Aunt M's Infamous Toffee

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1 cup butter
2 TBSP cold water
a dash of salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 (12-ounce) bag semisweet or milk chocolate chips
1 cup chopped pecans

Directions

Generously coat a 9 x 13-inch baking pan with butter.

Combine sugar, butter and water in a lrage heavy saucepan over medium-high heat.  Bring to a boil, stirring constantly so it doesn't crystalize.

Clamp a candy thermometer to the side of the saucepan, making sure it doesn't touch the bottom of the pan.  Cook, without stirring, until mixture reaches 300 degress F ("hard-crack stage") on the thermometer.

Immediately remove from heat stir in salt and vanilla.

Pour mixture immediately onto prepared pan and spread with a buttered spatula.

Top with chocolate chips over hot mixture.  After a few minutes, chocolate will be soft enough to spread with a buttered spatula or back of a buttered spoon.

Sprinkle crushed pecans over the top of melted chocolate.

Cool completely and break into pieces once hardened.

Store in an airtight container at room temperature or refrigerator up to 10 days.

Christmas Clusters

Ingredients

¼ cup (40 g) roasted pistachios, divided
¼ cup (40 g) dried cranberries, divided
8 ounces (225 g) white chocolate, chopped

Directions

1.  Set aside 12 pistachios and 12 cranberries in separate small bowls for the garnish.

2.  Chop the remaining pistachios and cranberries separately.

3.  In a medium microwave-safe bowl heat the white chocolate on High in 15-second intervals, stirring in between. (Alternatively, melt it on top of the stove). Once the chocolate is melted and smooth; stir in the chopped pistachios and cranberries.

4.  Using a spoon, drop the mixture onto the prepared baking sheet, creating 12 clusters spaced apart. Top each with a reserved pistachio and cranberry.

5.  Let cool completely at room temperature.

Tips

1.  White chocolate picks up flavors quickly. Be sure the clusters are not stored with other goodies, or their flavors might transfer.

2.  Store the clusters in an airtight container in a cool place for up to 2 weeks.

Library Haul 2019 (Dec 22 - 28)

Library Haul

Here's the list of books/manga/manhwa/yaoi manga I picked up this week at the library:

Hardcover:

1.  Fatal Cajun Festival - Ellen Bryon
2.  Invitation Only Murder - Leslie Meier
3.  Christmas in Silver Springs - Brenda Novak

Chewy Macaroons

Preheat the oven to 325 F (160 C)

2 Baking Sheets lined with parchment paper

Ingredients

6 cups (600 g) sweetened shredded coconut
1 can (14 oz or 300 mL) full-fat sweetened condensed milk
1 TBSP (15 mL) vanilla extract

Directions

1.  In a large bowl stir together the coconut, condensed milk and vanilla until the coconut is well coated.

2.  Drop in 1-tablespoon (15 mL) mounds onto the prepared baking sheets spacing them about 1 ½ inches (4 cm) apart.

3.  Bake one sheet at a time on the middle rack; of the preheated oven; until lightly browned around the edges; about 10 to 12 minutes.

4.  Let cool on the baking sheet on a wire rack for 5 minutes before transferring the macaroons to the rack to cool completely.

Tips

1.  Be sure to scrape out the tin of condensed milk, I find tiny spatulas ideal for this job. Simply pouring the milk from the can may leave behind a good 2 TBSP (30 mL) and will adversely affect the final results.

2.  Substitute 1 ½ teaspoons (7 mL) pure almond extract for the vanilla if you want an almond taste.

3.  Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.

Christmas Cinnamon-Sugar Roasted Almonds

 

Ingredients

1 egg white
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
4 cups whole almonds
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar

Directions

1.  Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and lightly coat with cooking spray.

2.  Whisk together the egg white and vanilla until frothy. Stir in almonds until almonds are completely coated. Set aside.

3.  In a medium bowl, mix together sugars, salt and cinnamon. Fold in almond mixture and mix until almonds are completely coated.

4.  Transfer to prepared baking sheet and spread in an even layer. Cook for one hour, gently turning over with a spatula every 20 minutes.

5.  Remove from oven and allow to cool completely before serving. Store in an airtight container.

Gary's Gooey Caramel Popcorn

 

Ingredients

1 can of sweetened condensed milk
2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 cup light corn syrup
a pinch of salt
18 cups cooked popcorn (or 3 bags of microwave popcorn, popped)

Directions

1.  Cook all ingredients in a large, heavy saucepan on medium heat to soft ball stage or about 235 F degrees. (If you don't have a candy thermometer, you can test the candy by dropping a little mixture in cold water. If it forms a soft ball, it's done.)

2.  Pour over popcorn and mix with a wooden spoon until evenly coated.

3.  Eat as is or form into balls and store in a covered container.

Tip: Add a cup of peanuts for crunchy texture and salty flavor. There's something sweet and salty that's so divine.

Weekly Book Reads (Dec 16)

Weekly Book Reads

Weekly Book Reads is a weekly Monday Meme that is hosted by Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews:

Post the books read last week and books you plan on finishing this week.

Read Last Week:

1.  A Murderous Tangle - Sally Goldenbalm
2.  Ali Cross - James Patterson

Weekly Book Reading:

1.  Blue Moon - John Sandford
2.  Thin Ice - Paige Shelton

Library Haul 2019 (Dec 15 - 21)

Library Haul

Here's the list of books/manga/manhwa/yaoi manga I picked up this week at the library:

Hardcover:

1.  Blue Moon - John Sandford
2.  Thin Ice - Paige Shelton

Weekly Book Reads (Dec 9)

Weekly Book Reads

Weekly Book Reads is a weekly Monday Meme that is hosted by Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews:

Post the books read last week and books you plan on finishing this week.

Read Last Week:

1.  Wherever She Goes - Kelley Armstrong
2.  Bloody Genius - John Sandford

Weekly Book Reading:

1.  A Murderous Tangle - Sally Goldenbalm
2.  Ali Cross - James Patterson

Bunny Express Saturday 2019 (Dec 7)

Bunny Express Saturday is hosted every Saturday at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews.

I received this in the mail this week.         

First in a new series set in Alaska from beloved author Paige Shelton, Thin Ice will chill your bones.

Beth Rivers is on the run – she’s doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Known to the world as thriller author Elizabeth Fairchild, she had become the subject of a fanatic’s obsession. After being held in a van for three days by her kidnapper, Levi Brooks, Beth managed to escape, and until he is captured, she's got to get away. Cold and remote, Alaska seems tailor-made for her to hideout.

Beth’s new home in Alaska is sparsely populated with people who all seem to be running or hiding from something, and though she accidentally booked a room at a halfway house, she feels safer than she’s felt since Levi took her. That is, until she’s told about a local death that’s a suspected murder. Could the death of Linda Rafferty have anything to do with her horror at the hands of Levi Brooks?

As Beth navigates her way through the wilds of her new home, her memories of her time in the van are coming back, replaying the terror and the fear ― and threatening to keep her from healing, from reclaiming her old life again. Can she get back to normal, will she ever truly feel safe, and can she help solve the local mystery, if only so she doesn’t have to think about her own?

Weekly Book Reads (Dec 2)

Weekly Book Reads

Weekly Book Reads is a weekly Monday Meme that is hosted by Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews:

Post the books read last week and books you plan on finishing this week.

Read Last Week:

1. Strangers She Knows - Christina Dodd
2. Word to the Wise - Jenn McKinlay

Weekly Book Reading:

1. Wherever She Goes - Kelley Armstrong
2.  Bloody Genius - John Sandford

December Releases

3rd
Thin Ice - Paige Shelton

Library Haul 2019 (Dec 1 - 7)

Library Haul

Here's the list of books/manga/manhwa/yaoi manga I picked up this week at the library:

Hardcover:

1.  Bloody Genius - John Sandford
2.  Quantum - Patricia Cornwell
3.  A Murderous Tangle - Sally Goldenbalm
4.  Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever - Michael J. Tyrkus

Bunny Express Saturday 2019 (Nov 30)

Bunny Express Saturday is hosted every Saturday at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews.

I received these in the mail this week.          

In this explosive thriller, a New York City-based book editor travels to a Southern island to meet a mysterious author -- but she's about to uncover the truth about a carefully concealed crime.

Maris Matherly-Reed is a renowned New York book editor, the daughter of a publisher and the wife of bestselling author Noah Reed. It's not often that an unsolicited submission tantalizes her, but a new manuscript with blockbuster potential inspires her to search for the elusive author.

On an obscure island off the Georgia coast, amid the ruins of an eerie cotton plantation, she finds Parker Evans, a man determined to conceal his identity as well as his past. Working with him chapter by chapter, Maris is riveted by his tale of two friends who charter a boat with a young woman for a night of revelry an excursion from which only one person returns.

As the story unfolds, Maris becomes convinced it is more than just fiction. Disturbed about her growing attraction to Parker and gripped by a chilling suspicion about his novel's characters, she searches for the hidden truth about a crime committed decades ago. Then someone close to her dies while an evil presence looms even closer: a man who will use anyone -- and anything -- to get what he wants.

A killer with all the skills of a master detective has made Alex Cross the subject of his deranged "investigation."

In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed "M" rests on the corpse. "You messed up big time, Dr. Cross."

Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as "M" lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with distressingly familiar details -- details that conjure up decades-old cases. Details that conjure up Cross family secrets. Details that make clear that M is after a prize so dear that -- were the killer to attain it -- Alex's heart would no longer have reason to beat.

Top FBI profiler Grace Steele was just a girl when she escaped the Order of the New Dawn, and she's spent the last seventeen years trying to forget her time there. But when private security firm Steele Ops needs her help extracting a young woman from the secretive cult's clutches, she's all in. Even though the mission requires posing as the fiancée of the only man who's ever broken her heart.

It's been nine years since Cade Wright turned his back on his childhood sweetheart, and he's never stopped regretting it. Now that they're forced to work together, he knows this is his opportunity to show Grace how much he's changed. But the deeper they get pulled into New Dawn, the clearer it becomes that the demons still haunting Grace are very real, and Cade will have to risk everything to keep her safe including his own life.

Includes the bonus novel Extreme Honor by Piper J. Drake!

Thanks Hachette Book Group Canada!

Waiting on Wednesday

 

Please list the books/manga/manhwa/yaoi manga from your wishlist that you are hoping to add to your shelves in a comment, thanks.    

First in a new series set in Alaska from beloved author Paige Shelton, Thin Ice will chill your bones.

Beth Rivers is on the run – she’s doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Known to the world as thriller author Elizabeth Fairchild, she had become the subject of a fanatic’s obsession. After being held in a van for three days by her kidnapper, Levi Brooks, Beth managed to escape, and until he is captured, she's got to get away. Cold and remote, Alaska seems tailor-made for her to hideout.

Beth’s new home in Alaska is sparsely populated with people who all seem to be running or hiding from something, and though she accidentally booked a room at a halfway house, she feels safer than she’s felt since Levi took her. That is, until she’s told about a local death that’s a suspected murder. Could the death of Linda Rafferty have anything to do with her horror at the hands of Levi Brooks?

As Beth navigates her way through the wilds of her new home, her memories of her time in the van are coming back, replaying the terror and the fear―and threatening to keep her from healing, from reclaiming her old life again. Can she get back to normal, will she ever truly feel safe, and can she help solve the local mystery, if only so she doesn’t have to think about her own?

New Releases (Nov 26)

New Releases

#1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward is heating things up this winter with a holiday novel featuring some of her most iconic Black Dagger Brothers.

When Trez lost his beloved to a tragic death (The Shadows, Black Dagger Brotherhood #13), his soul was crushed and his destiny seemed relegated to suffering. But when he meets a mysterious female, he becomes convinced his true love has been reincarnated. Is he right? Or has his grief created a disastrous delusion?

Therese has come to Caldwell to escape a rift with her bloodline. The revelation that she was adopted and not born into her family shakes the foundations of her identity, and she is determined to make it on her own. Her attraction to Trez is not what she’s looking for, except the sexy Shadow proves to be undeniable.

Has fate provided a grieving widower with a second chance...or is Trez too blinded by the past to see the present for what it really is? In this sensual, arresting book full of the themes of redemption and self-discovery, two lost souls find themselves at a crossroads where the heart is the only compass that can be trusted but that may require a courage that neither of them possesses.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Year One and Of Blood and Bone concludes her stunning new trilogy praised as “A match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King’s The Stand.”

After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical Purity Warriors, endlessly hunted or locked up in laboratories, brutalized for years on end. She is determined to save even those who have been complicit with this evil out of fear or weakness ― if, indeed, they can be saved.

Strengthened by the bond she shares with her fellow warrior, Duncan, Fallon has already succeeded in rescuing countless shifters and elves and ordinary humans. Now she must help them heal ― and rediscover the light and faith within themselves. For although from the time of her birth, she has been The One, she is still only one. And as she faces down an old nemesis, sets her sights on the enemy’s stronghold, and pursues her destiny ― to finally restore the mystical shield that once protected them all ― she will need an army behind her.

Top FBI profiler Grace Steele was just a girl when she escaped the Order of the New Dawn, and she's spent the last seventeen years trying to forget her time there. But when private security firm Steele Ops needs her help extracting a young woman from the secretive cult's clutches, she's all in. Even though the mission requires posing as the fiancée of the only man who's ever broken her heart.

It's been nine years since Cade Wright turned his back on his childhood sweetheart, and he's never stopped regretting it. Now that they're forced to work together, he knows this is his opportunity to show Grace how much he's changed. But the deeper they get pulled into New Dawn, the clearer it becomes that the demons still haunting Grace are very real, and Cade will have to risk everything to keep her safe including his own life.

Includes the bonus novel Extreme Honor by Piper J. Drake!

Weekly Book Reads (Nov 25)

Weekly Book Reads

Weekly Book Reads is a weekly Monday Meme that is hosted by Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews:

Post the books read last week and books you plan on finishing this week.

Read Last Week:

1. Hounds of the Basket Stitch - Anne Canadeo

Weekly Book Reading:

1. Strangers She Knows - Christina Dodd
2. Word to the Wise - Jenn McKinlay

Nancy Lynn Jarvis's Cozy Food Blog Tour with a Spotlight and Giveaway

I am so excited to have Nancy Lynn Jarvis here at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews with a Spotlight and Giveaway.

Thanks Nancy and Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours for allowing me to join your Cozy Food Blog Tour!

Please take it away, Nancy!

Cozy Food: 128 Cozy Mystery Writers Share Their Favorite Recipes
Cozy Cookbook
Good Read Mysteries (May 15, 2014)
Number of Pages: 241 (167 of recipes, 70 of contributor bios and books)
ISBN-10: 0983589178
ISBN-13: 978-0983589174
Kindle ASIN: B00KGZSEQ6



What happens when 128 cozy mystery writers get together to do a cookbook? You get more than 220 recipes that are as varied and interesting as an amateur sleuth’s day job.

Regional recipes come from every part of the United States and England — a couple find their way from Australia and Italy, too — and from diverse times. There are recipes from people looking to keep gluten out of their lives, eat vegetarian, or make a treat or two for their furry four-legged friends. And yes, there are recipes that appeal to the sweet tooth, lots of them, in fact.

There’s no mystery about what happens when cozy writers get together. They bring the wit, inventiveness, and adventure found in their books right along with their recipes.

The recipes are introduced by their authors and linked to the writer bios in the back of the book.
You can look up your favorite cozy writer and see which recipes are their favorites; they’ll tell you what the recipe means to them. Or you can enjoy a dish and then link to the recipe’s author’s biography and books.

Either way you enjoy the cookbook, you’re sure to find great new recipes to make and terrific new cozy authors to read.

Contributing Authors: Sparkle Abbey, Ellery Adams, (aka J. B. Stanley, Jennifer Stanley) Judy Alter, Marian Allen, Ritter Ames, Donna Andrews, Traci Andrighetti, Amy Beth Arkawy, Mignon F. Ballard, Sandra Balzo, JoAnn Bassett, Cynthia Baxter, (aka Cynthia Blair) Jenna Bennett, (aka Jennie Bentley) Sally Berneathy, (aka Sally Carleen, Sally Steward, Sara Garrett) Maggie Bishop, Cindy Blackburn, Juliet Blackwell, Susan Furlong Bollinger, Sheila Webster Boneham, Laura Bradford, Frances Brody, Duffy Brown, Joyce Ann Brown, Mollie Bryan, B.B. Cantwell, Laurie Cass, (aka Laura Alden) Nancy J. Cohen, Shelley Costa, Judith Cutler, Rebecca (aka R.P.) Dahlke, Kathi Daley, Kathleen Delaney, Diana Dempsey, Pamela Frost Dennis, Lesley A. Diehl, Leighann Dobbs, Vicki Doudera, Pamela DuMond, Carola Dunn, Jean Erhardt, Chloe Evans, Monica Ferris, (aka Margaret Frazer, Mary Monica Pulver, Mary Kuhfeld) Judy Fitzwater, Chris Forman, Kaye George, Sally Goldenbaum, Barbara Graham, Sarah Graves, Carolyn Haines, (aka R.B. Chesterton) Vinnie Hansen, Traci Hilton, Sibel Hodge, Valerie Horowitz, Mary Ellen Hughes, Linda Joffe Hull, Ellen Elizabeth Hunter, Dawn Greenfield Ireland, Melanie Jackson, Holly Jacobs, Miranda James, (aka Dean James) Nancy Lynn Jarvis, Heather Justesen, Pamela Kelley, E.E. Kennedy, Mary Kennedy, Josi S. Kilpack, Kelly Klepfer, (aka Michelle Griep, Ellie Marks) Barbara Lee Cool, Marilyn Levinson, Liz Lipperman, Gail Lukasik, Elaine Macko, Sylvia Massara, Sonja Massie, (aka G.A. McKevett) Edith Maxwell, (aka Tace Baker) Lorena McCourtney, Marja McGraw, Eileen Haavik McIntire, Staci McLaughlin, Catriona McPherson, Camille Minichino, (aka Margaret Grace, Ada Madison) Marie Moore, Ruth Moose, Amy Myers, Tamar Myers, Christa Nardi, Radine Trees Nehring, Kerri Nelson, Clare O’Donohue, Diana Orgain, Joyce Oroz, Elaine L. Orr, Helen Osterman, Gail Oust, K.B. Owen, Sharon Pape, Nancy J. Parra, (aka Nancy J. Coco) Allison Cesario Paton, Joanne Pence, Maggie Pill, Ann Purser, Melissa Bourbon Ramirez, (aka Melissa Bourbon) Nanci Rathbun, Rosalee Richland, Becky Lyn Rickman, Karen Robbins, Carolyn J. Rose, Pamela Rose, Cindy Sample, June Shaw, Connie Shelton, Clea Simon, Joanna Campbell Slan, Karen Rose Smith, Lane Stone, Maria Grazia Swan, Denise Swanson, Marcia Talley, Nancy Jill Thames, Sharon Burch Toner, Elaine Viets, Lea Wait, Wendy Lyn Watson, (aka Annie Knox) Christine Wenger, Gayle Wigglesworth, Lois Winston, Joan H. Young, Suzanne Young

About Editor Nancy Lynn Jarvis

Nancy Lynn Jarvis was a Santa Cruz, California, Realtor® for more than twenty years before she fell in love with writing and let her license lapse.

After earning a BA in behavioral science from San Jose State University, she worked in the advertising department of the San Jose Mercury News. A move to Santa Cruz meant a new job as a librarian and later a stint as the business manager for Shakespeare/Santa Cruz at UCSC.

Nancy’s work history reflects her philosophy: people should try something radically different every few years, a philosophy she applies to her writing, as well. She has written seven Regan McHenry Real Estate Mysteries; a stand-alone novel “Mags and the AARP Gang” about a group of octogenarian bank robbers; edited “Cozy Food: 128 Cozy Mystery Writers Share Their Favorite Recipes” and a short story anthology, “Santa Cruz Weird;” and even done a little insider’s book, “The Truth About Hosting Airbnb” about her first year as a host.

Her newest venture is “The Glass House” is the first book in a planned series of PIP Inc. Mysteries. Now she’s trying to figure out when to work on another series she’d love to do called “Geezers with Tools” about two older handymen who will solve mysteries in the course of doing their work, and setting up writer retreats at her house.

Editor Links

Website – https://www.nancylynnjarvis.com/

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn

GoodReads – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2918242.Nancy_Lynn_Jarvis

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Nancy J. Cohen's A Bad Hair Day Cookbook Blog Tour with a Spotlight, Giveaway and Guest Post

 

I am so excited to have Nancy J. Cohen here at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews with a Spotlight, Giveaway and Guest Post.

Thanks Nancy and Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours for allowing me to join your A Bad Hair Day Cookbook Blog Tour!

Please take it away, Nancy!

Cooking Can Be Dangerous by Nancy J. Cohen

Choose your weapon — metal kabob skewers, chef’s knife, cast iron skillet, or rolling pin? A climactic scene in a kitchen is appropriate for a cozy mystery novel featuring an amateur sleuth. Imagine the killer brandishing a butcher knife while the heroine grabs a skillet to defend herself. What scarier place for a confrontation exists than at home where you feel safe? It’s especially frightening in the kitchen, where we prepare food to please our family and friends. We don’t expect a violation of our space while going about our daily routine.

And yet, how many times do you read in the newspapers about a domestic incident that turned violent? Maybe the abusive husband didn’t like the way his peas were cooked. Or the cowed woman had suffered enough, and she grabbed the meat fork from a kitchen drawer. A house is full of dangerous objects, many of which can be found in the kitchen.

Next time you go to cook a meal, take a look around and picture what you could use if you had to defend yourself. Don’t forget boiling water or acidic liquids that you can toss into an assailant’s eyes. But do forget reality, because cozy mysteries contain an element of fantasy. The heroine always escapes. The killer is always caught. This may not happen in real life, but it does happen in the pages of our books.

And hey, you could always toss a cookbook at the bad guy’s head.

The only dangerous tale in my new release, A Bad Hair Day Cookbook, is from one of the excerpts included. Hairstylist sleuth Marla Vail is working in the kitchen. She gives her husband a task to perform. Here’s what happens:

Speaking of challenges, she gave Dalton one in the kitchen that afternoon. He’d come home from work with the acorn squashes she’d requested. Occupied with retrieving serving platters, Marla asked him to stick a squash in the microwave for five minutes. Once softened, she could slice it and save the baking part for later.

She’d lined up her serving dishes and was drying dishes by the sink when a loud popping noise sounded from behind. She whipped around just as the microwave door burst open. With a shriek, she leapt back. That thing might have cracked her on the head if she’d stood in front of it.

Regaining her equilibrium, she dropped her dish towel and went over to cancel the programming. Oh no. Dalton had timed it for fifteen minutes, not five minutes as requested! Her pulse still raced as she regarded the mangled mess inside the oven. Steam billowed from the interior.

“You should have pricked the skin if you put it in for that long,” she admonished Dalton, who’d rushed over from his perch in front of the TV. He gaped at the microwave unit, his astonished expression diminishing her annoyance.

“What do you mean?”

“I told you to put it in for five minutes, not fifteen. Pricking the skin lets air escape so the squash doesn’t explode. It’s a good thing we have more of them to cook.”

His forehead creased. “Thank goodness you weren’t hurt. That’s all that matters.”

Brianna wandered into the room. “What did you do, Dad?”

He pointed to his chest. “Hey, why does everybody blame me? How am I supposed to know about these things? If you want it done right, do it yourself.”

ROASTED ACORN SQUASH

Ingredients

2 Acorn Squash
Olive Oil
Paprika, Oregano, Parsley, Garlic Powder

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook acorn squash in microwave on high for a few minutes until somewhat soft. Place the squash on a cutting board and slice it in half length-wise. Remove the seeds. Lay the half pieces cut-side-down on the board and slice into ¼ inch length-wise slices or along ridges.

Arrange the slices in a single layer on a greased aluminum-foil lined baking sheet. Drizzle olive oil over the top of each squash piece and sprinkle with spices. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes or until slices are fork-tender. Serves 4.

A Bad Hair Day Cookbook: Recipes from Nancy J. Cohen’s Cozy Mystery Series
Cozy Cookbook
Orange Grove Press (November 19, 2019)
Paperback: 324 pages
ISBN-10: 099979325X
ISBN-13: 978-0999793251
Digital ASIN: B07XSH6C7B


 


A BAD HAIR DAY COOKBOOK: Recipes from Nancy J. Cohen’s Cozy Mystery Series

Are you having a bad hair day? Whip out your whisk, snatch up your spoon, and prepare your palate. Inside the pages of this cookbook are recipes that will bring you good cheer.

Enjoy 160+ tasty recipes from Nancy J. Cohen’s popular Bad Hair Day cozy mystery series. Included in this cookbook are excerpts, cooking tips, and anecdotes written by hairstylist and savvy sleuth Marla Vail. From appetizers to desserts, Marla offers cooking tips and tricks along with commentary about the dishes she prepares for her family. Whether you’re a skilled cook or an eager novice, this cookbook will unravel the mystery of cooking. Put on your apron and plan to make some killer recipes!

Bonuses Include: 

Meet the Sleuth
Introduction by Marla Vail
Cooking Tips
Excerpts from Series Titles
Themed Menu Suggestions
“A Sabbath Dinner” by Nancy’s Mother

For Home Cooks, Food Lovers, Mystery Fans and Cookbook Collectors

BUY LINKS

Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Hair-Day-Cookbook-Recipes-ebook/dp/B07XSH6C7B/

Amazon Print: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Hair-Day-Cookbook-Recipes/dp/099979325X/

Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/a-bad-hair-day-cookbook/id1479889058

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Books2Read: https://books2read.com/ABadHairDayCookbook

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Nancy J. Cohen writes the Bad Hair Day Mysteries featuring South Florida hairstylist Marla Vail. Titles in this series have been named Best Cozy Mystery by Suspense Magazine, won a Readers' Favorite gold medal, placed first in the Chanticleer International Book Awards and third in the Arizona Literary Awards. Nancy’s instructional guide, Writing the Cozy Mystery, was nominated for an Agatha Award and won a gold medal at the President’s Book Awards from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association. When not busy writing, Nancy enjoys cooking, fine dining, cruising, visiting Disney World, and shopping.

Website: https://nancyjcohen.com

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