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Desserts: Five Ingredients

6/8/2020

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Recipes for six five-ingredient desserts are on this website (under the Food menu). Five of the six are easy to make. The only challenging one is the tarte Tatin in the last picture. But it's worth the trouble if you have some time on your hands. 

I've joined the 
Mystery Lovers' Kitchen blog, where writers share their favorite recipes, chat about food topics, and pass on news about their books. Check out some of the easy recipes I've posted there. 
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Five-Ingredient Holiday Recipes

11/18/2018

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A roast turkey being carved
Turkey is the classic Thanksgiving dish, but you cannot live by turkey alone. What's your favorite holiday side dish? Comment for a chance to win a free book. Below you'll find two reader-favorite recipes from the first Five-Ingredient Mystery, By Cook or by Crook. The dishes are suitable for Thanksgiving and other holiday dinners. I'm also sharing a simple herb stuffing recipe. To view the recipes, click Read More below.
 
Leave a comment about your favorite holiday side dish to enter a drawing for the Five-Ingredient Mystery of your choice or an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) of the upcoming sixth book in the series. To comment, click on the word Comments in the column to the left of this post. 
 
Last day to enter: Sunday, December 16, 2018. The winner is Kay from Arkansas. Thank you to everyone who shared their favorite side dish. Stuffing seemed to get the most votes, followed by yams or sweet potatoes. 


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5-Ingredient Cookbooks (more or less)

12/21/2014

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Now that I’m writing the Five-Ingredient Mysteries, friends give me cookbooks to plump out my collection of low-ingredient recipes. Here are three favorite books you might consider as gifts this season for yourself or someone else.

Cover of 5-10-15 Cookbook
Cover of Robin Takes 5 showing Robin cooking
Cover of Six Ingredients or Less, Third edition
If you have a favorite cookbook with recipes requiring few ingredients, please leave a comment and share your find. Here's why I like these three books. 

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Cover Reveal: Scam Chowder

10/23/2014

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Cover of Scam Chowder by Maya Corrigan: a soup tureen and the ingredients for clam chowder: clams in the shell, potatoes, and onion, cream, and a bowl of chowderScam Chowder comes out June 30, 2015
Book #2 in the Five-Ingredient Mystery series has a mouth-watering cover . . .  with a missing ingredient. 

The first book in the series had a cover image that set the style for future covers: the five ingredients needed for a dish in the forefront. This book's title made it clear what dish's ingredients would have to appear on the cover.   

When my editor asked me to suggest images for the cover, I proposed the tureen with the series name on it and the bay view.  I also listed five chowder ingredients to depict. For whatever reason, possibly aesthetic, one of the ingredients doesn't appear on the cover. 

Any chowder cooks reading this? What other ingredient would you put in your chowder that's not shown here?

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Five Tips from the Sleep Doctor

4/18/2014

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10 sheep sleep while a woman awake in bed wonders if they're asleep or dead, who killed them and whyWhat keeps mystery writers awake at night
I used to spend hours awake in bed at night. My visit to a sleep specialist changed that.  


In addition to the usual good advice to cut down on caffeine after noon and on alcohol at night, he offered five suggestions that I hadn't heard before and that really helped me break  the habit of sleeplessness. 


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