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Continue reading →: Vegetarian goulash
Ingredients 2 medium carrots, peeled and sliced 2 large potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks 95g / 7 oz. of button mushrooms – around 20 mushrooms 1 x 325g / 11½ oz. can of sweetcorn – 260g / 9 oz. when drained 1 large courgette, diced 2 medium onions,…
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Continue reading →: Red Delicious Death (Orchard #3) by Sheila Connolly
Some baby-faced chefs, fresh out of cooking school, are looking to open a restaurant in Granford. They plan on using local foods-great news for city girl banker-turned orchard owner Meg Corey. Yet when one of the chefs is found dead, face-down in a farmer's pig wallow, plans come to a…
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Continue reading →: Twelve Angry Librarians (Cat in the Stacks #8) by Miranda James
Charlie is stressed out. The Southern Academic Libraries Association is holding this year's annual meeting at Athena College. Since Charlie is the interim library director, he must deliver the welcome speech to all the visiting librarians. And as if that weren't bad enough, the keynote address will be delivered by…
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Continue reading →: Moroccan Chickpea and Aubergine Stew Recipe
Ingredients 1 tbsp olive oil 1 large onion, diced 1 clove garlic, finely chopped 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp ground coriander 1 large aubergine, cut into chunks 1 x 400g can chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 x 400g can chopped tomatoes ½ tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp harissa paste…
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Continue reading →: Spiced red lentil soup
Ingredients 1 onion, chopped 1 tbsp olive oil 1-2 tbsp Thai red curry paste 300g red lentil 1.7l vegetable stock 200ml coconut milk chopped spring onions, to serve (optional) Method Fry the onion in 1 tbsp olive oil until soft. Stir in the red Thai curry paste, depending how…
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Continue reading →: The Wedding Soup Murder (An Italian Kitchen Mystery #2) by Rosie Genova
Victoria Rienzi came home to the Jersey Shore to write a new book, learn the family restaurant business, and practice the fine art of Italian cooking. But when delicious dishes are paired with murder, Vic has a little too much on her plate… When Vic asked her nonna for more…
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Continue reading →: Ghostly Paws (Mystic Notch #1) by Leighann Dobbs
Middle age can be murder … At least that’s how it seems to former crime journalist, Wilhelmina Chance, whose near-fatal accident has given her a strange side effect … she sees ghosts. After a messy divorce sends her fleeing back to her hometown of Mystic Notch, nestled in the White…
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Continue reading →: One month in
and things are going well! This is how my year list looks so far Read 218 books (31/218) Read the Sheila Connolly Orchard series (2.5/11.5) Do 13 new recipes (4/13) Go to Clinique for a make up lesson Finish red on Winnie the Pooh Finish brown on Winnie the Pooh…
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Continue reading →: Cruel Winter: A County Cork Mysery (County Cork #5) by Sheila Connolly
Snow is a rarity in Maura Donovan's small village in County Cork, Ireland, so she wasn't sure what to expect when a major snowstorm rolled in around Sullivan's pub. But now she's stranded in a bar full of patrons-and a suspected killer in a long-ago murder. Maura's been in Ireland…
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Continue reading →: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) by Agatha Christie
Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe, and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Sus-pects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary–from the heiress's fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary.…
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