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

GAME OF SCONES

Book 1 in the Sugar & Spice Mysteries

by Mary Lee Ashford

As co-owner of Sugar and Spice Cookbooks, Sugar Calloway has seen simple confections bring friends together and spark fiery feuds. Except this time, the recipe truly is to die for . . .
 
After losing her job as food editor at a glossy magazine, Rosetta Sugarbaker Calloway—aka “Sugar” to friends—isn’t sweet on accepting defeat and crawling back to her gossipy southern hometown. So when she has an opportunity to launch a community cookbook business with blue-ribbon baker Dixie Spicer in peaceful St. Ignatius, Iowa, she jumps at the chance to start over from scratch . . .
 But as Sugar assembles recipes for the local centennial celebration, it’s not long before she’s up to her oven mitts in explosive threats, too-hot-to-handle scandals, and a dead body belonging to the moody matriarch of the town’s first family. With suspicions running wild, Sugar and Spice must solve the murder before someone innocent takes the heat—and the real culprit gathers enough ingredients to strike again . . .
 
* Includes delicious recipes! *

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BETTY BAILEY'S BROCCOLI GRATIN

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Ingredients

Kosher salt, to taste

2 lb. Broccoli

2 tablespoons of unsalted butter

¼ cup all-purpose flour

2 cups milk

½ small yellow onion, thinly sliced

1 bay leaf

1 cup grated Gruyère cheese

Freshly ground pepper

1 cup panko

¼ cup greated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese

2 tablespoons of olive oil

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Instructions

   1. Bring a large saucepan of well salted water to a boil over high heat. Cut the heads from the broccoli stalks and cut the heads into small florets. Add the broccoli to the boiling water and cook for 2 minutes. Transfer the broccoli to a bowl filled with ice water, then drain well. 

   2. In a 10-inch fry pan over medium heat, melt the butter. Add flour and stir well. 

   3. Slowly whisk in the milk and bring to a boil.

   4. Reduce heat to low, add the onion and bay leaf and simmer, stirring frequently, until the mixture thickens. 

   5. Remove and discard the bay leaf and add the Gruyère, stirring until the cheese is melted. 

   6. Carefully fold in the broccoli and spread in an even layer. 

   7. In a small bowl, stir together the panko, Parmigiano-Reggiano and olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. 

   8. Sprinkle the panko mixture over the broccoli mixture. 

   9. Transfer the pan to the oven and bake at 350°F for 40 to 45 minutes. 

You can make this in a stove-top to oven pan as Dixie does.
Or if you don't have that type of pan this recipe works just as well in a casserole dish. 

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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

GAME OF SCONES

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 

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen," my Aunt Cricket is fond of saying. And though that is great advice, everybody can't actually leave, can they? I mean, someone has to stay in the kitchen and take the or nobody eat.  

My 56

"It sure makes the fact that she's gone less worrisome, doesn't it?"

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