Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours presents... PAWS FOR ALARM by Amy Hueston - SPOTLIGHT + RECIPE FOR PUPPERS!

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Checking in with today's blog tour guest via Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours as we shine the book spotlight on a Cozy Mystery series that's sure to give you paws...I mean, pause.  Let's peek between the pages and then continue reading for a delicious recipe for your puppers and mine as we welcome today's blog tour guest and title in the spotlight...

 

Paws for Alarm (A Canine Confections Mystery)

by

Amy Hueston

Cozy Mystery

2nd in Series

Publisher: Donelson Press (March 22, 2021)

Digital – Number of Pages – 196

ASIN: B08XN4ZRMC

About the book...

When Samantha relaxes into her new role as a dog mom, finds a circle of friends in her new hometown, and sees her new dog bakery Canine Confections barking up business, she’s thrilled that things are going so well … until she hears a bloodcurdling scream from the pastry shop two doors down and runs over to find a dead body on the floor.

Suddenly Samantha finds herself in a race against time to find not only the thief who is stealing from the upscale shops, but a murderer, too. Samantha’s Lab-Mix Sweet Pea wags her tail through all of the clues, suspects and shenanigans. Both Samantha and Sweet Pea are aided in their amateur investigation by the other shopkeepers on the elegant Worth Avenue, and Samantha finds the suspect list growing at every turn.

To make matters worse, Samantha’s old boyfriend arrives in town, and mysterious people start showing up at the Sophisticated Pet and New Age stores nearby. Samantha soon finds that things are not what they seem, and she must figure out what’s going on—or become the next dead body on a bakery floor.

Includes an original recipe from the world-famous Three Dog Bakery!

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Easy Homemade Dog Cake 

I found this recipe on Crazyforcrust.com. It looks delicious, doesn’t it? Remember, when baking for your pooch, it’s imperative you know what food your dog can and can’t eat. 

This easy homemade Dog Cake is a peanut butter cake perfect for your pups birthday! 

Prep Time:  10 minutes 

Cook Time:  20 minutes 

Total Time:  30 minutes 

Yield (1)  6-inch cake 

Serving Size1 cake 

INGREDIENTS... 

...FOR THE CUPCAKE 

3/4 cup flour 

1/2 teaspoon baking soda 

1/4 teaspoon baking powder 

1 large egg 

2 tablespoons peanut butter 

2 tablespoons oil 

1/4 cup applesauce unsweetened 

2 tablespoons honey 

...FOR THE FROSTING 

1/2 cup heavy whipping cream 

INSTRUCTIONS 

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 6-inch round cake pan (or a 9x5-inch bread pan) with parchment paper and spray with nonstick cooking spray. 

Stir flour, baking soda, baking powder, peanut butter, oil, applesauce, egg and honey. Pour into pans. Bake 20-30 minutes, until browned and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely before frosting. 

To make frosting: beat heavy whipping cream until stiff peaks form. 

Frost cake as desired. You can double the frosting recipe and torte the cake (cut the cake in half horizontally) to make it a 2-layer cake. 

Store covered in refrigerator for up to 3 days. 

RECIPE NOTES 

Please use your discretion when it comes to feeding your dog. I am not a vet nor am I a doggy nutritionist. If you think your dog is allergic to any of the ingredients please take caution. This cake has been enjoyed by many dogs just fine - but use your knowledge of your dog and your common sense when feeding. 

I wonder if he’ll share with you?

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About the author...

Amy Hueston writes mini-mysteries for Woman’s World magazine when she isn’t writing mystery and suspense novels. The first 3 books in her Canine Confections mystery series have an abundance of dogs and pastries, two of her favorite things, and will be available in 2021. Amy is also a professional singer who has performed nationally and internationally. A sought-after singer in South Florida, Amy draws on these experiences when writing.

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Special thanks to Lori at Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours for the chance to bring this tour to you and my thanks to the author for the FURtastic recipe to include!  For more on this title, the author, or the publisher, feel free to click through the links provided above...and don't forget to check out the rest of the tour for more bookish fun!

TOUR PARTICIPANTS

April 1 – Novels Alive – GUEST POST

April 1 – FUONLYKNEW - SPOTLIGHT

April 2 – I'm All About Books - SPOTLIGHT

April 2 – A Wytch's Book Review Blog – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

April 3 – Celticlady's Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

April 3 – MJB Reviewers - REVIEW, INDIVIDUAL GIVEAWAY

April 4 – Books a Plenty Book Reviews - REVIEW, CHARACTER INTERVIEW

April 4 – Brooke Blogs - SPOTLIGHT

April 5 – Literary Gold – REVIEW

April 5 – Tea Book Blanket – SPOTLIGHT

April 6 – Sneaky the Library Cat's Blog – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

April 6 – Maureen's Musings - REVIEW

April 7 – Reading, Writing & Stitch-Metic - SPOTLIGHT, RECIPE, INDIVIDUAL GIVEAWAY

April 7 – Novels Alive – REVIEW

April 8 – Lisa Ks Book Reviews - GUEST POST, INDIVIDUAL GIVEAWAY

April 8 – Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

April 9 – Mochas, Mysteries and Meows – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

April 9 – Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers – SPOTLIGHT, RECIPE

April 10 – eBook Addicts - SPOTLIGHT

April 10 – I Read What You Write – REVIEW

April 11 – Cozy Up With Kathy - REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST

April 11 – Sapphyria's Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

 

April 12 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW

April 12 – Laura's Interests – REVIEW

April 13 – Christy's Cozy Corners - CHARACTER GUEST POST

April 13 – Readeropolis - AUTHOR INTERVIEW, INDIVIDUAL GIVEAWAY

April 14 –Ascroft, eh? – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

April 14 – Melina's Book Blog – REVIEW

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Sourcebooks Casablanca presents... THE BEST COWBOY CHRISTMAS EVER by June Faver - SPOTLIGHT + RECIPE + GIVEAWAY!

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Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.

Today, we're shining the book spotlight on a Sourcebooks Casablanca title ready and waiting to ride off into the holiday sunset with you.  Don't believe me?  Well then, I suppose it's time to provide the proof, but before I get to that let me say this...this is post one of a few that I will be ecstatically hosting this holiday season from this fab publishing team, featuring a slew of great authors and their work that you won't want to miss!  You'll get HO-Ho-HO-liday surprises, giveaways, additions to your wish lists, and special content, so keep your eyes open and your must read list at the ready, as we welcome today's title/author to the spotlight...

The Best Cowboy Christmas Ever

by

June Faver

Sourcebooks Casablanca

About the book...

Enjoy a down-home Texas cowboy Christmas! 

When handsome town sheriff Derrick Shelton meets Angelique Guillory and her young daughter at the Garrett ranch, he is immediately drawn to the woman who seems to desperately need a true family Christmas. Determined to erase the shadows from her eyes, he decides to give her the best holiday she’s ever had. 

Angelique Guillory is a woman with a past, haunted by violence and searching for the family she never knew. When she and her little daughter find their way to the Garrett family and meet Derrick, she hopes to have finally found a safe haven. 

But Angelique is still looking over her shoulder. Despite her doubts, with a little Christmas magic and the warmth of the Garretts, Angelique may find more love and acceptance than she ever thought possible. 

June Faver loves Texas, from the Gulf coast to the panhandle, from the Mexican border to the Piney Woods. Her novels embrace the heart and soul of the state and the larger-than-life Texans who romp across her pages. A former teacher and healthcare professional, she lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country.

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I am so happy to share one of my favorite cookie recipes. I wrote a cookbook for my family to preserve several generations of our favorite family recipes. I usually make the cookies at night and wake up to this great fragrance throughout the house. You mix them up, pop in the oven, turn off the oven and leave them until morning. Enjoy.

~June Faver

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About the author...

Texas, my Texas...

I'm June Faver and I write Texas. 

From the Gulf Coast to the Panhandle, from the Piney Woods to the BIG Cities...I'm all about this beautiful, diverse state of Texas.

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Special thanks to the Sourcebooks Casablanca team for the chance to bring this title to you. (THANKS!) For more information on this book, the author, the series, or the publisher, feel free to click through the links provided above. This title is available now, so click on over to your favorite online retailer to snag your copy today.

Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!

RRR SPOTLIGHT: Cookucina: A Recipe for Disaster by Stephen Phelps - RECIPE + GIVEAWAY!

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Today, we're joining a Rachel's Random Resources blog tour already in progress starring a unique and TASTY combination to satisfy the reader and eater in you!  It's a work that takes the idea of a cookbook a few steps further as those recipes are mashed together with a travelogue and ultimately serve as the piece de resistance companion to the TV series Cookucina!  Pretty nifty, right?  Right!  So, let's get to the spotlight and take it from there, shall we?  Ready, set, READ!

Cookucina:  A Recipe for Disaster
by
Stephen Phelps

A Recipe for Disaster is a cookbook, a travelogue and the companion to Cookucina, a six-part TV series available on Amazon Video, iTunes and Google Play - see www.cookucina.com .

It's also the entertaining journey of an Englishman struggling with the ups and downs of living in rural Italy. After giving up a successful career in television, Stephen found himself dragged back into a world he had happily given up when his neighbour, Lia, persuaded him to listen to her Big Idea – making a TV cookery series. But Lia speaks no English.

And Stephen’s partner, Tam, can't cook. So, much against Stephen's better judgement, the three of them embarked on a six-part series set among the rolling hills of the little-known, but spectacularly beautiful, Italian region of Le Marche. In the Cookucina TV series Lia teaches Tam to cook alla Marchigiana, while Tam translates. A Recipe for Disaster follows their many encounters with the real Italy – a world away from the picture-book ideal of summer holidays in Tuscany.

As the team try to construct a professional series with no funding they come to rely on the generosity of the Marchigiana people, while attempting to overcome the constant difficulties thrown up by those whose stubborn adherence to their age-old way of life is rooted in their beloved fields and woods. A Recipe for Disaster is a goldmine of simple yet delicious recipes, while peeling back the veneer of television professionalism and opening the door to a world of Italian surprise and delight.

A Recipe for Disaster comes with unique access to Cookucina, the final six-part TV series, so you can see for yourself how the team cracked their problems and (just about) held it all together in a blistering heatwave. Experience this contradictory world of vendettas and kind hearts through the laughter and frustrations of Stephen and the team, as you follow A Recipe for Disaster slowly coming to its surprising fruition.

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As if that wasn't enough to wet your taste buds, we've got an extra dose of bloggy fun for you!  A special recipe from the work itself  that's definitely new to me and sounds pretty good.  The beauty of it is you don't have to take my word for it because HERE IT IS for you to try all on your own!



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SIBILLINI PASTA

Ingredients

360 g. of dry pasta
half an onion
2 sausages
200g. of ricotta cheese
some saffron
salt and pepper
parmesan cheese
extra virgin olive oil

Chop the onion and soften them in a little oil. Chop the sausage roughly. Add it to the onion and sauté for a few minutes. Remove from the heat, then add the ricotta cheese and a little salt and pepper to taste. Dissolve the saffron in a little stock or the water you used to cook the pasta. Add it to the sausage, combine the mixture with the pasta (cooked al dente and drained). Sprinkle with parmesan before serving.

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About author Stephen Phelps...

Educated at Oxford University, I began working with BBC Radio, moving to BBC TV where I launched Watchdog and produced the investigative legal series Rough Justice. In Hong Kong for BBC World Service Television I oversaw the start of BBC World. I then spent twelve years running my own TV production company, Just Television, specialising in investigative programmes in the field of law, justice and policing. In particular, Trial and Error for Channel 4 which exposed and investigated major miscarriages of justice, winning the Royal Television Society’s inaugural Specialist Journalism Award in 1999. Recently I have been working as a consultant for Aljazeera English on major documentary projects. 

In 2002 I took an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Writing credits include many plays for BBC Radio, my most recent being a drama documentary for the 30th anniversary of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. Books: The Tizard Mission published by Westholme Publishing in the United States, tells the extraordinary story of how Britain’s top scientists travelled in secret to America in the autumn of 1940 to give away all their wartime secrets to secure US support in WWII. A Recipe for Disaster is a book about living in Italy while trying to make a TV cookery series, Cookucina (now available on Amazon Video, Google Play and iTunes.

I have several other books and three screenplays in development.

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Special thanks to Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for the chance to bring this promotion to you. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the author, this tour, or those on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above. This title is available now, so click on over to your favorite online retailer to snag your copy today!  Be sure to stop by the other sites on the tour for more fun than you can shake a spoon at.

BEFORE YOU GO...

DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO WIN IN THE TOUR WIDE GIVEAWAY!

Up for grabs...

...a fabu prize pack including...

...biscotti artigianale

...local honey

...3 x DVD of the Cookucina series

...plus a signed copy of A Recipe For Disaster 

Open INTERNATIONALLY...ends 11/09/17!

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Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!

Bon Appétit and a Book starring Her Sweetest Fortune by Stella Bagwell

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Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.

Here's hoping you had a splendid Valentine's Day yesterday, and everything came up roses (get it?  Roses...because that's the typical V-Day gift?  ^_^).  Just because the holiday has passed doesn't mean that we stop celebrating the LOVE, I mean because really, with book there is more than enough to go around. 

Speaking of which, today we are taking part in a Meryl L. Moss Media and Harlequin Books BLOG TOUR highlighting a few titles from their epic selection of books that should be on your reading radar this month.  For my part, I selected a work by author Stella Bagwell that I might just have to add to my own reading rotation because it just sounds like a lot of fun...and a little something extra for the taste buds.  First things first though, BRING ON THE BOOK!

Her Sweetest Fortune

The Fortunes of Texas:  The Secret Fortunes

by

Stella Bagwell

978-0-373-623266

Harlequin Books

About the book...

Sophie Fortune Robinson is on a mission. The word around the office water cooler is that the boss's youngest daughter is intent on landing Mr. Right by Valentine's Day—and that she has her eyes, and heart, set on a certain hunk in Marketing.

But when she enlists her longtime pal and coworker Mason Montgomery to teach her how to get a man to notice her, little does she know she's already captured his attention!

Now Mason's in a real bind! He has just a few short weeks to fight his way out of the "friend zone." On his agenda: convincing sweet Sophie that he is the real man of her dreams! Will Fortune smile on true love's venture?

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Sounds good, right?

Well, now to add that little something extra I mentioned.

Sweets for the sweet...or rather the 'bon appétit' to go with this book!

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Valentine’s Day wouldn’t be complete without something chocolate! Here’s a cake recipe that my family enjoys.

Buttermilk Cocoa Cake

2 cups sugar, ¾ cup shortening, 2&1/2 cups flour, ½ cup cocoa, 2 teaspoons soda, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup buttermilk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 cup boiling water.

Cream sugar and shortening. Add eggs and beat until smooth. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with buttermilk to creamed mixture. Add vanilla and water. Pour batter into 13/9 inch pan, or if you prefer layers, two 9 inch pans and bake at 350 degrees until cake springs back when touched.

Frosting

4 cups confectioner sugar, 6 Tbs. cold butter, ½ tsp. vanilla, ¼ tsp. salt, ¼ scant cup milk. Whip with mixer until creamy.

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About the author...

STELLA BAGWELL is a USA Today bestselling author who has written close to 90 books for Harlequin. She lives on the Texas Gulf coast with her husband, where the winters are mild and the summers sweltering. Along with her writing, she stays busy helping her husband care for their 10 horses, 11 cats, and a flock of gulls that always seem to know when it's feeding time!

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Special thanks to Tracy at Meryl L Moss Media and the Harlequin Books team for the chance to participate in this promotion as well as the copy for (future) review.  (THANKS!)  For more information on this title, the author, the publisher, or those tours on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above.  This title is available now, so be on the lookout for it on a bookstore shelf or virtual retailer of your choosing.

Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!