Food & book report
Apr. 18th, 2006 03:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jmc_bksI'm not a particular potato chip fan, unlike some of my friends who crave the salt and eat bags and bags of them. At lunch yesterday, the clerk behind the counter handed me a bag of chips to go with my sandwich. Okay. But I tried one -- lime and black pepper seasoned -- wow! I love lime, and the hint of lime with the pepper and salt was excellent. Must go back and find the brand so I can pick up a bag at the grocery store.
Another new discovery: Starbucks' vanilla creme. I know, it's warm milk with vanilla, way over priced. Tried it last week after working late -- too late for caffeinated soda, didn't want tea, don't drink coffee. It's a good thing that I refuse to stand in long lines, otherwise I'd spend a lot of money at the Starbucks in the train station. But since the line is usually out the door and down the hall, I'll be able to avoid this potential addiction.
Leftover Easter ham with brown mustard on honey wheat bread from Great Harvest Bread Co -- mmmmmm. I may actually finish this loaf of bread before it goes bad. Usually don't and I end up throwing half a loaf away.
Finished Jan Coffey's Silent Waters on the train this morning. The action was very good. I'd call it Tom-Clancy-esque, except the authors (H & W writing team) didn't bore me to death with details, so it was better than Clancy. I guessed the bad guy about midway through the book, but that didn't detract any. Although SW is billed as romantic suspense, there is very little romance and it wasn't all that believable -- it felt pretty tacked on, really. I found the secondary h/h much more interesting than the primaries. I'm going to see if Coffey has a website -- I'd like to know if the secondary characters will have their own story. And I'll be checking out the backlist, too.
Will start Drop Dead Gorgeous next.
Another new discovery: Starbucks' vanilla creme. I know, it's warm milk with vanilla, way over priced. Tried it last week after working late -- too late for caffeinated soda, didn't want tea, don't drink coffee. It's a good thing that I refuse to stand in long lines, otherwise I'd spend a lot of money at the Starbucks in the train station. But since the line is usually out the door and down the hall, I'll be able to avoid this potential addiction.
Leftover Easter ham with brown mustard on honey wheat bread from Great Harvest Bread Co -- mmmmmm. I may actually finish this loaf of bread before it goes bad. Usually don't and I end up throwing half a loaf away.
Finished Jan Coffey's Silent Waters on the train this morning. The action was very good. I'd call it Tom-Clancy-esque, except the authors (H & W writing team) didn't bore me to death with details, so it was better than Clancy. I guessed the bad guy about midway through the book, but that didn't detract any. Although SW is billed as romantic suspense, there is very little romance and it wasn't all that believable -- it felt pretty tacked on, really. I found the secondary h/h much more interesting than the primaries. I'm going to see if Coffey has a website -- I'd like to know if the secondary characters will have their own story. And I'll be checking out the backlist, too.
Will start Drop Dead Gorgeous next.
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Date: 2006-04-18 09:17 pm (UTC)Don't bother with DDG. Assuming it's the J. Skully one. Bad. Baaaad. Baaaaaad. How do you like my impression of a sheep?
~Jay
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Date: 2006-04-18 09:33 pm (UTC)I don't drink milk, either, unless I'm eating Nana's Chocolate Cake or a bowl of cereal. But the vanilla creme is good. Its flavor reminds me of tapioca. Maybe it's not so strange that I like the vc then, since tapioca was the warm pudding mom would make when I was a kid and home sick. Reminds me of comfort food.
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Date: 2006-04-19 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-19 08:53 pm (UTC)