I saw a few of you wooing autumn, posting memes on Facebook. You longed for fall's speedy advent. I didn’t appreciate then, and I’m rebelling against it today with Poolside Pasta Salad. However, the colors in this salad — gosh, they look a lot like the gorgeous scenery outside. I left out the asparagus and filled [...]
If readers of Read Fast, Eat Slow would like to feast on some LDS books this summer, hurry over to New LDS Fiction and sign up for the Summer Book Trek. […]
We checked into a Chicago hotel Friday night and soon discovered that we were sharing the premises with the Lutheran Marriage Encounter. All those nice people walking in with their notebooks--I wonder what they hoped to improve over the weekend. Half the fun of hotels is sharing them with Groups. We've passed through lobbies full of Mary Kay reps (High heels! Perfect faces! Pink Escalades!) [...]
Well, today we have, on the Finished Book Pile, The Dream Life of Sukhanov, an elegantly written and richly imagined novel by Olga Grushin. At first, I wasn't so sure. A quick glance over the jacket copy left me reluctant to plunge in. The story centers on the 50-something protagonist. Who wants to read a book about someone in their 50s? I thought before I, [...]
It's been an excruciatingly boring food week. Sunday was a day of intrigue and upset affairs and I just couldn't pull things together enough to fix what was on the menu. Then my husband went off to Atlanta and there was little reason to cook anything at all. Then one day, I don't remember when, I bought the ingredients I forgot to buy earlier and [...]
