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Overnight Vanilla Oats in Under an Hour #BacktoSchoolTreats #Sponsored

I received product samples from sponsor companies to aid in the creation of  the #BacktoSchoolTreats week recipes. All opinions are mine alone. Summer is winding down, and here we are at day four of #BacktoSchoolTreats hosted by Terri from  Love and Confections  and Christie from  A Kitchen Hoor's Adventures . All week-long 30 bloggers will be sharing 100+ fantastic recipes for both parents and kids, with breakfasts, snacks, desserts, and drinks to get you back in the school routine. Thank you sponsors for providing the prize packages. Don't forget to enter the giveaway! You can click on my kick-off post to read about all the prizes:  'Ah! Sunflower' Cupcakes . Or scroll all the way to the bottom. Here are all the recipes for Day Four of #BacktoSchoolTreats... Back to School Breakfasts Breakfast Banana Splits from For the Love of Food Cherry Muffins from Hezzi-D's Books and Cooks Overnight Vanilla Oats in Under an Hour from Culinary Adventures w

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Round-Up #FoodNFlix

This month, I hosted  Food'N'Flix , the movie-watching, food-making group rallied by Heather of  All Roads Lead to the Kitchen . So for July's Food'N'Flix, I chose  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society .* This was a movie that I started on the plane to Denmark, over the holidays, but I dozed off during the twelve hour flight and forgot all about the movie. Something jogged my memory recently and I decided to watch it. And I found it  so  charming, I opted to host it for this month's event... and  suggested it for one of my book groups this month also. It's available to stream on Netflix, if you're interested! I have included a link to the book at the bottom of this post because I still can't decide which I liked better. And that's a rarity for me. The other Food'N'Flixers seemed to enjoy the movie as well, though Wendy did suggest that you watch first, then read. I would agree with that. Here's what the group

Hot Caramel Apple Cider #BacktoSchoolTreats #Sponsored

I received product samples from sponsor companies to aid in the creation of  the #BacktoSchoolTreats week recipes. All opinions are mine alone. Summer is winding down, and here we are at day three of #BacktoSchoolTreats hosted by Terri from  Love and Confections  and Christie from  A Kitchen Hoor's Adventures . All week-long 30 bloggers will be sharing 100+ fantastic recipes for both parents and kids, with breakfasts, snacks, desserts, and drinks to get you back in the school routine. Thank you sponsors for providing the prize packages. Don't forget to enter the giveaway! You can click on my kick-off post to read about all the prizes:  'Ah! Sunflower' Cupcakes . Or scroll all the way to the bottom. Here are all the recipes for Day Three of #BacktoSchoolTreats... Back to School Breakfasts Easy Breakfast Quesadillas from Simple and Savory Orange Buttermilk Pancakes with Strawberry Sauce from Love and Confections S'mores Breakfast Pastries from Fa

Paella + Another Wine From the Wrong Side of the Pyrenees for #Winophiles

Years ago a good friend, and native Spaniard, gave me a lesson in how to make paella. So, when I knew that I was doing a Basque wine pairing, I excitedly planned to make paella. And I tracked down a bottle of Basque wine for the pairing. If you follow my posts, you might recall that I picked up a bottle from the wrong side of the Pyrenees . Actually, I picked up more than one! So, here's my second bottle of wine from the Spanish Basque region that I can't use for the French Basque post coming up next month. Oh, well. You get to hear about it early. In My Glass I picked up a bottle of Itsasmendi Txakoli 2016 which hails from Bodegas Itsasmendi - Basque for 'Sea and Mountain' - in the Basque DO of Bizkaiko Txakolina overlooking the Bay of Biscay, not far from the city of Bilbao. Itsasmendi’s winery and a large portion of their vineyard have been located in the UNESCO-declared Biosphere Reserve of Urdaibai which was designated in 2002. As a Biosphere Reserve, U

Mini Pearls of Wisdom Cookies #BacktoSchoolTreats #Sponsored

I received product samples from sponsor companies to aid in the creation of  the #BacktoSchoolTreats week recipes. All opinions are mine alone. Summer is winding down, and here we are at day two of #BacktoSchoolTreats hosted by Terri from  Love and Confections  and Christie from  A Kitchen Hoor's Adventures . All week-long 30 bloggers will be sharing 100+ fantastic recipes for both parents and kids, with breakfasts, snacks, desserts, and drinks to get you back in the school routine. Thank you sponsors for providing the prize packages. Don't forget to enter the giveaway! You can click on my kick-off post to read about all the prizes: 'Ah! Sunflower' Cupcakes . Or scroll all the way to the bottom. Here are all the recipes for Day Two of #BacktoSchoolTreats... Back to School Snacks Chocolate Covered Honeycomb Candy from Hezzi-D's Books and Cooks Funfetti Rice Krispies Treats from Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats Mochi Donuts with Salted Caramel Glaze

Gin-Washed Pork Rib Roast #FoodNFlix

This month I am hosting #FoodNFlix and #LitHappens as we watch and read, respectively, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society . You can read my Food'N'Flix invitation here . In any case, I asked the Food'N'Flix crew to watch and head to the kitchen. On the Screen I actually watched the movie first, then read the book. And I'm glad that I did it in that order, because had I read the book, then watched the movie, I think I would have been disappointed. The movie itself is delightful, a wholesome albeit predictable charmer. The basic plot: Juliet Ashton, played by Lily James, is a young writer in London who receives a letter from a member of a literary club on the island of Guernsey. Dawsey Adams, played by Michiel Huisman tells her about how they formed the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society to hide a roasted pig from the Nazis. The correspondence inspires Juliet to make a trip to Guernsey and meet the wickedly eccentric members fo