If you’re familiar with cozy mysteries, you’ll know that these whodunits, often
with culinary themes have recipes used in the story included in the book. My
latest novel, TELL ME NO
LIES is not a cozy mystery, however it does have a culinary theme betwixt
the romance and danger.
Rain Howard, the main character in my romantic suspense novel opens a beignet
and coffee cafe. In the story, the recipes she uses were handed down from her
grandmother who received them from her mother and so on.
Rain’s grandmother is a descendant of a famous New Orleans quadroon, infamous
for her beauty and her beignets. A quadroon referred to a person with
1/8th African parentage in the late 19th and early 20th-century New Orleans.
Quadroons were involved with placage – a recognized extralegal system in New
Orleans (and other places) in which ethnic European men entered into the
equivalent of common-law marriages with women of color. These women owned homes
and raised their children on Rampart Street. It’s a small part of the back story
in TELL ME NO LIES, but
one I plan on exploring in another historical romance series.
But in the meantime, I wanted to share the recipe that
Rain uses in TELL ME NO
LIES! If you make this delicious recipe, please add a comment and post a pic!
Once they are fully creamed, add one cup of boiling water and one cup of
milk, and then it set aside
In another bowl, mix the yeast in 1/4 cup warm water, then add the water and
yeast combination and eggs to the shortening, sugar and salt
Add 3 1/2 cups flour and beat it in with a spoon
Mix in another 3 cups of flour. Once the dough is at the desired
consistency, place it on a floured surface
Pat the dough flat before using the rolling pen, The dough will be
super-sticky so used a generous amount of flour to keep the dough manageable
Cut the flour into 3×3 inch squares
Fry dough in oil heated to approximately 360 degrees, until the beignet is
golden brown on both sides, The oil is hot enough when the dough floats right to
the top
Powder the beignets with the powdered sugar. I recommend using a flour
sifter for an even coat.
While hunting down his target in Jamaica, Kael Bradford fell hard for a
beautiful, unsuspecting tourist. He thought the only thing he needed to protect
her from was him. Until the line between personal and professional blurred in a
cloud of deadly danger.
This is now…
Rain Howard thought she’d met the perfect guy. But after two romantic weeks
in Jamaica, he disappeared. Two years of trying to forget him, and she’s finally
found the courage to quit her job and open a beignets and coffee café. Then he
appears out of the blue, wanting to pick up where they left off.
And there is only one truth…
Kael never wanted to leave her, but it wasn’t safe for him to stay. He had to
put space between them before the bad guys figured out there was someone he
loved. Besides, if she discovered all his secrets…she wouldn’t want to be with
him anyway.
Now, the coast is clear. And he’s returned, finally, to reclaim what’s his.
Warning: Could inspire erotic new beignet-eating
techniques that’ll get you thrown out of the Café du Monde. Also includes:
spanking, dirty secrets, dirtier desires, political assassinations, and jealous
best friends.
TELL ME NO LIES
published by Samhain Publishing is the beginning of The Black Orchid series
which follows sexy, kinky assassins… (wait for it…) and the women who love them.
I have to warn you, the heat level in Tell Me No Lies is mighty hot with
elements of BDSM. Oh, okay… it is scorching hot. But if you can stand the heat…
click onTELL ME NO LIES for more details.
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