Investigatin' Recipes

Food often provides interesting flavor to fiction. Here you will find a variety of my recipe favorites. Those with the asterisks are recipes for foods that are favorites of other authors or used by them to enhance the scenes in their novels.

      *Grandma’s Southern Cornbread Dressing

    (from Diana Leagh Matthews’ Carol of the Rooms)

*RABBIT STEW

(from The Road Remembered by Kaye D. Schmitz)

              *White Chicken Chili

       (from A Future and A Hope by Caroline Powers)

          *Cream Puff Bars, Muddy Cup Café

     (from Malissa Chapin’s The Road Home)

*Steamed Fish with Ginger and Green Onion 

    (From R. F. Whong’s Blazing China) 

                      *Hot Water Cornbread

   (from Annette O’Hare’s novel, Northern Light)

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        *Lemon Curd Maids of Honor Tarts

(from Linore Burkard’s Before the Season Ends)

             *Chicken Tortellini Soup

  (From Dawn Kinzer’s Where Love Is Planted)

                    *Biscuits, Una’s and Una’s Chocolate Gravy

                    (from Kathy Harris’s Deadly Conclusion)

                                 *North Pole Special

              (from A Fifth of the Story by Katherine Hutchison-Hayes)

*Fruit and Arugula Salad

(from Karin Beery’s Finally Forever)

           *Lazy Man’s Stir Fry 

(From Recapturing Her Heart by Jennifer Slattery)

             Lettie’s Cornbread 

(from When You Smile for Me by Mary A. Felkins)

                       *Pfeffernusse

(Inspired by We Three Kings, A Romance Collection by Crystal Caudill, Cara Putman, & Angela Ruth Strong)

    *Cranberry Walnut Muffins

(from The Lost Box: A Hamilton Harbor Christmas Novella by Sally Jo Pitts)

                       *Pumpkin Muffins

(from Travis W. Inman, author of novella “Charity’s Shadow” in Where Blooms Love)

               *Shelia’s Tomato Basil Soup

(from Shelia Stovall’s “Welcome Home to Redbird Falls” novella in Where Blooms Love)

*Spinach and Sun-dried Tomato Quiche

(from PeggySue Wells “Tea for Two” novella in Where Blooms Love)

            *Ham with Pineapple and Cherries 

(Inspired by “My Favorite Leia” novella by Linda Wood Rondeau in Where Blooms Love) 

           * Cherry Cobbler

(from Author Lane P. Jordan’s “With Every Step You Take” in Where Blooms Love) 

                        *Johnny Cakes

(From author Cynthia L. Simmons novella “To Love Freedom” in Where Blooms Love)

                    *Mincemeat Pie

(from author Zoe M. McCarthy’s Above the Lake)