Free Holiday Cook Book 2019

 

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     Here is my pumpkin soup recipe.

             Perfect for a cold winter's day or night.

Cousin Jeanne’s Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients:

2 1/4 cups pumpkin (okay to use entire can)

1 cup coconut milk (okay to use entire can)

1-2 tablespoons maple syrup. Start with 1.

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp pepper

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1/4 tsp smoke paprika

2 cups veggie stock (may not need all)

2 shallots (3 if small)

4 cloves garlic

1/2 red bell pepper

Directions:

Brown shallots and garlic in olive oil for 2-3 minutes.

Add rest of ingredients & bring to simmer.

Blend in regular blender or with immersion blender.

Return to stove and cook 5-10 minutes.

Great with focaccia bread, toasted cheese sandwiches.

Be creative. Top with dollop of sour cream, toasted

pumpkin seeds, lime zest, picante sauce.

Add your own twist: ginger, curry, etc.

I'm betting Kade and Blind Deer wish 

they had this to eat 

as they traveled the untamed frontier 

on the way to rendezvous.

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Blurb:

As a free trapper, mountain man Kade McCauley is wary of the Hudson Bay Company. Their form of vengeance against those who are not part of the company can be deadly. When he and his partner are attacked, he fights back, only to discover one of his shots struck an innocent. A woman who touches his soul, and he will do anything to keep her safe. 

While searching for her Native American tribe, Blind Deer crosses paths with Kade—with near fatal results. Once she is patched up, she decides it is safer to travel with him than alone Their uneasy alliance turns to genuine caring, but Blind Deer's past gets in the way, and she must choose between love or old obligations. 

But nothing in life is carved in stone except the mountains, and those formidable peaks have been known to change the course of a man's life or a woman's.

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                    An Adventurous Romance 

                   to warm up your Holidays.

                      

Nov. 8th thru Nov. 22nd
   
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                     Both seek retribution, 

                  neither is looking for love.  

    Ochessa is heartbroken when she finds her brother

fatally wounded. His dying words are about a childhood puzzle box, missing legal documents, and a drifter named Nicodemus Breedlove. Ochessa vows to find Will’s murderer—and the man Will described.

   No stranger to trouble, Nic's only concerns are his

Stetson, his mule Sadie, and a long awaited chance at retribution. After gaining Ochessa’s trust, and taking the job she offers, life gets more complicated. 

    Back on the ranch in Colorado, Ochessa works as hard as any man. Then Nick tempts her into playing even harder as a woman—both are overwhelmed by their growing love for one another.

    Weathering a stampede, a gully washer, and a pack of outlaws, they locate the killer. As Nic’s quest for justice, and Ochessa’s vendetta for Will play out, bullets fly...                               

         Not everybody’s gonna make it out alive.

Excerpt:

  “I’ve come for the job,” Nic said.

   Ochessa hesitated only a moment. “I don’t need any more ranch hands.”

  “Not a job, the job.” Nic retrieved the bounty poster from inside his shirt, leaned forward, and held it up in front of her face.

  Of course. Naturally he would be offering a gun for hire, not a strong back for bending.

   Re-folding the paper, he tucked it away in his back

pocket. Several similar fliers were poking out of his saddlebag. He must have collected all the ones she tacked up in town.

  “It doesn’t say anything about expenses,” he continued.

  “That’s because I don’t intend to pay any.”

  “That should narrow down the applicants considerably.” His gaze settled on her lips. “Or are you planning to offer incentive of a more personal nature?”

 “Listen, Breedlove. Don’t get your hopes up—or anything else. Whoever I hire can live and eat at the ranch for free. And they can stay at Will’s cabin if the search takes them back to Kansas.”

  He seemed disappointed. She didn’t care, or at least she shouldn’t care. What this man thought held no consequence for her. Being a drifter, he would most likely ride out of her life as quickly and unexpectedly as he’d galloped into it.

  “Well…” Nic urged the mule one step closer.

  “Well, what?”

  “Do I get the job or not?”

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Join the adventure: 

Follow Kade McCauley, 

a frontiersman looking toward the future. 

And Blind Deer, a determined woman

    seeking to recapture her past.

As a free trapper, mountain man Kade McCauley is wary of the Hudson Bay Company. 

  Their Form of vengeance against those who are not part of the company can be deadly. 
  When he and his partner are attacked, he fights back, only to discover one of his shots struck an innocent.  A woman who touches his soul, and he will do anything to keep her safe. 
    While searching for her Native American tribe, Blind Deer crosses paths with Kade—with near fatal results. Once she is patched up, she decides it is safer to travel with him than alone.
       Their uneasy alliance turns to genuine caring, but

Blind Deer's past gets in the way, and she must choose between love or old obligations. 

     

  But nothing in life is carved in stone except the mountains, and those formidable peaks have been known to change the course of a man's life—or a woman's.

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Candy Corn, tis the season.

    

The National Confectioners Association celebrates National Candy Corn Day on October 30, a time to honor the annual production of 9 billion pieces of candy that most people probably only eat once a year (unless you’re a die hard fan who buys red-white-and-green ones for Christmas or red-white-and-pink ones for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day.

The trade association claims candy corn was invented in the 1880s by a Wunderlee Candy Company an employee  George Renninger. 

Wunderlee was reportedly the first to produce the

candy, followed by the Goelitz Candy Company (now

the Jelly Belly Candy Company), which has been producing the tri-colored candies since 1898. 

   Back then, the cooking process was done by hand: a sugar and corn syrup-based mixture was cooked a semi-liquid mixture in a large kettle, dumped into buckets called runners, and men dubbed stringers walked backwards, pouring the hot concoction into a tray of molds in the shape of corn kernels.

                             

Brach’s candy factory’s machine puts corn starch in trays of 1,260 individual molds and moves them along a conveyor belt as air nozzles inject the color. If you want to deep-fry them, you’ll have to do that at home.

                                
Of course, you probably know people who can barely bring themselves to eat candy corn on Halloween because it’s too sweet, and doesn’t have enough flavor. 
    But in a world where there are candy corn-flavored bagels, M&Ms, coffee latte, vodka martinis, cake,

jello, fudge, soap, plus stuffed toys, leggings & socks, and fingernail polish made out of, or made to look like candy corn, there really is something for everyone to enjoy.

                                                       

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Loving my new tomahawk target

For several years, my husband and I enjoyed mountain man re-enacting, a truly great experience. There were various shooting events for both men and women, but my forte was the frying pan toss and the tomahawk throw!

 Recently I had a yen to practice with my hawks but needed a target. Wanting to construct this myself, I turned to printing info from the web and watching how-to clips on Youtube. Unfortunately the process involved MATH so I made little headway. Then my amazing brother-in-law volunteered to supervise the project (which means he did all the brain work and got all the supplies).

Steve was so patient, and after the laughter died down regarding my abominable hammering skills, we entered the drilling and sawing phase and made better progress. 

                  My wonderful neighbors 
donated the wood for the target face.

                            And mission accomplished!

 Just looking at  the target brings back so many happy and fun memories, and my construction skills were a good source of entertainment for all.

       My sister made the first stick, way to go!

          Being the oldest, she has always led the way.

By evening, I'd improved quite a bit, and stuck three in row. Planning on many hours of fun with the new target. Thank you everybody.

               

                     Watch for my new release, 

Trapper's Moon.

                 A mountain man story filled with                                        Romance and adventure

                                 

   As a free trapper, mountain man Kade McCauley is wary of the Hudson Bay Company. Their form of vengeance against those who are not part of the company can be deadly. When he and his partner are attacked, he fights back, only to discover one of his shots struck an innocent. A woman who touches his soul, and he will do anything to keep her safe.

   While searching for her Native American tribe, Blind Deer crosses paths with Kade—with near fatal results. Once she is patched up, she decides it is safer to travel with him than alone.

 Their uneasy alliance turns to genuine caring, but Blind Deer's past gets in the way, and she must choose between love or old obligations. But nothing in life is carved in stone except the mountains, and those formidable peaks have been known to change the course of a man's life--or a woman's.

A fun trip back home

                     What a wonderful trip back home to Illinois. Seeing cousins, Jr. High, and High School friends, and celebrating my 50 year Nurses Training reunion. 

Living in Colorado I am always amazed at the landscape back home. Lush green hardwood forests, so thick you can barely see more than a few feet into them, and all the beautiful foliage in front of the houses and lining the streets. 

Fun lunches at ice cream shops, 

and the amazing cruise luncheon down the Mississippi .   

  Mansions along the Mississippi

                     

THE END