Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies...
Folks are often surprised to hear this, but for most of my life I’ve hated peanut butter. “What about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?” they ask, “Didn’t you eat those as a kid? Or Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups? You have to like those.” No and nope, I always...
Hazelnut Raspberry Cake...
Posted by Ari in Desserts on 03 17th, 2008 | 282 Comments
Yesterday was my friend M’s 29th birthday and to celebrate we threw a little party at my place. On the menu? Butternut squash soup with creme fraiche; mini spinach quiches; blue cheese, walnut and pear sandwiches; and homemade French fries (the best kind!); all served with tall pitchers of pink...
Vegetarian Pad Thai...
If you are one of the millions of people who commute to work or school every weekday, then you have probably asked yourself the ultimate question on a fairly regular basis: What’s for lunch? I have certainly struggled with this conundrum, and the answer will never become definite. What I enjoy...
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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...)
