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Steampunk Inspired Food for The Girl With the Iron Touch

May 5 |17:04

Symptoms: steampunk withdrawal, Cure: Steampunk inspired food.

A few years ago, you couldn’t turn around without a hitting a new YA steampunk novel off a shelf. Now, books being published in that subgenre have slowed down, but my appetite for pocketwatches and Victorian style surroundings has not.

Hence, steampunk-inspired food that will not only fill your stomach but your HEART…that looks like an actual human heart and not romantic-y rounded version. It’s very stemapunk.

Steampunk-Inspired Food for The Girl with the Iron Touch

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Pages & Pairings is a Read.Breathe.Relax. feature that matches up our favorite book and stories with tasty food and drinks. Reading should be a full sensory experience!

In these posts I’ll include links to the recipes so you can make these tasty treats yourself.

Eat, read and be merry!

Ingredients for Steampunk Inspired Food:

If you haven’t read the amazing Steampunk Chronicles series by Kady Cross, you’re missing out.

Fortunately, you can remedy this problem by picking up her latest book in the series – The Girl with the Iron Touch – and making one of these easy Steampunk-ish recipes!

The Girl with the Iron Touch’s menu includes:

Tentacle Pot Pies

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I think it’s due to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but you can’t Google “steampunk” without seeing your fair share of octopuses. These ADORABLE Tentacle Pot Pies from on Babble combine all the delicious golden flakiness of chicken pot pie with the creative juices (<--food joke!) of steampunk geniuses.

PLUS – in the opening scene of The Girl with the Iron Touch, there’s TOTALLY an epic battle between Emily and a pissed off giant squid. After the scene fades out, feel free to poke your pot pie meanly with your spoon.

Cog Cookie Cutter

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What I love about this super cute cog cookie cutter from Etsy is that you can use whatever cookie batter you like most and get amazing results every time. I especially love cookies half dipped in chocolate – they are especially good for dunking.

Plus, I’m pretty sure that at every proper afternoon tea there has to be some sort of cookie or biscuit for the event to be legit. And jam and/or clotted cream.

Tootsie Roll Steampunk Cupcakes

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Because it’s crazy to have just ONE dessert, here’s another option for those of you who are serious or aspiring bakers – Tootsie Roll Steampunk Cupcakes from Bakingdom. It is essentially a chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting with a swag Steampunk tootsie hat on top. Kind of a big deal.

So freaking adorable I can’t stand it.

What theme specific food have you made for a party (or just for fun)? Would you or have you made steampunk inspired food??

Foods You Can Unravel, Shatter or Break When Reading Unravel Me

Feb 27 |08:36

Unravel Me is a book that is Pages & Pairings GOLD. I mean, you can unravel and/or shatter tons of food. Not that you would want to smash food when you’re actually reading the book…but still.

Foods You’ll Want to Eat When Reading Unravel Me

Pages & Pairings is a new Read.Breathe.Relax. feature that matches up our favorite book and stories with tasty food and drinks. Reading should be a full sensory experience!

In these posts I’ll include links to the recipes so you can make these tasty treats yourself.

Eat, read and be merry!

Ingredients in Unravel Me:

In Unravel Me, there’s a bubbling pot of anxiety, a side of rage and a HUGE helping of attraction. There’s so much action and drama in Unravel Me. It will definitely make you want to break something.

Unravel Me’s menu includes:

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Peanut Brittle

With peanut brittle you can easily shatter little bits of it WITH A HAMMER. It’s been a dream of mine to break something with a hammer. I’m not normally violent, I swear.

Pretend you’re Juliette smashing whichever dumb boy is driving her nuts at the time by making this microwavable peanut brittle from Mom Advice.

Plus, I can totally see Juliette describing her emotions as if they were “fragile pieces of peanut brittle that shatter into a million sugary bits.”

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Butterscotch Pull Aparts

Watch Juliette’s heart get PULLED APART by Warner and Adam. These Butterscotch Pull Aparts from KeyIngredient.com look simple to make and – spoiler alert – I’m a sucker for Butterscotch.

Only, Juliette doesn’t even have the luxury of licking the butterscotch off her fingers afterward. And YOU DO.

No, but seriously: Team Warner or Team Adam?! I’m honestly leaning toward Team Warner. But…I am so biased after reading Destroy Me. Warner is deep, guys! He is a little damaged and unbalanced, but, come on, we’ve seen worse match-ups, right?!

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Amaretti Crisps

When you nerves are THIN and CRISP at the end of Unravel Me from all the covert missions and secret trysts, you’ll need these Amaretti Crisps from Martha Stewart to calm your beating heart.

Theses crisps are perfect for coffee or tea dunking and would be useful to munch and ponder Mafi’s Shakespeare quotes and crossed out words ~~and phrases~~.

Eat, read and be merry – Unravel Me style!

Jane Austen Tea Party

Jan 31 |12:45

In honor of the benchmark anniversary of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, let’s celebrate with a Jane Austen Tea Party! She may have been British, but the American way to celebrate anything is with food and drinks.

Jane Austen Tea Party

Pages & Pairings is a new Read.Breathe.Relax. feature that matches up our favorite book and stories with tasty food and drinks. Reading should be a full sensory experience!

In these posts I’ll include links to the recipes so you can make these tasty treats yourself.

Eat, read and be merry!

Devon Cream Tea Strawberry Jam

Any respectable lady in Jane Austen’s time would DEF have had some strawberry jam with their scone. Scones are serious business. I mean, no one wants Lady Catherine to be looking down her nose at you while you get scone crumbs all over her rich furnishings.

Phew, the pressure.

This awesome jam from Food.com would be perfect with any sugary treat, especially while someone reads aloud the super gushy parts of Pride and Prejudice.

Garden Party Cucumber Sandwiches

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Dainty cucumber sandwiches are the absolute basics for a tea party. They’re small, dainty and few calories. All essential to refined ladies wanting to turn Mr. Darcy’s head.

This recipe from Food.com is simple and quick – two cooking tenets I try to hold true.

Even Ms. Bingley couldn’t disapprove. Well, she definitely could cuz she’s a b…but, in theory, she wouldn’t.

Eat, read and be merry – Jane Austen Tea Party style!

Little Women Christmas Recipes

Dec 14 |09:31

I flippin love Christmas. And not only Christmas but Christmas recipes. No book says Christmas more to me than Little Women. All the girls and their spunky personalities and Marmee being all perfect mom-ish!

Here are a few recipes to whip up while reading this awesome classic.

Little Women Christmas Recipes

Pages & Pairings is a new Read.Breathe.Relax. feature that matches up our favorite book and stories with tasty food and drinks. Reading should be a full sensory experience!

In these posts I’ll include links to the recipes so you can make these tasty treats yourself.

Eat, read and be merry!

Ingredients in Little Women

Little Women is a beautifully written story about family and love and loss. It’s about making your way in the world. In that sense, it really is the perfect Christmas story because this season is all about sharing and loving.

Little Women has a lot of warmth and spirit, and all of the recipes I chose reflect that. These are classic holiday recipes that I simply adore.

Little Women’s menu includes:

Hot Spiced Cider

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There is NOTHING I love more than drinking spiced cider during the holidays. It’s warm, it’s spicy, it’s the full embodiment of Christmas.

Plus it reminds me of the scenes in Little Women where the girls and Marmee are sitting around a fire, talking girly talk. I will definitely be trying this recipe from Recipe.com

Soft Ginger Cookies

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I just recently had ginger cookies with pumpkin sauce for the first time. They were AMAZING! I was immediately obsessed, so finding this recipe was going to happen whether or not I did this Pages and Pairings post.

The recipe is from The Comfort of Cooking blog, who doesn’t make it sound too challenging to those of us who are baking challenged.

Sweet Cinnamon Bun Pie

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Cinnamon buns are the best way to start Christmas morning. After opening all your presents, of course. Why not make this already sweet breakfast item into a pie, right? No harm there…

I feel like this dish could have made it to one of the fancy parties the March girls attended. Nothing says fancy like pie.

Eat, read and be merry – Little Women style!

What to Eat When Reading Angelfall by Susan Ee

Oct 5 |07:49

Most of the times, I think about a book and THEN I think about the food I want to eat with the book – in the case of Angelfall, it was the opposite. I knew I wanted to make that special cake that is both fluffy and terrible for you first, and I thought of Angelfall second. NOM!

I’m sure you can guess what we’ll be making, but you should probably check this out in case I fooled you…

What to Eat When Reading Angelfall

Pages & Pairings is a new Read.Breathe.Relax. feature that matches up our favorite book and stories with tasty food and drinks. Reading should be a full sensory experience!

In these posts I’ll include links to the recipes so you can make these tasty treats yourself.

Eat, read and be merry!

Ingredients in Angelfall

Angels aren’t as fluffy and gentle as you would think. At least not in Angelfall. Angels are harbringers of death and destruction, and it becomes all too real for Penryn when an angel plucks her little sister from the harsh LA streets.

Although this book doesn’t portray angels in the typical “messengers from God” type of way, I had to stick with the fluffy theme. It’s more delicious that way, I promise.

Angelfall’s menu includes:

Angel Food Cake

I hope everyone saw this coming. OF COURSE I chose Angel Food Cake! And, you’re lucky – the recipe I chose from Joy the Baker is a pretty simple one. Who knew this recipe can get crazy difficult?!

As the name implies, the cake is light and airy, very much like the strong but physically light Raffe from the novel. He has to be able to lift his body weight, so I’d hope we wasnt’ a chub. (Like me, after eating this!…still YOLO )

Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Cookies

A bit more rich in taste, these Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Cookies from Hot Polka Dot look amazing! I’m sure Penryn hasn’t eaten something that delicious since before the angel attacks.

Don’t let that make you feel guilty eating them though- there are plenty of other reasons for that!

These tasty treats will only serve to enhance the awesomeness that Angelfall already has – it’s a great book that’ll fly by!

Eat, read and be merry – Angelfall style!

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Steampunk Inspired Food for The Girl With the Iron Touch

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