1 Homemade by Clodagh McKenna

Friday night, Dan, Chris, and I went to dinner at Margarita's, then took a trip to Toadstool Bookshop because they've been having a 20% off everything sale for the past week. I always have a hard time buying books in stores without some kind of coupon or something because I've been getting the majority of my books lately from Amazon, usually for around $4 (including shipping). So I stalked the shelves of Toadstool, being very picky with what I chose to buy.

At first I decided upon F. Scott Fitzgerald's autobiography. Then I found Chad Kultgen's new book, Men, Women, and Children, and I carried that around for a little while, too.

Then I put them both back.

I continued looking, by that point having given up on finding anything at all to buy. I found my way to the cookbooks section and looked around a bit, immediately caught by a book with a pink binding and adorable cover. I look at for a moment, and then put it back. I peeked around at a few more and found myself picking up Homemade again. I looked through it some more before flipping it over to check the price - $25, before getting marked down to a much more debit friendly $10!

I decided to buy it, assuming it wouldn't get the 20% discount because it was already marked down and some items in the store were exceptions to the sale. But when the guy rang up the book it was only $8!

I brought home a lovely new cookbook to add to my collection for less than half of its original price, spent all of Friday night flipping through it, even reading it in bed as if it were some fantastic novel, and now I can't wait to cook something from it!