Here's a deal!

I frequently bring in cakes and such to work. (Never mind why.) So it's well known that I like to bake. My boss likes to make crazy plans for us to open a little cafe or bakery or a lunch cart: she'll make delicious side dishes, the head estimator will barbeque, and I'll make dessert.

Recently, she ordered two cookbooks for me from Taste of Home. At the end of each year, the recipes published in this monthly magazine are combined by topic into hard back books and sold for $35. If you wait long enough (like a year), the wherehouse gets cleaned out and the books are sold for $5 - total bargain! I received the cupcake book and the dessert book from 2008 which are in perfect condition and have already come in handy.