The May 27, 2014 meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Kay’s at 5:30 PM. All members except for Ann were present. Kay served asparagus and avocado soup, salad and salmon patties. Cindy provided  a lava cake for dessert (see recipe page). The book for May was The Telling Room , by…

The meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held on April 28, 2014 at Ann’s home, who prepared a wonderful dinner of barbecued chicken skewers with spicy Thai sauce, rice, green beans and Campari tomatoes. The recipe for the Spicy Thai Chicken is included on the Recipe page. Karen provided strawberry shortcake made with…

Linda, Jan, Kay, Karen, Pat, Sandie and Ann met at Karen’s home and she served a delicious meal of Calypso Chicken and green salad with corn bread. Ann provided a wonderful flour-less chocolate tort from Trader Joe’s. Books discussed at the meeting (Member who read or suggested): Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific…

Wine and Words Minutes from February 25, 2014 The meeting was held at Cindy’s. We discussed the book The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman.   We enjoyed the book and the characters.  The book is set in Rome and tells a story about the people working at an English language newspaper. Reading the book is like assembling…

The 1/29/14 meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Jan’s home. Jan served a hearty Chicken Noodle Soup. green salad and delicious home-made rolls Jan, Karen, Ann, Kay, Linda and Sandie were present. Linda served a delectable chocolate cheese cake and shared her funny story about making three attempts to make and…

The October meeting of the Wine and Words Book Club was held at Pats, who served a fennel root and orange salad with a delicious white chili and chicken soup. The white chili recipe is posted on the recipe section. Ann, Karen, Cindy, Linda, Jan, Sandie and Pat were present. We discussed the book Beautiful Ruins,…

The September meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held on September 24th at Linda’s home. She served a delicious pear and grape green salad with Mexican corn and bean soup. Sandie provided strawberry pie for dessert. We gave a toast to our dear friend, Kathy, who passed away in June. We recalled memorable…

Some of the gals got together for watermelon margaritas and appetizers at Kay’s. We enjoyed Kaye’s garden, wore hats, ate some delectable humus and bruschetta  and toasted our good friend, Kathy, who passed away on June 24, from breast cancer. We all had attended a lovely Celebration of Life on July 19 at Lairmont Manor. Sandie has…

Our June meeting was held at Sandie’s new summer home at Neptune Beach. Pat, Karen, Cindy, Linda, Jan and Sandie attended the meeting. We discussed the book for May, The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. Linda was disturbed by the fact that the author was a caretaker of children for the foster care system…

This report of the April Wine and Words Book Club meeting was sent to Sandie in an email while Sandie and Linda were on their Panama Canal cruise. “You and Linda missed a delightful Book Club party last night with all in attendance except the two of you. Lou finished his pizza cooker last week, tried…