Friday Favorites from Climbing Grier Mountain, Inside the Rustic Kitchen, Recipe Runner and More

Good morning! Happy Friday! Are you ready for the weekend? Will you be watching some basketball, getting out to take in a little of the Spring weather or perhaps just relaxing? I am not sure of my plans yet as it is supposed to rain. If it does rain, I have been wanting to experiment with a few new bread recipes. 

Interesting Food

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I am making these Vietnamese Coffee Pancakes with Cinnamon Butter from Climbing Grier Mountain on Sunday because they look delicious! 

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This Creamy Tuscan Chicken from Inside the Rustic Kitchen looks like a great dinner. 

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I made this California Cobb Salad from Recipe Runner this for lunch, it was so refreshing. 

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Flourless Brownies and more from Once Upon a Chocolate Lifes’ 5 Friday Chocolate Facorites

Interesting Articles 

Spring Blooms: 5 Favorite Garden Estates

18 Great Short Stories You Can Read for Free

20 Celebrity Memories Read By Their Authors

Ernest Hemingway’s 8 Favorite Bars Around the World

Interesting Entertainment

The Princess Bride Musical

Guys and Dolls Remake in the Works

Taste Podcasts

Interesting Books

To Capture What We Cannot Keep

In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Émile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris, France–a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial situation is forced to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges. Émile is expected to take on the bourgeois stability of his family’s business and choose a suitable wife. As the Eiffel Tower rises, a marvel of steel and air and light, the subject of extreme controversy and a symbol of the future, Cait and Émile must decide what their love is worth.

Seamlessly weaving historical detail and vivid invention, Beatrice Colin evokes the revolutionary time in which Cait and Émile live–one of corsets and secret trysts, duels and Bohemian independence, strict tradition and Impressionist experimentation. To Capture What We Cannot Keep, stylish, provocative, and shimmering, raises probing questions about a woman’s place in that world, the overarching reach of class distinctions, and the sacrifices love requires of us all.

Outsiders

Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders, award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman’s reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future. 

We have long known the individual greatness of each of these writers, but in linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share. All five lost their mothers in childbirth or at a young age. With no female role model present, they learned from books—and sometimes from an enlightened mentor. Crucially, each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of her own. The passion in their own lives infused their fiction. Writing with passionate intelligence of her own, Gordon reveals that these renegade writers inspired a new breed of women who wished to change a world locked in war, violence, exploitation, and sexual abuse.

Gordon’s biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised. In Outsiders, she crafts nuanced portraits of Shelley, Brontë, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf, naming each of these writers as prodigy, visionary, ‘outlaw,’ orator, and explorer, and shows how they came, they saw, and they left us changed. Today, following the tsunami of women’s protest at widespread abuse, we do more than read them; we listen and live with their astonishing bravery and eloquence.

The Plant Hunter

Plant Hunters tells the story of our obsession with all things that grow—both for their beauty and their economic potential—and the creation of botanical gardens to cultivate them. This sumptuous, intriguing volume moves from East to West and back again, introducing the botanists, explorers, and empire builders who gathered plants such as the coconut tree, roses, and numerous fruits and vegetables to bring back home. Showcasing hundreds of breathtaking illustrations and historical documents, it examines the species we now take for granted and the plants that have enriched and impoverished nations.

Patina Living

An intimate look at life on Patina Farm enjoying the interplay of rustic and modern European farmhouse charm―including the sheds, outbuildings and well-designed gardens where the Giannettis entertain and enjoy their miniature goats, sheep and donkeys, the chickens and ducks, and dogs. In addition to the home, charming sheds and outbuildings in the Patina landscape are inspiration for a beautiful life in the popular Patina Style.

“We decided to write this book to share why we decided to create this life and what we have learned along the way. We share how we decided where to live, how to design and lay out our property and how to think about the individual spaces. One of the main nuggets of wisdom that we have learned is that there is not only one way to live this life. The idea of this book is to give you some options.

Interesting Finds

Gingham Shirt Talbots

I like this shirt for spring and summer. 

These shoes from Rifle Paper Co. look like Spring to me!

Library of Flowers Forget Me Not Perfume

One of my favorite perfumes.

Flower Earring from Target

Flower Plates perfect for Spring, Summer and your Easter table. 

I hope that you have a safe and relaxing weekend. As always, please share your favorite books, podcasts, recipes and whatever else you found interesting this week.