https://www.facebook.com/105101598085791/

Books From the Basement Podcast

Home
United States
Plymouth, MN
Books From the Basement Podcast

Books From the Basement is a podcast that discusses favorite childhood books from the 1930's through the 1970's. See Less

This page is for our listeners to discuss our podcast episodes and the books we cover.

08/16/2024

Greetings to all our amazing listeners! We've been away for a while and would like to update you on recent events. Lisa underwent hip replacement surgery in May, followed by two dislocations and a subsequent hip revision surgery at the end of July. Meanwhile, Amy experienced a biking mishap in Germany, resulting in a hospital stay and leg surgery. Fortunately, she's now back in Santa Barbara. We're both recovering and will release a new episode for you soon. We sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding. You are truly the best!

05/13/2024

Hip teplacement surgery #2 has been conquered. Hopefully, discharging from the hospital today and looking forward to sleeping in my own bed!

11/02/2023

What did you think about this year's Halloween episode? We had so much fun recording it!!

09/16/2023

Invitation templates for the Daniel Boone Party!

09/14/2023

Here is my interpretation of the lake on the Wheeler Estate as described in "The Secret of the Unseen Treasure." This is based on the map that is used in "The Black Jacket Mystery." Most of the books don't follow this map, but I posted it because it shows the lake off Glen Road rather than behind Manor House.

09/10/2023

#21 of Lisa's Trixie Belden Food Project: The only recipe I made from "Black Jacket Mystery" was the sugar-and-cinnamon-covered doughnuts with milk! I had to add a few frosted with sprinkles because they're my favorite!

08/09/2023

The Books From the Basement Podcast is back in action with the next Trixie, and The Secret of the Unseen Treasure is on the agenda! ALL the BWGs are included in this one--along with virtually every other character in the first six books! Even Reddy and Patch have cameo appearances! Part one is available wherever you listen to your podcasts! Here are some links to the episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1544569
https://podcasts.apple.com/.../books-from.../id1544343334
https://open.spotify.com/show/7h7Rvo4ezIfQKVJ3O36vx6

06/22/2023

#19 of Lisa's Trixie Belden Food Project: Mysterious Code's Belden Family Dinner Party. The Beldon's host a dinner party for the BWG's. On the menu: Waldorf Salad, Hamburgers, scalloped potatoes, baked beans, homemade ketchup, homemade corn relish, homemade beet pickles, various vegetables and pumpkin pie. Whew! That's a was a lot to make for one dinner, but I managed to pull it off! (Pumpkin pie not pictured. It was already included in the Belden Thanksgiving dinner)!

04/11/2023

#19 of Lisa's Trixie Belden Food Project: In When Trixie spent the night at Mrs. Vanderpoel's house in "The Mysterious Code," she was treated to a meal of sausages and fried apples!

04/11/2023

#18 of Lisa's Trixie Belden Food Project: I've moved on to the "Mysterious Code!" I used Moms' Hamburger Recipe (hamburgers with crumpled bread soaked in milk) to cover the Valentine's party and a classic meal at Whimpy's Diner! I wasn't a fan of the burger (a bit soggy), but the fries and chocolate malt were amazing!

03/05/2023

#17 of Lisa's Trixie Belden's Food Project

I'm finishing the "Mystery in Arizona" with three items:

(1) Blueberry pancakes with bacon eaten both at home and in Arizona,
(2) Di's "rice dish" which I interpreted as red rice. I added some black beans, frijoles and rolled it all up into a burrito just like Mart's "Mexican Sandwich"
(3) Pan de Los Mu***os. This is an orange flavored bread shaped with bones on top. I highly recommend making it if you love the taste of oranges. Tedious to make, but worth it!

On to the "Mysterious Code!"

02/03/2023

#16 of Lisa's Trixie Belden Food Project: Mexican Feast. In The Mystery in Arizona, there was a lot of cooking and eating going on! I put some things together to make this "feast." It included Mart's "Mexican Sandwich" and what I presumed was a mole sauce of some sort. Also, guacamole was mentioned, so I threw that in as well! And the tortilla chips are homemade!

01/31/2023

#15 of Lisa's Trixie Belden Food Project

"The Mystery off Glen Road" had a few recipe options for me. I'm putting them all together in one post.

The famous "Crabapple Special" sandwich made its first appearance in this book. I've already made this and even did a poll in a prior post. I've included the mention in the book but chose not to make it again. I like my PB & Js without butter!

Bobby "peetends" his vegetable soup is "hunter's stew" and Mr. Maypenny makes venison stew. I made my beef stew which is the closest thing to a "hunter's stew" that I'll ever make.

Lastly, the Belden family eat "Macaroni with Cheese-and-Tomato Sauce," so I cooked up some of that

Enjoy!! Next up: "Mystery in Arizona" and some authentic Mexican food!

12/30/2022

#14 of Lisa's Trixie Belden Food Project: The orange sherbe(r)t pumpkin from "The Mysterious Visitor."

Even though the BWGs planned a meal for Di's Halloween party, fake "Uncle Monty" insisted on catering it with Hams, Turkeys and other unnamed foods. I'm not making the ham and I've already made a Turkey, so the only thing left to do was make the orange sherbet(r)t pumpkin! It's a scaled down model and very rudimentary, but you get the gist of it, right?

This is the only thing I'm making from "The Mysterious Visitor," so it's on to "Mystery off Glen Road!"

12/23/2022

#13 of Lisa's Trixie Belden Food Project. Here are two of Mart Belden's favorite foods: Fried chicken and macaroni and cheese. This was my first time making fried chicken! This finishes off the Gatehouse Mystery and it's on to Mysterious Visitor!

12/06/2022

#12 of Lisa's Trixie Belden Food Project: Strawberry Sherbert (because that's how I was taught to spell and pronounce it). This is from "The Gatehouse Mystery." It's always hot in this book, so the gang had a cool dinner at the Wheeler's Place. A shellfish allergy prevented me from making cold shrimp salad, but I did go all out on the homemade strawberry sherbert. Thanks to Amy Berkowitz Tharakan for surprising me with the fancy strawberry dishes!

11/17/2022

#11 of Lisa's Trixie Belden Food Project: Moms' random turkey dinner! To finish off The Secret of the Mansion, I invited all my friends over to my place for my Friendsgiving Dinner with all the trimmings. I made sure to put lots of onions in the stuffing! I skipped the green salad because only rabbits want lettuce with a turkey dinner!
Note: This dinner also covers the Belden's Thanksgiving party in Glen Road and any other turkey dinner that might pop up in future books!

11/08/2022

#10 of Lisa's Trixie Belden Food Project: Mrs. Smith's waffles, sausages & hot chocolate. Trixie was "hustled" by Mrs. Smith to enjoy this country breakfast. This is the final food post for The Red Trailer Mystery. Moving on to The Gatehouse Mystery!

Address

9705 45th Avenue North, #41954
Plymouth, MN
55442

Website

facebook.com

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Books From the Basement Podcast posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Books From the Basement Podcast:

Videos

#9 of Lisa's Trixie Belden Food Project: Frizzled Beef: Trixie and Honey made this delicious dinner for Miss Trask in The Red Trailer Mystery. While Amy was on vacation in Minneapolis, she and Lisa tackled the job of making frizzled beef. Here's the video to prove it! Enjoy!!