More Reading and Eating
Ah, so many good meals and books lately! Great reading and eating make life so much more fun, right? Let’s start with some meals… The first pumpkin waffles of Pumpkin Palooza! The recipe is from Nora Cooks. Sometimes I replace part of the liquid with coffee to make them into pumpkin latte waffles- but I didn’t have any coffee this time. Still so good! This was the first official dinner of Pumpkin Palooza- Pumpkin Sage Pasta from Julie’s Kitchenette. I sauteed and sliced up a Beyond sausage to go in my husband’s portion, but I don’t like sausage, even if it’s vegan. We loved this dinner. I know this may come as a surprise, but I don’t spend the month of September eating only pumpkin. I got this recipe for Cashew Tofu from Birchwood Pie. It is CRAZY GOOD. The tofu cubes are tossed with oil, soy sauce, and corn starch and then baked. Then you add them to the stir fry. It’s already delicious but adding cashews to any stir fry really kicks it up a notch. Okay, enough of the low-quality food pictures. Let’s talk about books! This was recommended to me by The Time For Change. She described it as an antidote to the “I finished Harry Potter and now my reading life has no meaning” dilemma. Assassin’s Apprentice is the first book of an epic 16-book fantasy series, and I loved it. The magic in this world is woven into the story in a subtle and fascinating way. Of course it’s completely different than Harry Potter, but I’m excited to continue on and become more engrossed in the world. But first, I had a couple other projects… I had such an odd relationship with Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks. I read the first chapter and loved it so much, I wrote an entire blog post about it. Then I put it down and forgot about it for a few weeks. I picked it back up and read a couple more chapters, loved them, then put it down again. Finally, after months of renewing it, the library decided they wanted their book back, so I quickly read the last few chapters before returning it. And I loved them! I was mad I had to rush through them. Now I want to check it out again- or maybe this is a book I should just buy. Speaking of which… I went to Barnes and Noble and bought this the day it came out- I never do that, but I love this series so much (J.K. Rowling aka “Robert Galbraith” is still my favorite author of all time.) This book is the sixth in the Cormoran Strike mystery series. It’s over 1000 pages (yay!) and I didn’t get it from the library because I didn’t want to rush through it- I assume because it’s new, the library wouldn’t let me renew it. I’ve settled down for many, many nights of happy reading. Do you like fantasy novels? – I didn’t use to, but after reading Harry Potter I’m liking the genre more and more. I know I’ve asked this before, but do you have a favorite author? – You can narrow it down to two or three if you want!