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Main Course Recipes
Grilled Asparagus and Halloumi Sandwiches
Asparagus is in: Grill 'em if you Got 'em For lunch earlier this week, I started where I often start around this time of year. I pulled some asparagus out of the crisper drawer and started to prep them. Conventional wisdom about snapping them where they naturally snap is out, so I cut off the…
May 10, 2018Share Post
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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Author Kevin Kwan Signs at University Bookstore
Author Kevin Kwan stopped at University Bookstore in Mill Creek on Sunday. Part of a three-city mini tour in the Pacific Northwest, Kwan promoted the paperback release of book #3 in the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, Rich People Problems. Kwan read from the book and answered a wide range of questions about the books, the…
May 7, 2018Share Post
Recipes
5 Delicious Dishes for Your Cinco de Mayo Menu + Dessert!
A taco bar is usually a go-to for Cinco de Mayo, but with some questions lingering around romaine lettuce from Yuma, Arizona, crunchy gringo tacos piled with lettuce and cheddar cheese probably aren't the way to go this year.  We've got five other delicious Cinco de Mayo recipes to enjoy on the day commemorating Mexico's…
May 3, 2018Share Post
Lemon Elderflower Cake
Baking Dessert Recipes
The Easy Way to Make Lemon Elderflower Cake for the Royal Wedding
We're just a few weeks from the Royal Wedding. You've undoubtedly heard that Prince Harry and Meghan's wedding cake will be a lemon elderflower cake baked by Violet Bakery's Claire Ptak. It's not a flavor profile that most of us in the States are all that familiar with, but it's a well loved harbinger of…
May 1, 2018Share Post
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Recipes Salads
Asparagus Pasta Salad with Cheese Tortellini
Asparagus is the true harbinger of spring in the Pacific Northwest. While everyone thinks apples when you mention Washington state, it's actually the #1 producer of domestic asparagus with 23 million pounds harvested in 2017. The minute the local asparagus hits we're drizzling it with olive oil, salt and pepper and grilling or roasting it.…
April 26, 2018Share Post
My Oxford Year
Book Reviews
MY OXFORD YEAR by Julia Whelan | 4-star review
Review copy provided by the publisher Julia Whelan's debut, My Oxford Year, captures that rom-com magic; I loved it. I can’t resist a good American living abroad story. Julia Whelan’s MY OXFORD YEAR is just that. It’s a charming tale in the tradition of some of the best American + Brit rom-coms. And before you even…
April 24, 2018Share Post
Book Reviews
Today’s Hot Kindle Cookbook Deals – April 16, 2018
Kindle cookbook deals never seem to last long, but there's a great crop of deals on Kindle today. Prices current as of 4/16/18. Back Pocket Pasta by Colu Henry - $2.99 As much a mindset as it is a cookbook, Back Pocket Pasta shows how a well-stocked kitchen and a few seasonal ingredients can be the driving force…
April 16, 2018Share Post
Love and Other Words
Book Reviews
LOVE AND OTHER WORDS by Christina Lauren | 5-star Review
Christina Lauren’s first foray into women’s fiction is as swoonworthy as any of their romances Review copy provided by Gallery Books When I sat down to write this review of Christina Lauren’s Love and Other Words, all I could think of was the scene in The Notebook when Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams get…
April 10, 2018Share Post
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CHINESE SOUL FOOD by Hsiao-Ching Chou | Book Review + Recipe
Stir-fries in Chinese Soul Food are so fast, I made the Chinese Rice Cakes with Chicken and the Beef with Asparagus on the same night. Chinese Soul Food is a book you'll actually cook from, not just look at the pretty pictures I've had the good fortune to attend one of Hsiao-Ching Chou's dumpling classes at…
April 9, 2018Share Post
Book Reviews
Play for Keeps (Love Games #2) by Maggie Wells | 4 star review
Play for Keeps is Sassy, Smart and So Much Fun. ARC provided by Sourcebooks Casablanca via NetGalley I probably should have reviewed Maggie Wells' Love Game and Play for Keeps together, but I couldn't wait. Both reads in the Love Games series are incredibly satisfying in different ways. Set in and around Wolcott University,…
April 3, 2018Share Post
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