Easy (Cheesy!) Spinach Casserole + Lemon...
“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” - Fellini
Every Saturday afternoon my husband and I plan our menu for the upcoming week, then head off to do the grocery shopping. Usually we’re pretty good about putting all the necessary ingredients on our list, but every now and then one...
Breakfast Popovers...
“‘When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,’ said Piglet, ‘what’s the first thing you say to yourself?’ ‘What’s for breakfast?’ said Pooh. ‘What do you say, Piglet?’ ‘I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?’...
Pumpkin Half-Moon Pockets...
Posted by Ari in Desserts on 10 14th, 2006 | 36 Comments
“The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us of our fondest memories…”
These pumpkin half-moon pockets are for everyone who emails me saying that, while they love the recipes I post, there is no way they can make them because they “absolutely...
Pumpkin Spice Latte II...
“A cup of coffee, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream…such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.” - H. W. Beecher
Another, more decadent version of the Starbucks pumpkin...
Pumpkin Spice Latte & Pumpkin Muffi...
“October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.”
I don’t know about you, but somehow Starbucks has weaseled it’s way into my routine. Again. I’d kicked the habit for a while… then Autumn rolled around with it’s heavenly spices and a host...
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride By Daniel James Brown
It's not often that a history book will compel me to set all my novels aside, but "The Indifferent Stars Above" certainly did. Within the first few pages I was spellbound. I had to know how Sarah, a young woman newly married to her childhood sweetheart, would end up on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the dead of winter, starving and forced to do unspeakable things in order to survive.
"The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride" tells the story of the Donner Party from the perspective of newlyweds Sarah Graves and Jay Fosdick. In April of 1846 the couple joined Sarah's family as they journeyed west from Illinois to the promised land of California. (Read the rest of this review...)
