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By: sketched out,
on 11/15/2014
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By: Shelley Workinger,
on 10/23/2014
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I’m sure the version the hotel gave Parris was just as yummy. And as fattening. Of course, as a witch in training, the one thing she’s realized is she never-ever has to worry about calories again. Now that’s one magic trick I’d love to learn.
USA Today and New York Times best-selling author Lynn Cahoon is an Idaho native. If you’d visit the town where she grew up, you’d understand why her mysteries and romance novels focus around the depth and experience of small town life. Currently, she’s living in a small historic town on the banks of the Mississippi river where her imagination tends to wander. She lives with her husband and four fur babies.
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By: Hardygirl,
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My husband got an email from the "shrimp man" while he was in Atlanta for a continuing education conference (which does not sound like it's nearly as much fun as our writer conferences, poor guy)". The shrimp man was driving up to Oxford from the coast with fresh shrimp Saturday morning, and he'd start selling at 7:00 a.m. at the farmer's market. Hubby was getting home Saturday afternoon and thought fresh shrimp sounded pretty good. So, I sent my daughter bright and early with a pocket full of cash to the farmer's market, just a couple of blocks down our street.
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By: sketched out,
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By: Shelley Workinger,
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In RETURN OF THE FAE, Book 2 of The Council series, Parris and Ty take off on a road trip to Cincinnati, Ohio to the stay at The Riverglen, the only magical specialty hotel in the downtown area. Even though the hotel is warded against a guest using their magic to keep warring factions from using the facility as a hot zone, the staff members are skilled in the hospitality craft. Including those in charge of preparing the food guests ordered from the room service menu.
Parris brought road food along on the trip, munching on peanuts and Skittles during the drive up from St. Louis, but Ty disappeared before they could order real food. So she went crazy with the appetizers list for lunch and ordered one of each, hoping he arrived before the food either cooled or she ate her way through the trays of yummy-ness. The chicken fingers were to die for, but Parris loved the onion rings, their crispy outside reminding her of food from the best drive-in back home, The Hungry Onion.
Later, the couple ordered dinner and Parris had one of my favorite entrées of all time. Shrimp and grits.
With my recipe, I add crumbled spicy sausage, onions, and a touch of garlic to the mix before adding in a cup or so of whatever wine is open in the fridge. Then I let the shrimp steam on top while the grits are cooking. I just use the recipe on the box to cook my grits, with maybe just a tad more salt. Then as they’re finishing, I add a cup of various types of shredded cheese and a quarter cup of sour cream mixing until smooth.
Line a deep soup bowl with the grit mixture, then ladle the shrimp and sausage mixture into the middle with a lot of the pan drippings.
Heaven.
Thanks for stopping by to share your food for thought, Lynn!
USA Today and New York Times best-selling author Lynn Cahoon is an Idaho native. If you’d visit the town where she grew up, you’d understand why her mysteries and romance novels focus around the depth and experience of small town life. Currently, she’s living in a small historic town on the banks of the Mississippi river where her imagination tends to wander. She lives with her husband and four fur babies.
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Return of the Fae – Book 2 of The Council series
A witch in training, a hunter on the prowl, and a world in jeopardy. Learning the rules of being a witch takes years, but Parris McCall needs to master them in only weeks. Ty Wallace is going mad with his desire for Parris, but she’s a distraction in his quest to find Coven X before they take The Council and everyone he knows down. The couple searches for Ty’s missing mentor. Their only clue comes from a banished witch. Upon returning, a new life hangs in the balance.
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By: Sue Morris,
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by J. Steven Spires & Jonathan Caron, illustrator
Inspired Books Publishing 5/01/2013
978-0-9858469-0-9
Age 4 to 8 32 pages
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“Three little shrimp are swimming with their troop . . . one adventurer, one follower and on worry wart. As their eyes fall upon the wonders around them, they suddenly get an idea. Two are ready to explore. The other is not so sure. There is only one problem. Unseen danger lurks in the water. What will they do?”
Opening
“One fine day three little shrimp went swimming.”
Review
Three shrimp were part of a group—a troop—of shrimp heading out to sea. Immediately, the three shrimp separated from the others, but it is unknown how that happened. In their lone adventures, they run into four dangerous situations, and four times, they came out of it unscathed, making them very lucky shrimp indeed. First, they swam near the shore and three egrets envision a pot of gumbo. Just in time, the three shrimp ducked into a hole, despite the third shrimp’s misgivings, and avoided the egrets. In the hole, they nibbled on worms.
On Their Own
The shrimp also narrowly avoided a huge fish looking for a snack and an extremely dangerous looking loggerhead turtle. Both times, the shrimp were saved by their hunger as they swam into sea grass and algae and ate “until their stomachs burst.” Finally, a fisherman wants the shrimp for bait. Luckily, the shrimp swam down, just out of reach of where the fisherman cast his net, to devour minnows into their ever-expanding stomachs.
The shrimp are of two distinct personalities. The first is a leader and the other two are followers, though the third is also a worrier that the other two ignore. The shrimps’ narrow escapes are just good old fashioned dumb luck, as none of them even saw the dangers they were in. Finding the rest of the group—the troop—was also luck, though that time they did have a goal in mind and worked toward the goal.
Egrets Threaten
The illustrations, tempered by the aqua-green sea and the greyish-brown prawn, tend to be dark,* yet realistic. The other animals add color to the spreads while the scenes above the sea fill the spread with wonderful hues of yellow and orange.There is a grainy textured effect to the illustrations, giving them a worn look.The eyes carry all emotion in the story. The egrets, the huge fish, and the loggerhead turtle have mean, dangerous eyes making them predators anything would be scared of . . . unless oblivious to their presence. The shrimp have bright, inquisitive eyes matching their curiosity and giving away their young, innocent, inexperienced age.
Most interesting is the illustrator, fifteen-year-old Jonathan Caron, a high school art-student. Two years later, at seventeen, Jonathan finished the picture book, the coloring, and other activity illustrations. It all helped Johnathan win a full scholarship to a German university, where he now studies architecture.
Loggerhead Turtle Threatens
If there is a message in this story it would be: for luck and safety, keep your mind on your stomach. No, Three Little Shrimp is simply a cute story for entertainment sake and nothing more and that’s okay. Not every story needs to contain a message to kids. Those interested in ocean life and animals will find this story most enjoyable. The simplistic nature of the story is best for younger children, age 4 to 6. Three Little Shrimp is both the author and illustrator’s debut children’s book and debut in the publishing world with Inspired Books Publishing.
*When printed, the spreads above look darker in the actual picture book.
THREE LITTLE SHRIMP. Text copyright © 2013 by J. Steven Spires. Illustrations copyright © 2013 by Jonathan Caron. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Inspired Books Publishing, Slidell, LA.
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Meet the author, J. Steven Spires, at his website: http://jstevenspires.com/
Meet the illustrator, Jonathan Caron, the son of children’s book illustrator Romi Caron, who supervised her son’s at work.
Find other books at Inspired Books Publishing’s website:
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By: Hardygirl,
on 10/3/2009
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Dinner tonight on our front porch:
Shrimp drowning in butter, garlic, worcestershire, cracked pepper and lemons . . .with a baguette to dunk into the mixture, of course.
And then, after dinner I looked over to my right and look what I saw:
Yes, Lisa and Laura, it is a gigantic wolf spider. Right there. Watching me eat dinner. I must admit that if I'd run into this creature in my bedroom or den, I'd run screaming. But, seeing her sitting in the middle of her gorgeously spun web, made me say ahhh. And, yes, I took that picture of her about 10 minutes ago.
Of course, I think she's paying us a visit because of this spider
which is hanging from a nearby tree in our front yard. My girls and I have spent the last couple of days blinging up our house for Halloween, and I think our friend the wolf spider found a place where she felt welcome.
sf
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By: choper nawers,
on 4/25/2007
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i did this shrimp for SuKarne hope to see it print soon....:D
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By: Leila Roy,
on 1/30/2007
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Cyd Charisse describes what she's up to in Cupcake:
Proving miracles do indeed happen, I'd passed through the first stage of the Plan for the new life by graduating high school. (Pause for moment of shock and a giant sigh of relief from my parents.) That mission accomplished, my Plan laid out that I would then celebrate liberation from my parents' college dreams for me by (1) moving into the empty bedroom in my half brother Danny's apartment in Greenwich Village (done); (2) possibly enrolling in some culinary school classes (working up to it), where I'd definitely win all the important awards like Student with Most Potential to Perfect the Art of the Peanut Butter Cookie, or the coveted So Culinarily (shut up, it is too a word) Blessed She Can Jump Right into Building Her Own Sweets Empire After Only One Class; and (3) the linchpin of the whole Plan--I would not obsess over turning down the marriage proposal from Shrimp, the love of my former high school life, so he could move to New Zealand like he wanted and I could move to Manhattan like I wanted (not there yet with achieving the non-obsessive part of the goal).
Yes. Our Cyd is finally living in New York City, doing her usual Cyd thing: drinking coffee, hanging up on her mother, skipping class, going to Central Park and ogling* hotties, finding work as a barista, drinking more coffee and angsting about Shrimp.
But it isn't all just the same-old-same-old: she breaks her leg and scores a date with an EMT, befriends the middle-aged crankster downstairs, reconnects with Luis (her extremely easy on the eyes driver from Gingerbread), angsts about her brother Danny's ill-advised dumping of his long-term boyfriend, spends more time with her bio-dad and her half-sister lisBETH, helps to improve business at the local LU_CH_ONE_TE and eats loads of cupcakes.
Everything is going pretty well (except for that whole discovering-it-isn't-always-easy-to-live-with-your-older-brother thing).
And then, of course, Shrimp shows up on her doorstep.
Of the three books, Shrimp is still my favorite. But. Even including the bit that the nit-picker side of me found a bit contrived, Cupcake is a totally enjoyable read and solid follow-up. The contrived-ness of the ending wasn't a huge deal for me -- more Cyd is more Cyd is more Cyd, and that's a good thing. Period. For me, the real strength in these books is in Cyd's narration -- her voice is sassy and likable and so-real-she's-almost-audible. That isn't to say that her voice is the only strength -- across the board, I love the other characters, old (Sugar Pie and lisBETH and Helen) and new (Johnny Mold and Max).
Recommended reading for teens who like realistic fiction that features off-beat characters, who embrace the swearing and the issues and who don't fear the punk rock. Do yourself a favor, though, and start from the beginning of the series -- the books are certainly readable as stand-alones, but are better together.
Spoiler-laced-freakout in the comments.
*I always thought that word had two os, but according to Merriam-Wesbeter, there's only one. Maybe because two os look like a pair of breasts (or a butt). My mind is a strange and frightening place.
What a cutie. Love the teeth!
Hee hee, thanks, Madre!