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The Weekly Book Report and Book Review Link-up #5

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Welcome to the Weekly Book Report and Book Review Link-up #5!

Every Wednesday I will be sharing my latest read – which could be a cookbook, a celebrity chef biography or memoir, a lifestyle book, a gardening book, a homemaking book or maybe even a cozy kitchen mystery book. They may be paper books, eBooks, or audio books. I have challenged myself to read or listen to at least one book per week, and I plan to share that with you all here.

In addition to my Book Report, there will be a Book Report LInky – a chance for all of you to share your own book review blog post (ONE per blog, please). We want to see what had you page flipping, can’t put it down, totally captivated.

Lastly will be a Featured post from the previous week’s shared posts. This will be a post picked at random by the host. Each host will likely pick their own feature – so that’s three chances to be featured!

If you have any suggestions for me on book I should check out – please let me know!

Title: Talking with My Mouthful: My Life as a Professional Eater

Author: Gail Simmons

Publication Date: 2012

Published by: Balance

Listed Price: $14.12 (Hardcover) $13.99 (Kindle

About the Author:

Gail Simmons is a Canadian-born food expert, writer, and television personality, best known for her role as a permanent judge on Bravo’s Top Chef since 2006. She’s also a special projects manager for Food & Wine magazine, and has hosted and judged other culinary shows like Top Chef Just Desserts and Top Chef Canada. Simmons has authored two books, Talking with My Mouth Full: My Life as a Professional Eater and Bringing It Home: Favorite Recipes from a Life of Adventurous Eating

Brief Description of the book:

When Top Chef judge Gail Simmons first graduated from college, she felt hopelessly lost. All her friends were going to graduate school, business school, law school . . . but what was she going to do? Fortunately, a family friend gave her some invaluable advice-make a list of what you love to do, and let that be your guide. Gail wrote down four words:

Eat. Write. Travel. Cook.

Little did she know, those four words would become the basis for a career as a professional eater, cook, food critic, magazine editor, and television star. Today, she’s the host of Top Chef: Just Desserts, permanent judge on Top Chef, and Special Projects Director at Food & Wine magazine. She travels all over the world, eats extraordinary food, and meets fascinating people. She’s living the dream that so many of us who love to cook and eat can only imagine. But how did she get there?

My Review:

I have been a fan of the Top Chef Franchise for many years. I have watched every season of the original series as well as many episodes from around the world. And through all of that, Gail was always my favorite. She is brutally honest with the utmost compassion. Her book was a welcome and delightful insight into how she embarked on the task of living her passion for traveling and cooking and most importantly EATING! I really love to read biography books of people that I know what their voice sounds like. It makes it so that I can hear them reading the pages giving even more life to the words. This is a fun read and gives you so much more depth to the exceptional woman that is Gail Simmons.

This Week’s Feature Post:

This is a post that stood out from the list of linked up posts last week. I hope you will hope over and check out their review. And don’t forget to link-up your own book-centric posts – YOU MIGHT BE NEXT WEEK’S FEATURE!

The Comfort of Crows

Shared by Colors for Health

The Book Review Linky

Meet Your Librarians…errmmm I mean Hosts!

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Now for the link-up!

Party Guidelines:

1. Please take some time to poke around and visit some of the other links.

2. Please take some time to check out your hosts and co-hosts on social media.

3. We appreciate the variety of blogs on the www; however, the Book Review Linky is for links related to Books. Please link accordingly.

4. All Captions need to be Family-Friendly and PG. If your post has EXPLICIT content, you must label it in the caption. If you DO NOT DO this your link will be removed.

5. You may add TWO Book-Centric Post per URL.

With your help, we can continue to grow the Book Review Linky Party ! Thank you!

We are looking for Co-Hosts. Help us Rock this party!

If you are interested, please contact Estelle at homemadeonaweeknight@gmail.com

By joining the Book Review Linky, you signify permission for the listed Hosts to share your posts and images here and receive an email reminder when our next Book Review Linky is LIVE.

Peanut Butter Buckaroos

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Ooey gooey peanut buttery goodness! These Peanut Butter Buckaroos make for a perfect salty sweet treat that will make both kids and adults excited for dessert! And because it uses crunchy peanut butter – you get an added bonus of extra protein for the day! You can whip up a batch of these in less than 20 minutes without even turning on the oven!

This is a really great treat to make on a hot day – as you dont have to turn on the oven for baking. It’s just a few minutes on the stove top and then letting it set up. These are also perfect for lunch prepping. Once set, you can use the parchment to lift the whole bar out of the dish and place it on a cutting board. Cut them into 2 inch squares and then individually wrap up. You can use zipper baggies or plastic wrap.

Substitutes and Variations:

If you love the combo of chocolate and peanut butter (like I do!), you can swap out the mini peanut butter chips for mini chocolate chips. Also, if you do not like the crunchy peanut butter, you can just use smooth. My family prefers the extra crunch of the small bits of peanut. I have seen these made with Frosted Flakes instead of Corn Flakes, but I find that to be just tooooo sweet.

Tools that may make this recipe easier:

A really good spatula is needed for this one. You want one that is flexible but firm. You also need parchment paper. It not only makes clean up of the 13×9 glass pan easier, but it makes it simple to press the mixture into the pan to make it even.

Now Let’s Get Cookin’!

Peanut Butter Buckaroos

A delicious combination of peanut butter, marshmallows and corn flakes come together to make an excellent sweet treat.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword chunky peanut butter, corn flakes, dessert, dessert recipes, marshmallows, peanut, peanut butter

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 5

Cooling Time 2

Servings bars

Equipment

Ingredients

12 cups Corn Flakes
2 cups Chunky Peanut Butter
1 cup Butter
20 oz Mini Marshmallows divided
1 cup Mini Peanut Butter Chips divided

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Instructions

Add cereal and ¾ cup of peanut butter chips to a large mixing bowl and set aside.
Add parchment paper to 13×9 baking dish and set aside.
In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter and peanut butter. Once melted and smooth, add 15 ounces of the marshmallows. Continue to stir and move until fully incorporated. Pour mixture over cereal and quickly stir together.
Fold in all but a handful of the remaining marshmallows.
Transfer cereal to baking dish and use a spatula to press into a even layer in the baking dish.
Sprinkle top of flattened mixture with remaining peanut butter chips and marshmallows. Press into the mixture some.
Place in refrigerator to cool for at least 2 hours. Remove and cut into 16 bars.
Serve right away or store in airtight container.

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Estelle Forrest self-published this cookbook after a lot of playing around in the kitchen. You can purchase your own copy here:

AVAILABLE IN PRINT OR KINDLE eBOOK VERSIONS

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Weekly Wrap-up & Senior Salon Pit Stop #373

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Welcome to Senior Salon Pit Stop #373

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Wrap-up and Blog Link-up.

It’s a new year at the Senior Salon Pit Stop and it’s time to vroom-vroom to all the great posts that everyone is creating all around the the blogosphere! Scroll down to check out my Weekly Wrap-up along with my Featured posts from the previous Pit Stop!

What’s been going on at Homemade on a Weeknight?

We are just one week away from heading back to school. I am thankfully headed back to the school cafeteria to be a full-time employee instead of a temporary employee. We will also have out youngest starting high school and our youngest son headed into his senior year. We are all embarking on new territory and so excited for it. On the homestead we will be doing a fall/winter garden for the first time, as well. Any suggestion of veggies to plant?

What have you been up to this past week?

Just #ICYMI – one of the most popular recipes from the blog this last week was my Smoked Garlic Pulled Pork. Are you a meat smoker?

In case you missed it, here are the recipes that I shared to the blog this week:

Have you had a chance to check out the new Facebook group Yum Hungry Hangout & Giggles? It is a place to share your foodie finds, funny facts and in general hangout and get to know each other more through out shared love of food. Please feel free to check it out and maybe join in the fun!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/yumyumhungryhangoutandgiggles/

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These posts caught my eye last week! Please check back each week to see if your post is one of the ones that got a feature!

Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter cups shared by Join Me In the Kitchen

Pineapple Pork Chops shared by 3 Boys and a Dog

Air Fried Blooming Onion shared by Air Fryer Fanatics

Mexican Street Corn Potato Salad from Drugstore Divas

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For every post that you share – make one comment on someone else’s post. Help make their day a bit brighter.

Unlimited sharing BUT we ask that you visit one other blog post for each link you share.

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Welcome to the Weekly Book Report and Book Review Link-up #4!

If you have any suggestions for me on book I should check out – please let me know!

Title: Flipped for Murder (A Country Store Mystery Book 1)

Author: Maddie Day

Publication Date: 2015

Published by: Kensington

Listed Price: $7.99 (Mass Media Paperback) $7.59 (Kindle – or “free” if you have Kindle Unlimited

About the Author:

Maddie Day is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning author, Maddie writes the Country Store Mysteries, the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries, the Cece Barton Mysteries, and the Dot and Amelia Mysteries featuring Amelia Earhart as a sleuthing sidekick.

As Edith Maxwell, she write the Local Foods Mysteries and the Quaker Midwife Mysteries, as well as award-winning short crime fiction.

Maddie/Edith has two grown sons and lives in an antique house north of Boston with her beau, a small organic garden, and a gentle cat. She blogs every weekday with the Wicked Authors and on the second and fourth Fridays at Mystery Lovers Kitchen. She loves connecting with readers. Look for her at Maddie Day / Edith Maxwell on Facebook and on her web site.

Brief Description of the book:

In this freshly baked series, author Maddie Day lifts the lid on a small town in southern Indiana, where a newcomer is cooking up a new start–until a murderer muddles the recipe…

Nursing a broken heart, Robbie Jordan is trading in her life on the West Coast for the rolling hills of southern Indiana. After paying a visit to her Aunt Adele, she fell in love with the tiny town of South Lick. And when she spots a For Sale sign on a rundown country store, she decides to snap it up and put her skills as a cook and a carpenter to use. Everyone in town shows up for the grand re-opening of Pans ‘n Pancakes, but when the mayor’s disagreeable assistant is found dead, Robbie realizes that not all press is good press. With all eyes on her, she’ll have to summon her puzzle-solving skills to clear her name, unscramble the town’s darkest secrets, and track down a cold-blooded killer–before she’s the next to die…

My Review:

Yes, even my murder mystery books are food-centric! This is a really fun Cozy Kitchen Murder Mystery. It’s got it all – comedy, love, tragedy, and of course a murder! The main character- Robbie – is looking for a new start, and she sure finds it in Indiana. I love how so many of these types of books center on the notion of a distant but loving Aunt handing over the reigns to their niece looking to start anew. I am very close to my own aunt, and so it’s relatable for me. The story is well written and keeps you engaged the whole time. The book also features the recipes of many of the culinary creations mentioned in the story. The first in the series, you are likely to want to read the rest, too!

This Week’s Feature Post:

Summer Reading & 3 Salads for Dinner

Shared by Honey Bears & Sydney Beans

The Book Review Linky

Meet Your Librarians…errmmm I mean Hosts!

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Now for the link-up!

Party Guidelines:

1. Please take some time to poke around and visit some of the other links.

2. Please take some time to check out your hosts and co-hosts on social media.

3. We appreciate the variety of blogs on the www; however, the Book Review Linky is for links related to Books. Please link accordingly.

4. All Captions need to be Family-Friendly and PG. If your post has EXPLICIT content, you must label it in the caption. If you DO NOT DO this your link will be removed.

5. You may add TWO Book-Centric Post per URL.

With your help, we can continue to grow the Book Review Linky Party ! Thank you!

We are looking for Co-Hosts. Help us Rock this party!

If you are interested, please contact Estelle at homemadeonaweeknight@gmail.com

By joining the Book Review Linky, you signify permission for the listed Hosts to share your posts and images here and receive an email reminder when our next Book Review Linky is LIVE.