Home Made Simple is the essential home reference for simplifying, beautifying, organizing, and inspiring your life. In these pages you'll find tips, projects, and recipes that will help you create the home you'll love to live in. Streamline your routine. Dazzle your guests. Indulge your culinary spirit. Celebrate your outside spaces. And adorn your home in ways that are uniquely yours. Home Made Simple is about making life enjoyable while keeping it simple. Look inside and discover: * Organized Life * Easy-to-achieve home-management ideas, including how to make the most of your space * Celebrate Living * Great new ways to entertain in your home, including heartwarming gift ideas * Clever Kitchen * Simple recipe favorites and helpful tips for kitchen storage and cleaning * Outside Pleasures * Unique outdoor projects for the family, plus advice for the garden, porch, and patio * Easy Décor * Stylish and realistic decorating ideas, plus dozens of DIY home improvements

There's never been a cookbook like it! Each of the 75 recipes in Fresh Made Simple is actually a charming full-page illustration showing how to make the dish described. Each meal or snack begins with one delicious ingredient, and the cook builds around that to make a simple, elegant, delicious creation. An avocado seasoned with lime and salt elevates a fried egg on toast; fresh-picked blueberries and an ear of corn add sweetness and texture to standard pancakes. From pineapple cilantro salsa and asparagus apple salad to a kale egg scramble, tortilla soup, and crostini, these easy recipes celebrate the unbeatable flavors of fresh ingredients.

Eduardo Xol, star designer of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, presents an innovative guide to entertaining using all the senses. Eduardo Xol, star designer of ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition, assures readers that if a home could be built and designed in only seven days, you could prepare your own fantastic event in much less time. In Extreme Entertaining Made Simple, Eduardo takes the daunting task of hosting your own party and makes it easy and accessible. His secret is to utilize and stimulate all five senses to inspire the design, feel, mood, taste, and sound of any special celebration. Spanning from a Classic Dinner Partyto an at home Spa Party, Eduardo covers six unique and inspired party themes, which can be applied to hundreds of occasions—each with event-appropriate food and drink recipes, as well as event-specific design tips and suggestions. He breaks down the design elements of a party and shows how to assemble stunning table ensembles, decadent entrees and delicious appetizers, fragrant and eye-opening flower arrangements, and delightful tunes by simply applying your senses and intuition. As you master your senses, creating spectacular celebrations can be a fun and stress-free experience and eventually becomes second nature. Extreme Entertaining Made Simpleis also complete with a music CD to set the right soundtrack for all of your most memorable gatherings.