My Word with Douglas E. Welch

Books on Hold is a blog series dedicated to books I have seen in passing and requested from my local library. See more in the series at the end of this blog post. — Douglas

Breakfast for Dinner: Recipes for Frittata Florentine, Huevos Rancheros, Sunny-Side-Up Burgers, and More! 

From Amazon.com…

“Inside Breakfast for Dinner you’ll find more than 100 classic breakfast recipes made with a twist. Enjoy hearty “brinner” dishes like Bacon Fried Rice, Breakfast Ravioli, Pizza over Easy, and Cornmeal Pancakes with Beer-Braised Short Ribs, plus such sweet treats as Sunrise Margaritas and Maple Bacon Cupcakes—to name just a few. This cookbook is a breakfast lover’s dream come true.“

* Discovered via The Boastful Baker

Previously in Books on Hold:

• Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community by Joy Deangdeelert Cho
• Nigellissima: Easy Italian-Inspired Recipes by Nigella Lawson
• Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future
• Meatless: More Than 200 of the Very Best Vegetarian Recipes (Martha Stewart Living)
• How to Boil An Egg by Rose Carrarini
• Dirt Candy: A Cookbook: Flavor-Forward Food from the Upstart New York City Vegetarian Restaurant by Amanda Cohen
• See more Books on Hold here!

As always, let me know what types of interesting items you would like to see and I will keep an eye out for them especially. — Douglas

• Food / Squeeze Bottle Pancake Art
• Food / Un-Fried Rice Balls “Arancini”
• Food / Wisconsin Bacon Cheese Beer Bread
• Food / Cornbread Bites Recipe
• Food / Cabernet chocolate truffles for Valentine’s Day
• Food / Chocolate-Pear Tea Bread
• Food / make cornbread in the waffle maker and top with chili
• Food / Basil Asiago Risotto
• Food / Pink Parsley: PPQ: Blackberry Pie Bars
• Food / Churro Waffles Recipe
• Garden / Garden Lunchbox with succulents
• Garden / Galvanized tub garden Beds
• Garden / Make this bird feeder to hold orange for the birds in your garden. Orioles love them.
• New Media / Elsewhere: Jim Long on The How and Why of Live Web Video Streaming | New Media Interchange
• Food / Apple Upside Down Cake
• Food / Refrigerator Oatmeal — 8 new flavors of this popular no-cook make-ahead grab-and-go breakfast.
• Garden / Teddy bear Sunflowers
• Garden / Poached Egg Flower (Limnanthes douglasii) via plant-biology.com
• Garden / Colorful Cottage Garden
• Garden / La porte du jardin secret
• Food / Six Sisters’ Stuff: Slow Cooker Refried Beans (without the Refry!)
• Food / Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies | Tallgrass Kitchen
• Food / The Best Recipes of Pinterest: Honey Beer Bread Recipe
• Cupcakes Take The Cake: Doctor Who Tardis and The Princess Bride cupcakes
• Education / MIT’s Free Creative Learning Class Teaches You How to Learn Almost Anything
• Technology / Focus@Will says its music app boosts concentration, opens it to public beta
• Technology / Bookish Combines Expert Reviews and Data to Recommend Your Favorite New Book
• Books / The River Cottage Fish Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Nick Fisher Cookbook Spotlight | The Kitchn
• Technology / 12 Excellent Free Mac Apps For Graphic Designers
• Food / Cloud Cakes
• Technology / Ribbon Sells Your Stuff Anywhere on the Web With One Easy Button
• Food / The Bake-Off Flunkie: Creamy Herbed Chicken, Rigatoni & Spinach
• Food / Brewing Beer At Home That’s So Good You Can Serve It To A Friend: Erik Kopp
• Technology / New iOS app Winston is your Siri personal assitant for news | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog
• New Media / Livestream releases software version of Studio video switcher, gives producers an even more portable option
• Food / The Kitchy Kitchen: BEER BROWNIES WITH MILK
• Food / New Website Crush: American Food Roots | The Kitchn
• Food / Moveable Feasts: Artisan Bacon and Cheese Bread
• Technology / Techmeme: You can download Firefox 19 for Windows, Mac, and Linux right now
• Technology / Sunrise for iPhone May Be the Last Calendar App You Ever Use
• Technology / Remains of the Day: Adobe Updates Reader and Acrobat to Address Recent Exploits
• Techology / How to Collaborate Seamlessly with Two Macs – Lifehack
• New Media / YouTube App Update Suggests Paid Channels Are on the Way
• New Media / This App Syncs Multi-Camera Footage Into One Video
• Food / Lovin’ From The Oven:Baked Apple Walnut Oatmeal – Lovin’ From The Oven
• Technology / Weezic for iPad, an augmented sheet music app for classical musicians
• Food / Rosemary Garlic Farmers Cheese

Links to all of these items, and more, are on my Pinterest Feed.

Valentine’s Day is less than 24 hours away! What are you doing to celebrate? For me, it’s my birthday, so I have an odd relationship with the holiday, but that doesn’t mean I can’t engage in a little Valentine’s Day celebration.

Over the next 12 hours I be posting info to help make your Valentine’s Day extra special. Join me and share the love with those who need a little bit more!

Valentine’s Day #1: Valentine’s Day History

“Saint Valentine’s Day, commonly known as Valentine’s Day,[1][2][3] or the Feast of Saint Valentine,[4] is observed on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it remains a working day in most of them.[3]

St. Valentine’s Day began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus. The most popular martyrology associated with Saint Valentine was that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire; during his imprisonment, he is said to have healed the daughter of his jailer Asterius. Legend states that before his execution he wrote “from your Valentine” as a farewell to her.[5][6] Today, Saint Valentine’s Day is an official feast day in the Anglican Communion,[7] as well as in the Lutheran Church.[8] The Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrates Saint Valentine’s Day, albeit on July 6th and July 30th, the former date in honor of the Roman presbyter Saint Valentine, and the latter date in honor of Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna (modern Terni).[9][10]

The day was first associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. By the 15th century, it had evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as “valentines”).[1][3] Valentine’s Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.[11]” — Wikipedia.org

It always amazes me how holidays evolve form their original origins into their modern counterparts and Valentine’s Day is no exception. For more on the history of Valentine’s Day, visit:

• Valentine’s Day History from the History Channel

Here are some links I posted as part of this evening’s #KitchenParty show.

• Annette Starbuck’s Web Site – http://www.thegoodiegirls.com/
• Annette’s Twitter Account – @goodiegirlcooks
• St. Valentine’s Day History
• Listen to an Audio Live Reading: Reaching Across the Distance – Love Letters for Valentine’s Day
• Valentine’s History from the History Channel
• Annette’s Cookbook from Cookbook Cafe
• Douglas’s Cookbooks from Cookbook Cafe
• All of Douglas’ blogs and podcasts
• Tons of Valentine’s Recipes from Bakespace.com
• Large collection of Cupcake cookbooks from Amazon.com
• Valentine’s Pancake Art with Squeeze Bottle
• What is fondant?
• Strawberry Heart Poptarts for Valentine’s Day
• Doctor Who and Princess Bride Cupcakes
• My (Douglas) Food Board on Pinterest
• Decorative Cupcake Cups from Amazon.com
• Strawberry Brownies
• “Recipes in Rotation” Blog Series from Douglas
• “New Food” Blog Series from Douglas
• Pink Champagne Cupcakes
• Sweetheart Cherry Pies
• Valentine Food Ideas from Pinterest
• Cabernet Chocolate Truffles
• Lego Heart Necklace for Valentine’s Day
• Valentine Heart Greeting Cards by local LA Artist Jeanine Colini
• Valentine’s Krispy Treats
• Follow Douglas Food Posts on My Word with Douglas E. Welch
• Douglas’ recipes on Bakespace.com

It looks like I shared lots of Food and Gardening items in the past month. It is interesting to watch how my interests rise and fall over the course of the months.

As always, let me know what types of interesting items you would like to see and I will keep an eye out for them especially. — Douglas

• Food / Roasted Salt Vinegar Potatoes
• Technology / Raspberry Pi gets an open source educational manual
• Technology / Apple supposedly considering Waze acquisition | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog
• Food / Recipe: Red Lentils Sausage Stew
• Food / Mountain Meatballs. Meatballs filled with cheddar and simmered in a wonderful chili sauce.
• Garden / Black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra)
• Garden / Video: The Peterson Garden Project in Chicago Illinois
• Garden / Bird’s Nest Box by All Lovely Stuff
• Garden / Cally Lilly Black Forest
• Food / Cauliflower Fry Patties
• Food / Cheesy Quinoa Cakes with a Roasted Garlic and Lemon Aioli
• Food / Mozzarella Tomato Potato Pie
• Food / Homemade Amaretto
• New Media / Griffin launches MicConect XLR microphone adapter updates StudioConnect with Lightning connector
• Technology / Charge All Your iOS Gear From a Single Outlet With Griffin’s PowerDock 5
• Garden / Must-Grow New Perennials for 2013
• Garden / Flax – one hearty plant that come up year after year
• Food / Slow-Cooker Chicken Sausage Stew
• New Media / Hands-on with Blue Mics’ Nessie: a USB mic that masks your flaws (video)
• New Media / Rode iXY Microphone ears on (video)
• Technology / Rode iXY Microphone ears on (video)
• Food / Lazy Day Casserole–sausage potatoes carrots peppers onions Italian seasoning.
• Food / Popcorn seasoning recipes
• Food / Italian Food Recipes from Huffington Post
• Education/Classes/Learning / Event: Friends of the Island Fox Trip to Santa Cruz Island April 6 2013 | My Word with Douglas E. Welch
• New Media / Zoom iQ5 professional stereo microphone hands-on
• Food / The Uncommon Origins of the Common Fork from Leite’s Culinaria
• New Media / THE YOUNG TURKS STEVEN OH TALKS FAIR PRACTICES WHY YOUTUBE NETWORKS ARENT WORKING [INTERVIEW]
• Garden / Shelf Life of Seeds from Chiot’s Run
• Garden / Superb perennials annuals flower bulbs roses shrubs vines and garden plant
• Food / Braised Radicchio
• Food / Slow Cooker Beef and Barley Soup
• Food / LA Times opens the recipe vaults from years gone by – What were the top recipes in 1985? #kitchenparty
• Garden / Clematis integrifolia Fascination
• Food / Crock Pot Ranch Potatoes
• Garden / Pennisetum Rubrum “Fireworks”
• Garden / Lantana -”Landmark Sunrise Rose” – It starts yellow then matures to coral then pink! So easy to care for and butterflies and hummingbirds love it!
• Garden / ‘Desert Diamond’
• Food / Southern Spoon Rolls
• Food / APPLE A DAY: Slow Cooker Provençal Chicken
• Garden / Poker Primrose
• Garden / 10 seed starting tips from a master gardener
• Garden / Echeveria imbricata
• Food / Pretzel crusted chicken breasts with a sweet and tangy honey mustard sauce.
• Food / Parmesan Hash Brown Cups
• Garden / Echium wildpretii “Tower of Jewels”
• Food / Recipe: Enriched Cream of Wheat with Egg and Vanilla
• Garden / Great Design Plant: Island Alumroot
• Food / Crispy Cornflake Chicken Fingers
• Food / Twirl and Taste: Limoncello Cake
• Food / Smokey red braised cabbage
• Food / Rustic Dinner Rolls
• Food / Romaine Wedge Salad with Hot Maple Bacon Dressing | @CupcakeKaleChip
• Garden / Four Fantastic Drought Tolerant Annual Plants
• Garden / Varieties of Avocados
• Garden /  Echeveria Agavoides
• Garden / Beautiful Alley
• Garden / Garden Path
• Garden / Low maintenance side garden.
• Food / Strawberry Heart Poptarts for Valentine’s Day #kitchenparty
• Food / Heart Pastries for or Valentines Day #kitchenparty
• Food / Pink Champagne Cupcakes! Another link for Valentine’s Day #kitchenparty
• Home / Delightful painted wall cabinet
• Garden / Interesting Plant: Fritillaria imperialis Rubra Maxima
• Food / Spaghetti with kale and lemon
• Food / single ingredient ice cream recipe
• Food / Bourbon & Cider Glazed Turkey Meatballs
• Garden / Repurposing Containers for Seed Starting – Rotisserie Chicken Micro Greenhouse
• Garden / Might try this in the garden — Lacinato Kale
• Food / Pizza Baked Chickpeas
• Food / Strawberry Cream Cheese Bread

Links to all of these items, and more, are on my Pinterest Feed.

I came across this lovely cabinet at one of my client’s today and had to grab a picture. Something I’ll keep for future inspiration and reference.

I have a lot of interests, as most of you already know. Therefore, I have a lot of different blogs, events,  and groups in my portfolio of online engagements. I also try to make myself available wherever people want to converse. This means that each of my interests usually has multiple presences on the Internet.

Here is a list of almost all of the ways you can talk with me and learn about what is happening in my life and work. You don’t need to, nor should you, try to subscribe to all of them. That would only lead to you seeing multiple copies of the same information. Rather, pick and choose whatever ways you would like to consume my “content.” If you are a heavy Facbeook user, you might want to join my pages there. Is Google+ catching your fancy? I have a home over there, too. Maybe email is your thing? No problem, almost all of my content can be emailed directly to your Inbox.

My goal is to make my content available in whatever way makes the most sense to you. It also means you can contact me and converse with me on your favorite online services. This list is also broken down by interest. If you want to see everything I post and share, the first section is where you can find it. This will contain information from all my areas of interest including events, careers, gardening, technology and my organizations.

Maybe, though, you are only interested in my gardening information. You can narrow your reading to my gardening blog or Facebook page. The same applies for careers, technology and my organizations. Select whatever is most interesting, and valuable, to you.

Thank you for supporting me, my blogs and podcasts and my organization over the years! I look forward to talking with you — and sharing more with you — in 2013.  

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Here are my favorite shared items for November 2012.

Please let me know in the comments if you find any of the particularly useful. I’ll keep my eye open for similar items — Douglas

• Food / Pecorino-and-Pepper Polenta
• Food / Chicken breasts w/ bacon brown sugar chili powder.
• Food / Cranberry Sipper
• Food / Easy Honey Mustard Mozzarella Chicken.
• Food / Honey-Chipotle Turkey Meatballs – Martha Stewart Recipes
• Food / Thanksgiving 2012: Make-Ahead Maple-Walnut Tart
• Food / How an agricultural think tank just outside of Cleveland is curating global plates
• Food / Comfort food: farinata a polenta delight
• Food / Slow-cooker Indian Lentils
• Food / Firecracker Cookies
• Food / Chocolate chip cookie dough peanut butter cups.
• Food: Slow Cooker Indian Spiced Lentils
• Food / Skinny Cheesy Potatoes – made with greek yogurt and every bit as creamy and tasty as the original.
• Food / Pistachio Fudge
• Food / Half Baked: Pecan Pumpkin Butter
• Food / Snack Like a Nutritionist to Beat Hunger Without Blowing Your Healthy Eating Habits
• Food / Secrets of the Best Chefs by Adam Roberts
• Food / Holiday Recipes: French Farmhouse Chicken
• Food / Cool Hunting Video Presents: Back To The Roots #food #foodie #kitchenparty
• Food / Sausage and Cheese Breakfast Casserole | MyRecipes.com
• Food / One Perfect Bite: Cheese and Cornmeal Batter Buns
• Food / Authentic Indian Curry paste
• Food / Lea’s Cooking: “Garlic Roasted Sweet Potatoes
• Food / Baked Parmesan Paprika Chicken
• Food / Sweet potato crisps
• Food / Black-pepper-parmesan-beer-bread
• Food / Cranberry Tangerine Rosemary  Cream Soda Mocktail
• Food / Low Carb Gluten Free Cheesy Garlic Cauliflower Bread Sticks
• Food / Inexpensive Gift Packaging Idea: Use Paper Ice Cream Containers
• Food / Great Slow Cooker Jambalaya – Has chicken sausage rice broth and seasonings.
• Food / Holiday Gift Week: Cookbook Picks for 2012 By MICHAEL RUHLMAN
• Food / Cara’s Cravings » Rosemary Spiced Maple Cider Nuts
• Food / Science Explains Why Thicker Pans are Better for Cooking
• Food / Cheddar Sausage Buttermilk Biscuits
• Food / Foodie Gift Xmas } Grandpa Goode’s Homemade Kahlua
• Food / Mmm…Cafe: Amanda’s Sweet and Spicy Maple Chicken
• Food / Orange Creamsicle Cookies | The Girl Who Ate Everything
• Food / melskitchencafe.com: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Fudge

Cucina Rustica

Another great cookbook from my kitchen shelf. I regularly make family favorites Suga Sciue Sciue and Sausage Risotto. Great, simple, straightforward recipes to feed your Italian food desires.

More 2012 Gift Guide Items:

1. Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
2. Bulb Planting Tools
3. Blue Snowball Microphone
4. Seagate Backup Plus 500 GB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive
5. Logitech C920 HD Web Cam
6. We Are All Weird by Seth Godin
7. Sunset Western Garden Book – New Edition for 2012
8. The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings
9. Garden Mysteries by Anthony Eglin
10. The Creative Habit/The Collaborative Habit by Twyla Tharp
11. Moleskeine Journals
12. Pat Welsh’s Southern California Organic Gardening (3rd Edition): Month by Month
13. Podcasting for Dummies/Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies
14. Wacom Bamboo Splash Pen Tablet
15. Radical Careering by Sally Hogshead
16. The $64 Tomato
17. Blue Yeti Microphone
18. BioLite CampStove/HomeStove
19. Getting Things Done by David Allen
20. The Curious Gardener
21. Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
22. GoPro HD HERO 3
23. Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart
24. The Starfish and the Spider by Orj Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom
25. Microphone Boom Arms
26. The Information by James Gleick
27. Handy Farm Devices And How To Make Them (1909)
28. Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design, and Engineering of Contagious Ideas
29. Apple iPhone 5
30. Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod
31. Killer Ratings by Lisa Seidman
32. Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It by Karen Solomon
33. Zoom Portable Recorders (H1, H2, H2n, H4n)
34. Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
35. My Teenager’s Favorite Games
36. The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness
37. In a Mexican Garden: courtyards, pools and open-air living rooms
38. Fields of Plenty: A farmer’s journey in search of real food and the people who grow it
39. Apple iPad/iPad Mini
40. The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam

In a Mexican Garden: courtyards, pools and open-air living rooms
Gina Hyams, Melba Levick, Photographer

Gorgeous photograph of all aspects of Mexican homes and gardens. I especially liked the outdoor bathrooms with all their tile or rough stone.

Sure to generate lots of ideas for your own home and garden.

More 2012 Gift Guide Items:

1. Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
2. Bulb Planting Tools
3. Blue Snowball Microphone
4. Seagate Backup Plus 500 GB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive
5. Logitech C920 HD Web Cam
6. We Are All Weird by Seth Godin
7. Sunset Western Garden Book – New Edition for 2012
8. The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings
9. Garden Mysteries by Anthony Eglin
10. The Creative Habit/The Collaborative Habit by Twyla Tharp
11. Moleskeine Journals
12. Pat Welsh’s Southern California Organic Gardening (3rd Edition): Month by Month
13. Podcasting for Dummies/Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies
14. Wacom Bamboo Splash Pen Tablet
15. Radical Careering by Sally Hogshead
16. The $64 Tomato
17. Blue Yeti Microphone
18. BioLite CampStove/HomeStove
19. Getting Things Done by David Allen
20. The Curious Gardener
21. Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
22. GoPro HD HERO 3
23. Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart
24. The Starfish and the Spider by Orj Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom
25. Microphone Boom Arms
26. The Information by James Gleick
27. Handy Farm Devices And How To Make Them (1909)
28. Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design, and Engineering of Contagious Ideas
29. Apple iPhone 5
30. Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod
31. Killer Ratings by Lisa Seidman
32. Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It by Karen Solomon
33. Zoom Portable Recorders (H1, H2, H2n, H4n)
34. Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
35. My Teenager’s Favorite Games
36. The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness