Welcome to Friday Favorites, a weekly series where I share interesting articles, books, fashion finds, recipes and more.
Good Friday Favorites morning to you! I am so excited to share all of the all of my finds, books and scrumptious recipes from Creme de la Crumb, Simply Delicious, Easy Cheesy Vegetarian.
This week has gone by in a blur, meetings, Zoom classes, and lots of projects going on at the house. I am ready for the weekend.
Tonight is going to be an early night with a good book and a cup of tea. Then tomorrow another busy day on the schedule. Our kitchen designer is bringing out of town clients to see our kitchen and the brink floors because they are thinking of a similar design and want to see it in “real life.” After that dinner with friends.
Ok, let’s skip to the good stuff!
FRIDAY FAVORITES NO. 517
Food
Roasted cauliflower and chickpea quinoa salad with jalapeño-lime dressing is a hearty lunch or a delicious side dish for dinner.
Add this simple tossed green salad with only 6 ingredients to your meal plan, it goes with everything.
Chicken Tiki masala is one of my all time favorite take out dinners. I don’t have any chicken but I have lots of cauliflower for some reason so tonight I am making this cauliflower tiki masala.
I am always looking for new soup recipes to try and this week I discovered this gluten free potato soup! I cannot wait to make it.
Is there anything better than a piece of coffeecake on the weekend with your first cup of coffee? Ok, maybe two pieces of cinnamon walnut coffeecake.
Link Love
Interesting articles and links I discovered this week.
An Ode to Kraft Dinner, Food of Troubled Times
Tarot Mythology: The Surprising Origins of the World’s Most Misunderstood Cards
Why Are Truffles So Expensive?
For Humpbacks, Bubbles Can Be Tools
Duolingo Transformed Me Into a Monster
In a Famed Kenyan Game Park, the Animals Are Giving Up
TikTok’s obsession with anti-aging comes to a head
What the Longest Study on Human Happiness Found Is the Key to a Good Life
4 Cheap European Airlines That U.S. Travelers Should Know About
Books
Books that I am reading and adding to my stack.
The Magnolia Place
Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter’s life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists’ models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate—the work has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion—a building that, ironically, bears her own visage—Lillian jumps at the chance. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding Helen Frick, the daughter and heiress of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick, the more deeply her life gets intertwined with that of the family—pulling her into a tangled web of romantic trysts, stolen jewels, and family drama that runs so deep, the stakes just may be life or death.
This Time Tommorrow
On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush, it’s her dad: the vital, charming, 40-something version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?
The Collected Regrets of Clover
From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit, Clover Brooks has felt a stronger connection with the dying than she has with the living. After the beloved grandfather who raised her dies alone while she is traveling, Clover becomes a death doula in New York City, dedicating her life to ushering people peacefully through their end-of-life process.
Clover spends so much time with the dying that she has no life of her own, until the final wishes of a feisty old woman send Clover on a trip across the country to uncover a forgotten love story––and perhaps, her own happy ending. As she finds herself struggling to navigate the uncharted roads of romance and friendship, Clover is forced to examine what she really wants, and whether she’ll have the courage to go after it.
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Finds
Look of the Week
jeans//shirt//loafers//fair isle sweater//bag//earrings
Before I tell you about my favorite finds this week. wanted to let you know about a few things that I shared this past week.
I ordered this stripped shirt and it arrived yesterday, it is well made and fits great but I am not sure that it is “me.”
Cute Love sweatshirt.
This box is perfect for homemade sweet treats or small purchased Valentine’s Day Gifts.
Hearts and flower pajamas, a comfy Valentine’s Day gift.
UNTIL TOMORROW
Have a great day friends, I hope you found something to read, make or enjoy on Friday Favorites. If you make one of the featured recipes come back and let us know how you liked it!
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I hope to see you back here tomorrow for Weekend Meanderings with Kim and Juliet!
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The coffee cake and Valentines shop did it for me! Great stuff Elizabeth! ❤️
Cute red and white pajamas! As for books, I have two stacks next to my bed to read.
Brenda
I’d go for the coffee cake.
All of the recipes look delicious! Love the Valentines goodies too!