Blogs I Love, Food I Love, Books I Love and How to Procrastinate Deadlines

by Kathleen Daelemans

Blogs I love:

Author, Dorie Greenspan's. Her latest book is, Baking, From My Home to Yours.

Why do I love Dories Blog? Because in times of stress (or boredom or plain old fashioned envy) I can live vicariously through her.

And...Every Single Recipe She Creates, Works.

And Every Single recipe of hers I've tried, I LOVE.

In particular (this week) and especially, her recipe for, Pierre Herme's Most Extraordinary French Lemon Tart (which she recently "re-thunk" on her blog) so If you're going to attempt it (and I highly recommend that you do) read her Lemon Tart Crib Notes before you prepare the tart for the first time.
                                                                                        Personally, I didn't have any problems with the recipe which is saying a lot because I'm definitely the William Hung of baking. My crust came out beautifully. The curd was easy enough and there were no Kat-astrophies in the kitchen (except when the last piece disappeared).

Books I Love

I don't know if I'm actually going to love either of these two books but I've ordered them both from Amazon:

Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie is Not The Answer by Jen Lancaster. I loved her first book (or maybe it was her second)...

Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered, Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office.

I even read her other book, Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Ofen Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?

Since I can't stand it when someone critiques my writing, especially when it's obvious by their "review" they haven't read the entire piece (or book, or books) or even tried the recipes, I will keep my comments to myself. Except these (because I love it when someone tells me the name of a book that was so funny  it made them google: Depends, online coupons), I really, really liked, Bitter is the New Black. It's laugh-out-loud, cancel your date, hilarious.

Book Number Two (I Hope to Love):

Three Weeks with My Brother
by Micah Sparks and Nicholas Sparks.

I do not consider myself a Nicholas Sparks fan but I am a fan of my mother's. She liked the book so much she stayed up till midnight to finish it and told me about it three times.


What does any of this have to do with cooking? 

I have successfully procrastinated my deadlines another day (in the most productive way of course). I got up a new post on my blog!

Comments

[Catherine]

Three Weeks With My Brother is a fantastic book. I am also not a big Sparks fan, but loved that one.

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