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Ok so somehow, through following small authors on social media and leaving reviews on goodreads and Amazon of the books I devour, I got on a small email list of people who can get early copies of books to review. It's kind of cool because you get the book directly from the author--and I'm a huge book nerd so this makes me feel semi-connected to the worlds I absorb myself in somehow. I recently read these books and thought I'd put their info here and synopsis. You never know who is out there looking for a good read. I wasn't paid or anything, but I was provided the book for review purposes.  Lykaia by Sharon Van Orman Synopsis :  "We are the terrors that hunt the night. And we have never been human" In Greek mythology there�s a story of King Lykaonas of Arcadia and his fifty sons who were cursed by the father of the gods, Zeus, to become wolves. The very first Lycanthropes. Forensic pathologist, Sophia Katsaros, receives a cryptic phone call from Greece telling...

Lately more people have been asking about the bread recipe I use for the boys.  My written version in my allergy-free notebook has seen so many revisions when I scanned it it was a bit embarrassing.  So I finally have gotten around to typing it out.  It is a bit odd the first time you make it, but trust me it gets easy--and is infinitely easier than many of the other recipes I've looked at or tried to make.  Like most breads, humidity can effect it but it always tastes good.  It just won't rise as high on a humid/raining day.   It also freezes super well. I usually make a double batch which yields me 4 loaves to freeze at a time. I have lately also started prepping and measuring all the first set of the dry ingredients for four full recipes, two to make and two to freeze.  One batch each into my two bowls for my stand mixer (my glass bowl and then my metal bowl, love the glass bowl), and then an additional two batches into two extra tupperwares that I ...

Ok. I, Colleen C, an staring here publicly that I am going to (eventually) write a cookbook / help book. Tentative title:  Suck It UP Butter cup: Transitioning to an Allergy-Free Kitchen Because, really, sometime I just want to tell people to reference Chapter 1: You Know Nothing.