Friday Favorites from Wild, Wild Whisk, Damn Delicious, Simply Delicious and More

Good morning! This weekend is going to be bright and sunny and I cannot wait! I have plans to walk at the beach, pull some weeds and enjoy the beautiful Spring weather. 

Here are my favorite finds from this week. 

Interesting Food

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Tomorrow morning I will be making this Almond Croissant French Toast Bake from Wild Wild Whisk, doesn’t it look delicious?

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Chicken Pesto Pizza from Damn Delicious

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Steamed Spring Vegetable Salad from Simply Delicious looks fresh and tasty?

Millionaire Shortbread and 4 other tasty treats on Once Upon a Chocolate Life.

Interesting Reading

300 High Achievers Share Their Morning Routine

How to Beat Creative Burnout

You get 25,000 Mornings as an Adult, Here are 8 ways Not to Waste Them

You are going to want to enter this contest to spend the night in the Louvre Museum! Can you imagine how exciting it would be to sleep under the pyramid?

5 Ways to Practice Patience

Interesting TV/Movies

More Than Honey

100 Best Movies on Netflix

10 TV Shows to Binge Watch

Interesting Books 

I am currently reading the following books. 

Kitchens of the Great Midwest

Kitchens of the Great Midwest is a novel about a young woman with a once-in-a-generation palate who becomes the iconic chef behind the country’s most coveted dinner reservation. It was selected as a best book of the year by Amazon, BookPage, LibraryReads, and NPR. 

When Lars Thorvald’s wife, Cynthia, falls in love with wine—and a dashing sommelier—he’s left to raise their baby, Eva, on his own. He’s determined to pass on his love of food to his daughter—starting with puréed pork shoulder. As Eva grows, she finds her solace and salvation in the flavors of her native Minnesota. From Scandinavian lutefisk to hydroponic chocolate habaneros, each ingredient represents one part of Eva’s journey as she becomes the star chef behind a legendary and secretive pop-up supper club, culminating in an opulent and emotional feast that’s a testament to her spirit and resilience.

Each chapter in J. Ryan Stradal’s startlingly original debut tells the story of a single dish and character, at once capturing the zeitgeist of the Midwest, the rise of foodie culture, and delving into the ways food creates community and a sense of identity. By turns quirky, hilarious, and vividly sensory, Kitchens of the Great Midwest is an unexpected mother-daughter story about the bittersweet nature of life—its missed opportunities and its joyful surprises. It marks the entry of a brilliant new talent.

The Making of a Home

The idea that ‘home’ is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in her best and most ambitious work to date, “home” is a relatively new idea.

In The Making of Home, Flanders traces the evolution of the house from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century across northern Europe and America, showing how the homes we know today bear only a faint resemblance to homes though history. What turned a house into the concept of home? Why did northwestern Europe, a politically unimportant, sociologically underdeveloped region of the world, suddenly became the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution, the capitalist crucible that created modernity? While investigating these important questions, Flanders uncovers the fascinating development of ordinary household items–from cutlery, chairs and curtains, to the fitted kitchen, plumbing and windows–while also dismantling many domestic myths.

In this prodigiously researched and engagingly written book, Flanders brilliantly and elegantly draws together the threads of religion, history, economics, technology and the arts to show not merely what happened, but why it happened: how we ended up in a world where we can all say, like Dorothy in Oz, “There’s no place like home.”

Made Enchantment

Mad Enchantment tells the full story behind the creation of the Water Lilies, as the horrors of World War I came ever closer to Paris and Giverny and a new generation of younger artists, led by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, were challenging the achievements of Impressionism. By early 1914, French newspapers were reporting that Monet, by then seventy-three, had retired his brushes. He had lost his beloved wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean. His famously acute vision–what Paul Cezanne called “the most prodigious eye in the history of painting”–was threatened by cataracts. And yet, despite ill health, self-doubt, and advancing age, Monet began painting again on a more ambitious scale than ever before. 

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experience with grammar and usage, her good cheer and irreverence, and her finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.

Finds

Beautiful Flower Plates from H&M. Great for Spring and Summer. 

Basket

Bunny Felt Basket great for the Little’s in your life.

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Great dress from Banana Republic

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Just ordered these leather wedge sandals for summer.

What are your plans? Will you be out enjoying the Cherry Blossoms, resting or off having a grand adventure?

Whatever you find yourself doing I hope that you have a happy and safe weekend.

Please share your favorite, books, movies, finds, pod casts and more.

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