Onward and Upward All!

 A delightful week, altogether!  

Here we are, at Sunday Salon again, and in the universe!  Yes!  I too choose love!!  We are celebrating!  With Champagne even, or at least Prosecco.  This is some art my husband Bob posted recently (Sean is his younger brother) and I was reminded of it by Deb at Readerbuzz, the stalwart hostess of Sunday Salon, as last week she posted this cover of Bob's Saucer Repair, which is now on my reading list for Sci-Fi month.

I love it for the cover alone.  Other than that, for Sci-Fi month I'll be reading Land of Milk and Honey, by C Pam Zhang

And, these two I just finished: 

It always amazes me, all the Agatha Christie books I have't read!  There are just so many!  And......

Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame.  A novel that was just delightful! With tons of scrumptious food.  Currently I'm reading another Foodie book, really it is,  because there's just so much to entice! He's a model gardener, and cook as well as a handsome police officer, solving mysteries.  A Chateau Under Siege, by Martin Walker.  I've read them all up to this point, and have the next one my stack

As for food, Bob has not been well, so I made him meatloaf, which he loves.  I didn't get a picture of it right out of the oven, just here, almost demolished.  What can I say, not that photogenic at this stage.  He says he'd like 24 hours of Meatloaf!  It was quite good, if I do say so.

Yesterday I made a quite delicious Couscous "Risotto" with Asparagus, served alongside some salmon poached in white wine, butter and herbs.

Currently, my bacon finished its cure, and is in the smoking, low heat roast stage.  It smells really good!  Ready shortly.  

That's it for now. Also linking up with November Foodies Read, hosted by Heather and Weekend Cooking, with the Intrepid Reader and Baker, Marge.   Enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone!

Sunday Salon - Another Week in Review

 

A Sunday Salon, hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz,  Recap of my week, wherein I try to remember what all went on.  Some Gardening, collecting produce, reading, and cooking.  Oh and a bit of working at our office.  It does help to pay the bills.

Sometimes Eating Helps - For Crying in H Mart

She certainly did quite a bit of both.  Crying and eating in this memoir, which is our Cook the Books Club pick for October/November.  Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner, and hosted by Simona of Briciole, with lots of interesting, some deliciously so, Korean food.  I struggled at times getting through the story of her upbringing.  Some parents can be so overbearing even in their love, wanting to direct every aspect of their children's lives.  Of course, in my case, there were 7 of us, and a different nationality, so not too comparable to an only child in a Korean American home.

From the Publishers:  "#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR). • CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST

In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.

As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her..."