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Sweet and Spicy Romance – Free!

Posted on September 22, 2016 by judyhudson@shaw.ca

I know a lot of my readers enjoy getting free eBooks – who doesn’t? So here’s another eBook Sweepstakes, Sweet and Spicy Romance.

I’ve made the poster BIG here so you can read all the titles. Some of you have done sweepstakes before – that’s how we met! – so I thought I’d pass this one along to you too.

Here’s how it works:

Just click here to go to http://AuthorsXP.com/Giveaway to enter. Contest closes September 25.

(1) Win Up To 40 Romance Novels!

(2) Grand Prize Kindle “Gift Baskets” of ALL eBooks (sweet or spicy!)!

+ Winners of Individual eBooks (randomly selected titles)!

You’ll see that my book Summer of Fortune is in the “Sweet” side. “Sweet” is a romance industry term for the amount of graphic sex in the story, not the tone of the story. (I don’t think of my stories as particularly sweet otherwise.)

So enter for a chance to win, then receive info on more books and contests from the authors involved. It’s that easy.

Good Luck!

Judy

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From Mint to Mojito

Posted on August 31, 2016 by judyhudson@shaw.ca

Today we’re harvesting mint. 🙂 Let’s just call it that because of course we’re not having Mojitos after work on a week night. Oh no. We’re just getting our supplies in order for the weekend.

Mint spreads like a weed so be careful where you plant it, but I love having a patch in my garden. (You can tell it’s mint by the square stems.)

I make cold mint tea all summer from the mix of spearmint and the darker chocolate mint that grows beneath the blueberries, by pouring boiling water over a stalk of mint with leaves in a heat proof jug. Very refreshing.

Also refreshing are Mojitos, that wonderful combination of mint and lime and rum. I tried to order on the other night at a South Asian/ Indian restaurant (hey, they were on the menu) but our young server looked quite terrified and said, “I’ve never made one before.” In the end I didn’t order it, but I have been thinking about it ever since.

So I bought some white rum, picked some mint, got out a lime and got started.

Instructions:

Put a spoonful of sugar in a glass, squeeze the juice of a lime wedge into the sugar then drop in the rind. Add half a dozen mint leaves and muddle, or mush around, in the bottom of the glass to release the flavours.

Fill the glass half full of ice, add white rum to your liking and fill the glass with soda water and stir.

Garnish with a lime slice. It looks as refreshing as it tastes. I tried it last night and did tend to get mint leaves in my mouth, which explains the instructions I’ve seen to serve with a straw, or one picture of a Mojito strained and served in a martini glass. Not traditional perhaps but kind of classy nonetheless.

Find yourself a lovely spot outside this weekend, put your feet up and sip this sparkling summer drink while reading a good book. (Lake of Dreams ebook is still free online through the long weekend. Had to get that in.)

Join me in raising a glass to the harvest. Cheers.

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An Abundance of Figs

Posted on August 24, 2016August 24, 2016 by judyhudson@shaw.ca

I’m continuing my week of recipes to celebrate the launch of The Good Neighbor, Book Two in the fig tree Fortune Bay Series, with this post on what to do with an abundance of figs.

I realize not everyone has figs in their backyard, but I have a huge tree, and quelle coincidence!, so does Stephanie, the matriarch of the series, who has her own romance in this book. A romance that begins in the a cool green oasis of the fig arbor on a hot summer day, the perfect place for a simmering scene of sexual tension (how’s that for alliteration?).

Sunlight penetrated the translucent leaves creating a cool and ethereal bower.

“The figs are in!” Stephanie’s triumphant voice emerged from inside the tree. A stepladder with two feet perched on a rung halfway up, leaned against the arbor. Long, firm legs rose from there, ending where Stephanie’s baggy green shorts disappeared into the dense leafy branches.

“Help me,” she said, her hand appearing beneath the canopy of leaves, cupping a succulent green fruit.

You get the picture.

Way #1 to use Figs – Fig Leather

Last year, I was away for fig season and my wonderful friends picked for me. I came home to a freezer full of figs. I did make my famous Figand Ginger Jam (recipe to follow) but the rest of the figs couldn’t be dried whole in the usual way, so I put 7 figs (I only have one leather sheet for my drier) and the juice of half a lemon in my Ninja blender – I love my Ninja blender -it up and poured it on the drier sheet. Two minutes work and it makes really delicious tangy fig leather. I have yet to find anyone who doesn’t love it.

Way #2 to use Figs – Judy’s Famous Fig & Ginger Jam

This recipe uses lemon and ginger to add zing. For those who don’t like ginger (seriously?) you can leave out the candied ginger and add instead 1 cinnamon stick, 2 cloves and 1/2 tsp ginger. Or a quarter cup Grand Marnier. I’ve had good luck with Fireball Whiskey too! You get the picture. Anything goes.

But this Fig & Ginger is amazing on toast or with chicken or pork, or by the teaspoonful right out of the jar!

Click here for Fig & Ginger recipe.

You can buy The Good Neighbor in eBook or paperback on Amazon, kobo, and nook. TGN COVER MED

And don’t forget, for this last, beautiful week of summer, Lake of Dreams is free in eBook form on online retailers until the end of August. See the sidebar. No excuses!

Happy eating, and good reading,

Judy sig

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The Lake of Dreams eBook is FREE for August

Posted on August 19, 2016August 20, 2016 by judyhudson@shaw.ca

Welcome new readers from the Sweet Romance Sweepstakes!

And, as a special welcome,

Lake of Dreams will be FREE on all major eBook platforms for the rest of August.

So, if you haven’t already, be sure to get your copy by clicking on your eReader platform below, and be sure to tell your friends about the offer.

Amazon.com nook iBooks kobo

If you don’t have an eReader, all four platforms offer mobile apps to get you reading on your tablet or phone.

Please look around the website. There is a lot of information on the Fortune Bay series, including first chapter previews of Lake of Dreams and Summer of Fortune, and the “meet scene” from my newest book, coming out August 23rd, The Good Neighbor.

Happy August everyone. Get out there and enjoy what’s left of summer!

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What do Really Children Like?

Posted on August 8, 2016 by judyhudson@shaw.ca

August is going to be all recipes because in August it feels like all I do is cook. But it’s the kind of cooking enjoy, with fresh veggies and preserving fresh fruit. Most of those recipes will relate more to The Good Neighbor, book two that’s coming out at the end of August (August 23 to be exact!) because it’s set in August and September and Sean’s a great cook.

But before we get to that, I want to finish the Saga of Children’s Delight because in Summer of Fortune it was Maddie’s signature recipe.

My old-fashioned recipe had cinnamon, cloves and raisins and in SOF, the wonderful aroma of sugar and spice became one of Augusta’s calling cards.

The problem was, the general consensus of my millennial children (who I have to say were perfectly happy to eat those cookies when they were young) was that children these days wouldn’t like cookies like that. Everyone’s a critic.

Vania making cookies — Vania making cookie dough into little “towers” to assure perfectly round cookies. She’s amazing!

So I charged my daughter-in-law Vania, baker extraordinaire, to come up with a new version of Children’s Delight that today’s children would love. My only caveat was that the new recipe have a component of spice.

I have to say, her new recipe is delicious. Totally different with peanut butter and chocolate chips, but what’s not to love?

Here’s the recipe – you be the judge.

I’ll sign this one, “Obviously eating way too many cookies in the name of art,”

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Sweet and Spicy Romance – Free!

I know a lot of my readers enjoy getting free eBooks – who doesn’t? So here’s another eBook Sweepstakes, Sweet and Spicy Romance.

I’ve made the poster BIG here so you can read all the titles. Some of you have done sweepstakes before – that’s how we met! – so I thought I’d pass this one along to you too.

Here’s how it works:

Just click here to go to http://AuthorsXP.com/Giveaway to enter. Contest closes September 25.

(1) Win Up To 40 Romance Novels!

Judy

Like this:

From Mint to Mojito

Put a spoonful of sugar in a glass, squeeze the juice of a lime wedge into the sugar then drop in the rind. Add half a dozen mint leaves and muddle, or mush around, in the bottom of the glass to release the flavours.

Fill the glass half full of ice, add white rum to your liking and fill the glass with soda water and stir.

Like this:

An Abundance of Figs

Sunlight penetrated the translucent leaves creating a cool and ethereal bower.

“The figs are in!” Stephanie’s triumphant voice emerged from inside the tree. A stepladder with two feet perched on a rung halfway up, leaned against the arbor. Long, firm legs rose from there, ending where Stephanie’s baggy green shorts disappeared into the dense leafy branches.

“Help me,” she said, her hand appearing beneath the canopy of leaves, cupping a succulent green fruit.

Way #1 to use Figs – Fig Leather

Way #2 to use Figs – Judy’s Famous Fig & Ginger Jam

Click here for Fig & Ginger recipe.

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The Lake of Dreams eBook is FREE for August

Welcome new readers from the Sweet Romance Sweepstakes!

Lake of Dreams will be FREE on all major eBook platforms for the rest of August.

Amazon.com nook iBooks kobo

Happy August everyone. Get out there and enjoy what’s left of summer!

Like this:

What do Really Children Like?

The problem was, the general consensus of my millennial children (who I have to say were perfectly happy to eat those cookies when they were young) was that children these days wouldn’t like cookies like that. Everyone’s a critic.

Like this:

I know a lot of my readers enjoy getting free eBooks – who doesn’t? So here’s another eBook Sweepstakes, Sweet and Spicy Romance.

I’ve made the poster BIG here so you can read all the titles. Some of you have done sweepstakes before – that’s how we met! – so I thought I’d pass this one along to you too.

Here’s how it works:

Just click here to go to http://AuthorsXP.com/Giveaway to enter. Contest closes September 25.

(1) Win Up To 40 Romance Novels!

Judy

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Put a spoonful of sugar in a glass, squeeze the juice of a lime wedge into the sugar then drop in the rind. Add half a dozen mint leaves and muddle, or mush around, in the bottom of the glass to release the flavours.

Fill the glass half full of ice, add white rum to your liking and fill the glass with soda water and stir.

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Sunlight penetrated the translucent leaves creating a cool and ethereal bower.

“The figs are in!” Stephanie’s triumphant voice emerged from inside the tree. A stepladder with two feet perched on a rung halfway up, leaned against the arbor. Long, firm legs rose from there, ending where Stephanie’s baggy green shorts disappeared into the dense leafy branches.

“Help me,” she said, her hand appearing beneath the canopy of leaves, cupping a succulent green fruit.

Way #1 to use Figs – Fig Leather

Way #2 to use Figs – Judy’s Famous Fig & Ginger Jam

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Welcome new readers from the Sweet Romance Sweepstakes!

Lake of Dreams will be FREE on all major eBook platforms for the rest of August.

Happy August everyone. Get out there and enjoy what’s left of summer!

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The problem was, the general consensus of my millennial children (who I have to say were perfectly happy to eat those cookies when they were young) was that children these days wouldn’t like cookies like that. Everyone’s a critic.

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