Welcome to Litsy!

#AboutABook

For today‘s #YouGifted prompt, here are three books I like to gift to foodie friends. 💙🍽️💙

🥓Give me all the breakfast foods!
🥚I love a good foodie book, especially when it includes recipes like the tagged book. It‘s an oldie but a goodie.
#Two4Tuesday

The first time I made oatmeal for breakfast this season. #Scarathlon2022 #ScarathlonBucketList #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious

#gratefulharvest

These two books of short food essays & recipes say #home to me. I have them by my nightstand & pull them out when I am in need of comfort. Laurie Colwin wrote so beautifully. ❤️❤️❤️

It‘s hard not to love a book about food. Love how Colwin shares both her kitchen triumphs and disasters in this charming read. You can picture her in her tiny apartment with the child‘s playhouse sized refrigerator and hot plate, to her current kitchen surrounded by the things she considers essentials. Enjoyed both the stories and her recipes.

I thoroughly enjoyed this slim book of comforting food/cooking essays. Just right for the moment.

Moving on to the second collection published posthumously.

My sister in salt.

Sometimes you find writing that speaks to you. 😁

Loving Colwin‘s attitudes about food and cooking.

I took a shine to this author right away. She‘s no-nonsense & unsentimental in the kitchen, filling each chapter with anecdote and tale that lead to a recipe. Her tiny apartments & kitchens (once only a burner) and her lack of kitchen devices harken back in my memory to a grand-aunt‘s minuscule kitchen and the delights that she sent forth from it. I so enjoyed her voice each morning that I was taken aback & grieved to find she had died in 1992.

One of my very favorite books about food and cooking. Who could resist an opening line such as this: "Unlike some people, who love to go out, I love to stay home"? When I read this book, I felt I'd made a friend who would have come to dinner, gladly, with me. I was so saddened when I read the small comment that "Laurie Colwin died in 1992." But what a wonderful thing that we have her words forever, to accompany our forays into the kitchen.

From 1987, when I didn‘t read it. A book of essays on food and cooking. Some recipes, but mostly essays on her life involving food, entertaining and friends. I like her writing style and sense of humor. Wish I hadn‘t waited so long to read it.

I love ground cherries! Got a nice bunch at the swappers meet today so I just spent the last 15 minutes taking their husks off so they are ready to go in a salad or just be eaten for a snack! Yum!! #bfc

“Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir”

Hahahahahahaha!

Rescued this one from the discard pile when the book sale was over. The light tone was good for the brain- fried me and I cooked two things today. Admittedly, one was because I just didn‘t want to change out of pajama pants to go out and get it, but I now feel like I‘ve accomplished something today. 😄

Just missing the rolls , and roasted pears for dessert. Happy holidays everyone!

Rummaging thru cookbooks and I leafed thru this family gem from 1959. Church cookbook from Zell, SD which is truly in the middle of nowhere. Anyway, I snorted when I saw the diet section in the back and found lobster on the lunch menu. You couldn‘t have found a lobster within 200+ miles! 😂😂

I needed some new recipe inspiration. There are some yummy looking, easy recipes I‘m looking forward to trying. And no, I‘m not on a Keto diet, it just looked good.

I made this earlier today, first time making New York Cheesecake. Getting ready to give it a try while kicking back with Joe Hill 😉

🥪 Any cookbook with quick and simple casserole and crockpot recipes.

🥪 Noooooo!

🥪 Alex Guarnaschelli

🥪 I'm not sure it's weird but growing up in Malaysia, this is my favourite breakfast: 2 soft-boiled eggs mixed with Marmite/Bovril. I had it with toast and coffee/tea 😋

Thank you @JoScho for today's #manicmonday! 💕🤗

#TuneIntoNovember #AwakeMySoul #recommendsday 📚I read before bed to relax my mind & body but also to awaken my soul. For that, these 2 books are perfect. Home Cooking & its follow up More Home Cooking are filled with Laurie Colwin's brilliant & beautiful food writing in the form of warm, witty essays & some simple recipes too-like the lentil soup pictured. Colwin died of a heart attack at 48 in 1992 but her words are timeless & soul-satisfying.💜

When I am not reading/on Litsy I like to cook! Big ol' pot of Buffalo Chicken Chili for dinner tonight! #littensoffline #MyLifeInBites

@Robothugs @Jess7 @EllieDottie @BookishJess @Laura317 @zelma what do you guys do when not reading?!

@The-Flashley

Laurie Colwin describes her home cooking successes and failures in this yummy collection of essays. Now I want to be more adventurous in the kitchen, because as Laurie writes "...the joy of cooking is the joy of discovery".

Went to my bookshelf to put something away and picked up this book. It fell open to the essay on potato salad. I read it and Laurie Colwin made me crave potato salad, of which I'm not even a huge fan.

I love food writing, especially with recipes! #cookbookfoodthemedbooks #riotgrams

If you have a Kindle & love great writing/food writing, grab a copy of Home Cooking on sale for $1.99 today. If you don't know Laurie Colwin, she was a wonderful writer of fiction & two collections of food essays who was taken far too soon in 1992 at the age of 48. I have my old paperback copies of this & More Home Cooking by my bed. Her passion for food & cooking comes through every page in a warm, conversation style-with recipes mixed in too🍴📚

Loved, loved, loved, loved, loved this. As others have said, it feels very much like having a conversation at someone's kitchen table. The author is funny, honest, and cozy. A wonderful read. I already have the second (More Home Cooking) from the library! Digging in today. 😉☕️🍗🍳🍆

My Friday Fun Photo comfort reads. Laurie Colwin and her great love of gingerbread and words.

Attempt at overnight bread recipe Colwin adapted from Elizabeth David.