CHUsday: What Will You CHUse To Make This Month?
Congratulations to Nancy Badertscher, who won last month’s CHU giveaway by trying a vegetarian broccoli quiche to feed her visiting vegetarian children. Nancy used a recipe from Pillsbury’s Easy Vegetarian Meals, and I’m providing the link to the same quiche, as well as the cookbook.
Read MoreSunday Poetry: So Long As I Am Not In Danger
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday blogs here. I loved today’s poem the moment it found me. Maybe I love it most because we rejoined Netflix this month after a summer away, and in the past two weeks I’ve seen more movies than…
Read MoreBooks As Weapons: A War on Words
Tomorrow is the final day of Banned Books Week, 2011. In the words of the American Library Association: “Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while…
Read MoreCHUsday and Bread’s Baking in the Oven
If you’ve tuned in for the first time, you can read all about CHUsday and my monthly giveaway here. Or go to Cookbook Hoarders United under categories and see what we’ve been doing. The comments have slacked off, so if you’re pulling out old cookbooks, you’re not telling me and entering the giveaway. Why not…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: I Cried Over Beautiful Things
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday blogs here. Friday was the first day of fall, and deserves a poem in commemoration. I’ve chosen Autumn Movement by Carl Sandburg, and because it’s in public domain, I can quote it here. Autumn, a time…
Read MoreWaiting And Praying For The End
In my house it’s easy to tell how close I am to turning in a book. 1–We eat takeout and frozen foods from the last decade. 2–I begin to wear clothing that under normal circumstances I would use to dust my furniture. 3–I can’t remember the date, often even the month, since it does NOT…
Read MoreCHUsday: Where Do You Go When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking?
Let’s get the biz part over fast. In an effort to make use of some of those MANY cookbooks lining your shelves, some (most?) of which you haven’t opened in a year, we’re doing a fun giveaway here called Cookbook Hoarders United. Just try a recipe from one of your orphaned cookbooks (one you haven’t…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: The Domesticity of Addition
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday blogs here. Today’s poem, Numbers by Mary Cornish, comes to us from Poetry 180, and I’ve included it in honor of all those students and teachers back in classrooms this month, struggling with addition or algebra or calculus. …
Read MoreThe Write Way: Daily News, Daily Blues, Pick Out a Story Every Time You Choose
Okay, who remembers Tom Paxton? Remember his song Daily News? “Daily news, daily blues, pick up a copy every time you choose. Seven little pennies in the newsboy’s hand. . .” Seven little pennies? Newsboy? How old is this song, anyway? Apparently it’s this old: “Civil rights leaders are a pain in the neck, can’t…
Read MoreCHUsday’s Winner and Herbed Oven Crisp Chicken
We completed August with some great entries in the CHU giveaway. Random.org chose Lee Ann’s entry–which was actually the first–a selection from the cookbook, Adventures In Cooking, from the Sunnyside Presbyterian Church in South Bend, Indiana and submitted by a Mrs. G.V. Swigart. The book came to Lee Ann from Great-Grandmother “B,” and Lee Ann chose…
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