Easy Memorial Day recipes, summer book recommendations, weekend sales and more on Friday Favorites.
Memorial Day recipes, books, interesting articles, weekend sales and more on Friday Favorites
Good Friday Favorites morning to you my friends. How was your week? Are you ready for a long three day weekend? Do you have some fun plans for the holiday? It’s going to rain here for most of the weekend so a few of our plans have been cancelled. No matter, summer is upon us and there is lots of time for fun in the sun.
Ok, let’s get to the fun stuff.
Food~Recipes
Sharing easy and delicious recipes that I discovered this week. Make them for the weekend or save them for later.
Isn’t this patriotic cheese board cute?
Sun dried tomato corn chowder. would be delicious with fresh summer corn from the farmers market.
Are you grilling this weekend? If so make some extra chicken so that you can to make this tequila line chicken bowl.
Whip up a pitcher or patriotic sangria to celebrate summer.
Brownies are the perfect dessert for bbq’! Add some ice cream and hot fudge to make a sundae. Or toast some marshmallows and used two brownies to make a sandwich!
Links
Memorial Day tablescape inspiration
Tech execs protect their kids from their own products. America’s children deserve the same
Words of Wisdom from Kurt Vonnegut
Love this interview with Bobby Brown
One of Paris’ most popular attractions is closing for 5 years
Check out this beautiful Paris Apartment.
Chelsea Flower Show 2023: Harris Bugg’s Garden for a Good Cause Wins Best in Show
The Illuminating Science Behind Fireflies
5 Italian Girl Wellness Hacks I Learned in Italy That Improved My Life
The Witchtrials of J.K. Rowling~ interesting podcast.
AI’s Version of the “Perfect” Person Is an Eye-Opening Look at Unrealistic Beauty Standards
Book Recommendations
Something old, and something new to add to your summer book list.
Destination Fabulous: Finding your way to the best you yet
We live in a society that seems to want us to be afraid of growing older. But imagine if getting older could be the greatest thing that ever happened to you.
At 50, Anna Murphy, Fashion Director at The Times, feels more visible than at any point in her life to date. Her new book, Destination Fabulous, is the toolkit you need to embrace your age and celebrate the wisdom and inner beauty that comes with it.
How do you lift and smooth your face naturally? Should you go grey, and, if so, how? How do you deal with the menopause? Anna combines her knowledge of conventional approaches with her openness to the alternative ways of thinking found in disciplines like yoga and Chinese medicine. For her natural is always best.
As for fashion, Anna knows better than anyone that this can be the ultimate route into surfacing the true you. She shares all her tricks for finding your way to a wardrobe that will transform not just the way you look but the way you feel. And she shares the highlights of her conversations over the years with super-stylish agers such as Iris Apfel and Miuccia Prada. How have they got it right?
Drawing on the wisdom of writers as diverse as Pema Chodron and Eckhart Tolle, Dorothy Rowe and Osho, Nora Ephron and Mary Oliver, she writes about saying goodbye to what doesn’t serve you and welcoming what does; about forging relationships that work for you as well as others; and about finding your purpose, whether in your personal or professional life. Discover how the bumps on her road have helped her find her way to her true path. Her hope is that this book will help you to find yours, too.
Skylight Confessions
Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn’s polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticut countryside, to the avenues of Manhattan, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound. Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to solve the emotional puzzle of his family and of his own identity.
Return to Sullivans Island
In Return to Sullivans Island, Dorothea Benton Frank revisits the enchanted landscape of South Carolina’s Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island. Frank focuses on the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayes, earning high praise from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which writes, “Frank brings to vivid life the rich landscape and its unpretentious folks….A reader need only close her eyes for a moment to feel that thick-sticky heat, smell the wild salt marshes.” If you enjoy getting lost in the works of Anne Rivers Siddons, Rebecca Wells, and Pat Conroy—novels brimming with atmosphere and strong Southern charm—you are going to love Dotty Frank’s Return to Sullivans Island.
NEED MORE BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS?
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Finds~Weekend Sales
Outfit of the Day
sandals//skirt//glasses//tote//nail polish//shirt//sweater//bracelets
Serena & Lily is having a 20% off sale, use code SPLASH
- Although I do not need any furniture this dress and these linen pajamas caught my eye.
J Crew Discount: 40% off a wide range of items, code: WEEKEND
- These sandals look comfy and I like this sweater.
Gap 60% off select styles and 40% off purchase, most prices are marked
- They have a lot of cute dresses, and linen pieces.
Madewell 30% off everything with code WARMUP
UNTIL TOMORROW
I hope you enjoyed the recipes, links and books I discovered this week. If you have missed a Friday Favorites post you can find them all here.
Have a wonderful day and a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend. Thank you for spending part of your day with me, it’s always nice to have you here.
Don’t forget to visit the blog tomorrow for Weekend Meanderings with Kim and Juliet.
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Have a great weekend!
William, have a wonderful weekend.
The food is especially great today! That chicken bowl makes me hungry. The cheese board did as well. And I loved viewing the Paris apartment. Happy Memorial Day, Elizabeth!
Brenda
Thank you Brenda! I thought the chicken bowl looked scrumptious too. Happy Memorial Day!
The chicken bowl looks fabulous. Don’t forget a minute of silence at 3 pm on Monday in honor of all fallen veterans. The reason behind Memorial Day. Be safe
Nanci, I will not forget. I am from a family of veterans. Have a wonderful Weeknd.