Welcome to Friday Favorites, a weekly series where I share interesting articles, books, fashion finds, recipes and more.
Good morning friends. It is freezing outside, and icy so be careful. Better yet stay inside with a cup of coffee and read my Friday Favorites post. You are going to love the game day recipes, Valentine’s Day finds and of course lots of links and books to keep you entertained this weekend.
Friday Favorites No. 518
Food
Comfort food for the cold days still ahead and game day food, on the menu and apparently on my mind this week as I searched for recipes to share.
Image from The Curious Plate
Beef Pita Nachos with Whipped Feta is a new way to make nachos for me. I cannot wait to make these.
Homemade chicken Pot Pie, the ultimate winter comfort food! You can use a store bought crust or make a homemade crust.
Tonight I am making Beef Enchiladas from Isabell Easts and I will be making her homemade enchilada sauce too!
Image Britney Breaks Bread
Bookmark this recipe for game day! Pulled pork sliders, you can also use the pork for nachos or add it to you chili.
Be your own barista, make oat milk honey latte at home!
Use up your brown bananas this weekend in this double chocolate banana bread, it is so good you will go back for seconds and thirds.
Links
5 Habits to Build Mental Strength
Daily caffeine intake temporarily alters your brain structure
Ways to Enjoy Winter if You Are Not a Winter Person
6 Tiny Daily Rituals that Will Change Your Whole Life (in 6 Months or Less)
Are You Cleaning Your Spice Jars?
7 Signs Your Home Is Harming Your Wellness
8 Things You Need to Know Before Using Terracotta Pots
24 History-Making Black Women You Probably Didn’t Learn About In School
Check this out, Japanese Manhole Covers are Work of Art,
Love this story, kindness is always wins.
What Are the Benefits of Reading Books?
Books
The Dead Romantics
A disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home in this sparkling adult debut from national bestselling author Ashley Poston.
Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem—after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It’s as good as dead.
When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won’t give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time in a decade to help her family bury her beloved father.
For ten years, she’s run from the town that never understood her, and even though she misses the sound of a warm Southern night and her eccentric, loving family and their funeral parlor, she can’t bring herself to stay. Even with her father gone, it feels like nothing in this town has changed. And she hates it.
Until she finds a ghost standing at the funeral parlor’s front door, just as broad and infuriatingly handsome as ever, and he’s just as confused about why he’s there as she is.
Romance is most certainly dead . . . but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she’s ever known about love stories.
They’re Going to Love You
Throughout her childhood, Carlisle Martin got to see her father, Robert, for only a few precious weeks a year when she visited the brownstone apartment in Greenwich Village he shared with his partner, James. Brilliant but troubled, James gave Carlisle an education in all that he held dear in life—literature, music, and, most of all, dance.
Seduced by the heady pull of mentorship and hoping to follow in the footsteps of her mother—a former Balanchine ballerina—Carlisle’s aspiration to become a professional ballet dancer bloomed. But above all else, she longed to be asked to stay at the house on Bank Street, to be a part of Robert and James’s sophisticated world, even as the AIDS crisis brings devastation to their community. Instead, a passionate love affair created a rift between the family, with shattering consequences that reverberated for decades to come. Nineteen years later, when Carlisle receives a phone call that unravels the events of that fateful summer, she sees with new eyes how her younger self has informed the woman she’s become.
Things We Never Got Over
Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way…with fists and beer. Usually in that order.
Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. The niece Naomi didn’t know she had. Now she’s stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of.
There’s a reason Knox doesn’t do complications or high-maintenance women, especially not the romantic ones. But since Naomi’s life imploded right in front of him, the least he can do is help her out of her jam. And just as soon as she stops getting into new trouble he can leave her alone and get back to his peaceful, solitary life.
At least, that’s the plan until the trouble turns to real danger.
Reminder
Looking for more books to read? You can find most of the books I have recommended on the blog in My Bookshop on Amazon.
Finds
Outfit of the Day
ribbed sweater//wide legged pants// shirt//boots//bag//earrings//bracelet//perfume
Valentine’s Day Finds
Anthropologie
Candles
Treats
Mugs
Jewelry
UNTIL TOMORROW
Have a great day friends, I hope you found something to read, make or enjoy on Friday Favorites No. 518. If you make one of the featured recipes come back and let us know how you liked it! I will let you know how the enchiladas turned out!
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Good morning, Elizabeth… pardon me while I drool… Those mouthwatering pics are dangerous. I haven’t read with the book, but they sound great! I will download them as soon as I make my way through those interesting links. Have a great weekend.
Thank you Katie! I think you would like the books! Have a wonderful weekend.
Those books definitely sound like something I would enjoy. Adding to my TBR. Have a good weekend.
Thank you! I hope that you enjoy them. Happy Weekend.
I used to live in Japan and loved seeing the unique manhole covers. Such a simple and special thing that they do so well in Japan.
I had no idea you lived in Japan! I thin the manhole covers give a little lift to your day and the streets.
All of the food dishes look fantastic and make me hungry! I had no idea about the need to clean spice jars.
Brenda
I made the enchiladas and they were delicious! Have a wonderful week Brenda.
Chicken pot pie is good.
I thought so too! Have a wonderful weekend William.