Friday Favorites from The Blue Bowl, Sunset, The Forked Spoon and More

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Good morning friends! How are you doing? Are you finding ways to enjoy a little bit of summer? I know that many are staying at home, myself included, but I am trying to enjoy the beautiful weather and as much time outside as I can before the weather turns cold.Apparently the stores are already anticipating cooler weather because I’ve already seen Halloween and Christmas stuff and that was at the grocery store. 

I have lots to share this week, I hope you find something you like. 

Food

Fried Chicken Sandwich with Honey Mustard Sauce from The Blue Bowl

If you like chicken and are looking for alternatives to your usual recipes here are 27 new recipes to try.

Artichoke Hearts with Breadcrumb Topping from the Forked Spoon

Italian Peach Coffeecake from Pinecone and Acorns

Vanilla Peach Coffeecake

Best Ever Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Frozen Strawberry Paloma

Interesting Articles

How to View Our Collective Crisis as an Opportunity to Rise Above the Noise and See the ‘Bigger Picture’

What the Color of Our Front Door Says About Us.

Surprising Stories of Accidental Inventions

Americans Are Determined to Believe in Black Progress

Why is Bob Ross Still So Popular 25 Years After His Passing

John Lewis on Forgiveness and Personal Strength

Why You Should Stop Trying to Have It All By Michelle Obama

My Midlife Crisis As a Russian Sailor in the Arctic

Books

In Five Years

Where do you see yourself in five years?

Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers.

She is nothing like her lifelong best friend—the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job interview of her career and accepts her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in one fell swoop, falling asleep completely content.

But when she awakens, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. Dannie spends one hour exactly five years in the future before she wakes again in her own home on the brink of midnight—but it is one hour she cannot shake. 

The Peacock Summer

Two women who long for more, and a house that holds the key to their freedom…

1955: At twenty-six-years old, Lillian Oberon is young, beautiful, and married to the wealthy and handsome Charles Oberon. She is also the mistress of Cloudesley, a lavish estate. But not long after her nuptials, she begins to feel her marriage is a sham. Like the exquisite 

The present day: Having abruptly broken off her engagement, Maggie Oberon escapes to Australia, hoping that the distance will make her forget the mess she’s made of her life. But when her beloved grandmother, Lillian, becomes ill, she must return to England and confront the past she ran away from. When she arrives at Cloudesley, she is dismayed to find the once opulent estate crumbling into decay. As Maggie scrambles to find a way to save the old property, she is unprepared to learn the dark secrets that have remained hidden behind the dark halls of Cloudesley. But within these walls also lies the key that could change its legacy—and Maggie’s life—forever.

The House at Tyneford

The start of an affair, the end of an era…

It’s the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau is forced to leave her glittering life of parties and champagne to become a parlor maid in England. She arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay, where servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn. But war is coming, and the world is changing. When the master of Tyneford’s young son, Kit, returns home, he and Elise strike up an unlikely friendship that will transform Tyneford—and Elise—forever.

The Cat Who Came for Christmas

‘Twas the night before Christmas when a bedraggled white feline entered the heart — and home — of Cleveland Amory. To say it is a friendly takeover is an understatement. For the cat who came for Christmas is clearly of the Independent Type, and Cleveland Amory, cranky or not, is a pushover where animals are concerned.

Toe to toe they stand — Amory at six feet three, the cat at six inches — and eyeball to eyeball with each other on every issue: whether or not to come when called; to recognize one’s name; to take a trip, a pill, a bath, or a walk on a leash; to be civil to New People; or even in an age when Thin Is In, why anyone in his right mind would want to be the Last Fat Cat. We will not spoil 

The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

Set in 1950s London, Penelope wants nothing more than to fall in love, and when her new best friend, Charlotte, a free spirit in the young society set, drags Penelope into London with all of its grand parties, she sets in motion great change for them all. Charlotte’s mysterious and attractive brother Harry uses Penelope to make his American ex-girlfriend jealous, with unforeseen consequences, and a dashing, wealthy American movie producer arrives with what might be the key to Penelope’s—and her family’s—future happiness.

Vibrant, witty, and filled with vivid historical detail, this is an utterly unique debut novel about a time and place just slipping into history.

The Four Agreements

In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

Finds

Doesn’t everyone need a Garden Gnome Cocktail Shaker?

Schumacher Cheese Board

Love this soap from The Library of Flowers

I hope that you have a wonderful weekend. Please share your finds from this week, I love reading about your new favorite recipes, books, podcasts and whatever else you find. 

Stay safe.