It's

Cozy Food Friday!

That means it's time to share a recipe from 

another great cozy mystery!

This week's recipe is from

LAVENDER BLUE MURDER

Book 21 in the Tea Shop Mysteries

by Laura Childs

Tea-Maven Theodosia Browning brews up trouble in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.

Tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier Drayton Conneley are guests at a bird hunt styled in the precise manner of an English shooting party. Which means elevenses (sloe gin fizzes), gun loaders, the drawing of pegs, fine looking bird dogs, and shooting costumes of tweed, herringbone, and suede.

But as gunshots explode like a riff of Black Cat firecrackers, another shot sounds too close for comfort to Theodosia and Drayton. Intrigued but worried, Theodosia wanders into the neighbor's lavender field where she discovers their host, Reginald Doyle, bleeding to death.

His wife, Meredith, is beside herself with grief and begs Theodosia and Drayton to stay the night. But Theodosia awakens at 2:00A.M. to find smoke in her room and the house on fire. As the fire department screams in and the investigating sheriff returns, Meredith again pleads with Theodosia for help.

As Theodosia investigates, fingers are pointed, secrets are uncovered, Reginald's daughter-in-law goes missing presumed drowned, and Meredith is determined to find answers via a séance. All the while Theodosia worries if she's made a mistake in inviting a prime suspect to her upscale Lavender Lady Tea.

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CHICKEN BREASTS

WITH LEMON CAPER SAUCE

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Ingredients

4 chicken breast halves

3 Tbsp. butter

2 Tbsp. shallots, minced

¼ cup dry white wine

½ cup chicken broth

½ cup heavy cream

Great peel and juice of 1 lemon

1 Tbsp. capers

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Directions

   Sauté chicken breasts in butter for four minutes. Turn chicken and sauté for 3 minutes. Set aside and keep warm. 

   Add shallots to skillet and cook until transparent. Stir in wine. Add chicken broth and bring to a boil, cooking until it's reduced by half. Slowly stir in cream. Cook over medium heat, stirring until cream begins to boil. Turn off heat, stir in lemon peel, lemon juice, and capers. Serve sauce over chicken.

Yields 4 servings. 

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Please keep reading to check out my 

installments of 

Book Beginnings on Fridays

and

The Friday 56

Both the BB and 56 are from

LAVENDER BLUE MURDER

Book Beginnings on Fridays is a meme hosted by Rose City Reader

Share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading.

The Friday 56 is a meme hosted by Freda's Voice

Rules: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader (If you have to improvise, that's okay.) *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grab you. *Post it.

My Book Beginnings 

Summer no longer held sway in the low country of South Carolina. Gold russets had replaced vivid greens, while a cerulean blue sky off the promise of cooler weather.

My 56

And there, waiting on the street, was an old-fashioned horse-drawn caisson. Four black horses tossed their heads, anxious to get going, stomping and clopping their shiny hooves.

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