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Secret Cravings' Secret Recipes: Author Tricia Andersen

Come on over and check out this recipe from Tricia!! 

 

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Secret Cravings' Secret Recipes: Author Lindsay Downs

Secret Cravings' Secret Recipes: Author Lindsay Downs

 
Welcome to Secret Recipes. As you all know, the authors you love know how to cook up some amazing romances. But, did you know that most of us also love to cook, bake and grill? Sometimes our characters even request that we make something they like just so we can share it with you, the readers. This is the place for you to find all of those recipes. So come on in and share a bite to eat with your favorite authors. Let's get cookin'!


Please give a warm welcome to our guest author today, Lindsay Downs.

Lindsay Downs is the author of various books at Secret Cravings Publishing. Currently, there is one book in the running for the RONE awards at Ind'Tale Magazine. You can check out Don't Cross The Countess here: Voting Poll
 
 
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Secret Recipes: Author Tammy Dennings Maggy, Lia Michaels

Welcome to Secret Recipes. As you all know, the authors you love know how to cook up some amazing romances. But, did you know that most of us also love to cook, bake and grill? Sometimes our characters even request that we make something they like just so we can share it with you, the readers. This is the place for you to find all of those recipes. So come on in and share a bite to eat with your favorite authors. Let's get cookin'!
 
Today, we are so lucky to have not one, but TWO guest authors who are so excited to share recipes with you. Please help me welcome Romance Author, Tammy Dennings Maggy. Be sure to check out another of Tammy's pennames; Romance Author, Lia Michaels. Help me give a big, warm welcome to Tammy/Lia:
 
 
My Now and Forever series of erotic romance novels is set at least in part in my favorite city in the world—Las Vegas. For years I spent ten days there for a veterinary conference and a mini-vacation with my mom. The last two years I have been unable to attend the conference, but will start up again in July for the RNC romance convention. I can’t wait!
 
 
 
 
 
 
Another reason this recipe and those like it appeal to me is that it’s on everyone’s list of favorite comfort foods. One of my passions is cooking and baking so I gave a few of my characters the bug as well. While they get to create dishes like this for the patrons of their restaurants, I have to settle for making it for my hubby and his family—for now. One day I hope to have my own pub where comfort foods and home brewed beer are on the menu. My hubby’s dream is to run his own microbrewery so hopefully we’ll be able to merge those two fantasies together one day.
 
Until then, enjoy the mac and cheese! Do yourself a favor and do NOT substitute different cheeses for what’s listed. It’s the mix of them that bring this dish to life!
 
 
Best Damn Mac and Cheese EVER!
 
This recipe is as close to the one they serve at the Serendipity 3 restaurant at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. It’s the most decadent dish I’ve ever had so it fits right in with the Vegas motto: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!
 
·         1 box (1 pound) of cavatappi pasta ( you know, the double elbow kind)
·         6 slices of bacon diced
·         1 tablespoon unsalted butter
·         3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
·         2 cups 2% milk
·         1 teaspoon onion flakes (dried minced onions)
·         1/4 teaspoon salt
·         1/4 teaspoon pepper
·         1/2 pound of shredded sharp cheddar cheese
·         1 cup of shredded colby-Jack cheese
·         1 cup of shredded mozzarella cheese
·         8 slices of Kraft Deli Delux American cheese
 
1) Heat oven to 350 decrees. Coat a 3 quart broiler safe baking dish with non stick cooking spray. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to boiling
 
2) Cook cavatappi 8 minutes in the boiling water, then drain. Meanwhile in a medium sized sauce pan, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Transfer the bacon to papertowels. Carefully pour off drippings and return two tablespoons to the pan. Add butter.
 
3) Whisk in flour until smooth. In a thin stream, whisk in milk. Stir in onion flakes, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil over medium high heat, then reduce heat and simmer two minutes. In a large bowl, toss together the cheddar, Colby-Jack and mozzarella.
 
4) Remove milk mixture from heat, whisk in the American cheese and 1 1/4 cups of the cheddar mixture. Toss the bacon pieces in wit the remaining shredded cheese mixture.
 
5) In pasta pot, combine cooked pasta and the cheese sauce. Pour half into the prepared dish. Sprinkle with a generous coup of the bacon-cheese mixture and repeat the layering.
 
6) Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes Increase the oven temperature to broil and broil for 3 minutes, until top is lightly browned. Cool slightly before serving.
 
Enjoy!
 

 

~Tammy Dennings Maggy (aka The Vixen)
 
 
Wow! If I were a gambling kind of girl, I'd have to say she's right. This has to be the BEST Damn Mac and Cheese Ever! Can't wait to try it this week! Thanks so much for stopping by and for sharing it with us. Huge congrats on your new publishing house Sassy Vixen Publishing!! We wish you TONS of success and bestsellers!! 
 
Readers: As always, please stop by anytime and let us know what you think about any of the recipes and books featured here at Madison's Place.
 
Have a great Monday :)
XOXOXO

Secret Cravings' Secret Recipes: Author V.L. Locey

Welcome to Secret Recipes. As you all know, the authors you love know how to cook up some amazing romances. But, did you know that most of us also love to cook, bake and grill? Sometimes our characters even request that we make something they like just so we can share it with you, the readers. This is the place for you to find all of those recipes. So come on in and share a bite to eat with your favorite authors. Let's get cookin'!

Today's special guest is Romance Author, V.L. Locey, Please give her a warm welcome and check out this great recipe she's sharing:

Hi everyone! Thanks to Madison for having me on.
 
One of the great things about writing hockey romances is that I get to have an international cast of characters! From Russia to Finland, Sweden to Canada, Minnesota to Norway and all points in between. With so many hungry athletes there is bound to be some great recipes being passed back and forth among the wives and girlfriends of the team.
 
Alain Lessard is the leading man in Pink Pucks & Power Plays, my first To Love a Wildcat book, and he hails from Quebec. This recipe sounds like something his mother would have made for him on a cold day, perhaps when he was a young boy returning from hours of playing pond hockey. It`s a simple recipe, with a short prep time, and features one of my favorite things in the world: maple syrup. Even Viviana, who is no cook, could whip this decadent treat up for her man!
 
 
 
Maple Grandfathers ( Grands-Peres a L`erable)
 
Total Time: 30 minutes. 15 for  prep, 15 for cooking.
 
Dough for grandfathers
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
11/2 cups flour
1/4 cup shortening
1 cup milk
 
Syrup
11/2 cups maple syrup
1 cup water
 
Preparing the grandfathers:
Mix sugar, baking soda, salt and flour. Incorporate shortening. Add milk and mix until the dough is homogeneous.
Syrup preparation: In a large casserole, bring the maple syrup and water to a boil. Using an ice cream scoop, make balls from the dough and place into casserole dish. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes but do not remove the cover during cooking time.
 
This can also be served with vanilla ice cream for an even sweeter treat!
 
*~*
 
 
 
 
 
 
Viviana Land just can`t seem to say no her younger sister. Somehow, the curvaceous society page reporter gets lassoed into serving as her niece's Busy Bee scout leader. One overheated engine later, Viviana and her girls find themselves in the Green Hills Ice Rink. Enter Alain Lessard, the charmingly handsome defenseman for the Philadelphia Wildcats, who is donating his summer to coaching the youth league.
 
When our intrepid reporter is given the opportunity to write the break-out story of her career, Viviana leaps at the chance. Thinking it would be easy to flirt and tease some juicy tidbits out of Alain, Viviana soon finds herself falling for the sensual, younger, kind-hearted man. Will she put aside her virtual pen for a chance to stay at her new paramour`s side? Or will Viviana finally get away from those mundane bakery opening articles by using the man she may possibly be falling in love with?

 

 
 
Thanks so much for stopping by, Vicki. Congrats on your newest book and I hope you'll stop by again sometime. 
 
Readers: Don't forget to stop by and let us know if you've tried the recipes. 
 
Have a great Monday!!

 

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Secret Cravings' Secret Recipes: Author Tamara Hoffa

 
 
Welcome to Secret Recipes. As you all know, the authors you love know how to cook up some amazing romances. But, did you know that most of us also love to cook, bake and grill? Sometimes our characters even request that we make something they like just so we can share it with you, the readers. This is the place for you to find all of those recipes. So come on in and share a bite to eat with your favorite authors. Let's get cookin'!
 
 
Today, Tamara Hoffa, Romance Author at Secret Cravings Publishing has stopped by to share one of her family's favorite weekend recipes. It's a perfect breakfast bake that your kids can even help with. But first, if you haven't had a chance to check out Tamara's work, head on over to the SSLY Blog and get a gander at her books here: Books By Tamara Hoffa
 
 
 
Now, let's get to the recipe that brings a smile to everyone in Tamara's family:
 
 
Baked Banana and Blueberry oatmeal
 
1 cup rolled oats
¼ cup chopped pecans
½ tsp baking powder
¾ tsp ground cinnamon
Pinch of salt
1 cup lowfat milk
¼ cup maple syrup
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg
2 tbls melted butter
2 ripe bananas- sliced
¾ cup fresh blueberries
 
Preheat oven to 375 grease 11 x 7 pan with spray (Pam). In med bowl toss together oats, ½ of the pecans, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. In a separate bowl whisk together syrup, milk, egg, butter and vanilla. Place sliced bananas and 2/3 of blueberries in the bottom of the greased pan, cover with dry ingredients, drizzle liquid over the dry ingredients evenly, top with remaining blueberries and pecans.
Bake 35-40 mins until top is golden brown.
 
Yum! I'm definitely trying this one soon!
Thanks so much to Tamara for sharing her recipe with us. Readers, please stop back and let us know what you think.
Until next time...happy reading!

 

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Secret Cravings' Secret Recipes: Author Jean Joachim

Secret Cravings' Secret Recipes: Author Jean Joachim

 
Welcome to Secret Cravings' Secret Recipes. As you all know, the authors at Secret Cravings know how to cook up some amazing romances. But, did you know that most of us also love to cook, bake and grill? Sometimes our characters even request that we make something they like just so we can share it with you, the readers. This is the place for you to find all of those recipes. So come on in and share a bite to eat with your favorite authors. Let's get cookin'!

Today's guest is Jean Joachim. Please give her a warm welcome and check out today's recipe:



I often write about food in my books. I think sharing food with a man is sexy. In my newest book SEDUCING HIS HEART, my heroine, Bess Cooper, is a professional baker and cook. But here's one recipe she doesn't have. This was handed down to me by my mother who got it from her best friend. I love it and always get raves. It works for the oven or barbecue. Bess, eat your heart out!
Check out Bess and the book here:
 
 
 
 
CHICKEN MARIAN
Best, easiest sauce for chicken ever!
 
1 jar of apricot jam or jelly
1 bottle of Russian dressing or Thousand Island dressing
1 Package of dried onion soup mix
 
 
Empty the contents into a large bowl. Stir with a wire whisk to blend together the different consistencies. When blended, pour over a whole chicken cut into pieces or a dozen legs or two dozen wings or other pieces, or let chicken marinate in the sauce before cooking. Bake in the over until the chicken is cooked through but not dried out or cook over a grill. 
 
Thanks so much, Jean. Sounds delish! Hope you'll stop by again sometime and share more of your recipes from your Manhattan Dinner Club series.

Readers: please stop back and let us know when you try this. We can't wait to hear from you!!

 Sec

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New Feature: Secret Cravings' Secret Recipes!!

Welcome to Secret Cravings' Secret Recipes. As you all know, the authors at Secret Cravings know how to cook up some amazing romances. But, did you know that most of us also love to cook, bake and grill? Sometimes our characters even request that we make something they like just so we can share it with you, the readers. This is the place for you to find all of those recipes. So come on in and share a bite to eat with your favorite authors. Let's get cookin'!  http://madisonsevier.blogspot.com/2014/03/new-feature-secret-cravings-secret.html

 

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Natural Lust Made #1 Bestseller at Secret Cravings Publishing!!

Books sitting at 1,2 and 6 in all books. And #1 and #2 in Weekend Getaways. Thank you so much Romance Readers <3

 

 

 

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Kiss Me I'm Irish Blog Hop...One Day Hop!!

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My Writing Process Blog Hop March 17, 2014

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Name That Baby Contest!! (On Facebook)

Have you always wanted an author to write you into their next book? Well, here's your chance. 

I'm working on Kallie and Hank's third Weekend Getaway. Since you've all been such amazing supporters of their stories, I'm giving you the chance to have your name in the next installment of their lives. How exciting is that?

But wait--there's more!


There's a baby on the way and no one knows if it will be a boy or a girl. You, the readers, get to decide!! 

You'll post your entry to the event page. Please specify BOY or GIRL so there's no confusion. You have 4 weeks to get as many likes as you can for your baby name. That means...tell your friends, family...everyone that you need "likes" :)
The person whose baby name gets the most likes...WINS!! You will have a CHARACTER named after YOU and your chosen baby name will be a part of their story forever!

For the next month, visit the event page often. There will giveaways and baby shower themed games.

 

Head on over to Facebook, join the event and enter to WIN!

 

Click this link: Name That Baby Contest! 

 

Hope to see you there!!

XOXOXO,

Madison

 

 
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Secret Cravings Paranormal Romance Blog Hop!!

Welcome to the Secret Cravings Publishing Paranormal Romance Blog Hop! As much of the world prepares for their Mardi Gras celebrations, we too are celebrating. As you parade through the list of authors, be sure to enter their many giveaways.
 
 
My first Paranormal Romance novel was published in December of 2013 with Secret Cravings Publishing. It is a first person account of lies, betrayal and the destiny of one witch named Selena Barnes. A lot of the promo has been focused on her and her slime ball fiance, Shawn Richardson. 
 
 
However, I have another character I'd love to introduce you to. She appears late in the book and she's quite mysterious. Where did she come from? Who is she? Why is she there?
Well, she's very old, timeless, in fact. There are no known photographs of her and even I have never seen her. This is the best likeness I could find that would measure up to Selena's description of her. Meet Amaris, an enforcer for the council of elders.
 
 
Here is a little snippet from Wicked By Nature:
 
Weapon in hand, I turned around slowly and speechless, I watched as the most gorgeous woman I’d ever seen materialized right before my eyes.
Though she was beautiful with her waist-length, raven colored hair and eyes the color of spring violets, my mind screamed ‘Demon!’ She had to be another friend of Roberta’s. No one could be as goddess-like as she was without it being a trap. Maybe she was one of those sirens, women who lured men to their deaths below the murky surface of the sea. But how on earth would a mermaid get in here? Oh yeah, bathroom, duh.
“What do you want?”
She spread her arms wide and the bracelets she wore were linked to a necklace made of the most beautiful alexandrite I had ever seen, shimmered and shined as she moved, casting prisms of color all around the room. And I noticed she didn’t have fins or gills. I surmised she wasn’t a mermaid and my mind ran through the various ‘pretty’ demons I’d read about, but she didn’t match any of the pictures I could recall.
“It’s time, Selena.”
“Time for what and who are you?”
“My name is Amaris. I’m an enforcer for the council of elders.”
Right. This beautiful woman with a voice that flowed over my body like satin was an enforcer? Please! More like lust demon. Every word she said tickled and touched me, pleasuring me from across the room. I hadn’t even remembered I was naked until my nipples stood out in tiny painful peaks.
You’re an enforcer? All goddess-like and standing in my hotel bathroom? This place must be a beacon for paranormal activity” I said as I looked around the room, ready to whip some ass in case anyone else decided to join our impromptu party.
“What do you mean, Selena? I was sent to get you and here I am. There’s no need for modesty” she said matter-of-factly as I grabbed a pink, fluffy robe and slid it on, my sarcasm lost on her.
“Well, I’d feel more comfortable if at least one of us wasn’t naked, Amaris. No offense.” The woman would be a perfect muse for any artist. She was flawless!

 

“You need to say your goodbyes. It’s time to go.”
 
Amaris is much more than an enforcer for the council of elders. In fact, she is older than anyone remaining on the council. Her beauty is ethereal and that beauty is what most likely led to her demise in the 1700's. Before fleeing to Salem Ridge, Indiana, Amaris was one of the most well known witches to ever live in New Orleans. Before then? No one knows and she isn't exactly forthcoming with details of her life back then. 
 
 
In New Orleans, Amaris was the witch everyone turned to in time of need. When medicines failed, Amaris succeeded with her many herbs and words spoken to the Universe on behalf of distraught parents who wished to save their ill children. With diseases running rampant, taking the good and bad people of her beloved land, Amaris did everything she could to spare and save as many people as possible. Men came to her for love spells, women wanted to be as beautiful as she was and she did her best to help them all.
 
One particular night, a handsome stranger came calling. He didn't appear to be ill, but she knew he was at her door for more than medicine. Randall Boudreaux wanted a cure. A cure for the curse that had befallen his family for generations. He cried, begged and pleaded with Amaris to help him. Help him by destroying the curse that had made him a mass murderer. The kind who kill not for pleasure, but for blood.
 
Amaris knew she could not cure him by normal means. She knew there was no potion, no medicine, no spell of any kind that could lift the plague he suffered. But after weeks of Randall coming to her home, begging her to help him stop, Amaris knew she must try. The man was not some rabid animal. He suffered with guilt over every terrible thing he had ever done. 
Months of trying to cure and console him left Amaris desperate for an answer. For she had found herself to be in love with Randall and if word got out that he was the monster killing the townspeople, surely the remaining members of the community would have him killed. Amaris found herself willing to do anything and everything it took to save him. 
She began turning away those who came to her for assistance. She locked herself away, spending every spare moment mixing potions, casting spells and pleading with the Goddess to save her true love. But nothing worked. Six months after Randall first appeared on Amaris's doorstep, disaster struck. 
Randall had been starving himself for weeks, believing he could make the hunger go away. To him, it was an addiction, curable by abstinence. However, in his frantic, fevered state, he'd forgotten what time of year it was. When the first whistles and music began, he thought he was hearing things. Surely, he must've been going mad from hunger. And then, the Mardi Gras parade began. Warm body after warm body, filled with liquor and joy danced through the streets of New Orleans. 
From blocks away, locked in Amaris's home, he could hear the thundering of the party goers' hearts. He could smell their life essences pumping through them with every step they took. In a maddening fury, he dashed from Amaris's bedroom, ripping her front door off of the hinges, he disappeared into the night. 
Amaris followed, led by the blood curdling screams that echoed throughout her town. When she caught up to him, there were bodies lying everywhere. He had torn the throats out of at least a hundred people as others cowered in fear, too frightened to run or look away. 
She threw herself at him, begging him to stop. Stop the killing. She loved him and he loved her. They could go away together. Randall just needed to stop. He flung her aside like a rag doll and those few people who still stood there watching with morbid curiosity, started screaming at Amaris. How could she do this to them? This monster was who she'd been helping while their children, spouses and loved ones had died over recent months. They were terrified and angry. They wanted her dead. 
In fear of the people who were now intent on killing not only Randall, but her, too, Amaris summoned every ounce of her powers, she stood in the center of the mob, protecting Randall as he drained yet another body. She balanced a large ball of violet light between her hands and as they advanced towards her and her beloved, she spread her hands wide, releasing the energy. Power and light shot from each of her fingertips and she decimated all but Randall and herself in one large release of energy. In an instant, everyone who'd tried to kill Randall and her were gone. 
When Randall broke free of his blood high, he knew his lover had killed so many to protect him and he knew he'd never be able to live with himself for allowing the one good thing in his life to turn into a monster like him. The curse could never be broken and now his love was as tainted as he. Randall did the only thing he could do. He grabbed the closest weapon he could find...a knife and slit his own throat deeply and from ear to ear. 
Amaris cried over his body for days. She lay in the center of the street surrounded by corpses as her tears mingled with the blood of her lover. She was so distraught that she didn't notice when a group of people appeared. She was taken away by them and put into a carriage, transported to town after town, imprisoned. Amaris was never harmed, for people were fearful of her. Instead, they made sure she was taken care of and she outlasted everyone who'd ever held her captive. For over one hundred years, she remained silent. 
In 1859, a coven of witches freed her from captivity and took her away to the town that is now named Salem Ridge, Indiana. She was held for trial and sent to Summerland to stand before a jury of her peers for her crimes against humanity. After being found guilty, Amaris was sentenced to a lifetime, or until they felt she'd paid for her crimes, of servitude to the council of elders. The only powers she was allowed to retain were those that helped her transport herself and other offenders to the different realms. 
With knee-length, raven-colored hair and violet eyes, Amaris exists only to help the council. She appears to be cold and aloof, but it is surely a defense mechanism used to prevent her from becoming attached to anyone. She travels naked, not because she is vulgar or profane, but baring her body in tribute to the Goddess that spared her life all those decades ago and still protects her. She feels unworthy of clothing and believes garments would only lock away the guilt she carries inside of her, hiding it from the humans she was supposed to help but instead murdered. 
She's never loved anyone other than Randall Boudreaux. Their love story has been hidden from the historic accounts of New Orleans in the 18th century, solely because the ancestors of the murdered victims did not want the world to glorify the "unsavory pair". The victims' death records state that the "sickness" took them. We all know that isn't true.
Love killed them. The love of two seemingly different people. But their love was no different than any other in history and I feel they should be remembered. Both were victims of fate who were destined to meet and fall in love. Of course, their story would have ended in tragedy, regardless. But would the townspeople have died from the various plagues that had taken so many victims in years before and after? Most likely, yes. In my opinion, the real account of how they died is much more romantic and heroic. Everyone who died that day, died trying to save everyone else. It doesn't get more romantic than that. Does it?
 
**Head on over to read the rest and enter to win a digital copy of Wicked By Nature** http://madisonsevier.blogspot.com/2014/02/welcome-to-secret-cravings-publishing.html
 

#Romance...My Way Blog Hop....Valentine's Day Prizes and more:

One rafflecopter is live and mine starts at Midnight EST. Romance...My Way Blog Hop with Scorching Book Reviews. I'm giving away a digital copy of Anything You Want, River Jewel Resort, Book 1 and a Charm Bracelet. SBR is giving away a $50 GC. Come on over http://madisonsevier.blogspot.com/2014/02/happy-valentines-day-and-welcome-to-one.html

 

 

Is it love or lust? I'm over at Amber Lea Easton's place today:

http://amberleaeaston.blogspot.com/2014/02/is-is-love-or-lust-or-absolute-disaster.html

1st Anniversary Giveaway!!

Happy 1st Anniversary to me and a giveaway <3 <3
 
 

All Books are Now LIVE!!

All five of my books are now live on Secret Cravings Publishing:

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Amazon:

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ARe:

 

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Book Strand:

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Happy Reading <3