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Book #72, cakes, and kittens
Sep. 19th, 2011 07:46 pm72) McDermid, Val. THE GRAVE TATTOO. St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007.
by and large, mysteries aren't my favorite genre, but this one caught my interest first with the tattoo referencing title, and then with a literary/bookish plot.
from jacket blurb: when summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long-discarded old wives' tales take on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And there he told his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem - a poem that remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harboring a fugitive." "Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham, herself a native of the Lake District, feels compelled to discover once and for all whether the Wordsworth manuscript ever existed - and whether it still exists today. But as she pursues each new lead, death follows hard on her heels. Suddenly Jane is at the heart of a two-hundred-year-old mystery that still has the power to put lives on the line.
cake notes: this past weekend, I made two different cakes.
I baked an avocado/greek yogurt not-quite-cheesecake with granola crust for a picnic on Saturday. It was "healthy", light, and edible,and got completely eaten up at the event, but I think I need to to tweak and finetune the recipe if I do it again. Think I could get the texture a little creamier (like the avocado smoothies I enjoy).
I also baked a triple layer marbled mocha tiramisu cake to take to Hannah's on Sunday. No pretensions of healthy with this one, lots of sugar and cream, but it was yummy. That recipe is definitely a keeper, even if B said I ruined a perfectly good cake with coffee flavors. :)
kitty notes: have been enjoying having the new kitten at home, even if she did crap twice on my side of the bed (which B finds funny). Have named her Josette (Jo and her coat of many colors). She has a squeakly little meow, but purrs LOUDLY (actually, I kind of like it, reminds me of the buzz of tattoo needles)
by and large, mysteries aren't my favorite genre, but this one caught my interest first with the tattoo referencing title, and then with a literary/bookish plot.
from jacket blurb: when summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long-discarded old wives' tales take on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And there he told his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem - a poem that remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harboring a fugitive." "Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham, herself a native of the Lake District, feels compelled to discover once and for all whether the Wordsworth manuscript ever existed - and whether it still exists today. But as she pursues each new lead, death follows hard on her heels. Suddenly Jane is at the heart of a two-hundred-year-old mystery that still has the power to put lives on the line.
cake notes: this past weekend, I made two different cakes.
I baked an avocado/greek yogurt not-quite-cheesecake with granola crust for a picnic on Saturday. It was "healthy", light, and edible,and got completely eaten up at the event, but I think I need to to tweak and finetune the recipe if I do it again. Think I could get the texture a little creamier (like the avocado smoothies I enjoy).
I also baked a triple layer marbled mocha tiramisu cake to take to Hannah's on Sunday. No pretensions of healthy with this one, lots of sugar and cream, but it was yummy. That recipe is definitely a keeper, even if B said I ruined a perfectly good cake with coffee flavors. :)
kitty notes: have been enjoying having the new kitten at home, even if she did crap twice on my side of the bed (which B finds funny). Have named her Josette (Jo and her coat of many colors). She has a squeakly little meow, but purrs LOUDLY (actually, I kind of like it, reminds me of the buzz of tattoo needles)
