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| Liz, Barb, and Lucy in Key West |
A big warm welcome to guest authors Barbara Ross and Liz Mugavero! Be sure to read all the way down for their double giveaway!
BARB AND LIZ: For those of us who live in the northern half of the U.S., we’re
coming into the season of cold and snow, ice storms, and howling winds. Some
days, it’s better for both man and beast to stay tucked up indoors. Here are
two recipes from our latest books, designed to bring comfort to you and to your
four-footed friends during the three-dog nights to come.
For the humans—
Jacqueline’s Meat Loaf
by Barbara Ross
In the Maine Clambake
Mysteries, my protagonist’s mother, Jacqueline Snowden, isn’t much of a cook,
but she can manage this simple meat loaf. In Iced Under she cooks it in hopes of enticing her daughter to stay over on a
stormy night. In reality, this is the meatloaf my mother made and that I made
for my kids a lot when they were growing up, so it feels like home to me.
Ingredients
2 pounds ground beef
1 medium onion, diced
1 1/2 cups dried Italian bread crumbs
1 egg
½ cup ketchup
2 Tablespoons Dijon mustard
Instructions
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and work with your hands
until thoroughly mixed. (It’s a cold, messy job, but somebody’s got to do it!)
Form the mixture into a loaf. Cook in an oven preheated to 375 degrees for 45
minutes.
Serves 6-8.
For the canines—
Vegetable Beef Crackers
Ingredients
2 cups wheat flour
1 & 1/2 cups white flour
1 Tablespoon chopped parsley
1/2 cup shredded carrots
2 ounces of vegetable beef (or beef only) baby food
1 egg
1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
3/4 cup water
Instructions
-Combine all ingredients in bowl, adding flours last. Mix until
well blended.
-On a lightly floured surface, knead dough for about 3 minutes.
-Roll out dough to 1/4" thickness and cut out shapes using
mini cookie cutters of your choice.
-Bake on a lightly greased cookie sheet for 25 minutes at 350
degrees.
-Cookies maybe left in oven after baking (while oven cools down)
to harden for a more crunchy bite.
Yields about 35 cracker size cookies.
A tasty feast for man and beast!
Barb and Liz will be giving away signed copies of both new books, Iced Under and Custom Baked Murder. Leave a comment with your name and email to be entered in the drawing!
Liz
Mugavero is the author of the Agatha Award-nominated Pawsitively Organic
Mysteries Kneading to Die, A Biscuit, A
Casket, The Icing on the Corpse and
Murder Most Finicky. Custom-Baked
Murder, the fifth in the series, will be released in December 2016. As you
can imagine, her canine and feline rescues demand the best organic food and
treats around. She is a member of Sisters in Crime National, Sisters in Crime
New England, Mystery Writers of America, and the Cat Writers’ Association. She
currently lives in Connecticut.
Barbara Ross is the author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries, including the
Agatha-nominated Best Contemporary Novel Clammed
Up, as well as Boiled Over, Musseled
Out, Fogged Inn, and Iced Under. Her
story “Nogged Off” appears in the holiday novella collection Eggnog Murder along with stories by Leslie
Meier and Lee Hollis. Barbara blogs with the Wicked Cozy Authors and Maine Crime Writers. In the
summer, she writes on her big front porch overlooking the water in Boothbay
Harbor, Maine. You can visit her website at http://www.maineclambakemysteries.com
