Sunday, November 29, 2009
Well, what a whirlwind this week was! I love Thanksgiving, but I’m glad to be home. There’s nothing like coming back to your own house and sleeping in your own bed. Today was a lazy day for us though, which was nice. Brett picked up his new(ish) car and got home this afternoon. We ordered [...]
Sunday, November 29, 2009
So now, that Thanksgiving weekend is coming to end and I am thinking about returning to work, I am really sad that Giulia will no longer accompany me on the train for my morning commute. I am very grateful, however, that her book has found her way among my closet o’ cookery books! As you [...]
Sunday, November 29, 2009
I just finished I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti. I think one of the worst feelings is when a great book is over. Okay so maybe I am being over dramatic! But I did laugh so hard throughout the book that I am sure the people sitting next to me on the 7 train [...]
Saturday, November 28, 2009
No, that’s not directed at you – any of you. That’s actually what they’re called. This, by far, was my favorite 3 pages of the book. Not because of Giulia’s heartache, because we all sit and wonder the “what-ifs” after a breakup. We all try to somehow find a backwards way of [...]
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Well! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I brought my laptop with me, and didn’t open it once. Oops. This year we headed back to New York for the holiday (we flip flop Thanksgiving and Christmas each year). It was a nice few days. My family on both sides is Italian, [...]
Saturday, November 28, 2009
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Now back to some bookery cookery…
In the few months I’ve had Giulia’s book, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti, I’ve made a few recipes from it, and posted them on my other blog. Most recently the “Morning After Pumpkin Bread” (which was a massive hit). I’ve [...]
Friday, November 27, 2009
I have officially finished “I Loved, I lost, I made Spaghetti”, and I loved it! It was so interesting to me that each of her relationships were so different but so incredibly necessary. Thinking back to all of my own heartbreaking and heart aching (more heart-aching sadly for me) it is so true how necessary [...]
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Even though I had read the book previously, I decided to re-read it, or at least certain parts I had forgotten. I was re-reading one of my favorite parts (the “Mitch” era) when I happened upon Giulia’s recipe for mozzarella en carozza, or “Italian Grilled Cheese for Teenage WASPs.” Mozzarella en carozza literally means ‘mozzarella [...]
Monday, November 23, 2009
Well the A train was moving exceptionally slow today, and for once I was not upset because I got to read a hella lot of Giulia (whom I may have developed a girl crush on). I feel like we would be friends if we ever met. First the is the whole all girl catholic school [...]
Sunday, November 22, 2009
This is my first official post to Cooking the Books, so here’s hoping it works! I am so excited this site and club have taken off. I have officially purchased our first novel, which was an adventure in itself. My poor husband got dragged to not one, not two, not three, but four bookstores on [...]
