Welcome to Week 154 of Mmm Mondays, where we turn Monday woes into Monday whoas!
Header image for Week 154 by Photo by Dainis Graveris:
Last Week’s Links
Last week had one post from MrsK, who shared an insightful guest post about how to get Rekindle the Flame in long term relationships.
For all of last week’s Mmm’s, click here.
Mmm Makers
Only 2 weeks left for this sections (the page will remain, as will the interviews). Before then, read all about these Mmm makers. Know someone who needs a shout out? Let MrsK know.
Week 154 Recommended Reading
Mmm’s on Medium
It’s been a full week on Medium, with a recipe, some flash fiction and a couple how-to’s. Come check us out!
Do you write for Medium? Tell us what makes you say mmm!
Book of the Month
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella Especially Heinous, Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naively assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgangers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes.
Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.
The husband stitch —
Inventory —
Mothers —
Especially heinous —
Real women have bodies —
Eight bites —
The resident —
Difficult at parties
I am loving this book. The writing is magnificent, the stories bold and daring, and yet honest even in their fictional way.
Week 154 Recipe
Sticking to our December Party theme, this recipe is sure to delight!
Bacon-Wrapped Scallops
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup soy sauce or tamari
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1.5 lbs large sea scallops
- 1 8 oz can sliced water chesnuts
- 1/2 lb thin bacon cut into 3″ pieces
- toothpicks
Sriracha Aioli Dipping Sauce
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp sriracha
- 1 tbsp lime juice
Instructions
- In a small bowl combine soy sauce, brown sugar and orange juice. Add scallops to soy sauce mixture, toss to combine and allow refrigerate for 30 minutes or up to overnight.
- In a small bowl combine mayo along with sriracha and lime juice until smooth. Sriracha mayo can be made ahead and stored in refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- Working with one scallop at a time, lay bacon piece flat add a slice of water chestnut to the center of the bacon followed by a marinated sea scallop. Tightly wrap the bacon around the scallop and pierce with a toothpick to hold the bacon in place. Place on baking sheet lined with a cooling rack and bake for 12-15 minutes, or until bacon is crispy. (For extra crispy bacon, broil for the last 2-3 minutes, just keep on eye on them!)
- Serve warm along with sriracha mayo.
Notes
This Week’s Links
For bloggers, Mmm Mondays opens Friday at noon (MST- that’s N. America) and closes Tuesday December 31/2024 at 6pm. If this is your first time joining the fun, please read the rules and grab a badge. You can add your post(s) below using the linky tool.
Don’t know how to take part? Find out how, here. You don’t have to have a blog! And we love images too!
Since you’re already here, take a second and read one or more posts (you’ll be glad you did!). And don’t forget to like or comment if they make you say Mmm too.
I always encourage sharing, so for any posts you may have missed, watch for them on Monday when I share them via Twitter.
For those on Medium, you can find the guidelines here.
What makes you say Mmm?
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