Magnolia Table: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering
by Joanna Gaines
This second cookbook by HGTV host and founder of Magnolia Table
and Silos Baking Co. (Texas) offers a new selection of recipes for fans, new
and old. Gaines covers the basics (for
example: cracker crusts, homemade tortillas and noodles), offers suggestions
for homemade spice mixes, before diving into Breakfast, Soups and Salads, Appetizers
and Starters, Side Dishes (such as the Cauliflower “Couscous” ---grain free
shown in picture), Dinner, and Desserts.
Each recipe that can be found at one of the restaurants Gaines (along
with her husband Chip) founded is clearly marked. Several recipes have anecdotes and tips, but
readers who are not familiar with the Gaines’s success might welcome more backstory
and anecdotal information. The Gaines’s have
a large family (four children) and are used to running a restaurant so many of the
recipes make a lot; most are easy to scale, and many can be frozen for later
use. Clean and well-laid out, this book
will be a favorite for home cooks, especially for her fan base.
The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant by Kayte
Nunn
Shortly after World War II and the death of her son, Esther
Durrant sinks into a deep depression; her husband commits her to an isolated
mental asylum on an island off the coast of England. Under the care of Dr. Richard Creswell,
Esther begins to slowly heal, and take comfort on her small island. Almost seventy years later, the island,
Little Embers, is all but deserted when Rachel Parker, a marine biologist is ship-wrecked
on the island and finds hidden love letters on the island and is determined to
find the person to whom the letters were written. When she crosses paths with Eve who is in
London helping her grandmother write her memoirs, irrevocable events are set
into motion that will reveal long-kept, long-hidden secrets. For fans of The Guernsey Literary and
Potato Peel Pie Society and The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir.
The Silent Treatment by Abbie Greaves
This assured debut begins with Maggie taking a handful of
sleeping pills and her husband Frank, who is playing chess in the next room,
finds her only when their smoke detector goes off. As Maggie lies in the hospital, her life in
the balance, Frank tries to find the words to tell her why he hasn’t spoken to
her in six months: he is carrying a tremendous burden and hopes the telling of
their story, the telling of the reason fo his silence, will bring his wife, the
love of his life, back to him. Greaves’s
pacing is perfect in this exquisitely painful portrait of a marriage that is as
heartbreaking as it is life affirming.
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