Eating Well

Weekend Cooking is hosted by Beth Fish Reads each week and offers a unique way to merge booking with cooking!


It took a while for summer to arrive here in the great Northwest, but arrive it did. And with it came my yearly desire for new summer friendly recipes. Every week I scour the few cooking blogs I know of looking for new inspiration. But this last week, we were on vacation and stayed in a hotel that had extended cable, which is something we do not have here at home. And on that cable was a station called the Food Network. I am sure you all have access to it and I am the last woman on earth to not. Anyway, I watched a few shows and then when we got home I spent some time perusing their website. I found a recipe that looked so yummy I decided we had to have it that same night.

It is a Emeril Lagasse's Bayou Chicken Pasta.



To say it was a hit would be an understatement. We were fighting for the leftovers the next day.
It was easy and did not require me to turn the oven on--a big requirement for summer meals.

So now, I am thinking I should check into some of his cookbooks. I am thinking of looking for this one first.....
The reviews on Amazon are very positive. I hope my library has a copy!

Summer Give-Away!!

We had new carpet installed today in our den. After a huge remodel over the past 2 months, we are finally able to move everything back in there. A large bookcase holding many, many of my books was re-installed and ready for my books to get put back on it.

Immediately one thing became very, very, clear..


...I desperately need to clean off those bookshelves, but some of these books are too good to just giveaway to the thrift store. So, the first one to comment on each of these books, gets them. Let me know which book you would like and leave me an email address so I can contact you. It doesn't get any easier than this!

Still here and reading lots.
Oh boy--the reviews to be written are stacking up.
I may just give up on the challenge to review everything I read this year....

We are on vacation this week--so we made our yearly trip to Moses Lake for 3 days and played in the sun at the city's water park. We all got nicely crispy fried in temps that reached the mid 90's!

We are home now, and today, we had carpet installed in 2 rooms. I must get off the computer and help out with reassembling the rooms.

But first, I must say that I finished the 7th Maisie Dobb installment this morning and I enjoyed it as much, if not more, than some of the others. A great vacation read.