Dash Fan Book Reviews

My First Animal Moves  by Darryl Edwards I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour! 🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄☃️🧚‍♀️🎄 Book Information Nathan loves to play, but he loves his video games more. Can a trip to Animal Moves land convince him there's more fun outdoors?  Best-selling author and speaker Darryl Edwards has created this fun adventure inspired by his passion for encouraging kids to move in an ever-increasing sedentary environment. MY FIRST ANIMAL MOVES Discover the joys of animal moves with your little cubs in this first book of movement. Join Nathan and his cute, but sometimes lazy, dog as they crawl, jump and balance their way through the animal kingdom re-enacting moves designed to emphasise fun. It's all in this exercise for kids book that focuses on family fun boredom busters. HELPING KIDS MOVE AND GETTING KIDS OFF SCREENS THROUGH FUN ANIMAL PLAY ✓ Do you want to make physical activity for kids fun? ✓ ...

The Secret Ingredient Cookbook by Kelly Senyei  Thank you to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  and Netgalley  for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information 125 family-friendly recipes based on the author's popular Just a Taste food site, with each recipe featuring a totally unexpected ingredient Kelly Senyei, founder of the food site Just a Taste, has garnered millions of fans with a delicious hook--every one of her recipes has a secret ingredient, something totally unexpected that takes a dish from common to extraordinary. Some of the 125 tried-and-tested recipes are surprisingly simple, like her Vanilla Bean Drop Doughnuts made with Greek yogurt, or the Sweet and Tangy Baked Chicken Wings made with blackberry jam. Other recipes are nothing short of genius, such as the Kale Panzanella made with croissants, the Healthy White Chicken Chili made with hummus, or the Crispy Slow Cooker Carnitas made with cocoa powder...

30 Day Kick Start Plan  by Joe Wicks Thank you to Pan Macmillan / Bluebird and Netgalley for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information Bringing motivation to the nation! Want to cook better, healthier food? Know what you should do, but don't know where to start? This 30-day plan from the nation's favourite PE teacher will help you create new habits, keep on track and feel brilliant inside and out. Food and fitness sensation Joe Wicks, aka the Body Coach, has helped millions of people to keep fit and cook healthy, simple recipes. He's back with his  30 Day Kick Start Plan  to make it easier than ever before to make healthy food, lose weight and get more active. Inside are one hundred delicious, sustaining recipes and six brand-new HIIT workouts to help you get in shape. Combined with weekly plans that can help you prep like a boss, this approach is easy to personalize according to your own day-to-day h...

The Tipsy Grandma…  An Anthology of Thirty, Made-from-Scratch, “Boozy” Desserts!  by the Editors of CakeChatter Thank you to Cake Chatter and Netgalley  for this copy which I reviewed honestly  and voluntarily . 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information This is a fun anthology (collection) of "adult" desserts designed to achieve three goals: One: they had to be made from scratch. Two: they had to incorporate all-natural ingredients and three: they had to be made with alcohol, therefore making them “tipsy!”. As an added bonus, we have included the author’s notes about their recipe, when applicable, and comments from Dough-Punchers(tm), or folks who have made these recipes with success. Nutritional information is included when available. And, as with all our books, we have edited the recipes so that they’re easier to follow and we have developed a different format, which we think is more conducive to your baking success—with the probability of fewer e...

Great British Vegan  by Aimee Ryan Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion & Netgalley for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁  Book Information ‘Aimee is an exceptional talent and her fab new book displays her unique gift for making vegan cooking both exciting and comforting. I have no doubt it will quickly become a firm plant-based classic.’ Áine Carlin, Bestselling author of  Keep It Vegan  and  The New Vegan If you’re craving your favourite British comfort foods, but also want to embrace a plant-based lifestyle, then  Great British Vegan  is the book is for you.  Whether you’re vegan, flexitarian or merely interested in cutting down on your meat consumption, there’s no reason you can’t still indulge in all your favourite British classics, using easy-to-find ingredients. With great-tasting, simple to make home-style recipes that will comfort as well as nourish, this book mak...

Eat Better Forever  by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Thank you to Bloomsbury Publishing and Netgalley  for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁  Book Information In  Eat Better Forever,  Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall gives you all the tools to improve your eating habits, and therefore your life - permanently. And to help it all happen, he's added his 100 healthiest recipes yet. In this ground-breaking book, instead of promising a gimmicky single-fix solution to the challenge of healthy eating, Hugh extracts the knowledge, advice and healthy habits, from cutting edge research into the obesity crisis, to produce 7 simple strategies that will transform your diet and your health. Starting with the blissfully simple message that we all need to  Go Whole , he leads us away from the industrial junk and processed foods that are doing so many of us so much harm and returns us to the real foods that nurture us and keep us wel...

1000 Mediterranean Meals Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group – Chartwell Books for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🍳🥐🥣🥗🍳🥐🥣🥗 🍳🥐🥣🥗🍳🥐🥣🥗   Book Information   1000 Mediterranean Meals  brings recipes from Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Egypt, Turkey, France, Morocco, Lebanon, and other Mediterranean nations straight to your dinner table! Unlike other diets with strict rules and hard laws, the Mediterranean diet encourages you to  eat more whole foods  from the entire food pyramid without sacrificing taste or your health. Incorporating all the traditional healthy living habits of people from countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea has never been easier. Mediterranean recipes include lots of  vegetables ,  legumes ,  whole grains ,  breads ,  fruits ,  nuts ,  seeds , and  olive oil , as well as plenty of  fish ,  poultry , and  small amounts of red meat . By fo...

Cookfulness  by Ian Taverna I would like to thank Authoright and Clink Street Publishing for inviting me on this fabulous Blog Tour  🍁👻🎃🍁👻🎃🍁👻🎃🍁👻🎃🍁👻🎃🍁  Book Title: Cookfulness: A Therapeutic Approach to Cooking  Author: Ian Taverner  Genre: Non-Fiction  Publication Date: 29th October 2020  Page Count: 154  Publisher: Clink Street Publishing  Summary   Create Space For The Happy Stuff! This cookbook is crammed full of new and innovative ways, hints and tips, designed specifically for people with chronic pain and mental health conditions, by me, a fellow sufferer.  It is all to help you WANT to cook, not have to! Cooking really can be a therapy. Cooking really can ignite your passions. Cooking really is possible!  If you are having a bad day, I want to make it better. If you are having a better day, I want to make it good. If you are having a good day, I want to make it great. If you are having a great da...