Friday Favorites No. 599 from Gypsyplate, Julia’s Album, Closet Cooking and more.

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FRIDAY FAVORITES NO. 599

Good morning friends!

Happy Friday! Did you have a nice week? We had a busy week and a few annoying problems. I won’t go into the details because we all have weeks like that.

The weather is perfect this week. When I say that I feel like a character in a Regency novel where the weather is a frequent topic of conversation. That said, it is beautiful, not too hot but sunny and cool at night. We had the windows open this week and it was blissful to wake to a chill.

Nothing much on the schedule for the weekend except to get ready for the guests arriving on Wednesday night. It’s my brother-in-laws birthday this coming week and lots of family are coming to celebrate.

Enough about me , tell me, what has been going on in your world this week?

As always, I have lots to share so let’s get to all of our Friday Favorites!

FOOD

This week I am sharing recipes to make this Fall as the weather turns a little chilly.

I love a good Crock pot dinner. This Greek crockpot chicken is next on my list, chicken, lemons, olives, herbs and honey. Make sure to bookmark this recipe.

Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta with Sausage and Spinach is the perfect comfort food for Fall.

I make this Maple Roasted Acorn Squash all Fall and Winter long. It it a delicious meatless dinner served with a side salad.

Pumpkin Zucchini nut bread, an easy and delicious quick bread.

LINKS TO READ+WATCH+LISTEN

How to create a simple breakfast station.

Weight loss drugs have transformed an American city. Is that a good thing?

You Can’t Escape the Office Diet Police

Are Athletes Born or Made? A New Study Reveals Which Fitness Traits Are Primarily Genetic.

Why the French rarely say ‘I love you’

Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses

Miss the Olympics? Here’s Everything We Know About the 2028 Games in Los Angeles

An Ode to Old Bay, the Great American Condiment

BOOKS

The Gilly Salt Sisters

In the isolated Cape Cod village of Prospect, the Gilly sisters are as different as can be. Jo, a fierce and quiet loner, is devoted to the mysteries of her family’s salt farm, while Claire is popular, pretty, and yearns to flee the salt at any cost. But the Gilly land hides a dark legacy that proves impossible to escape. Although the community half-suspects the Gilly sisters might be witches, it doesn’t stop Whit Turner, the town’s wealthiest bachelor, from forcing his way into their lives. It’s Jo who first steals Whit’s heart, but it is Claire–heartbroken over her high school sweetheart–who marries him.

Years later, estranged from her family, Claire finds herself thrust back onto the farm with the last person she would have chosen: her husband’s pregnant mistress. Suddenly, alliances change, old loves return, and new battle lines are drawn. What the Gilly sisters learn about each other, the land around them, and the power of the salt, will not only change each of their lives forever, it will also alter Gilly history for good.

The Consequence of Anna

Set against the sprawling backdrop of 1930s Australia, Anna May Shahan is a wild child raised on a lush farm by the sea, always barefoot and playing in her neighbor’s secret garden. Her Aboriginal nanny teaches her the ways of the land, and she grows up to be a quirky, eccentric, and sweet woman. But she is not without her demons, as she struggles with bizarre behaviors and a haunting, dark side.

Soon after marriage, Anna inherits Sugar Alexandria, her family’s sheep station, and she and her Irish husband James lead a simple, hardworking life. That is until Anna’s beautiful widowed cousin Lottie returns from London after being absent for over a decade. Lottie confesses to Anna her heart’s greatest desire to have a child, and Anna, in fear of losing her beloved cousin again, seeks to grant her wish by means of her own husband. What happens next brings devastating consequences for them all . . .

The Moonflowers

Tig Costello has arrived in Darren, Kentucky, commissioned to paint a portrait honoring her grandfather Benjamin. His contributions to the rural Appalachian town and his unimpeachable war service have made him a local hero. But to Tig, he’s a relative stranger. To find out more about him, Tig wants to talk to the person who knew her grandfather best: Eloise Price, the woman who murdered him fifty years ago.

Still confined to a state institution, Eloise has a lifetime of stories to tell. She agrees to share them all—about herself, about Tig’s enigmatic grandmother, and about the other brave and desperate women who passed through Benjamin’s orbit. Most revealing of all is the truth about Whitmore Halls, the mansion on the hill that was home to triage, rescue, death, and one inevitable day that changed Eloise’s life forever.

As Tig begins to piece together the puzzle of her mysterious family tree, it sends her spiraling toward a confrontation with her own painful past—and a reconciliation with all its heartrending secrets.

The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt

This is such a cute book for your kids or grandkids.

Ghosts are supposed to be sheets, light as air and able to whirl and twirl and float and soar. But the little ghost who is a quilt can’t whirl or twirl at all, and when he flies, he gets very hot.

He doesn’t know why he’s a quilt. His parents are both sheets, and so are all of his friends. (His great-grandmother was a lace curtain, but that doesn’t really help cheer him up.) He feels sad and left out when his friends are zooming around and he can’t keep up.

But one Halloween, everything changes. The little ghost who was a quilt has an experience that no other ghost could have, an experience that only happens because he’s a quilt . . . and he realizes that it’s OK to be different.

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SHOPPING

OUTFIT OF THE DAY

A beautiful color combination for Fall and winter is gray and wine, burgundy or dusty purple. Classic gray tweed pants or plain gray pants paired with a white t-shirt or white button down and a burgundy sweater looks beautiful. Add black ballet flats, loafers or even tennis shoes and a bag and you are ready for the day. This outfit will take you from day to night and out for lunch or to the office.

Outfit Details~Click the photos for more information

THAT’S ALL FOR NOW

What are your weekend plans?

Tell me something that made you smile this week!

I hope you enjoyed the recipes, links and books I discovered this week on Friday Favorites. Thank you for spending part of your day with me, your time is valuable and I am grateful that you spend a little of each day with me.  Have a wonderful weekend.

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