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This book has 3 sections: 4 Ingredients or Less, Casseroles and One Dish Meals, and Slow Cooker Recipes. The recipes are all super simple, and this would be great for someone just starting out cooking. Lots of them include a can of soup in there, which might seem to get repetitive, but there is a pretty wide range of tastes throughout. Some of these are pretty basic, like cooking rice with chicken broth, but some are ones I'd never think of. My favorites: Shrimp and Corn Chowder, Creamy Pesto Chicken and Bow Ties, and Cornbread Chicken Pot Pie.
Review Date: 12/7/2008
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In this medieval romance, Father Rainulf Fairfax is called to administer last rites to a number of villagers in a town ravaged by smallpox. There he meets Constance, housekeeper to the late town priest, and also suffering the illness. He stays with her all night, nursing her through the worst of it, only to hear later that she died anyway. Imagine his surprise when she shows up in his lecture hall at Oxford dressed as a boy, on the run from the sadistic Sir Roger Foliot and his insane henchman Pigot. He insists she stay in his house for safety, and fights to deny his growing attraction to her, as he seeks a promotion, one of the requirements for which is celibacy.
Constance--or Corliss, as she went by when she left town--has the typical views of a slightly too modern heroine set in the 12th century, but she was a strong woman who went after what she wanted. Rainulf's biggest flaw was overprotectiveness, and when that's all you can complain about, he was a pretty good hero of this romance.
Review Date: 12/7/2008
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Tom Jeffcoat thought he had sealed his fate when he rode into town and accidentally mistook Emily for a boy while she was working at her father's livery in britches. The two fought from the instant they met, especially when she found out he was opening a competing stable across the street. Somewhere between battles they start to see each other for who they really are and grow attracted to each other, despite being attached to others. It soon becomes undeniable, and the author doesn't drag it out with a frustrating lack of communication between them. Spencer is a master at the slow, simmering tension and build-up, and it was a delight to read. Alongside the main plot is the side romance between Emily's father and his first true love, together again after being apart for over twenty years, and their story is just as engaging and interesting as the central one.
Review Date: 11/23/2008
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