018

Number of Pages: 132

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Gourmet on a Hot Plate is a collection of recipes and kitchen tips compiled after living for some time in a 600-square-foot cottage, with a tiny kitchen, no stove, no dishwasher, and barely any counter space. Given these limitations, Judy Alter developed a new approach to food, one that let her get in touch with the food itself. She does not have an Insta-Pot, an air-fryer, or a microwave. Her recipes call for using either a magnetic induction hot plate or a toaster oven. In the introduction, she explains her choices for making the best use of her tiny space. 

The collection begins with appetizers because that’s where Alter began her new cooking adventure. Gradually she branched out to main dishes, light suppers, soups and salads, and vegetable side dishes. Most recipes serve two or three. There’s a suggested list of cooking tools along with lists of what to keep on hand in your tiny pantry, your refrigerator, and your freezer, and a small section on condiments and cooking hints.

These pages will guide you to making your own spaghetti sauce—or brightening up a jar of prepared sauce—to making last-minute casseroles and simmer-all-day soups. Want Stroganoff but can’t afford the expensive beef? Alter shows you how to make it with hamburger. Love tuna? She’s got recipes for you. Sections on pasta, eggs, and appetizer trays offer practical and helpful choices for casual entertaining.

Above all, this is a practical guide for cooking with joy when you find yourself in a tiny space.

PRAISE FOR GOURMET ON A HOT PLATE:

Love cooking? Love the minimalist lifestyle? Your tiny kitchen doesn’t need to limit your gourmet dreams. Judy Alter’s Gourmet On a Hot Plate will inspire you with big ideas to satisfy everyone around the table. — Susan Wittig Albert, author of Queen Anne’s Lace

Whether you cook on a hot plate or have access to a full kitchen, this gem of a cookbook contains great recipes for those of us who cook for one. – T.R. Thompson

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Ten Things I like to eat…and a few I don’t

By Author Judy Alter

On my yes-yes list:

*  Salmon

*  Potato Salad

*  Spinach

*  Tuna and chicken salads

*  Blue cheese

*  Anchovies

*  Pasta

 *  Chopped liver

*  Potatoes

*  Green salad

And on my no-no list

x    Peppers of any kind, particularly bell

x   Thai food

x    Shrimp, because of an allergy

x   Brains or sweetbreads—never tried

Without formal culinary training, Judy Alter has cooked her way through life, feeding family and friends at everything from casual dinners al fresco to elaborate meals for twenty. An award-winning author and publisher, she jokes she’ll come back in another life as a chef.

Today Alter finds herself cooking in a four-by-six kitchen where zoning laws forbid built-ins but allow anything that plugs in. So she cooks with a hot plate, toaster oven, and a large refrigerator/freezer. Given these limitations, she has developed a new approach to food, one that she says lets her get in touch with the food itself. By choice, she does not have an Insta-Pot, an air-fryer, a microwave. Her menu choices are dictated by her cooking facilities—and she loves it.

She shares her tiny kitchen tips and recipes, developed over the past couple of years, in Gourmet on a Hot Plate. Alter is the author of three previous cookbooks: Cooking My Way through Life with Kids and Books, Texas is Chili Country, and Extraordinary Texas Chefs,and a contributor to Bake, Love, Write and We’d Rather Be Writing. Her recipe for Doris’ Casserole has been included in so many books it’s almost an American classic by now.

Be part of her ongoing cooking adventure at the Gourmet on a Hot Plate blog, where she encourages discussion and welcomes recipes, comments, and questions.

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Gourmet on a Hot Plate Blog

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Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale Reader Review by Marta I, Educator

  Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale

 Reader Review by Marta I, Educator

Journey to Osm is a fantasy where the protagonist is a unicorn – a unicorn! How exciting! And how absolutely unique! The story follows Blue, the so-called “promised prophecy” that will save the unicorn tribe. Unfortunately, things do not go as planned for Blue, and he faces quite a lot of struggles as he grows up. Sybrina Durant does an impressive job at world-building and creates a story that is unique yet reflective of real-life coming-of-age struggles.

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Silver Dagger Tours - Mystical Slayers Trilogy by Michael W. Huard

Land
of the Free

Mystical
Slayers Book 1

by
Michael W. Huard

Genre:
Dystopian SciFi Fantasy

LIVE
FREE OR DIE in this Sci-Fi & Fantasy Adventure of a Lifetime! All
hope lies with a SISTERHOOD of amazing Martial Arts Masters. It's a
31st Century battle of ROBOTS VS. GIRLS. One thing is for sure; the
women have learned that LIBERTY is not given; it is TAKEN!

In
the year 3016, the United States of America has fallen into great
despair. The advent of advanced technology, AI, robotics, and a
power-hungry corporation rule the nation. However, there is hope. A
WONDER WOMAN like sisterhood of enhanced, highly intelligent,
patriotic ladies are out to make the country free again.

THE
HORROR STORY SO FAR

Your
friendly leaders of the 31st century are now a boys club of rich
aging men. This greedy Corporation now controls all gas, oil,
healthcare and everyone’s standard of living. They govern with
ruthless robots, droids, clones, and cyborgs; all with top-notch
artificial intelligence; many with terminator programming.

NO
ONE CAN STOP THEM

The USA needs a real-life super-hero,
but in reality there is no Captain America. The country will have to
settle for one amazing group of beautiful, God loving, spiritual,
freedom fighting women; heroines whom have learned that JUSTICE is
not FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!

Raise
your sword and laser guns up high. The Mystical Slayers have arrived!

Goodreads
* Amazon

Hope
Bringers

Mystical
Slayers Book 2

The
BATTLE for Liberty & Justice continues. The strong women of The
Sisterhood have struck a serious blow to the Y-Wood Corporation; but
the Tyranny remains.

Our
heroes are now branded as complete outlaws and to speak of God in any
such manner will result in certain death; yet for these women, faith
has chosen them. To be a true patriot one must fight to the bitter
end, and the time has come once more to send waves of “Hope”
throughout the land.

However,
a powerful robotic army led by an overzealous general and two of the
most highly regarded super robot specimens now stand in their way;
but these are the Mystical Slayers, and they will not stop until
America is free.

THE
HORROR STORY SO FAR

Your
friendly leaders of the 31st century are now a boys club of rich
aging men. This greedy Corporation now controls all gas, oil,
healthcare and everyone’s standard of living. They govern with
ruthless robots, droids, clones, and cyborgs; all with top-notch
artificial intelligence; many with terminator programming. NO ONE CAN
STOP THEM The USA needs a real-life super-hero, but in reality there
is no Captain America.

The
country will have to settle for one amazing group of beautiful, God
loving, spiritual, freedom fighting women; heroines whom have learned
that LIBERTY is not given; it is TAKEN! Raise your sword and laser
guns up high.

The
Mystical Slayers have arrived!

Goodreads
* Amazon

Freedom

Mystical
Slayers Book 3

STRONG
- SPIRITUAL - PATRIOTIC – WOMEN

All
hail this secret sisterhood of kick-butt women!

This
is it, the EPIC CONCLUSION in the Mystical Slayers fight against
tyranny.

The
sisters and their allies have decided to take the fight right to the
powerful, 31st century, robotics, Y-Wood Corporation; their sights
now set on liberating the nation’s one-time, historic, capital
region, Washington D.C.

GET
READY FOR SOME BIG SURPRISES

It’s
going to be one crazy, tough battle, and our fearless leader Raegan
and her companions will not stop until old glory waves again.

A
Dystopian Masterpiece (5 stars)

-
Amazon Reviewer

In
the year 3016, the United States of America has fallen into great
despair. The advent of advanced technology, AI, robotics, and a
power-hungry corporation rule the nation. However, there is hope. A
WONDER WOMAN like sisterhood of enhanced, highly intelligent,
patriotic martial arts masters are out to make the country free
again.

THE
HORROR STORY SO FAR

Your
friendly leaders of the 31st century are now a boys club of rich
aging men. This greedy Corporation now controls all gas, oil,
healthcare and everyone’s standard of living. They govern with
ruthless robots, droids, clones, and cyborgs;

all
with top-notch artificial intelligence; many with terminator
programming.

NO
ONE CAN STOP THEM

The
USA needs a real-life super-hero, but in reality there is no Captain
America. The country will have to settle for one amazing group of
beautiful, God loving, spiritual, freedom fighting women; heroines
whom have learned that LIBERTY is not given; it is TAKEN!

Raise
your sword and laser guns up high. The Mystical Slayers have arrived!

Goodreads
* Amazon

Michael
W. Huard is a second generation martial artist, dungeons &
dragons fanatic, sci-fi, and fantasy nerd, and simply a human being
on a voyage in time. Make sure to check out his Gothic Fairy Tales
series of bewitching fantasy stories. Also, Michael's 31st century,
fantasy and science fiction books "The Mystical Slayers"are
a female empowering, kick butt, dystopian series gathering rave
reviews all over the world.

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Pump Up Your Book Blog Tour - Fids Crusade by David H Reiss

FID'S CRUSADE by David H. Reiss, Scifi/Fantasy, 232 pp., $14.99 (paperback) $4.99 (Kindle)

Title: FID’S CRUSADE

Author: David H. Reiss

Publisher: Atian Press

Pages: 365

Genre: Scifi/Contemporary Fantasy

Consumed by grief, rage, and self-loathing, a brilliant inventor
rebuilt himself to take on a new identity: the powered-armor-wearing
supervillain, Doctor Fid. For twenty violent years, Fid has continued
his quest to punish heroes who he considers to be unworthy of their
accolades, and the Doctor has left a long trail of blood and misery in
his wake. After a personal tragedy, however, Doctor Fid investigates a
crime and uncovers a conspiracy so terrible that even he is taken aback.

Haunted by painful memories and profound guilt, the veteran
supervillain must risk everything to save the world that he once sought
to terrorize. Every battle takes its toll…but the stakes are too high
for retreat to be an option.


In the end, it may take a villain to save the entire Earth from those entrusted with the Earth’s protection.



Praise:



“Fid’s Crusade by David H. Reiss is one of the most
refreshing and lively takes on the superhero genre I’ve seen in years.
His title character’s crusade is colorful, compelling, and takes
wonderfully unexpected turns, and the novel delivers an impressive
emotional punch (to go along with the super-powered ones). It stands
easily alongside other character-driven superhero novels like Austin
Grossman’s Soon I Will Be Invincible, Carrie Vaughn’s After the Golden Age, and Paul Tobin’s Prepare to Die!.” – Hugo award-winning author Tim Pratt

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______________________

“I’m fine,” I informed Starnyx as
soon as he answered his highly-encrypted phone.

A swarm of medical automatons
surrounded the gurney on which I was reclined, a humming and swirling dervish
of blades, clamps, sponges and other surgical tools focused upon the stump of
my shoulder. A surgical laser was carefully burning away flesh in a pattern
that would increase the efficiency of repairs performed by the medical nanites
once my right arm was reattached.

The blended smell of disinfectant
and cooking meat had been disturbing at first, but I was beginning to get used
to the odor.

“Okay…?” Eric yawned. “Where are
you?”

“I’m back in Boston,”
I winced; a more significant cocktail of painkillers was now coursing through
my veins, but some discomfort remained. “I’m sorry, I forgot that you were
asleep when I left.”

“Nah, it’s almost morning. I can
wake up. What’s up?”

“I ran into some minor trouble on
my way home,” I forced a chuckle. “It will probably make the news and I didn’t
want you to worry.”

“Hold on, let me get to a
computer.” I heard tired, uncoordinated movement over the connection.

“It’s not as bad as it looks.”
Using my neural connection to the surgical control computer, I ordered one of
the robots to add another dose of topical anesthetic. “Really, I’m fine.”

“So, what happened?” Eric must
have reached his desk, because I could hear the clacking as he typed on his
keyboard.

“I ran into the Brooklyn Knights.”

“I think I’ve heard of them. New
guys, righ—” he paused mid-question and fell silent.

“Eric?”

“So, you’re fine then?” Nyx asked,
patiently.

“Absolutely,” I affirmed.

“I only ask, because the first hit
I get on recent news of Doctor Fid is shaky cel-phone footage of you with your
arm cut off,” he explained. “And I’m pretty sure you had both arms earlier
tonight.”

“Tis but a scratch?” I tried.

“Christ, Doc,” he sighed, “I’m not
doing Monty Python bits with you. Let me get dressed, I can be up in Boston
in a few hours.”

“Thank you,” I smiled gratefully.
“But, really, don’t bother. I’ll have my arm re-attached by then.”

There was another long pause.

“How?” Starnyx sounded
exasperated.

“Medical nanotechnology. I’ll have
function back in eight hours.” Which was a good thing, since my civilian
persona had a face-to-face meeting with the Governor of Connecticut this
afternoon to discuss opening a new research facility in Middletown.
“In twenty-four hours, I’ll be good as new.”

“You’re a scary man,” he chuckled,
relieved. “Okay, I get it. You’re fine.”

“I am.”

“Keep out of trouble, Doc, I’m
going to get back to bed. Stay in touch, yeah?”

“Of course.” It was an odd
feeling, having someone who cared for Doctor Fid’s wellbeing.

He hung up, and I closed my eyes
to think.

 

While growing up, David H. Reiss was that weird kid with his nose in a
book and his head in the clouds. He was the table-top role-playing game
geek, the comic-book nerd, the story-teller and dreamer.


Fortunately, he hasn’t changed much.


David is a software engineer by trade and a long-time sci-fi and
fantasy devotee by passion, and he lives in Silicon Valley with his
partner of twenty-six years. Until recently, he also shared his life
with a disturbingly spoiled cat named Freya.

(Farewell, little huntress. You were loved. You are missed.)


David’s first book, Fid’s Crusade,
has just recently been published; this was his first novel-length
project, but it certainly won’t be his last—he’s having far too much
fun!

Website Link: https://www.davidhreiss.com

Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/davidhreiss

Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/davidhreiss

Book Scrolling Top 100 Unicorn Books List

What a nice surprise! 

Books featuring the Blue Unicorn are 44th, 45th and 76th on this list of the 100 Best Books About or Featuring Unicorns from Book Scrolling, a small organization who loves books, reading, and doing anything they can to get books into the hands or ears of others.

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Unicorn Book Feature - Unicorns Myths Legends and Lore by Skye Alexander

Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick

Unicorns!  How we love them. . .Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups.  I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you in one convenient spot on my blog.  Today's Unicorn Book Feature is

Unicorns & Paper Hearts

A Nightshade Novella

 By Brenda Tetreault

Niko Ellington knows Sophia Meadowsweet is the one for him.

The Pixie Prince has done everything in his power to convince the Sprite he loves to spend the rest of their lives together, but Sophia is reluctant to take that final plunge into happily ever after.

Add into the mix one stranded Human girl, a sarcastic Unicorn, and a motley crew of Snotlings, Giants, and Noose vines, and Niko isn’t sure if he and Sophia will ever make it to the altar!

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