New recipes to add to your meal plan, books recommendations, fashion finds and more this week on Friday Favorites.
Style & Simplicity
Good morning friends, how was your week? It’s been a busy week with work and the outdoor projects. I think we are experiencing the last gasp of winter, a few days ago we had record temperatures in the 80’s and overnight it is going to be 20. This weekend is also daylight savings, so don’t forget to Spring ahead on Sunday.
I have lots to share so grab your chocolate, coffee, tea or wine and let’s get to it.
Friday Favorites, Food, Finds, Books and More
Food
Friday Food Image The View from Great Island
Jamie Olivers Sausage Carbonara not only looks good but is an easy recipe to whip together on a weeknight when you are busy.
Friday Favorites Food
Pappardelle with a Simple Tomato Sauce is what is for dinner at my house this evening.
Image Cravings Journal
Oh my goodness, this provolone cheese with balsamic caramelized onions looks like the perfect appetizer.
Image from The Curious Plate
Did someone say cheese bread? Easy cheese bread is even better. I think I am going try this recipe because my husband loves jalapeño peppers, cheese and beer!
Next week is St.Patrick’s Day, why not make yourself a tasty treat to celebrate? One of my favorites is Bailey’s Irish cream Cupcakes.
House, Home & Garden
An Exclusive Look at the 2022 Kips Bay Decorator Show House in Palm Beach
Fresh Paint Colors to Consider for Spring
Are you a gardener, would you like to be? Here are some helpful tips, What to do in the Garden in March.
Interesting Articles
How Being Too Nice Ruins Your Success And Happiness
How to Embrace Being an Introvert in an Extroverted World
The rise of Canva, the $40 billion design juggernaut
Gimme 20! How just 20 minutes a day to yourself could transform your life
The Beginning of the End for Putin? Dictatorships Look Stable—Until They Aren’t
I am in love with these “bread bugs.”
Check out these amazing cat embroideries.
Philanthropy and the Gilded Age
Gilded Age fans did you know there was an official podcast?
This movie looks so good.
Wanderlust
10 Best Things to do in Paris at Night
If you live in the UK or are traveling there this month here are Camelia Garden to Visit In March
Meet the woman who builds the world’s most unique Airbnbs.
Books
Dessert Can Save the World
Dessert connects us heart-to-heart like almost nothing else. It brings us together in good times and bad, celebration and solace. It marks big and small milestones and creates memories of comfort and joy. And Christina Tosi, the founder and CEO of Milk Bar, believes it can save the world.
Does the combination of sugar, flour, and butter have some magical ability to fix all the craziness of our modern existence? Of course not. Tosi knows a cookie is just a cookie—but bringing the joy a cookie holds into every area of your life most definitely can. The spirit of dessert—the relentless, unflinching commitment to finding or creating joy even when joy feels hard to come by—is what can save us. And then we, in turn, can each save the world.
Style & Simplicity
Ted Kennedy Watson—acclaimed retailer, blogger, and stylist of the beautiful and unusual—has a passion for the art of display and an understanding of how distinctive touches make a space inviting. Here, in a lush, lavish, A-to-Z guide, he presents dozens of insider secrets and ideas that will empower you to create a serene, harmonious home that delights the five senses.
Year of Yes
The megatalented creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder chronicles how saying yes for one year changed her life – and how it can change yours, too.
With three hit shows on television and three children at home, the ubertalented Shonda Rhimes had lots of good reasons to say no when an unexpected invitation arrived. Hollywood party? No. Speaking engagement? No. Media appearances? No.
And there was the side benefit of saying no for an introvert like Shonda: nothing new to fear.
Then Shonda’s sister laid down a challenge: Just for one year, try to say yes to the unexpected invitations that come your way. Shonda reluctantly agreed – and the result was nothing short of transformative. In Year of Yes, Shonda Rhimes chronicles the powerful impact saying yes had on every aspect of her life – and how we can all change our lives with one little word. Yes.
A Lady Cyclists Guide to Kashgar
It is 1923. Evangeline (Eva) English and her sister Lizzie are missionaries heading for the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar. Though Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, Eva’s motives are not quite as noble, but with her green bicycle and a commission from a publisher to write A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar, she is ready for adventure.
In present day London, a young woman, Frieda, returns from a long trip abroad to find a man sleeping outside her front door. She gives him a blanket and a pillow, and in the morning finds the bedding neatly folded and an exquisite drawing of a bird with a long feathery tail, some delicate Arabic writing, and a boat made out of a flock of seagulls on her wall. Tayeb, in flight from his Yemeni homeland, befriends Frieda and, when she learns she has inherited the contents of an apartment belonging to a dead woman she has never heard of, they embark on an unexpected journey together.
Finds
I mentioned a few weeks ago that Banana Republic has gone back to the classics which I love, this week is the Friends and Family Sale 40% off most everything. This shirt would be a great addition to your wardrobe as would this flower shirt and this horn chain necklace.
Remember this dress? It is in my cart, I will let you know if I purchase it.
That is all for this week my friends, I hope that you found something to read, cook and to enjoy. I love sharing the books I am reading and all of the interesting articles I come across during the week. If you found something this week that you enjoyed and think we would enjoy please share it in the comments.
Before you go I wanted to say, the war in Ukraine is not far from my mind, and although I might not mention the war in each post I am thinking about the people and helping in any way that I can. If you would prefer not to read blogs and posts while all of this is going on I respect your decision. My heart goes out to all of the people of Ukraine, I am praying for a miracle.
Have a good weekend my friends, thank you for spending part of your day with me. Don’t forget to come by tomorrow where I will be joining Kim and Juliet for our Saturday Meanderings.
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wow! Those recipes looks amazing! I wish I could order them right from your blog and have it delivered to my house right now!! hahaha!
They do look amazing! I would love to join you in ordering and eating them!
BOY you sure READ a lot to have all these recommendations!
THE WAR is TRAGIC………….I CANNOT READ ANYMORE ABOUT IT.
WHY ONE LITTLE MAN HE IS 5’7” tall can DO THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE to me.
SOMEONE on the INSIDE needs to do THE DEED!
I do not watch tv so that leaves me a lot of time to read. I probably read about 10 articles a day, the ones that make the FF are the ones I think most people with like.A lot of the others from Foreign Affairs and other magazines like that I do not include very often. There is a lot of suffering caused by this war and it does not end in Ukraine.
Great shares as always! Am I bad, I don’t like when the clocks change!
Cindy, I am exactly the same! I do not like when the clocks change!
You always have lots of great FF. The articles on Putin & Russia were interesting to read. I don’t watch news on TV. I no longer even read much online, as you never know who is telling the truth with all the politics involved.
Brenda
The sausage dish looks good.
Thank you for all you share.
I hold the same thoughts as you do on Ukraine. I pray for Peace, it’s hard to believe that Putin can be such an evil
person.
Katherine, sadly there is a lot of evil in the world. Putin is just one of many and we need to step up our game in the country and let him know that we are not weak and will not let him get away with this. If Ukraine falls I am certain that he will go after other former states. Have a wonderful day!