Please Welcome Our Guest Lorie Lewis Ham #Giveaway

 

Please give a warm welcome to our guest Lorie Lewis Ham.  You may know her as the editor-in-chief and publisher of Kings River Life but she is also the author of 

the Tower District Mystery Series.

My new book, One of You, the second book in my Tower District Mystery series, just came out. I am excited for my first guest post for the new book to be on Mystery Lover’s Kitchen. When the first book, One of Us, came out three years ago, I was also asked to do a guest post here, and I felt as honored then as I do now! This blog is hosted by such a wonderful and talented group of mystery authors!

 

As I mentioned last time I was here, my main character, Roxi Carlucci, isn’t much of a cook. However, her housemate/cousin Stephen Carlucci is a wonderful cook—when he has time to cook that is, in between helping Roxi solve murders, and his work as a P.I. At one point in One of You, they are trying to solve the murder of a mystery writer during a Halloween mystery event and have hit a brick wall. So, instead of indulging in more of the great food in the Tower District, Stephen decides to cook comfort food—meatloaf and mashed potatoes (and if you are like Roxi you will add a little garlic to those potatoes)!

 

Family is extremely important to Roxi, so I decided to share another family recipe. This one is for my mother-in-law’s meatloaf. This was the first recipe she ever shared with me after I married her son, and I’ve kept making it all these years. It’s a fairly simple recipe and perfect for a comfort food dinner! You can pair it with just about anything, but mashed potatoes are Roxi’s favorite! Hope you enjoy.

 

Mom’s Meatloaf

 

Ingredients:

 

1 to 1/2 lb. of hamburger meat

1 egg slightly beaten

1 tsp. of onion powder (her original recipe called for a small chopped onion but our kids didn’t like onions so I made this adaption and never went back)

1 to 1/2 tsp. of salt

1/4 tsp. of pepper

1/3 to 1/2 cup of milk

1 piece of bread crumbled

 

 

 

Instructions:

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

 

Beat the egg and then mix all above ingredients together in a mixing bowl using your hands until well mixed.

 

 

Place into a loaf pan and spread out evenly (first spray the pan with a non-stick cooking spray)

 

Bake for 1 and a 1/4 hours at 350 degrees

 

When meatloaf is done remove from pan and slice. We add ketchup to ours but you can put any kind of condiment or sauce you prefer.

 

 

 

 

 What are some of your favorite comfort foods? 

 

 

Lorie Lewis Ham lives in Reedley, California and has been writing ever since she was a child. Her first song and poem were published when she was 13, and she has gone on to publish many articles, short stories, and poems throughout the years, as well as write for a local newspaper, and publish 7 mystery novels. For the past 14 years, Lorie has been the editor-in-chief and publisher of Kings River Life Magazine, and she produces Mysteryrat’s Maze Podcast, where you can hear an excerpt of her book One of Us, the first in a new series called The Tower District Mysteries. Book 2, One of You, will be out in June of 2024. You can learn more about Lorie and her writing on her website mysteryrat.com and find her on Facebook, BookBub, Goodreads, and Instagram @krlmagazine & @lorielewishamauthor.

 

 

 

One of You is available on:

 

Amazon https://tinyurl.com/83befuae

Barnes and Noble.com https://tinyurl.com/4trwukbb

Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/one-of-you-3

 

 

With her life on the California Coast behind her, Roxi Carlucci is beginning to feel at home in the Tower District—the cultural oasis of Fresno, CA—where she now lives with her cousin P.I. Stephen Carlucci, her pet rat Merlin, a Pit Bull named Watson, and a black cat named Dan. She has a new entertainment podcast, works as a part-time P.I., and is helping local bookstore owner Clark Halliwell put on the first-ever Tower Halloween Mysteryfest! The brutal summer heat is gone and has been replaced by the dense tule fog—perfect for Halloween!

 

She just wishes everyone would stop calling her the “Jessica Fletcher” of the Tower District simply because she found a dead body when she first arrived. But when one of the Mysteryfest authors is found dead, she fears she jinxed herself! The Carlucci’s are hired to find the killer before they strike again. Will Mysteryfest turn into a murder fest? How is the local gossip website back, and what does it know about the death of Roxi’s parents? 

 

GIVEAWAY!!

 

 What are some of your favorite comfort foods?

 

Lori is giving away one copy of ONE OF YOU to a lucky someone who comments below. (Sorry, U.S. only)