Tag: nonfiction

Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of Courage and Old German Banana Bread

  Recipe link Honestly, I had some bananas I needed to use so found this recipe. To the book… I loved this book.  How many […]

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The Nazi Officer’s Wife (and two others I couldn’t finish) and beef goulash

  Recipe link First, I am totally shocked I actually tried a new recipe right now.  Since school has started, I have not felt like […]

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If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

  Due to the nature of the book, I felt that cooking a recipe would be somewhat insensitive.  I had never heard of this book […]

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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust and Diphaphata

Recipe link Ok. So Diphaphata is not a traditional Rwandan recipe.  I could not find a Rwandan recipe that was simple to make with ingredients […]

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Three book reviews for the price of one (reading)… One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love, The Sanatorium: A Novel, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  I made this meme a few years ago.  It perfectly “explains” why this blog post is different than my previous posts: IT IS THE […]

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Upstairs at the White House and Coconut Macaroons

  Recipe link (scroll down) Finding a recipe for this book was a little tricky since the book detailed a thirty year time frame-  from FDR […]

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God and Government by Chuck Colson

  “A patriot sees the flaws of his country, acknowledges them, weeps for them, but remains faithful in love,” – Chuck Colson Anyone who knows […]

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What Remains and Challah

 What Remains by Carole Radziwill and Challah  The recipe link The memoir takes place in New England; however, I was tired of making recipes that […]

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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers and Friday Night Chili/Texas Sheet Cake with Fudge

  Recipes: Chili and Cake Chili in the Southern summer of August? why, yes.  My family will eat chili and soups year round, even when, […]

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The Maul and the Pear Tree and English Tea Biscuits

The Maul and the Pear Tree by P.D. James and English Tea Biscuits Recipe: click here To be truthful, I did not really want to […]

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