FRIDAY LINKS

Happy almost-spring Friday! It's been a while since I've done one of these post full of links, but I have some good stuff I want to share, so here they are:

1. I want to make this maple syrup pie this weekend because 1) it looks delicious, and 2) I have all the ingredients I need for this already at home. It reminds me of Four and Twenty Blackbird's Salty Honey Pie, which I love and have made several times. I'm dubious about how there is no cornstarch or cornmeal in the filling to hold it all together, so I might take a note from this recipe and add some in.

2. If you didn't know, Ken and I have a podcast called Living with the Moons. You can go to the website to see our topics, our guests, and even listen to the episode through the website. You can also find us on iTunes and Spotify as well!

3. I've started Toni Morrison's "The Source of Self-Regard" and it is so good, delicious and nutritious, I'm savoring it as such.  This review in the NYTimes about the book is also lovely.

4. Speaking of books, I was thinking to myself the other day that a great idea for a book would be a compilation of good books from each country or culture, and then I did some googling and found this amazing list.

5. I've been wearing down my work pants, and while I will probably go hunting for some more at my local thrift stores, I am also eyeballing one of these to try.

6. And if I were the type of person to wear a watch, I might wear something like this.

7. I'm subscribed to receive Mark Bittman's newsletters via email and I have been really enjoying them. Lots of good recipes, ideas and articles about food and cooking, like this one about how to get good at cooking. (Basically, just keep doing it!)

8.  The girls and I (well, just mostly Sloane and I, while Logan came in and out) read  L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book together last week to get ready for watching the play this weekend (!) and it was so good. I had never read it before (I had only watched the Judy Garland movie version) and so I got to experience it for the first time as well.  It was especially sweet to read the version that was illustrated by Robert Ingpen. I was gifted the version of "The Wind in the Willow" that was illustrated by him as well and we all love the pictures in that one.  I went to his website and saw that he did a bunch of other ones, that I can't wait to check out.