Meat loaf. Or is it meatloaf? Either way, it’s a flashback to my childhood and my mother’s meatloaf, topped with ketchup and bacon. Baked in the oven, with potatoes alongside. She put a nail in the potatoes to cook them evenly, and dried the potatoes so the skin would be crackling-crispy. We’d cut the potatoes […]
Month: October 2017
Survey – Looking for help with Unlock Your Creative Block course
Greetings, writers! I’m creating an online course about breaking writer’s block, but I’m stuck and I need your help. If you’re a WRITER who is feeling blocked or stuck, and are LOOKING for strategies on BREAKING the block, please take my short survey. I want to learn more about the problems you might face while […]
Bite-Size Caprese Salad
Happy Homicides 6: Cookin’ Up Crime is out now! I’m delighted to be included in this short story anthology with 14 other authors, in 15 clean, traditional mystery stories. It’s available for $.99 until November 5. Click here to buy your copy now. My husband was gone for a golf weekend with the boys from Friday through […]
Eggs Benedict on Rusk
Ooh, what’s rusk? You may have seen it in the grocery store, or used it for a teething baby. It’s a dry, twice-baked bread or biscuit. I’d read about it in books that featured sailors eating it; since it is dry, it travels well and doesn’t spoil the way a loaf of bread might. Before […]
