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Friday Favorites No. 541~a weekly series where I share interesting articles, books, fashion finds, recipes and more.
Good Friday Favorites morning friends! Happy Bastille Days to my French followers!
How was your week? Did you survive the bombardment of Amazon Prime posts the last 2 days(mine included)?
Hopefully you are staying cool and safe from all of the storms. It’s been HOT here, about 95 all week and too hot to do anything outside but sit by the pool in the shade.
Today on Friday Favorites I am sharing a Mexican street corn dip that is perfect with weekend cocktails, or maybe one of Juliet spritzers‘, some fabulous books and lots more so let’s get to it.
FRIDAY FAVORITES NO. 541
FOOD~RECIPES TO TRY
Mexican street corn dip is on the menu this weekend with a margarita or two.
Zucchini chorizo Caramelized onion quiche is an easy and delicious dinner or brunch using some of the bounty from your garden.
Harissa avocado chicken bowls sounds interesting. We make homemade harissa using the recipe in David Lebovitz My Paris Kitchen and it is delicious so I am sure this dish will be as well.
I love, love, love pasta, especially new to me recipes. Zucchini and Lemon Pasta is now on my list to make as soon as I go to the farmers market for zucchini.
Blueberry peach crisp has been on repeat at our house. It is easy to make and bake without heating up the house in my countertop oven.
Links
Power Of The Pack: Women Who Support Women Are More Successful
Over 50 and looking for a swimsuit? Cindy shared a great post with beautiful suits and tips for buying one.
The Trillion-Dollar Grift: Inside the Greatest Scam of All Time. This is unbelievable.
How to Leans Something New Every Day!
The Most Unrealistic Homes and Apartments in Films
10 Life Choices We Will All Regret in 10 Years (If We Aren’t Careful)
The Grown Up Way to Tie Your Shoes~who knew.
A Creative Solution to ‘the Friendship Desert of Modern Adulthood’
Books~On My List to Read
I just ordered these books from the library and cannot wait to read them.
A Bakery in Paris
1870: The Prussians are at the city gates, intent to starve Paris into submission. Lisette Vigneau—headstrong, willful, and often ignored by her wealthy parents—awaits the outcome of the war from her parents’ grand home in the Place Royale in the very heart of the city. When an excursion throws her into the path of a revolutionary National Guardsman, Théodore Fournier, her destiny is forever changed. She gives up her life of luxury to join in the fight for a Paris of the People. She opens a small bakery with the hopes of being a vital boon to the impoverished neighborhood in its hour of need. When the city falls into famine, and then rebellion, her resolve to give up the comforts of her past life is sorely tested.
1946: Nineteen-year-old Micheline Chartier is coping with the loss of her father and the disappearance of her mother during the war. In their absence, she is charged with the raising of her two younger sisters. At the hand of a well-meaning neighbor, Micheline finds herself enrolled in a prestigious baking academy with her entire life mapped out for her. Feeling trapped and desperately unequal to the task of raising two young girls, she becomes obsessed with finding her mother. Her classmate at the academy, Laurent Tanet, may be the only one capable of helping Micheline move on from the past and begin creating a future for herself.
The Golden Spoon
Every summer for the past ten years, six awe-struck bakers have descended on the grounds of Grafton, the leafy and imposing Vermont estate that is not only the filming site for “Bake Week” but also the childhood home of the show’s famous host, celebrated baker Betsy Martin.
The author of numerous bestselling cookbooks and hailed as “America’s Grandmother,” Betsy Martin isn’t as warm off-screen as on, though no one needs to know that but her. She has always demanded perfection, and gotten it with a smile, but this year something is off. As the baking competition commences, things begin to go awry. At first, it’s merely sabotage—sugar replaced with salt, a burner turned to high—but when a body is discovered, everyone is a suspect.
The Five-Star Weekend
Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-perfect. She’s the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, he leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis’s perfect life—her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline—grow deeper.
So when Hollis hears about something called a “Five-Star Weekend”—one woman organizes a trip for her best friend from each phase of her life: her teenage years, her twenties, her thirties, and midlife—she decides to host her own Five-Star Weekend on Nantucket. But the weekend doesn’t turn out to be a joyful Hallmark movie.
The husband of Hollis’s childhood friend Tatum arranges for Hollis’s first love, Jack Finigan, to spend time with them, stirring up old feelings. Meanwhile, Tatum is forced to play nice with abrasive and elitist Dru-Ann, Hollis’s best friend from UNC Chapel Hill. Dru-Ann’s career as a prominent Chicago sports agent is on the line after her comments about a client’s mental health issues are misconstrued online. Brooke, Hollis’s friend from their thirties, has just discovered that her husband is having an inappropriate relationship with a woman at work. Again! And then there’s Gigi, a stranger to everyone (including Hollis) who reached out to Hollis through her blog. Gigi embodies an unusual grace and, as it hap- pens, has many secrets.
NEED MORE BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS?
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FINDS & Sales
OUTFIT OF THE DAY
shirt//shorts//sandals//hat//bag//perfume//polish
Blue and white one of my all time favorite color combinations. Blue shorts or jeans with a white t-shirt or eyelet blouse and a pair of sandals is classic and stylish.
Nordstrom Finds
I just started to peruse the Nordstrom sale, have you been looking or buying? What did you find that we all need?
I like this bag.
Do you like Barefoot Dreams? There are lots of Barefoot Dreams things on sale that would make great Christmas gifts, like the throw, and the robe.
This is still one of my all time favorite summer totes.
Looking for a place to enjoy your morning coffee or afternoon cocktail? This cafe set is perfect.
UNTIL TOMORROW
I hope you enjoyed the recipes, links and books I discovered this week on Friday Favorites No. 541. If you have missed a Friday Favorites post you can find them all here.
I’ll see you tomorrow for Weekend Meanderings with Kim and Juliet.
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I keep thinking I’m going to try something like that chicken bowl. Food all sectioned like that to make sure I get all the food groups. But still haven’t gotten around to it. Will probably make taco soup and freeze individual servings in baggies this weekend. Half-Baked Harvest is great for recipes and food photography! Hot as hell here. When are people going to figure out that climate change is real?
Brenda
Brenda, the bowls are so easy to make and delicious too. I like to make the rice ahead and cut up a few of the other ingredients ahead then make the chicken the say I am going to eat it.
Tieghen is so talented, I love her photos and recipes.
It is hot here and I am ready for Fall!
Take care my friend, stay cool.
My area got hit by a tornado yesterday.
Hopefully no one was hurt! Have a great weekend.