While visiting Kansas City this past week, the Reale family was marooned by a blizzard—supposed to return on Sunday, finally making it shortly before dawn on Thursday. While killing time in KC, Susie built a snowgirl.
While on the side of my house in Longwood, Florida . . .
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| Blackeyed Susan vines 1/6/25 |
And for your amusement . . .
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| Found on Facebook |
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Sausage & Onion Muffins
Note: This is an excellent recipe for "singles." After the initial effort, I get eight instant meals. (This recipe can be halved for less "construction" work.)
1 lb. Jimmy Dean sausage (Original or flavor of choice)
1 medium onion, chopped
1 pkg. cheese slices (meunster, swiss, or cheddar)
1 cooking apple, quartered & cut in horizontal slices (approx. 3/8" thick)
Preheat oven to 350°. Spray skillet. Spray two muffin pans. (You will need 16 muffins holes.)
Sauté sausage on medium-high, breaking into small pieces with wooden or other large firm spoon. When almost brown, reduce heat to medium and add chopped onion. Continue to sauté until onion is translucent. Drain.** Stir in fennel, rosemary & pepper, to taste. Continue to sauté for a minute or two to develop the flavors. (The fennel is important to the taste, so don’t be stingy.) Remove from heat.
**I use tongs & paper towels to soak up the extra moisture.
Remove ONE pkg of biscuits from refrigerator. (Biscuits slice better when cold.) Slice horizontally into two equal halves. Place one half biscuit in bottom of 8 muffin cups. Top with sausage mix, ¼-½ of a cheese slice & a slice of apple. Place second half of biscuit on top of each muffin, pressing sides down to meet the bottom half.
Repeat with second package of biscuits.***
Bake 13-15 minutes until golden brown. Cool on wire racks. Makes 16 fat muffins.
[Although I serve my ham & cheese muffins with a sauce made of honey mustard and Saucy Susan, these sausage biscuits are best served plain. (A sauce tends to overwhelm the fennel & rosemary.)]
The muffins freeze very well. To unfreeze two: 45-50 seconds on Thaw, 45-50 seconds High. Check. Add a few more seconds as necessary.
***Leftover sausage mix can be frozen for later use in a sandwich or scrambled eggs.
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Featured Books
I lived in Venice, FL, for all of a quarter century. For a long time I kept the setting of my "Golden Beach" books to myself, because the influx of snowbirds and tourists each year TRIPLED the small city's population. (Even after it was no longer the winter headquarters for Ringling Bros.) And we really didn't need any more people taking a peek!
But Venice was hit hard by hurricanes in the last few years—some beachfront houses even swallowed by sand!—so I'm letting the cat out of the bag. Venice, on Florida's Gulf Coast (c. 20 miles south of Sarasota) is one of Florida's most precious gems, with seven beaches within a 10-minute drive, a Main Street out of storybook, boutiques and restaurants galore, etc., etc. To top that, the center of town was made an "island" when the Intracoastal Waterway was built. The only way to access that beautiful Main Street and all the shops is to cross one of three bridges over the waterway—north, south, and east. On the west, the Gulf of Mexico.
Below, a listing of all my books set in Venice.
ROMANTIC SUSPENSE/MYSTERY
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| All too reminiscent of the CA wildfires |
No, I'm not claiming Machu Picchu is in Venice, FL, but, although Orange Blossoms begins and ends on Florida's Gulf Coast, a good portion is set in Peru.
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Grace (Blair Bancroft)
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