Happy New Year!

Here's hoping your New Year ahead is filled with all good things like health, happiness, contentment and peace.

Too often we forget the important things while we hurry forward in life. Take time for family, and take time for yourself--be it a quiet corner to read and reflect or an activity that brings you joy whether it's a favorite sport or a creative endeavor.

This year I plan to read more and do some book reviews. My resolutions are few: to eat healthy and to write more. I need to finish a contemporary novel, and I would like to write another novella.

Let's raise our glasses and give a toast to 2016--and hope it's a good year for ourselves and our nation!

SWEET KISS - January 6, 2015 ~ New Release!

Blurb:
Hard-working Kate Clark opens a thriving coffee shop that quickly becomes the local hang-out for students and the community. Her one wish is to eventually buy out her sister’s share of the old Florida home they inherited. However, Violet is in desperate need of cash and has other plans.

Tappe Vanderberg, Kate’s childhood friend and high school sweetheart, has sold his lucrative internet security business to return to Little Heron Shores and fulfill his dreams of owning a marina. Now the handsome Dutch-born businessman is making waves with single women all over town—including loony, post mistress Eva May Poole who’s in search of husband number three.

But it’s Kate Clark who’s wreaking havoc with Tappe’s heart, not Eva May. Can he find a way to shake the dingbat post mistress and convince Kate to give him a second chance and the sweet kiss he remembers from an earlier time?

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

"Reasons for Thanksgiving"

To have food enough and a place to dwell,
To have work to do and to do it well,

To find the comfort when things go wrong
In a bit of prayer or a snatch of song,

To know good books and share their worth,
To plant bright flowers in rich brown earth,

To have true friends--this is living
And reason enough for Thanksgiving.

~Edith Shaw Butler

Bon Appetite - A Weekend Treat: TURKEY A LA KING

        

TURKEY A LA KING

16 oz. of turkey (cut into bite-size pieces)

4 TBSP butter

2 green peppers cut fine

1 lb. mushrooms, sliced or

    2 (6-oz) cans sliced mushrooms

¼ cup diced black olives or cooked peas or carrots

¼ cup dry sherry

½ tsp. salt

¼ tsp. white pepper

WHITE SAUCE:

6 TBSP butter

6 TBSP flour

½ tsp. sale

1/4 tsp. pepper

2 cups milk

(Melt butter in saucepan. Stir in flour and seasoning smoothly. Add milk slowly. Cook and stir continually over moderate heat until boiling and cooked to desired thickness. Remove from heat. Used as described in recipe.)

Cut turkey into bite-size pieces. Heat butter in saucepan and add peppers and mushrooms and saute′ 10 minutes. Add turkey, white sauce, and olives or peas. Mix and heat to boiling point. Serve on toast, split English muffins, biscuits, or corn bread. Makes 6 servings.