Category: Clubs and Blog Hops

  • The Family Stone Round-Up

    The Family Stone Round-Up

    Welcome to the December Round-Up for Food ‘n Flix. This month’s film was The Family Stone. Need a great strata recipe or a wonderful holiday snack? Read on.

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  • The Family Stone Breakfast Strata

    The Family Stone Breakfast Strata

    A holiday movie and a great Christmas brunch recipe. Here’s the December Food ‘n Flix post. I hope you all had a very happy holiday!

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  • “In My Kitchen” November 2021

    “In My Kitchen” November 2021

    To begin, I had this post started long ago.   It was just a list of ideas and reminders.   I’m having a difficult time with WordPress and photos lately (any tips?) and so I’m having to go through some convolutions to get them in the library. I had it scheduled, would forget, it would post and…

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  • Family Stone, a holiday movie for Food ‘n Flix

    Family Stone, a holiday movie for Food ‘n Flix

    Announcement post: I’m hosting Family Stone for the December Food ‘n Flix feature film. Please join in for this family holiday dramedy.

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  • Cinnamon and Gunpowder Muffins for CTB

    Cinnamon and Gunpowder Muffins for CTB

    I about screwed up. I was thinking I had until the end of December for this round of Cook the Books. Claudia from Honey from Rock is hosting Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown.  You can read her announcement post here. The book has been on my bedside table for a couple of months.  I did…

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  • the moon won’t be dared and a recipe in the ashes

    the moon won’t be dared and a recipe in the ashes

    Today’s book review (another TLC Book Tour Stopover) is a work of poetry by Anne Leigh Parrish. I paired a recipe literally cooked in the ashes to accompany the theme of fire and destruction on Parrish’s works.

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  • Spicy White Pumpkin Soup for a Friendsgiving

    Spicy White Pumpkin Soup for a Friendsgiving

    Welcome to the Food ‘n Flix’ November film, Friendsgiving.  Heather (the founder of Food ‘n Flix) is hosting this month.  It’s good to have her back! Friendsgiving is not a film I would have sought out.  I think the movie poster is a bit misleading.It’s misleading because Wanda Sykes is front and center at the top.  (She…

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  • Roman Pasta and Only You

    Roman Pasta and Only You

    The October Food ‘n Flix feature is Only You with a VERY young Marissa Tomei and Robert Downey, Jr. Seriously, they look like they’re twelve. 🙂 As part of the film is set in Rome, I found an “authentic” pasta to prepare.

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  • What’s Good?  This maple-whiskey cocktail and Peter Hoffman’s Book #LitHappens

    What’s Good? This maple-whiskey cocktail and Peter Hoffman’s Book #LitHappens

    I was please to get an advanced copy of Peter Hoffman’s memoir, What’s Good? A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients. Here’s my review along with Hoffman’s Back Forty cocktail.

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  • October 2021 “In My Kitchen”

    October 2021 “In My Kitchen”

    No new gadgetry in the kitchen this month, but there’s some new recipes and some pumpkin products to celebrate the season. I also think I might be becoming a vegetarian….

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