Here I am back again. "Trying" to post every day. This morning, I attempted to hit garage sales in Las Vegas. Today, I hit Central Las Vegas, on the west side and was very disappointed. Clearly, the recession has hit this area hard and the yard sales I went to-well, not very much and what there was, overpriced. I'll try again next week in a different area.

Today, I went to a Luau party at Barry and Jacqueline's. They host a monthly meetup group focused on Wine in their home. Finally, an affordable wine group, that I can afford to taste new wines. Each month is a different criteria and prices for wines. Today, it was wines over $10. The food was so good, always grilled and healthy and the wines were wonderful.

Cookbook Review:

House & Garden New Cook Book: At first glance, looking through this cookbook, I found some good recipes, but mostly I saw a cookbook published 43 years ago! But then, I started seeing other things, cooking history, food lore and techniques; like rolling & stuffing hams, making puff pastry from scratch, homemade pasta & how to prepare truites farches parisienne (stuffed trout in pastry), challahs & so much more. Over 400 recipes! I have bought & sold this book at least 4 times. The next one I find, I'm keeping for my cookbook library (I have already exceeded my personal cookbook quota for this week). Of course, if it doesn't sell quickly (but I know it will), then I will get to keep it. Please note that this cookbook has been well used, but is still completely intact & still in very good condition.

That's all for now.

Cookbook Val