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I am late to the jambalaya calculator, but damn am I impressed! I've used it for 2 and 4 gallon recipes and it's been perfect. I did have a question. In the procedures tab, #5 says to add the onions, green pepper, celery, and garlic. But I don't see garlic in the ingredients list. Was this where you include the garlic powder? Or should there be minced garlic in the ingredients? Thanks!

Anna Karenina is the only book I’ve ever read and then hated my decision about reading it. Took me forever. Couldn’t connect with it. Still hate Vronsky for some reason.

GOAL: 36 books

COMPLETED

1 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (539 pages) - slow start but it was awesome. Trudge through the first 100 pages and it takes off from there.

2. The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin (117 pages). Great read on racial injustice.

3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino (400 pages). This was excellent, much better than anticipated.

4. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (384 pages). Pretty good. Not as good as The Hunger Games, but still quite enjoyable.

5. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank (351 pages). Excellent. Poignant. Somber. It vacillated between intense hope and bleak despair. Highly recommended.

6. The Neon Rain - James Lee Burke (275 pages). This was my first Burke read. Not bad. I loved the Louisiana angle, but the story itself seemed a bit forced at some points. Not bad.

7. The Hunt For Red October - Tom Clancy (641 pages). Flat out awesome. I’ve never seen the movie. The book was fantastic and I will continue with more Clancy. I’m very happy to have read this book.

8. Light in August - William Faulkner (507 pages). Spectacular. Loved everything about my first read by Faulkner. I've been missing out! Just a magnificent work of fiction.

9. The Abolition of Man - C. S. Lewis (81 pages). I couldn’t get into it. I’ll give it a re-read another day. But I didn’t get much out of it.

10. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (85 pages). Excellent read. This is a great reminder to enjoy the moments as they come.

11. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction - Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (163 pages). Very interesting overview of CRT. Historical origin, current status, and predictions for the future. I enjoyed it.

12. 1984 - George Orwell (328 pages). Incredible read and I'm sorry I missed it in my younger days. Shockingly relevant still.

13. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account - Miklos Nyiszli (246 pages). Wow this one was tough. It was worth the read, but the details are really tough.

14. Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere - Julie Lamana (327 pages). I loved this book. It's the story of Hurricane Katrina told from the perspective of a young girl living in the Lower 9th. Highly recommended.

15. The Giver - Lois Lowery (195 pages). Second time I have read this book. First time I didn't enjoy. This time, I really liked it. Clever story, great foreshadowing all over the place. Kinda reminded me of 1984.

16. Animal Farm - George Orwell (112 pages). First time. Very good read. I liked 1984 better, but this was still quite enjoyable.

17. All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (531 pages). SPECTACULAR. This is top five all time for me. It's a historical fiction piece set in WWII. Protagonists are a French girl and German boy, whose lives intersect. Highly highly highly recommend.

18. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (127 pages). Started really slow. Got good in the middle. I didn't love it, but I don't regret reading it.

19. Three Mystics Walk Into a Tavern - James Harrington (166 pages). Great, interesting read about the overlapping theories surrounding the mystics of the three Abrahamaic religions.

20. The One Man - Andrew Gross (431 pages). I enjoyed this one. It’s a neat story about sneaking a scientist out of a concentration camp. A little forced at times, but very enjoyable.

21. Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell (388 pages). Typical deep thinking from Gladwell. It’s about communication, bias, perception of strangers. Thought provoking.

22. 1776 - David McCullough (386 pages). My first McCullough read and I enjoyed it. Very nearly seemed like historical fiction in the style of writing. Excellent historical synopsis of the time.

23. Foundation - Isaac Asimov (244 pages). Did. Not. Enjoy. I couldn’t get into it and it took me a long time to finish it.

24. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (175 pages). What a cool story. Quick read. A boy in search of treasure goes on quite a journey to find it.

25. Night - Elie Wiesel (115 pages). This is a first hand account of surviving Auschwitz. Deeply moving.

26. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (376 pages). Wow! I loved this book from start to finish. I am rather surprised and how much I enjoyed it. Austen's writing is beautiful and flawless. This is a masterpiece!

27. Wonder - R. J. Palacio (315 pages). This was such a great book. Inspiring story of a young boy with facial deformities trudging his way through school. Great book!

28. Project 1065: A Novel of World War II - Alan Gratz (320 pages). Interesting story centering around a young boy’s experience with Hitler Youth.

29. The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis (162 pages). Another Lewis book that I did not get much out of. Maybe I need to re read it.

30. Black Cherry Blues - James Lee Burke (366 pages). Now this one was great! Much better than the first Burke book I read this year. This one was a page turner from the beginning. Very enjoyable read, especially if you grew up in South Louisiana.

31. Nyxia Unleashed - Scott Reintgen (393 pages). This is book two of the series and was really well done. The dystopian saga continues.

32. Acadian Redemption: From Beausoleil Brossard to the Queen's Royal Proclamation - Warren A. Perrin (175 pages). Fun little read about Beausoleil and his impact on Louisiana culture.

33. My Louisiana Sky - Kimberly Willis Holt (208 pages). The story of Tiger and her Louisiana family.

34. Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent: Sacred Teachings - Annotated and Explained - Richard Rohr (336 pages). I am so glad that I finally was able to read this one. I picked it up several times but couldn't get motivated to read it. This is a book that is very spiritual, yet not very religious. Thought provoking.

35. The Kingdom of Back - Marie Lu (313 pages). An interesting fantasy surrounding Mozart growth and development as told from the perspective of his sister.

36. Cimmaron Rose - James Lee Burke (406 pages). This one was awesome. A texas lawyer who gets mixed up into all sorts of small town drama.

37. Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr (626 pages). Spectacular. Just like in All the Light, Doerr's character development is unmatched. His style takes some time to get used to, but once you get it, his stories just fly.

Any leads?

Will be. Should be all good.

I read the entire Anna Karenina shitefest and cannot believe it was as awful as it was. Worked my way through all the stupid Russian names and everything. I’ll always never recommend that book.

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Not one mention of Mr Schilling!? C’mon man! Dude was a staple!

I will shed a tear.

Tons of options and I'm spinning in circles. I'm in BTR and would like a nice outdoor antenna to aid me in cutting the cord! Thanks!

Thanks!

I went recently.

I thought the service was great, very eager. The food was very good. Much better than I expected. Added bonus: the turtle soup is the same recipe as Mandina's. I was very pleased and will return.

Thanks for the tips. I'll definitely add the Abbey to the agenda!

Also, if I'm gonna go all out and pick up a bottle of a super high end bourbon while there....Pappy? Parker's Heritage? Other?