The October 2020 meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was set up by Sandie online, using Microsoft Teams. Karen, Linda, Kay, Cindy and Sandie attended the meeting. We missed you, Jan, Anne and Jodi! We discussed the books for October, Mexican Gothic, by  Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and  Truths We Hold, by Kamala Harris. Sandie listened…

The Wine and Words Book Club Meeting at 4 PM on September 29, 2020 was a video chat meeting, since we are still not meeting in our homes due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Sandie set up the meeting using Microsoft Teams and sent everyone a link to join the meeting. The format worked fairly well,…

Our second zoom meeting was attended by Sandie, Anne, Cindy, Jodi, Karen and Jan on May 26, 2020. We haven’t been able to meet in our homes for three months, due to the corona virus pandemic and the last two months we have had zoom meetings to discuss the books we read and catch up.…

The February 2020 meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Linda’s. Everyone attended but Jodi. Linda served a delicious green salad with blood oranges and sliced almonds, topped with grilled salmon. The Citrus Salad Dressing and salmon sauce recipes are listed below as well as on the recipe page. Cindy made cheesecake…

The January meeting of Wine and Words was held at Jan’s. Everyone attended but Linda. Jan served a rice dish, lemon chicken, a great strawberry salad and ice cream sundaes. Karen read and recommends: Ecstasy: A Novel  Educated was recommended again. This is the third time this book has been recommended by members. It is…

The November Wine and Words Book Club holiday gathering was held at the Northwater Restaurant at the Holiday Inn. We enjoyed a fun time together over happy hour refreshments and food, talking about our Thanksgiving plans and reminiscing about book we read. Thank you, Linda, for making the arrangements. Linda, Sandie, Kay, Jan, Jodi, and…

The October meeting of Wine and Words Book Club was held at Cindy’s. Everyone was able to attend but Karen, who was traveling in the South. Lou served us a delicious meal of barbecued pork, brown rice and green salad. Cindy served a raspberry cobbler pie with ice cream for desert. Linda made reservations for…

              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…