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

APPLE CIDER SLAYING

Book 1 in the Cider Shop Mysteries

by Julie Anne Lindsey

Apples are at the core of the family business run by Winona Mae Montgomery and her Granny Smythe. But this year’s crop is unseasonably ripe with murder . . .
 
ONE ROTTEN APPLE
 
Blossom Valley, West Virginia, is home to Smythe Orchards, Winnie and her Granny’s beloved twenty-five-acre farm and family business. But any way you slice it, it’s struggling. That’s why they’re trying to drum up business with the “First Annual Christmas at the Orchard,” a good old-fashioned holiday festival with enough delicious draw to satisfy apple-picking locals and cider-loving tourists alike—until the whole endeavor takes a sour turn when the body of Nadine Cooper, Granny’s long-time, grudge-holding nemesis, is found lodged in the apple press. Now, with Granny the number one suspect, Winnie is hard-pressed to prove her innocence before the real killer delivers another murder . . .

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HUNK OF HEAVEN TATER SALAD

photo property of www.familyfreshmeals

Ingredients

6 large or 8 medium-size potatoes

4-6 hard boiled eggs

1½ cups real mayonnaise

2 tablespoons cider vinegar

3 tablespoons sugar

2 tablespoon yellow mustard

½ teaspoons salt

½ teaspoon pepper

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 cup onion, chopped

Paprika as garnish

photo property of www.itsyummi

Directions

   Peel and boil potatoes. Cool. Dice.

   Peel and chop eggs.

   In medium bowl, blend mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, mustard, salt, pepper, and garlic powder until smooth

   Add potatoes and coat well.

   Mix in onions and eggs.

   Dash with paprika for pizzazz. 

photo propriety of wwwtheseasonedmom

With being the time of year it is, I think this would be wonderful served warm. Just dice the potatoes before boiling, drain super well after cooking, and mix everything together while potatoes are hot. 

I loved the thought of this book when I first heard about it. Everything from the cover to the setting had me sold. When I found out the author, using pen names, writes two of my other favorite series, I couldn’t get my hands on it fast enough! It lived up to everything I hoped for and more!

APPLE CIDER SLAYING is the first book in the Cider Shop Mysteries. Having started and finished this book in October, it was exactly what the doctor ordered for cozy fall reading. Filled to bursting with mystery, great characters, a beautiful setting, and a bushel full of everything I look for in a book, I didn’t want it to end.

Author Julie Anne Lindsey has delivered with APPLE CIDER SLAYING a delicious story (speaking of delicious, there are recipes included) that is one of my favorite picks of the year, and is sure to be just the beginning of a delightfully wonderful crop of books!

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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

APPLE CIDER SLAYING

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.

Since I've featured this book before, this time my BB with be the beginning of Chaprter Two, and my 56 will be from page 156. 

My Book Beginnings

"Miss Montgomery?" A slow southern drawl poured under the door with such assured authority I nearly wept. "This is Sheriff Colton Wise. I'm going to need you to open up."

My 56

I laughed. And that, I thought, is one small reason the orchard is in deep financial trouble. Granny hated to take money for anything. Not the strongest business model.

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