My Favorite Restaurants

My mom likes to tell the story of when I was three and I went to a dinner party with her and my dad. It was a party at our friends the Buchanans' house celebrating my sister's adoption.Lots of people from our church went. There was a big bowl of blue cheese dip and crackers and veggies separately. I found a spoon and ate the whole bowl of the blue cheese dip. (I love soft, stinky cheese.)

I tell you all of this to say I am a life long foodie. So as you imagine I have some favorite restaurants. Here are some of my favorites. In an upcoming blog I will tell you my favorite dishes at these restaurants.

Ivy
The Cellar Bistro
Stir Crazy
Il Sogno
Sushi Mono
Gengus Grill
Shane's Deli
Mai Thai Cafe
Jack Straw's
Gino's East in Chicago
Honey
Einstein Bagels

I highly recommend these! Stay tuned!!!!

Awesome Authors

You might have read Great Books, but you need to know the authors of these great books and here they are:


Alcott
Alphin
Amato
Applegate
Birdsall
Blume
Burnett
Clements
Creech
Craighead-George
DiCamillo
Dowell
Fitzhugh
Funke
George
Graff
Green
Gutman
Hiaasen
Hobbs
Hong
Klages
Konigsburg
Lord
MacLachlan
Martin and Godwin
Mass
Mull
Park
Riordan
Sachar
Selznick
Snicket
Spinelli
Tarshis
Taylor
Wallace
Wilson


There are a few more books I recommend and you can find their authors right here! :)

(You could print out this list for your next trip to the library!)

Great Books

Great Books Here are a number of books that I love!!!!!!! Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!

Little Women
Ghost Solider
The Naked Mole Rat Letters
Home of the Brave
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
The Indian in the Cupboard
Runt
The Penderwicks
Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing
Superfudge
Double Fudge
Fudge-a-Mania
Otherwise known as Shelia the Great
The Secret Garden
No Talking
Sahara Special
Waiting For Normal
Ruby Holler
Love That Dog
Granny Torelli Makes Soup
My Side of the Mountain
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Harriet the Spy
Inkheart
The Thief Lord
The Green Glass Sea
Dragon Slippers
The Thing about Georgie
A Strong Right Arm
The Million Dollar Shot
Babe and Me
Honus and Me
Jackie and Me
The Year of Miss Agnes
Crossing the Wire
In the year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
The Mixed up files of Basil E. Frankweiler
The Green Glass Sea
Sarah Plain and Tall
The Doll People
The Meanest Doll in the World
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of life
The Lightning Thief
The Sea of Monsters
The Kid in the Red Jacket
The 39 Clues
Holes
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Bad Beginning
The Reptile Room The Wide Window
The Miserable Mill
The Austere Academy
The Vile Village
The Hostile Hospital
The Carnivorous Carnival
The Slippery Slope
The Grim Grotto
The Penultimate Peril
The End
Eggs Maniac Magee
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell out of a tree
All of a Kind Family
A Dog Called Kitty
Charlotte's Web
Love Ruby Lavender
Double Act

These are really good books that I recommend for you!

Julie & Julia

A movie I like about cooking is Julie & Julia featuring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. The main characters names are Julie Powell and Julia Child. The story is really two stories overlapping. The story is about Julie Powell following Julia Child's cookbook which is in Queens New York. My favorite part in this story was when I saw my family friend Eric Sheffer Stevens at the dinner party. He played Tim the sister of Julie. On the other side of the world Julia Child was living in London and going to a French cooking class where she is the first women in. A part which I liked was when it is in Julia's first class and she is just starting, their class needs to chop up onions and she is just racing the men because you can just see her face go competitively. She is not faster than one man. Later you see her chopping up onions and crying. When her husband comes home from work he asks while wiping his eyes," What are you doing dear?" Julia says,"You should have seen the class, they were looking at me like I was crazy!" Julia & Julia is a great movie for the whole family to enjoy!!!