Pickin' Murder: An Antique Hunters Mystery (20 page)

RECIPES

CC’s Frittata

Cream

Eggs

Vegetables, such as onions, mushrooms, sautéed

Salt

Pepper

Beat eggs and slowly add heavy cream. Add vegetables of your choosing. You can also add any meat or cheese. Add salt and pepper to taste. Dash of ghost pepper optional. Place in cast iron skillet. Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Serve with sliced strawberries and fresh mint leaves.

CC’s Shrimp Scampi

1 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined

fresh minced garlic

Olive oil

Lemon juice

Basil

Splash of vermouth

Sautee shrimp in fresh garlic, olive oil. Add splash of lemon juice. Garnish with basil. Just before finished, add splash of vermouth. Drizzle olive oil, salt, pepper and parmesan on romaine. Grill until edges are crispy. Place romaine on plate, add shrimp. Sprinkle with feta. Add a slice of watermelon. Optional blueberry vinaigrette

Hot Brown

Slices of turkey, roast beef

Toast

Cream, cheddar cheese

Parmesan

Tomato

Bacon

Melt cheddar cheese with cream and butter until a smooth consistency. Top toast with slices of roast beef and turkey. Place cheddar cheese mixture on top. Add slice of bacon and tomato. Sprinkle with parmesan. Grill until crispy.

CC’s Pain Perdu

Five eggs

½ cup white sugar

½ cup milk

Orange liqueur

Orange zest

Beat eggs, sugar and milk until frothy. Add orange liqueur and orange zest. Cut bread into twelve slices. Soak the bread slices in the egg mixture for 2 minutes on each side. Melt butter in griddle and heat to medium. Cook bread slices in griddle for 2 minutes on each side or until they are golden brown. Drizzle warm maple syrup on top. Garnish with fresh orange slice.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

With a passion for shopping, Vicki Vass drew on her experiences as an antique hunter to tell the story of her real-life friends Anne and CC. This book is the second in their series.  The first was entitled MURDER BY THE SPOONFUL.

Vicki Vass has written more than 1,400 articles for
The Chicago Tribune
as well as
Women’s World
,
The Daily Herald
and
Home & Away
. Her science fiction novel,
The Lexicon,
was inspired by her journeys in the jungle of Sudan, Africa, while writing about the ongoing civil war for World Relief.

She lives outside Chicago, with her writer, musician, husband Brian, their 20-year old son Tony, kittens Pixel and Terra, Australian shepherd Bandit, seven koi and Gary the turtle.

This book is fiction. All characters, events, and organizations portrayed in this novel are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.  Any resemblance to actual persons—living or dead—is entirely coincidental.

Copyright 2015 by Vicki Vass

All rights reserved. No parts of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

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