Thanks for your kind words Katie. It was fun seeing everyone again - I always enjoy our gatherings. In spite of my difficulty making it through our latest book, it's had a lasting effect - encouraging me that with proper care my brain can improve over time rather than deteriorate.
Before you groan over the ingredients in the dessert recipe, remember that the rest of our meal was very, very healthy : )
Key Lime Margarita Pie
This recipe makes a 9 x 9 square pan. I doubled it and put into 9 x 13 pan for us on Friday
1 1/2 cups crushed pretzels (these need to be crushed fine so I used a food processor)
1/4 cup sugar
6 Tbls butter or margarine, melted
1 can (14oz) sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup lime juice
1 envelope Kool Aid Lemon-Lime (unsweetened)
1 tub (8oz) Cool Whip Topping, thawed
Mix: crushed pretzels, sugar and butter. Press into bottom and up sides of 9-inch pie plate. Refrigerate until ready to use.
Combine: condensed milk, lime juice and Kool Aid powder in a large bowl until well blended. Gently fold in whipped topping. Pour into crust.
Freeze: 6-hours or overnight. Let stand at room temperature 15 minutes or until pie can be cut easily. Store leftover pie in freezer.
Makes 8 servings
Monday, June 6, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Ahhhhh. 95 degrees and....Curacao. 
"Adult Kool-Aid", the best kind.
Refreshing! Marie promised "brain food" and really delivered.
What's good for your brain?
1. almonds
2. dark chocolate
3. acai berries
4. acai berries dipped in dark chocolate
5. dried blueberries
6. wild alaskan salmon
7. quinoa, wild, and brown rice
8. heart of palm
9. radishes
10. cauliflower
11. stimulating discussion
12. good friends
13. beautiful surroundings
14. an astoundingly good dessert (a creamy, lime-y frothy lovely thing on a crispy crunchy crust) snuck this one on the list....
We enjoyed touching on the discoveries about the brain we learned from the book, along with all our other lively conversations.
We talked until "quitting time" and didn't have enough time to truly decide on our next book, so here are some of the options we talked about:
1. Cleopatra, A Life by Stacy Schiff. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way the supple personality has been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff 's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.
2. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly. Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder. Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.
3. Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon by Minnesota author Larry Millett. In the summer of 1994, a workman at the historic mansion of railroad baron James J. Hill in St. Paul, Minnesota, stumbles on a long-hidden wall safe. When experts arrive to open the safe and examine its contents, they make an astonishing discovery. There, inside, is a handwritten manuscript bearing the signature of John H. Watson, M.D. The manuscript contains the story of how Sherlock Holmes and Watson traveled to Minnesota to track a murderous arsonist known only as the Red Demon who is threatening both Hill and his Great Northern Railway. Set against the backdrop of the real, devastating Hinckley forest fire of 1894, Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon is the tense and atmospheric first novel in Larry Millett’s classic series of adventures that brought Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to Minnesota.
4. Make a suggestion!
How to vote: An email will be sent out later to everyone and you'll be asked to reply with your choice. Also - we need a host for next time!
Thank you, Marie, for a very lovely evening. You make hostess-ing look so easy! What a beautiful table you set. And the atmosphere - lovely.
Send me your dessert recipe? :)
And thanks for the "brain food" that you sent home with each of us....be it crossword puzzles, sudoku or word finds....we shall turbo-charge our brains!
Let me know if I've made an error on the books or authors, or left one out. That adult Kool-Aid really affects the brain..... :) K.
"Adult Kool-Aid", the best kind.
Refreshing! Marie promised "brain food" and really delivered.
What's good for your brain?
1. almonds
2. dark chocolate
3. acai berries
4. acai berries dipped in dark chocolate
5. dried blueberries
6. wild alaskan salmon
7. quinoa, wild, and brown rice
8. heart of palm
9. radishes
10. cauliflower
11. stimulating discussion
12. good friends
13. beautiful surroundings
14. an astoundingly good dessert (a creamy, lime-y frothy lovely thing on a crispy crunchy crust) snuck this one on the list....
We enjoyed touching on the discoveries about the brain we learned from the book, along with all our other lively conversations.
We talked until "quitting time" and didn't have enough time to truly decide on our next book, so here are some of the options we talked about:
1. Cleopatra, A Life by Stacy Schiff. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way the supple personality has been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff 's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.
2. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly. Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder. Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.
3. Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon by Minnesota author Larry Millett. In the summer of 1994, a workman at the historic mansion of railroad baron James J. Hill in St. Paul, Minnesota, stumbles on a long-hidden wall safe. When experts arrive to open the safe and examine its contents, they make an astonishing discovery. There, inside, is a handwritten manuscript bearing the signature of John H. Watson, M.D. The manuscript contains the story of how Sherlock Holmes and Watson traveled to Minnesota to track a murderous arsonist known only as the Red Demon who is threatening both Hill and his Great Northern Railway. Set against the backdrop of the real, devastating Hinckley forest fire of 1894, Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon is the tense and atmospheric first novel in Larry Millett’s classic series of adventures that brought Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to Minnesota.
4. Make a suggestion!
How to vote: An email will be sent out later to everyone and you'll be asked to reply with your choice. Also - we need a host for next time!
Thank you, Marie, for a very lovely evening. You make hostess-ing look so easy! What a beautiful table you set. And the atmosphere - lovely.
Send me your dessert recipe? :)
And thanks for the "brain food" that you sent home with each of us....be it crossword puzzles, sudoku or word finds....we shall turbo-charge our brains!
Let me know if I've made an error on the books or authors, or left one out. That adult Kool-Aid really affects the brain..... :) K.
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