Wow....I'm only 50 pages into Madame Bovary and I have looked up several words already.....
sacristy, shuttlecock, sheepfold, lorgnon, harridan, fichu, pelerine, peruke, kirsch grog, chiiterlings......
I guess that's part of the "larnin" process that makes this reading group so much fun!! Is anyone else picking up some new words???
Leigh Ann
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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Baked Brie
Baked Brie
1 Whole Wheel of Brie
1 Sheet Puff Pastry or
1 Sheet Regular Pastry
3 T Orange Marmalade
1 egg for glaze
Bring the Cheese and Pastry to room temperature.
Do not remove the rind from the Cheese
Place the Marmalade on the center of the pastry.
Place the Brie in top of the Marmalade.
Wrap the Pastry around the Brie, use a small amount of a water wash to help the Pastry adhere to itself.
Invert the wrapped brie on to a baking sheet lined with foil or parchment paper and coat with the egg wash.
At this point the Baked Brie can be stored in the refridgerator for up to 4 days, when you are ready to finish the cooking of the Brie, pre-heat your oven to 350', bring the Wrapped Brie back to room temperature, place in the hot oven and cook for 20-30 minutes or until golden brown. Do not serve immedistely, but place on your serving platter and let it rest for at least 30 minutes.
Serve with Crackers or French bread
1 Sheet Puff Pastry or
1 Sheet Regular Pastry
3 T Orange Marmalade
1 egg for glaze
Bring the Cheese and Pastry to room temperature.
Do not remove the rind from the Cheese
Place the Marmalade on the center of the pastry.
Place the Brie in top of the Marmalade.
Wrap the Pastry around the Brie, use a small amount of a water wash to help the Pastry adhere to itself.
Invert the wrapped brie on to a baking sheet lined with foil or parchment paper and coat with the egg wash.
At this point the Baked Brie can be stored in the refridgerator for up to 4 days, when you are ready to finish the cooking of the Brie, pre-heat your oven to 350', bring the Wrapped Brie back to room temperature, place in the hot oven and cook for 20-30 minutes or until golden brown. Do not serve immedistely, but place on your serving platter and let it rest for at least 30 minutes.
Serve with Crackers or French bread
Chicken Cordon Bleu
Chicken Cordon Bleu
This recipe can be served as an entree or cut into bite size pieces as an Hor'sD'oeuvre
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Petite Fours and Croissant
Petite Fours
Petite Fours and Croissant
Recipe to be submitted
Mini pickled Okra sandwiches
Mini Pickled Okra Sandwiches
This recipe can be made up to 2 hrs in advance, due to the Cream Cheese acting as a barrier and preventing the Bread from absorbing the liquid from the Pickled Okra--simply make your sandwiches, cover them with a slightly damp piece of paper towel , then some Saran Wrap and refridgerate for up to 2 hours. The Cream Cheese mixture also works well with Cucumber Sandwiches.
1 Loaf of Bread
8 oz cream cheese
2 T Dill.Herb Spice Mix (Tastefully Simple)
1 Jar of Pickled Okra
Bring the cream cheese to room temp and add the Spice mix.
Remove the crusts from the bread and roll out with a rolling pin.
Take 2 pieces of bread apply some of the cream cheese add the Okra cut in to desired shapes and serve.
1 Loaf of Bread
8 oz cream cheese
2 T Dill.Herb Spice Mix (Tastefully Simple)
1 Jar of Pickled Okra
Bring the cream cheese to room temp and add the Spice mix.
Remove the crusts from the bread and roll out with a rolling pin.
Take 2 pieces of bread apply some of the cream cheese add the Okra cut in to desired shapes and serve.
Chocolate Pecan Pie
Chocolate Pecan Pie
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5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake
This recipe is dangerous, Why? because you are only 5 minutes away from Chocolate Cake at any given time of day.
4 T Flour
4 T Sugar
2 T Cocoa
1 Egg
3 T Milk
3 T Oil
# T Chocolate Chips (otional)
a small dash of Vanilla Extract
1 Large Coffee Mug
Add all of the dry ingredients to the mug and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and again mix well. Add the chocolate chips ( if using ) and vanilla extract, after you have mixed well, place the mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1,000 watts ( high ). The cake will rise over the top of the mug, do not be alarmed! Allow the cake to cool a little and then invert on to a plate. This recipe can serve 2 ( if you want to feel slightly more virtuous ).
Recipe by Tina Faust
4 T Flour
4 T Sugar
2 T Cocoa
1 Egg
3 T Milk
3 T Oil
# T Chocolate Chips (otional)
a small dash of Vanilla Extract
1 Large Coffee Mug
Add all of the dry ingredients to the mug and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and again mix well. Add the chocolate chips ( if using ) and vanilla extract, after you have mixed well, place the mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1,000 watts ( high ). The cake will rise over the top of the mug, do not be alarmed! Allow the cake to cool a little and then invert on to a plate. This recipe can serve 2 ( if you want to feel slightly more virtuous ).
Recipe by Tina Faust
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16 comments:
Leigh Ann,
I wish I were far enough along to pick up some new words. Will it show how limited my vocabulary is to admit the words that I have to look up?!?
Oh and BTW thanks for making a post! Woo-hoo!
I am with you all there on new words!!
I found my grandfather's name...we have some french in us.(Chapter 6) I have never heard anybody with the name Bayard...and Madame Bovary liked to read about his adventures (along with a lot of other books). According to the notes he fought bravely and chivalrously in the Italian wars of the three French kings(c.1473-1524). My grandfather was a strong man named Bayard Odiorne.
I just hope we don't have mutton when we meet...I would stick to the french pastries and truffles!!LOL!
Kate
With Uncle Tom's Cabin, I made the big mistake of reading it immediately I pulled out of your drive. The only problem, the next meeting was 28 days away, by the time we had our meeting to discuss the book I had almost forgotten a few of the characters names---so this time I am saving the book till 2 weeks before our meeting--I am now reading "Things they carried with them"--any one read it?
Pam
Pam,
I haven't read that one but I got sucked into reading some 'twaddle'......the bestseller series by Stephenie Myer......Twilight is the first one and now I'm on New Moon. I did read 5 chapter in Madame Bovary.....but it's a slow start. Glad you found the blog! You too Kate and I promise, no mutton chops!
I'd have to read more than 10 pages to pick up new words! But so far it isn't boring!
Hiya Edie,
At our last meeting, I had to leave early--go'n to Al-anna,Al-anna Jowja, missed the new dates for our upcoming meetings, could you post them for me.
Thanks a bunch
Pam
P.S. Reading Madame Bovary is like trying to dig a grave with a soup spoon--it just goes on for ever.
I finished the book and actually enjoyed it- not the subject matter but the complete step by step road her life took and how many people she brought down with her sin.
In hindsight it seems weird to say I enjoyed it...
Kelly,
Maybe since you're the ONLY one who seems to have finished it, you should start a new post! 'Cause it's comin' slow for me.
Hey girls,
Got an answer to all your reading and lexicon woes. Check out Veggie Tales version of Madame Bovary ingeniously title "Madame Blueberry". It's cute, uplifting, and ends with hiliarious tragedy! Plus it's only 30 minutes and gets across the irony and delirium that Flaubert so loves.
Jeannie
Hello Ladies,
Amazing, Madame Bovary now in cartoon form and aimed at children, however;- when Madame B was first published in France, an action was taken against Mr Flaubert for the books immorality.
FYI when Mr F was born, Monroe was president, when Mr F died (14 presidents later) Hayes was in office.--makes you think.
Hiya,
I wonder if the creators of Veggy Tales knew that Mr F lived with his mother, frequented prostitutes, had many affairs, had Venerial Desease and Syphalis. Yet this man was revered by his country and profession. Could this of ever happend to a female--Jane A--a pillar of propriety, had to publish in a nom de plume--lucky for us--times have changed
I would never had made the Veggie Tales connections- can it be? I think my daughter is actually watching it as we speak! Horrors! ;) I would love to have started a new post but can't seem to find the password! ;)
Kelly,
The password is bookclub, ingenious I know and the email address is ediewadsworth@mac.com
Relax all you with kiddos who watch Veggie Tales. Madame Blueberry is completely appropriate for kids and has a christian message of being satisfied with what you have and realizing what is truely important in life- not getting carried away with material things". I will say the creators of Veggie Tales have a completely wacked sense of humor, which is why I love them.
Back to the original lady in distress- Madame Bovary. I am so deeply disturbed by her treatment of her newborn baby girl, leaving her to be taken care of in a filthy environment. Did people in these times really send their children away to be taken care of/nursed? I would have thought because of Charles occupation as a doctor and subsequent social status, they would have had the baby cared for by someone inside their home. Maybe it was not finacially feasible or maybe Flaubert just wanted us to show us how big a monster she really was. Shame on Charles for letting her do this!!!
Hello Ladies,
Wet nursing was common place for people who could afford it, not only in europe, but also here in the USA especially in the south, during the "Antebellum years" 1820-1860. It was even accepted that race was an unimportant qualification, hence, it was common place to have african american slaves wet nurse white babies. Kinda makes you think, people were segregated from using a water fountain, yet inter-racial wet nursing was accepted???
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