Happy National Hot Buttered Rum Day! Celebrate by making this super yum Hot Buttered RumChata! Ingredients: 1 tbsp. butter 1 tsp. brown sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 1/16 tsp. each: allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg (you can just eyeball this w/ a pinch) 2 oz. RumChata (if you’re using shooters, just toss in two) 5 oz. hot water…
Month: January 2022
Book Review: Violeta by Isabel Allende
This is the story of Violeta, born in 1920, amidst the Spanish flu. Violeta, who, despite her roles as daughter, student, sister, wife, business partner, lover, mother, teacher, philanthropist, grandmother, friend, and leader, remains, above all, herself. In true Allende style, this novel is beautifully written, emotionally charged, and articulately crafted. Allende transports the reader…
Book Review: Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins
After her mother died, Lux McAllister didn’t really know what she was doing with her life. She was waitressing when she met a cute boy, Nico, decided to start dating him, and then went to Hawaii with him. The plan was to fix up his boat and sail the seas. Instead, the boat gets damaged…
Book Review: Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding
In Bright Burning Things, Sonya is a devoted mother, she really is…well, she wants to be. She loves her son and their dog, Herbie, more than life itself. Unfortunately, Sonya struggles with alcoholism, which prevents her from being the parent she strives to be, the parent her young son, Tommy, needs. When her father, with…