Recipes I want to remember and titles I'm thinking about reading...

Recipes from Relish by Knisley
Chai Tea:
Ingredients: Vanilla extract or bean, Maple syrup, cinnamon sticks, cardamom pods, anise stars, cloves, ginger, black tea, Milk, strainer
2-3 cups water in pot on high, add 2 bags tea;
crush 3 cardamom pods, grate 1/2 tsp ginger or more to taste
add to pot 1 anise star, ginger, cardamom pods, 1 cap extract/ 1 vanilla bean, 6-8 cloves, 1 cinnamon stick, stir and simmer 5-10 min.
Let cool then strain into glass container add syrup to taste; keeps refrigerated for 1 week.
Prep 1/2 milk 1/2 tea and heat.

Sauteed Mushrooms
Saute pan over HOT! add 1part olive oil to 2 parts butter or all olive oil.
After butter stops foaming and pan is HOT! add cleaned and DRY mushrooms- no water on the mushrooms. make sure plenty of space b/t mushrooms. Shrooms will soak up oil and pan will get dry and squeeak. Turn down heat and let shrooms start to sweat- don't add more oil.  When start to brown, stir and shake. When crispy season w/ salt and pepper and serve.

Titles of books I don't want to forget:

Mystery

• Little Elvises by T. Hallman - main character is a thief who happens to work as a PI for other thieves. No matter what somebody is always upset.

NF

• Sew Pretty T-Shirt Dresses 646.406 SEW - for gifts for Ellie
• The Art of Freedom: Teaching the Humanities to the Poor 001.3071 SHO - how does teaching the humanities improve the socioeconomic outlook of the poor? How could this translate into programming at the library?
• My Beloved World 92 Sotomayor - She's a successful Puerto Rican and I'd like to learn more about her experience. She writes very clearly and would be interesting to learn about her DA experience and that of being a judge.
• Facebook Guide to Small Business Marketing 658.872 RAY - techniques and tools and not so much theory - good for any organization to know how to drive interactions on the FB page. For example, drawing people to your page using contests and polls. Of interest for a series on FB for Businesses at the library.

FS

• Death's Apprentice: A Grimm City Novel by Jeter and Jefferson Jones FS Jeter - The authors take us into the canon of Grimm, but into the underworld as Death's Apprentice leads a revolt against the Devil himself. Interested to see what the authors drawn on from the Grimm canon to tell the story.

F

• the House Girl by Conklin - two narratives - one of a lawyer in the future managing a reparations case in which an artist used her slave's paintings as her own to promote herself and the second - that of the slave girl in the 1800s. How will the two narratives converge and what will the lawyer learn?