Our September 2019 Wine and Words Book Club meeting was held at Jodie’s and Ken prepared a wonderful paella recipe from Julia Child’s The French Chef cookbook. Everyone but Kay attended the meeting. Members told us about book they had read over the summer months. Ann enjoyed Property…

The May meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Karen’s at the last minute because Cindy was not feeling well. Karen served a wonderful salad and we heard about everyone’s travels, Karen & Anne to France/Belgium and Kay to Israel. Very little was discussed about the book for May, which was Becoming,…

The Wine and Words Book Club meeting for April, 2019, was held at Kay’s. Kay, Sandie, Linda, Jan and Ann attended. Kay served a green salad and prepared two wonderful pizza crusts. Members each brought a topping for the pizza. We ended up with a delicious variety of pizzas made with mushrooms, tomatoes, roasted red…

The March meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Ann’s and everyone attended.  Anne served potato leek soup and a delicious endivey, beet and goat cheese salad. We discussed the book for this month, Magpie Murders, and everyone seemed to enjoy it. The book within a book concept was fascinating, but it…

The February meeting of Wine and Words was held at Linda’s home. She served a delicious homemade minestrone soup and coleslaw. For dessert we enjoyed a cacophony of delicious chocolates artfully arranged in a martini glass. Linda, Cindy, Ann, Jody, Sandie, Karen and Jan attended. Karen needs to trade the March meeting date with someone.…

The January 2019 meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Jan’s. Everyone was able to attend. Jan served a delicious green salad and lemon chicken and ice cream with fresh raspberries and chocolates sauce for dessert. We had fun catching up, since our last gathering was in November. Sadly Jan’s husband, Dick,…

The November Wine and Words Book Club meeting was held on Nov. 27, 2018 at Chat Noir, everyone but Jodie were able to attend. We discussed the book for November, This Is How It Always Is. Most of the members enjoyed the book, but Linda felt it was too predictable. We talked about how different areas in the…

The Wine & Words Book Club meeting for Sept./Oct was held on Oct. 10 at Sandie’s – Everyone attended, including Sandie’s sister, Lindy. Sandie served a Fall-themed meal – Indian Summer Salad, Butternut Squash Soup and Pumpkin Pie ice cream (from Trader Joes). Book for Sept. was Killers of the Flower Moon, by Grann –…

Notes from Linda: We had a wonderful dinner at Cindy Geris for our May book club get together. We had chili and a kale salad, with ice cream cones for dessert! We were to each discuss a suggestion for “summer reads” and perhaps something for September book club. We did choose a book for September meeting: Killers…

This post is from an email sent to the group after the meeting. Thank you, Linda, for this brief report of the meeting. Ladies, We had SUCH a great meeting at Kay’s. The weather was stellar and Kay made a fabulous box of treats for each of us, with a flower inside! Kay your food was…