Please give a warm welcome to our guest Julie Moffett. Julie, we're thrilled to have you! And thank you for doing a #Giveaway
Hi, everyone! Author Julie Moffett here.
I hope everyone is surviving the quarantine. Thanks to the lovely ladies from
the Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen for inviting me to submit a recipe. I am not a huge
baker, but I do love my salads! So today, I’m going to share a recipe for one
of my favorite salads. Chinese Chicken Salad.
Ingredients:
1
boneless, skinless chicken breast
2
tbs soy sauce
3
tsp oil (sesame oil is best, but if you don’t have it, any oil will do)
shredded
lettuce
shredded
red cabbage
grated
carrots
shelled
edamame (optional)
green
onion, thinly chopped (optional)
avocado
(optional)
1/4
cup chow mein noodles
For the Sesame
Vinaigrette
1/4
cup rice vinegar
Garlic
salt to taste (usually about ½ tsp) OR fresh pressed garlic
1
tsp. toasted sesame seeds OR 1 tbs of sesame oil
1
tsp. honey
1 tbs. soy sauce
1 tbs. olive oil
Note:
It’s common to use a 1:3 ratio of oil to vinegar in a recipe, but I like to
play around with the ratio for my dressing So feel free to adjust to taste, depending
on whether
you like it tangier or sweeter.
Today, while I
was making the salad and taking photos for this post, I realized I was out of
rice vinegar. Yikes! I had to substitute what I had, which was malt vinegar. It
changed the taste, but still turned out yummy. Regardless, I recommend using
the rice vinegar instead of malt vinegar, but sometimes we have to make do with
what we have.
Instructions:
Heat stovetop. In
small fry pan add 3 tsp of oil (sesame oil is best, but any oil will do) and 2
tbs of soy sauce. Add chicken, stir and cook thoroughly. Set aside.
Assemble the
salad. Place lettuce, red cabbage, shredded carrots, edamame, green onion, avocado
and chicken on a plate.
To make the
vinaigrette, whisk together the rice wine vinegar, garlic salt (or pressed
garlic), sesame oil (or seeds), honey and soy sauce in a small bowl. Pour sesame
vinaigrette on top of the salad and gently toss to combine.
Top with chow mein
noodles and eat! Yum, yum!!!
Now, a little
about me and my books. I write the long-running, geeky Lexi Carmichael Mystery
Series, and the young adult spy/mystery White Knights Series. Highly
intelligent females saving the world one brain at a time! Get Your Geek On!
The 12th
book in my Lexi Carmichael Mystery Series, NO QUESTIONS ASKED, released March
23, 2020 in ebook, print, audiobook and MP-3/CD. It’s available at Amazon,
Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, and GooglePlay. All the links are
provided here in one location.
Here’s the blurb
for the book:
One last fling (with danger)
before the ring?
Nothing’s that simple when
you’re a geek girl. Julie Moffett’s beloved Lexi Carmichael mystery series
returns with No
Questions Asked.
Lexi Carmichael: saving
scientists one snake at a time.
Weddings aren’t my
thing—never have been. But eloping would break my mother’s heart, especially
since the president of the United States put in a good word for me with his
daughter’s wedding planner. I’m going to have the wedding of the year…whether I
like it or not.
Before we can say I do,
Slash and I are flying off to the Brazilian rain forest. Our mission: stop
hackers from stealing a vaccine that could save millions of lives. I thought
it’d be easy, but from the moment we step off the plane, I’m up to my neck in
trouble.
After an attack by
drug-runners, being kidnapped and discovering that the bad guy is even worse
than we’d imagined, I’m pretty sure someone in our group is working for the
enemy. And they’re succeeding. I’ll have to use all my geek skills to stop the
bad guys if I’m going to make it home in time to tie that knot.
***GIVEAWAY!***
Leave a comment
on this blog letting me know why you’d like this book and you’ll be entered to
win a signed, paperback copy of NO QUESTIONS ASKED!! Good luck!
***ABOUT JULIE
MOFFETT***
Julie Moffett is the
bestselling author of the long-running, geeky Lexi Carmichael Mystery Series
that USA Today says: "...runs a riveting gamut from hilarious to deadly,
and the perfectly paced action in between will have you hanging on to Lexi's
every word and breathless for her next geeked-out adventure." Julie also
writes the young adult White Knights spin-off series featuring a cool, teenage
hacker girl. Julie's been publishing books for 25 years, but writing for a lot
longer. She writes in the genres of mystery, young adult, historical romance
and paranormal romance.
Julie has won numerous
awards, including the Mystery & Mayhem Award for Best YA/New Adult Mystery,
the HOLT Award for Best Novel with Romantic Elements, a HOLT Merit Award for
Best Novel by a Virginia Author (twice!), the Award of Excellence, a PRISM
Award for Best Romantic Time-Travel AND Best of the Best Paranormal Books, and
an EPIC Award for Best Action/Adventure Novel. She has also garnered additional
nominations for the Booksellers' Best Award, Daphne du Maurier Award, the Dante
Rossetti Award, and the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence.
Julie has a B.A. in Political
Science and Russian Language from Colorado College, a M.A. in International
Affairs from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and an M.Ed
from Liberty University. She has worked as a proposal writer, journalist,
teacher, librarian and researcher. Julie lives near Washington, DC and has two
awesome sons and two adorable guinea pigs.
Please join my SUPER fun Facebook
readers’ group HERE. I
do a ton of giveaways, and we have a blast every single day! We’re a super
supportive group of booklovers who enjoy making each other smile, share book
recommendations, support each other’s accomplishments and celebrations, as
well as share a lot of funny puns. Come join us! We’d love to have you!
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