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Tag Archives: cooking

Gratitude for crockpots

The PolyBlog
January 7 2015

Gratitude post for day #7…Today I am grateful for crockpots. We did a simple recipe this morning, or rather Andrea did (I just chose the recipe options and did the groceries, she assembled stuff). But tonight when we got home, dinner was ready. We don’t use it near enough, particularly in the winter. But a goal of mine is to do it once a week at least until Spring.

Onward in the journey…

Posted in Health and Spiritualism | Tagged 2015, cooking, goals, gratitude, spiritualism | Leave a reply

Scarpetta’s Winter Table by Patricia Cornwell (1998) – BR00087 (1999) – 🐸⚪⚪⚪⚪

The PolyBlog
October 10 1999

Plot or Premise

A cookbook disguised as a novel.

What I Liked

Nothing.

What I Didn’t Like

It was ADVERTISED as a combination of a cookbook with stories about Dr. Kay Scarpetta, and in that light, it fails on all counts. There IS no story, and nothing happening in the non-story — and worse still, none of the characters act like they do in the novels. The recipes are interesting, but far from revolutionary. This book seems to have been issued for one reason and one reason only — to milk some money out of the fans and to give them almost nothing in return.

The Bottom Line

Worthless.

Posted in Lilypad Reviews, Lilypad-Library | Tagged Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, ARC, audio, B&N, book review, borrowed, Brennan, cooking, e-book, fiction, gift, Good Reads, hardcover, library, Library Thing, mystery, new, non-fiction, novel, paperback, PolyWogg, prose, series, used | Leave a reply

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