Welcome to Litsy!

3 F this morning - it‘s going to another very long winter at this rate. 🥶 So I‘m thinking Mexico - shrimp tacos for dinner!

This is such a great little cookbook, highly recommend. It sprang from salsa days at an adult ESL program where students were learning to translate kitchen measurements. Proceeds benefit the school.

I‘m thinking about the avocado/tomatillo salsa, if I can find either of those ripe!

I listened to a big chunk of HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE while I baked one of the great mysteries of my culinary life: Nigella Lawson‘s cranberry cake. It‘s delicious, and it never looks anything like the picture because the cranberries always float up into the batter.

I think Canadian cranberries must be much lighter than the UK kind. The recipe says 6oz = 3/4 cup, but I‘ve found it‘s more like 2+ cups. #audiobaking

Lovely, like a chat with an old friend. Gorgeous photos, intriguing recipes I can‘t wait to try. I‘m glad I got this from the library, I‘m not sure I‘d need to own it, but the perfect read to pop in and out of while chilling.

I forgot to take a picture of my #Booknbrunch for #LitsyPartyOfOne As I‘ve said I‘m not much of a snack at at home so here‘s the remnants of my bacon and egg sandwich 🥪. I don‘t think I‘ll finish Royal Holiday today because I unexpectedly have a toddler. But I did finish an audiobook this morning so I‘m still making progress.

#MrBook1InAMillion Readathon #24B4Monday @MrBook

Bus book #3! (I don‘t think I‘ll be able to finish #4.) I hate cooking (for many reasons). But after reading this book, I‘m excited about looking at the chore of cooking with a renewed interest! The writing makes every kind of cooking seem so achievable. And the illustrations are so so so charming. 🍏🍅🧄🥔🥐

#booksbrewsandbooze #newaddition #cookbook #orangelavenderandfigs #fannyslater

These recipes are inspired by Jane Austen‘s letters + novels. Many of the recipes are reworkings from cookbooks from that time. For each section, she includes excepts from Austen‘s letters/novels.

This is a lovely cookbook with a cloth cover, thick matte pages, + numerous color photos. There are informative two pages descriptions on things like mealtimes (General Tilney), servants, table arrangements. The best recipes are the deserts and breads.

These Cherries 🍒 en Chemise are inspired by the dried cherries Mrs. Jennings offers the broken hearted Marianne.

#NFNov

These are Baked Compote Apples. The Bates‘ twice-baked apples 🍎 would have been left for 2-3 nights in a baker‘s cooling brick oven, but these can be made in a conventional oven.

#NFNov #LitsyPartyof1 #24B4Monday #MrBook1inaMillion

Some cozy reading and a little crocheting on this very cold evening. Now I need to make some tea...☕
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