Life with a Pinch of Sarcasm
Old Fashioned Orange Pecan Scones Ingredients: 2 cups flour 2 tps baking powder 1/2 cup sugar 2 tsp grated orange rind 1/3 cup butter 1/2 cup buttermilk 1/4 cup fresh orange juice 1/2 cup chopped pecans 1 tsp vanilla Granulated Sugar for sprinkling. Directions: Combine first 4 ingredients. Cut butter into flour mixture with [...]
Excellent book. Chock full of friendship, growing up and adventure. Well written and touching. It reminded me of Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues. The boys in Bridges were full of the piss and vinegar of the curious and the ignorant. But, by the end of their hardship, they had grown and their friendships solidified. Very good [...]
Wednesday Words to Use and Peruse Words are the most precious commodity a writer has to express feelings, situations, people, thought or place. Nothing is more frustrating and beautiful than words. Spoken out loud, they have a generous tenor but written they have to be concise, correct and written well. The spoken word may have [...]
District 9 is an older movie that has not received the acclaim that it deserves with the general public. The derogatory term “Prawns” is used ot describe these aliens who are just trying to survive on this planter that they got stranded on. Their ship got damaged and they hovered over South Africa settling down [...]
Courgettes Apple Walnut Chie Sonia Easy Makes 4 servings Ingredients -3 tablespoons olive oil -2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar or balsamic -2 tablespoons minced red onions -1 tablespoon honey or pure maple syrup -1/2 cup dried tart cherries or Sultanas -6 cups Sliced Courgettes -1 medium Granny Smith apple, cored, thinly sliced, do [...]
OMG what an amazing story of a woman made to marry another besides the one she loves. Her husband is good to her within reason but has his own shameful secrets. Her brother, a terror always in her life. Family secrets and lies. And art in every corner, description of frescoes and churches beautifully done. Beautifully [...]
Wednesday Words to Use and Peruse A new list of phrases and sentence starters that will help make your writing more interesting and readable. Nothing makes for annoying writing and reading but dull beginnings and more of the same throughout a story or novel. Every week on Wednesday will be a list of phrases, sentence [...]
From Paris With Love is John Travolta on Steroids. He was his rocking amazing handsome wonderful self with all the arrogance that role required of him. An undercover agent who does things his own way leads to hilarity and conclusion with solution to the problems he faced. This assistant to the Ambassador in France is [...]
