Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
It was all apples and pumpkins this past weekend. Fall must be close, it is my favorite time of year! Pumpkin waffles with cinnamon sugar butter, pumpkin beer, grilled cheese and apple, pumpkin cupcakes with Nutella buttercream and salted butterscotch, warm caramel apple cider, farmers market donuts. It was out first trip the farmers market…
Finally managed to get a few more books under my belt. Just in the time for book club, though we’ve taken the book out of book club and are calling it was it is, girls night out also dubbed thirty Thursday. Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple I loved this book! Quirky and witty…
A free evening is rare these days. A free evening that coincides with me having inspiration and energy to cook is even more rare. I was hoping to give duck breast a try, no luck finding any. All for the best because I ran across this recipe in a cookbook my mom passed along to…
We are losing daylight folks, my time reading on the front porch after work is very limited these days. I need a lamp, which requires an outlet, which means a call to an electrician, and then leads to all the other electrical work we need done, which means it will take me ten years, give…
I have finally been back to reading, funny how that happens when you turn off the tv. Even in this heat wave it is a pleasure to sit on the front porch and get lost in a book. I have all but given up on reading on my iPad, though I did manage to enjoy…
August was a blur, seriously. I guess time flies when you are having fun. Between vacation, catching up from vacation, and getting my daughter ready for school I only got one book read in August. Lame. At least it was a book I enjoyed. A Visit from the Goon Squad is the first book I…
I love summer reading! It reminds me of the summer book reading program we always did at the library when we had nothing but time to read and fill our cards with stickers. I can vividly recall sitting in our quaint local library like it was yesterday. Such a good summer memory that summer always…
Sheesh, June came and went in a blink of an eye. I am still not feeling like it is summer, a trip to the beach this weekend should do the trick. Not too much reading this month. I finished Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, the second book in The Hunger Games series. I liked it…
I am so happy to have gotten reading groove back this month, it helps to have found some great books. I devoured this memoir Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life by Kim Severson. Severson is a food writer for the NY Times and tells her personal story intertwined with interviews and tidbits with…
I ran across a lot of recipes this week that I want to try. Like these zucchini toasts, shaved asparagus pizza , leek toasts with blue cheese . I sense an outdoor cocktail evening coming on! I love coconut milk and poaching is a great hot weather way to cook fish, check out this recipe….