No Walking but Reading and Crocheting

I haven't talk about my getting ready to walk in the Walk for MG but that is because I wasn't able to get to the walk. My walking to get ready for it was stopped due to having trouble with my hip. I did make a little over a mile walk before I had to stop but then for last few weeks I haven't been able to so there is always next year or another walk for a cause to do. I am not going to get discouraged in fact I was happy to get to do the walking that I could before it start slipping out of place and causing me pain. It will get better again and I can get back to walking and exercising. Until then I hope to get a lot of reading and crocheting done. I am crocheting small items so that the heat from the yarn isn't to bad. I have many projects to try and so it is exciting to do the patterns and try new designs of my own. I am also trying to catch up on some of the reading I want to get done and I have just about finished two more books and started 3 more. Always have a book on hand to read.


I have just finished a review of a cookbook that I am so glad to have. I love cooking and baking but nothing to adventurous but more than that I love to collect cookbooks and recipes. I have just started collecting family recipes that have memories as well as good food to put together into a book with pictures and stories on each recipe to give to my kids and grandkids. This has been a fun adventure and one that will be an on going work even after I give them the book. I hope that they will add to it and make their own memories and put their own stories in with recipes too.  I hope it will be a treasured book that they will enjoy for years.


Last this weekend is Memorial day and my husband and I will be going to the cemeteries. This year I want to not only put flowers on the graves but once again I want to take pictures of the headstones, make a map of the resting place and  cemetery and then put it into a cemetery book for my genealogy. I will tackle one cemetery at a time and make sure I get all family in that cemetery. I will let you know how this goes. Hopefully it won't rain but then again it is Memorial Day.


This is going to be a busy week and I am looking forward to getting some things done so hope you have a great week too. Please leave me a comment when you read this so 1. I know someone is reading this and 2. Let me know what you plan to do for Memorial Day this year or what you have done in the past.


Here is my review of the cookbook.


Kitchen Confidence by Kelsey Nixon A Yummy Addition To Your Cookbook Collection

 I loved this cookbook. I would give it 5 Stars for the recipes as well as the pictures and hints it includes.


The recipes included in this book are both elegant enough for a party and yet easy enough that you can do them for just the family dinner. I am impressed with the variety of recipes that are included in this book. Kelsey takes you on a mouth watering ride through her different recipes with beautifully done pictures of the dishes. She has included helpful  hints like pantry essentials and technique essentials that is very helpful to the seasoned cook as well as the beginner. Throughout the book is explains how to do different techniques in cooking such as stir fry and roasting that for those learning to cook will find really helpful. They are included by a recipe that is for using those techniques on a page by themselves so that if you know how to do these you can skip over that page and if you don't know how to say stir fry you have the instructions handy right with the recipe you might be wanting to try. This cookbook would be a great addition to any one's kitchen and cookbook collection but would be especially nice and helpful to the new cook or someone that is not as comfortable in a kitchen as others.


I have several recipes already picked out to try like her fried homemade pickles and charred corn salad. These both sound like a great addition to my memorial day picnic. The recipes range from breakfast to desserts and everything in between you might be wanting. If I could find anything that I would change it would be maybe add pictures of all the completed recipes but other than that I wouldn't change a thing. I have gotten so hungry just looking at the recipes and marking the ones I want to try, funny thing is I think I have marked almost everyone of her recipes.


This is a great cookbook and I loved reading in the beginning about Kelsey Nixon's passion for sharing her love of cooking to others. She is on a mission to help us all feel more comfortable in the kitchen through her cookbook and I think she has hit the mark with this one. I think I could pick anyone of the recipes, try it and be successful following her directions and guidance with little or no stress. I highly recommend you get a copy of Kitchen Confidence by Kelsey Nixon and start enjoying some good recipes.


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 "I received this book for free from Blogging for Books for this review."