09/24/2021
By Kate Stone Lombardi
I have a lot of cooking to do today. Six for dinner at our house tonight – outside and Covid-friendly.
The menu: grilled swordfish, lemon orzo, roasted vegetables and key lime pie. I love to cook but all that chopping and grating can get boring over time. Unless you are listening to a great book while you cook. In fact, “book” and “cook” rhyme. Coincidence? Yup, probably.
Anyway, it’s the season for judging audio books again. This year I’ve been assigned a new category. I’m not allowed to reveal either the category or the books in it, but I can tell you they are definitely keeping me entertained. This round there are 13 titles to listen to, and a second batch will arrive in November. I’m on book one. Looks like I’ll be doing a lot of cooking this fall.
So far, I have made the Key lime pie (except for the whipped cream topping, which must be done at the last minute), the marinade for the swordfish, and I’ve chopped the vegetables and zested the lemons and squeezed the juice for the orzo.
Friends are bringing appetizers and wine. The weather is behaving. And at this point in the book, our plucky heroine is in very deep trouble.