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What's for Dinner?

It’s been a long time since I’ve made anything from a cookbook. Since going gluten-free, I’ve adapted fairly well to just changing up what we normally have but I am out of ideas and spend way too much money and time at the market wandering around trying to figure out what to make.

Picky kids. Lack of time. Food allergies. Meh.

So, I ask you, what cookbooks are you cooking from these days? What food blogs or recipe sites have impressed you lately? Do you have any must-try recipes you can share with me? I feel as if I need to go back to the basics and cook from a book because my little bits of this and that add up to a lot of ingredients and although most times whatever I make tastes fine, I’m not sure the effort is necessary.

I want simple. Good. Healthy.

Plus, I want time to read in the evenings. It’s my favorite thing to do and if dinner is a simple meal, then I have more time for that.

Anyone?

The Long Goodbye
By Raymond Chandler
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Paperback, 9780394757681, August 1988, 384pp.

The Short of It:

An amusing read.

The Rest of It:

Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he’s divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe. ~ From Indiebound

The Long Goodbye is my book club’s selection for this month and it was a nice change of pace. We don’t read much crime fiction and I’ve never read anything by Chandler before so I was pretty excited to finally give him a go.

After just a few chapters, I could tell that it would be a book that I’d enjoy. It’s a good read full of wry humor and the story is not bad either. There are a few twists and although The Long Goodbye is one of many books in the Philip Marlowe series, I never felt as if I was missing any background on the character.

I enjoyed the Los Angeles setting and Marlowe’s sharp-witted humor. Plus, as far as crime-fiction goes, I appreciated the simple story line and the lack of red herrings. It still had me guessing, but without all the fanfare that you get in some other crime-fiction novels.

It was pure fun and I will not hesitate to pick up another book in the series.

Source: Borrowed
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