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Continue reading →: Review: The Martian by Andy Weir4/5 stars “I’ll spend the rest of the evening enjoying a potato. And by ‘enjoying’ I mean ‘hating so much I want to kill people.’” For a baked potato recipe significantly better than anything Mark Watney enjoyed, click here. The Story: Mark Watney has been abandoned on Mars. Accidentally. Now, he must…
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Continue reading →: Recipe: Coconut Curry Chicken with Baked Sweet Potatoes“I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’. I experimented with potato skin tea a few weeks ago. The less said about that the better.” —The Martian by Andy Weir For my review of The Martian, click here. Inspired…
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Continue reading →: Review: Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1) by Sarah J. Maas5/5 stars The Story: A slave in the Endovier salt mines, eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien is one day released by a royal guard and presented to the crown prince who invites her to participate in the King’s competition seeking a Champion. Why her? Because she was once the country’s greatest assassin. Sponsored…
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Continue reading →: Review: Siege and Storm (Grisha Trilogy, #2) by Leigh Bardugo5/5 stars “A few dim memories flashed through my mind. A shallow dish of cooked beets, the slippery feel of them between my fingers as they stained my hands red.” See here for a Siege and Storm inspired borsch recipe. The story: Siege and Storm continues Alina Starkov’s journey to master her new found…
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Continue reading →: Recipe: Corporalki Borsch“I thought again of my few memories from before Keramzin, of the dish of sliced beets, my fingers stained red with them.” Here’s my Siege and Storm inspired borscht recipe. See my book review here. A few notes about ingredients. You will grate the beets and carrots. It needs to be a coarse…
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Continue reading →: Recipe: Fried Egg Burgers with Rosemary Roasted Sweet Potatoes“…on the fourth day he comes into the room with an honest-to-God hamburger on a hot, homemade bun and a side of roasted potatoes. It’s the first real food I’ve had since escaping Camp Ashpit. It’s also a freaking hamburger, which I haven’t tasted since the Arrival and which, I…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey3.5/5 stars “I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.” See here for a 5th Wave inspired burger recipe. The Story: After an alien attack on earth separates sixteen-year-old Cassie from her younger brother, she’s on a mission to save him. The 5th Wave is…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Shadow and Bone (Grisha Trilogy #1) by Leigh BardugoLoves: Find my review of book two, Siege and Storm, here. Story: Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone tells the story of Alina Starkov, a scrawny orphan girl who’s in love with her devastatingly handsome best friend, Mal. As a soldier serving her war torn country, Ravka, Alina prepares to cross the “Unsea,” an…
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