Tequila Lime Shrimp
Oven roasted shrimp, marinated in a flavorful tequila lime sauce = happy faces all around your dinner table!
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The new year was barely fifteen hours old in Troublesome Creek, Kentucky, when my pa adjusted the courting candle, setting it to burn for an alarming length of time. Satisfied, Pa carried it out of our one-room log house and onto the hand-hewn porch. He was hopeful. Hoping 1936 was the year his only daughter, nineteen-year-old Cussy Mary Carter, would get herself hitched and quit her job with the Pack Horse Library Project. Hoping for her latest suitor’s proposal.
Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah has always thought of himself as an outsider. Born mixed-race, he grew up in South Africa during the system of racial segregation known as apartheid. His childhood experiences were a fixture of his stand-up comedy routines, and the comedian gained further attention as a correspondent, and later host, of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central.
The Choice: Embrace the Possible
He pointed to my mom to go to the left, and I followed my mom, and Dr. Mengele grabbed me — I never forget that eye contact– and he said ‘You’re going to see you mother soon, she’s just going to take a shower.’
My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
“And if your mother was innicent … as she surely was … then to insult her with an accusation would make me the vilest of knaves. I should consider myself condemned to hell-fires if I treated your mother with such suspicion – a woman who entrusted herself to me, risked her very life to bring my children into the world. Such ingratitude would damn me in the eyes of myself and my god.”
Spinach and Mushroom Quiche
Tasty spinach and mushroom quiche for breakfast, brunch, lunch or even dinner – just say YES!