A very warm welcome to our friend Eva Gates, whom you may also know as Vicki Delany. She has a brand new book coming out in her wonderful Lighthouse Library Mysteries.
Don't forget to leave a comment below to enter her giveaway of a copy!
A winter wedding!
At last it’s time for
the wedding of Josie O’Malley and Jake Greenblatt. Josie is the owner of
Josie’s Cozy Bakery in Nags Head, North Carolina, and Jake is the head chef at
Jake’s Seafood Bar, so they’re both very busy people. They planned their wedding for winter, when it’s
reasonably quiet in the Outer Banks.
Josie and Jake want a
small simple wedding, a quiet celebration with close family friends. And a
small, simple wedding is what librarian Lucy Richardson, the maid of honor, is
determined that they will have in Something Read Something Dead, the
fifth Lighthouse Library mystery from Crooked Lane Books.
But Josie’s paternal
grandmother, the imperious Gloria, a Southern matron of the old school, doesn’t
do small and simple. And when she arrives with a gaggle of cousins and aunts
who Josie (not at all fondly) calls the Louisiana Mafia things start getting
tense. Particularly as cousin Mirabelle has just started her own wedding
planning business, and she sees Josie’s wedding (and Josie’s parents’ bank
account) as a way to get her name established as a specialist in high-end weddings
(think yachts and yacht clubs). Lucy realizes she’s going to have to do some
cunning subterfuge to distract Gloria and Mirabelle and give Josie the wedding
she wants.
Fortunately, the Bodie
Island Lighthouse Library Classic Novel Reading Club is reading The Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L.
Sayers and Lucy is inspired to do some distraction.
Then a guest dies at
the shower Lucy throws for the bride, having eaten tainted baked goods
specifically prepared by Josie herself, and it’s up to Lucy, inspired by her
favorite fictional detective, to save Josie from an early death-do-us-part.
This curry will not be
served at the wedding (if the wedding ever takes place) but it’s perfect to
have simmering in the kitchen while you read all about Lucy’s adventures in Something
Read Something Dead, and the other books in the Lighthouse Library
series.
Slow Cooker Squash and Lentil
Curry
3 cups vegetable broth
1 14 oz can diced
tomatoes
1 14 oz can coconut
milk
1 cup dried green
lentils, rinsed and drained
½ cup dried red
lentils, rinsed and drained
2 cups peeled, seeded,
and diced butternut squash
1 onion, chopped
1 jalapeno pepper,
seeded and chopped
1 tsp chilli power
¼ tsp ground cumin
¼ tsp ground coriander
¼ tsp ground turmeric
Sat and pepper
1)
In the
slow cooker, combine all the ingredients. Season with salt and pepper. Cover
and cook on low for 6 hours
2)
Serve with
rice or naan
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| Assemble the ingredients. |
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| Peel and chop. |
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| Combine spices. |
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| Add to crock pot. |
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| Curry cooking. |
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| Dinner time! |
Visit Eva and her
alter-ego Vicki Delany at www.vickidelany.com
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