Friday Favorites No. 536~a weekly series where I share interesting articles, books, fashion finds, recipes and more
How are you my friends? Are you ready to relax with a good book? Or make an easy and delicious Tuscan inspired meal for family and friends? I’ve got both to share with you today on Friday Favorites along with a classic summer outfit and lots more.
We’ve been busy this week working on projects, and family things. I am ready to catch up with my favorite blogs, dive into my latest beach read, maybe sit by the pool with friends and just enjoy a bit of the summer sun.
Pour yourself a coffee, tea or cocoa and join me as I share my favorites books, recipes, articles and finds from this week.
Friday Favorites No. 536
FOOD~Recipes To Try
Summer tuscan salad, is perfect for lunch. Or for dinner add a little protein and some crusty bread.
Asiago Tortelloni Alfredo with Grilled Chicken is on the menu at my house this weekend.
Add these Italian chicken wrap sandwiches  to your picnic basket, beach tote or summer menu.
It’s blueberry season, why not make blueberry cheesecake bars?
Links to Interesting Articles
The Artist Making Furniture Out of Real Flowers and Toy Ants
6 Coastal drives to take this summer
8 Movie Locations Your Can Visit!
These massive steel arches will soon be a bridge for bears, elk, and other wildlife
Before the Bake Off Was Great and British, It Was Pillsbury
After 80 years the Weiner Mobile has a new name.Â
11 Things to Do Every Day to be happier
Entertaining Nonsenses in Medieval England
Françoise Gilot, painter and muse to Picasso, dies at 101
How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Books for the beach, to while away summer days or to add to your stack.
Clover Harrington might be sixty-one, but she’s still bossing it in the corporate world and can still run rings around her younger colleagues. And then she is made redundant….
Devastated and now suddenly the wrong side of sixty Clover doesn’t know what to do with her life or her corporate wardrobe! What does she wear if not red lippy and a power suit?! Rather than offer her any support, her partner, Jack announces he’s off on a golfing weekend, leaving Clover completely adrift.
Desperate to get away from it all, Clover decides to visit her cousin Zoe at her small taverna in the gorgeous Italian Lakes. There she can rest and recuperate and plan the next stage of her life.
Until Clover’s eighty-year-old mother, Eleanor decides to turn up for the holiday too! Instead of gentle ambles around the lake, Eleanor seems more interested in late night poker and swigging Prosecco and Clover can’t quite believe her mum is having more fun than she is. But as the saying goes – if you can’t beat em, join em!
Once upon a time, in an ancient château nestled above a golden river among the vineyards of Bordeaux, Sara and Gavin opened a wedding venue where fairy tales come true…But when Sara discovers Gavin in the arms of a wedding guest, their own happiness crumbles to dust. Faced with five beaming couples yet to say ‘I do’, she realises it’s up to her to host the rest of their first make-or-break season alone.
For the summer to go off without a hitch, Sara must bury her broken heart and her fear that she’ll soon be packing her bags for London, and lean on her local team of helpers. So when handsome Thomas Cortini, wine salesman and amateur DJ, crosses her path, Sara’s thrilled to draft in further reinforcements—and finally dares to hope the summer might not be a total disaster…
But with her life savings at stake, can Sara pull off a successful season, save her budding business and—just maybe—find her own happy-ever-after before the summer ends?
An archaeologist’s estranged daughters.
1907: The dawn of Egyptology is a time of imperialism and plunder, opulence and unrest, and Dr. Warren Ford, esteemed archaeologist, is the man of the hour. His daughters—intellectual Lila, on the eve of her debut as a Manhattan socialite, and nonconformist Tess, who dreams of following in his footsteps—have always lived in his shadow, and their lives couldn’t feel more different. But when a secretive organization seeks to find a lost relic legendary for its dangerous power, it isn’t Dr. Ford they turn to—it’s his two remarkable daughters.
A legendary artifact known as the Serpent’s Crown.
Rumored to reside in the mysterious Tomb of the Five Ladies, the Serpent’s Crown will only be found by solving a seemingly impossible riddle that will open the tomb—and the organization believes that one of the Ford daughters holds the key to deciphering the code. What was supposed to be an elegant debutante ball for elder sister Lila quickly turns sinister when Tess is kidnapped and put on a ship across the Atlantic. When Lila and her father realize that Tess’s life is in danger, they must act quickly to track her down and stop the Serpent’s Crown from falling into the wrong hands.
NEED MORE BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS?
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FINDS~WEEKEND SALES
Outfit of the Day
blue/white sweatshirt//t-shirt//shorts//sandals//tote//glasses
Aren’t these cute plates for summer entertaining?
Zhush up your summer space with some pillows. I like these too.
 Father’s Day is next Sunday.
UNTIL TOMORROW
Did you see a recipe that you might make or a book to add to your stack or beach bag?
I hope you enjoyed the recipes, links and books I discovered this week and would love to hear about any books, articles or recipes that you made this week. Leave us a link in the comments.
If you have missed a Friday Favorites post you can find them all here.
Have a wonderful day and a happy and safe 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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I vote for the salad with crusty bread. Always a good choice for summer. Enjoyed too the articles about happiness and women discussing bras. I tend to wear sports bras now myself.
I LOVE your blog, but the ads lower right are so annoying! Can’t seem to get rid of them! Great blog tho, my new fave!
Janis,
Thank you. I am working on the ads I know that they are annoying, they are for me too. Hopefully soon we will have them fixed and where they need to be without being so intrusive. Please stick with me in the interim.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Elizabeth
Great recommendations and links – thank you!
Thank you Susan! Have a wonderful weekend.
So many lovely things to check out. Have a fabulous week-end Elizabeth.
Thank you Bonnie! I hope that you have a wonderful weekend.
Blueberry cheesecake bars appeal to me.
I think you would love them William.