blue artichoke

Thanks to you guys, I have an interesting array of summer reading. I walked to the library yesterday and checked on the availability of the books you've suggested. The library has all of them, but most were checked out. I came home with The Bridge on the Drina and The Secret Life of Bees. Yesterday I settled down into the hammock and started reading The Bridge on the Drina. The warm sun and the distant drone of lawnmowers lulled me into a nap, but I also managed to read the first several chapters. I had expected something akin to The Bridge of San Luis Rey, but it isn't like that at all. In fact, it's quite gruesome at points. I love it.

Dinner last night: gnocchi with peas in a brown butter-sage sauce; Polish kielbasa

Banana Bread #10, Coconut Banana Bread with Lime Glaze
Recipe from Cooking Light. As you can guess from the title, this banana bread has coconut in it, and a lime-coconut glaze. What you might not guess is that there is also dark rum in the recipe. The bread has a good appearance and texture; flavor is coconut-sweet and lime-tangy. An interesting bread that is good but not great. I keep knocking recipes out of the competition one after the other. Only 19 more recipes left. That's right. Nineteen.