Well! I must apologize a thousand-fold for my loooong absence over these last two months. The newest book was MY suggestion and two days after we decided to read Confessions, my mother-in-law passed away VERY suddenly while on vacation in Mexico. Since then our lives have been thrown into a whirlwind, and I could barely [...]
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Happy 2010 to everyone! For those who have been following us, fear not – we will be back soon with our postings on Garlic & Sapphires. Stay tuned for more bookery cookery in the coming weeks! Stay warm and safe!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
As we near the end of our first book, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti, get closer to the start of our second book, Garlic & Sapphires, and having just watched the movie Julie & Julia, I started thinking about all sorts of things: blogging, cooking (and blogging about it), and reading books and [...]
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 blaming ourselves to [...]
Friday, November 20, 2009
Well, I’m excited! We’ve decided on our first book for our journey – I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti by Giulia Melucci. As a full blooded Italian myself, I love a good story about a Brooklyn girl…especially one who can cook. I went out and picked up the book today to get our journey [...]
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Welcome to our new venture in cooking/booking/blogging! In the vein of ‘Julie & Julia’, we’re a group of High School friends who’ve come together from different places, getting together once in a awhile and sharing our kitchen exploits with one another via the web! We’ll be cooking recipes from various books and sharing our results [...]
