Books To Read

Recently I went through my hope chest and reorganized the stuff that was inside. I found, among a lot of other things, 6 sheets of authors and titles that I should I read. I think I made this list when I was in highschool.

C.S. Lewis
-Four Loves
-Pilgrims Regress
-Reflection on the Psalms
-God in the Dock
-Medieval and Renaissance Literature
-Mere Christianity
-Screwtape Letters
-Space Trilogy

Tolkien
-The Lord of the Rings

Dorothy Sayers
-The Lost Tools of Learning
-The Man Born to Be King
-The Nine Tailors

Chesterton
-The Ballad of the White Horse
-Everlasting Man
-Orthodoxy
-Father Brown

Dickens
-The Tale of Two Cities
-Bleak House
-David Copperfield
-A Christmas Carol
-A Cricket on the Hearth
-Our Mutual Friend

Alcott
-Jack and Jill
-Under the Lilacs
-An Old-Fashioned Girl
-Good Wives
-Jo's Boys

Jack London
-Call of the Wild

J.M.Barrie
-The Little Minister

Howard Fast
-Spartacus

Mark Twain
-Tom Sawyer

Nathaniel Hawthorn
-The House of Seven Gables
-The Scarlet Letter

G.A. Henty
-For the Temple

Aldrich
-A Lantern in her Hand

George McDonald
-Lilith
-Princess & Curdie
-Princess and the Goblins
-Littler Daylight and other Stories

James Hilton
-Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Sir Walter Scott
-Ivanhoe
-Rob Roy

George Elliot
-Middlemarch

Christopher Morley
-Parnassus on Wheels
-The Haunted Bookshop

Robert Lewis Stevenson
-Kidnapped
-The Black Arrow

Geoffrey of Monmouth
John Buchan
Agatha Christie
Flannery O'Connor
Rudyard Kipling
Elizabeth Gouge
Charles Williams

-Master and Commander
-Metamorphasis
-Astrophel and Stella
-The Tountine
-The Seven Laws of Teaching
-Silver Chalice
-Ben-Hur
-Portrait of a Lady
-Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
-The Brother's Karamazov
-Crime and Punishment
-War and Peace
-I Capture the Castle
-Wuthering Heights
-Adam of the Road
-Captian's Courageous
-Lorna Doone
-King Solomon's Mines
-The Red Badge of Courage
-Penrod
-Les Miserables
-Scottish Chiefs
-Uncle Tom's Cabin
-The Yearling
-To Kill A Mockingbird
-The Killer Angels
-A Year in Provance
-Under the Tuscan Sun
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English Muffin Bread

This recipe comes from Grace Penney. It's very good mostly because I stick pretty close to it.

English Muffin Bread
1.5 cups flour + 1 cup flour
1 package rapid rise yeast
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoons salt
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup milk + 1/4 cup water (120-130 degreees F)
cornmeal

Combine 1.5 cups flour, yeast, sugar, salt, and baking soda. Stir in milk/water combination.
Use your hands to mix in remaining flour until dough is soft. Grease 8 1/2 by 44 1/2 inch loaf pan. Sprinkle with cornmeal, put dough in pan and sprinkle with more cornmeal. Cover pan and let dough rise in warm, draft free place for 30-40 minutes. Bake at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes. It will stay 3 days in an air tight container, or frozen for a month.

Pork Carnitas for Crockpot

Pork (any where from 1lb to 4 lbs have worked well)
1 bunch Cilantro
½ Red onion
3 cloves garlic, minced
A sprinkle Garlic salt
A dash Oregano
16 oz jar of Salsa
Splash of Olive oil

1) Pour olive oil in crock pot. Add ½ chopped red onion and minced garlic. Put meat on top. Tear cilantro on top of meat (or use scissors to snip leafy ends of cilantro; some steams are ok). Sprinkle all with garlic salt and oregano. Pour salsa over everything; add ½ bottle of water. Cook on low 6-8 hours. Serve in tortillas and with chips, salsa, sour cream and humus.