The Wine and Words Book Club meet at Giuseppe’s Restaurant on Dec. 2, 2014 for our holiday gathering. We enjoyed a lovely happy-hour celebration with wine and appetizers. Everyone attended, except Pat, who was out of town. We missed you , Pat! We discussed the book for November, Zeitoun, which everyone enjoyed reading. We talked about how hard it…

Hi Girls, it is your “optional” secretary doing book club minutes this month! We missed you Sandie. We had a wonderful dinner at Cindy’s home, as usual. We enjoyed Roasted Carrot & Ginger Soup (which we want the recipe for), a lovely fall salad and Cheesecake dessert. Oh, I forgot the roasted Zucchini. All very good. We…

The September 30, 2014 meeting of Wine and Words Book Club met at Sandie’s home. Linda was the only member who could not attend the meeting. Sandie served taco salad and Kay provided a delicious pie made from raspberries and blackberries she had hand-picked. We discussed the summer book, The Perfume Collector, about how a…

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…