Tattered Essence

You know, I love to read cookbooks. I love to find new recipes to try. And one of my fave ways to makes things in is a slow cooker or crock pot. There are loads of crock pot recipes out there too. But I found a great resource for my crock pot recipes at RecipeMatcher. You see, if you head on over to the RecipeMatcher home page you can actually find a recipe based on the ingredients that you have at home! All thanks to their easy to use Recipe Finding Tool. If you do not believe me head on over there and give it a try yourself!

Here’s something fun – dolphins blowing bubbles. Click on the link or the image below to see what I am talking about!

The 40th NAACP Image Awards were given out last week.

Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope by Nikki Grimes, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Simon & Schuster) won for Outstanding Literary Work – Children.

Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny by Hill Harper (Gotham Books) won for Outstanding Literary Work—Youth/Teens.

Hip Hop Speaks to Children, edited by Nikki Giovanni (Sourcebooks/
Jabberwocky) won for Outstanding Literary Work—Poetry, the first time that a book for children has won in this category.

If you are a regular reader then you may have noticed some issues with the site. You see, about a month ago I changed web hosts. I changed b/c of a lot of down time. With this new host I am experiencing super slow load times. And that is no good either. That means time to look for a new host. Or maybe I should go the dedicated server route. Of course that can be expensive so I will have to weigh my options. But changes may be afoot.

The winners of the 2008-9 Cybils (The Children’s and YA Bloggers’ Literary Awards) have been announced. They include The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale in Graphic Novels, and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart in YA Fiction.