Welcome guest author Laurie Cass - pesto #recipe + book #giveaway

Laurie Cass joins us to celebrate our 10th Anniversary. Laurie has been our guest so often on MLK, we feel like she's one of us!

Today she's offering her own book giveaway below!! (We'll resume our Mystery Lovers' Kitchen "10th Anniversary Party" tomorrow, July 8th.) Because today is our guest post Sunday, we are pleased to host Laurie.

Laurie grew up in Michigan and graduated from Eastern Michigan University in the 80’s with a (mostly unused) Bachelor of Science degree in geology. She and her husband live on a lake in northwest lower Michigan. When Laurie isn’t writing, she’s working at her day job, reading, yanking weeds out of her garden, or doing some variety of skiing.

Take it away, Laurie! 

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The following recipe was a part of a wedding present from a good friend of my mother’s. It came with a tablecloth, two wine glasses, and a bottle of wine. I don’t remember what kind of wine, and I’m not actually sure which wine glasses they were, but we liked the pesto recipe so much it has become a staple in our recipe rotation.

And almost every spring since our wedding (lo, those many years ago), we’ve also put a couple of basil plants in the ground. Yes, the recipe mentions freezing, but there’s nothing like going outside to pick basil and twenty minutes later ladling pesto on top of your pasta. Yum!

(FYI: this is also extremely tasty on bread, and sprinkled with a little more Parmesan cheese. Add a thin slice of fresh tomato between and you’re pretty close to the perfect appetizer.)

Pesto

Process in food processor:

1/4 cup Parmesan cheese

1/4 cup olive oil

1 clove garlic

2 Tbsp. nuts (pine or walnut)

1/4 tsp. salt

Add and continue to process:

1 cup fresh basil, firmly packed

Use with 10-16 ounces cooked pasta and some butter. Add more Parmesan cheese on top if desired.

Can be frozen. Add more cheese and oil and process when thawed. Heat briefly in microwave.

 

 

Booking the Crook

Released July 2, 2019

Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, cruise around lovely Chilson, Michigan delivering happiness and good reads in their bookmobile. But the feisty librarian is worried that the bookmobile's future could be uncertain when a new library board chair arrives and doesn't seem too friendly to her pet project.

Still, she has to put her personal worries aside when she and Eddie are out on their regular route and one of their favorite customers doesn’t turn up to collect her books. Minnie, at Eddie’s prodding, checks on the woman and finds her lying dead in her snow-covered driveway. Now it’s up to Minnie and her friends--feline and otherwise--to find the perpetrator and give them their due.

GIVEAWAY

I’ll be giving away a copy of the latest release in the Bookmobile Cat Series, Booking the Crook.

Tell me what is the best (or worst) present you've ever received? 

Leave your name and email (it can be cryptic) so I can contact you if you win.

 

Follow Laurie on social media here:

Website

http://catmystery.com/

Facebook link

https://www.facebook.com/bookmobilecat/

 

Mystery Lovers' Kitchen 10th Anniversary Party
will resume tomorrow July 8th. See you then!

Today, we welcome you to leave a comment
below for our guest author Laurie Cass and
enter her book giveaway!