Book Club at Kristie's House

We had a super tim eat Kristie's house last night!  She really went all out and made us quite the spread.  (MUST POST RECIPES!)

Art City Salad

Poppy Seed Dressing

Sweet Perfect Fruit

Yummy homemade rolls

Rumbi Rice

Grilled Chicken

Veggies

Cake Bites

I didn't get a shot of the amazing mint brownies she made too. We had a few missing members due to cols and classes and such.  We missed you all! But here are the pics of the ladies who got to eat all that great food...

Kristie, Kara & Brenda

Heidi, Britney & Shannon

We had a really great discussion about the book and about memories.  We talked a lot about how memories are formed and how they shape our decisions.  We all like the book but felt like the ending could have been a bit stronger. We also agreed that some parts were obviously written by a male. Hee Hee

We also talked in to the night about other random things.  It was a lot of fun!

One thing we talked about was Briney and her weird pose she kept making at the Oscars. In cae you missed it here it is.

See you next month to review People of the Book at Shannon's house!

Book Club Tomorrow Night!

Don't forget to come to book club tomorrow night at Kristie's house.

We will start just a little bit later -- 7:15 to give Kristie time to pick up her kids.

See you there!

Book Club at Marianna's

We had a super time at Marianna's home Thursday night!

She made us a lovely tomato soup, salad and warm soft rolls.  Then served us a warm raspberry rhubarb cobbler topped with vanilla ice cream for dessert.

We had a great discussion and were unanimous in our love for the book!

See you next month @ Kristie's home to review Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson

February Book Club Info

Marianne is hosting book club for us!

I loved this book and can't wait to talk about it.

See you Thursday Feb 2nd @ 7:00pm

You will be receiving an email with her address.  If you don't get it let me know.

See you there!

January Book Club!

January was a super fun book club.  Stephanie hosted and since we were discussing In the Garden of Beasts she treated us to some delicious German food...

 (Love these bottles by the way)

This picture does not do these German chocolate brownies justice --

 they were soooo good!

My camera was a little wacky and out of focus but here are the lovely ladies...

Kara, Kristie & Bethany 

Shannon, Heidi & Stephanie

We all loved the book. It was nice to read a non-fiction book. We all enjoyed the change of pace from the fiction we usually ready, and decided variety is good.
This book in particular was well written and we all recommend it.

The book isn't all we discussed though

we also discussed

And these...

Thanks so much Stephanie for hosting and Bethany for reviewing!!

See you next month at Marianne's house.  I'll send an e-mail out with her address.

Book Club Christmas Party!!

Shannon, Britney, Robyn, Kara, Heidi, Stephanie, Bethany, Brenda & Kristie

We had such a great time at out Christmas Party.

So sit back and enjoy the pictures!

First let's start off with the food...

We had a lovely spread of goodness as you can see! We grazed all night long.

And now for the close ups of all the goodies:

We held our world famous white elephant exchange...

Who doesn't want a sweatshirt?

 Never mind that they protested about the Springville Rec. Center... 

 A super cute make-up case -- that inspires too! 

Josie Grossie made an appearance much to the delight of everyone! 

Soooooo sexy! 

Shannon rocked the purple pom pom's.  

Now one more time with feeling... 

Brenda will be prepared come rain or shine! 

Kara got this great pair of boots which were promptly stolen by Kristie 

 Britney was trying to keep Bjorn from stealing her treats!

Next Kara opened this sweet t-shirt! Look how happy she is!

She promptly had that stolen by Bethany.  Also please notice that Stephanie's eyes are closed :)

 Stephanie is super excited about window clings and even more excited about...

cigarettes?

Perhaps you should talk to your bishop Stephanie...

Just sayin'

2011 was another great year of good books, good food and good friends!  

Thanks ladies for making the first Thursday of every month 

the best Thursday of every month!

Book Club at Stephanie's

Mark your calendars ladies! It's just about time for the first book club of 2012:

Thursday, January 5th. 7 pm. At Stephanie's

The food will be yummy. And German.

(rsvp via comments or email so I know how many to plan for. thanks!)

A few recipes

Here are the recipes from November's book club.

Kale and White Bean Soup with Parmesan

2 Tbs. olive oil
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
2 carrots, peeled and chopped
2 large potatoes, peeled and diced
1 bay leaf
1 Tbs. fresh rosemary, finely chopped
6 c. chicken stock
3 c. water
1/4 c. grated parmesan
1 pound kale, chopped
1 pound canned white beans, rinsed and drained
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
Heat the oil in a large saucepan.
Saute the onion, garlic, carrots, potatoes, bay leaf, and rosemary until the onion becomes soft, about 5 minutes.
Add stock and water (and a parmesan rind if you have it) and bring to a boil.
Let the soup simmer for 15 minutes.
Add grated parmesan, kale,and beans and simmer for another 10 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper.

Pumpkin Fudge
(click on the picture to go to the link)


Salted Pumpkin Caramels
(click on the photo for the link)


These are also on my "Sweets" board on Pinterest