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.

    *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)

              *Chalissa’s Easy-Peasy Pasta Dish 

(from author Sarah Hamaker’s Protecting Her Witness)

                      *Easy Pasta Salad

      (inspired by Nora Roberts’ The Collector)

                      *Chewy Brownies

(inspired by And Then There Were Crumbs by Eve Calder)       

                    *Taco Soup, Quick & Easy

(Inspired by Happy Immunity by William A Zahler)