Cooking With Author Linda Rondeau

Today I welcome author Linda Rondeau to the Patchwork Quilt Blog. Hello, Linda! She has a recipe for us and a book to read. Let's start with the recipe.

MAC SOUP

Linda says: Since childhood, this has been my son’s favorite meal. Though he is now 48, he still asks me to make this for him whenever he visits us or we visit him. I’ve given his wife the recipe, but he still likes me to make it for him. Maybe the aromas send him back to those cold winter days when Mac Soup was a must. No matter how old I get, I’m happy to do these little things for my now mature children. There may come a day, when I won’t remember how or am too feeble to make MAC SOUP. So during these twilight years, I will never refuse for as long as I’m able.

INGREDIENTS

1 lb. ground beef

1 small box elbow macaroni

6-8 cubes beef bouillon (according to taste … may use reduced sodium if needed)

1 large can tomato juice or V8 juice

Suggested seasonings: onion salt or minced onions, seasoned salt, black pepper, red pepper, tabasco sauce (go easy), should have a little “kick” when you take a trial taste

1. Brown ground beef, drain, and set aside.

2. Dissolve bouillon cubes in 1 cup boiling water (you can use instant bouillon if you prefer).

3. Cook elbow macaroni according to directions on the box. Drain. Set aside.

4. Put tomato juice or V8 juice into a large pot. Add ground beef, bouillon, and macaroni.

5. Heat to slow boil.

6. Season to taste, simmer for about five to ten minutes to allow seasoning to blend.

ABOUT WHO PUT THE VINEGAR IN THE SALT?

"Linda has hit a home run once again! Her book, Who Put the Vinegar in the Salt? is filled with wisdom, encouragement, and the power found in God's Word. This book is oh so much more than shaking the salt shaker. It is about being wrapped up, tied up, and tangled up in Jesus. It truly makes the reader evaluate where they are and where they wantto be. Linda shoots straight from the hip to touch our heart!" ~ TammyWhitehurst.com

The world offers much beneficial self-help advice. Shouldn’t the Christian seek to be the best possible version of themselves?

Aren’t we supposed to be good people?

Why not look to the world to solve life’s problems?

Because God has called us to be salt.

While there is much good to be found, like vinegar, the world’s best advice falls short of God’s recipe to live a victorious Christian life.

In a down-home, friendly manner, the author provides analogies, inspirational stories, anecdotes, a wealth of Scripture, and optional study guides for both individuals and groups, inviting the believer to discover God’s desires for his salt.

Buy Linda's newest book here.

ABOUT LINDA WOOD RONDEAU

By the author of I Prayed for Patience, God Gave Me Children.

A veteran social worker, Linda Wood Rondeau’s varied church experience and professional career affords a unique perspective into the Christian life. When not writing or speaking, she enjoys the occasional round of golf, visiting museums, and taking walks with her best friend in life, her husband of over forty years. The couple resides in Hagerstown, Maryland where both are active in their local church. Readers may learn more about the author, read her blog, or sign up for her newsletter by visiting www.lindarondeau.com.

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Cooking With Author Yvonne Robertson!

Today I welcome author Yvonne Robertson to the Patchwork Quilt Blog's segment, Cooking With Authors.

Yvonne Robertson was born in Holm in the Orkney Islands, off the north coast of Scotland. She grew up in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire. Her father was from The Shetland Islands, the most northerly part of Scotland and closer to Norway than to the Scottish mainland. Her mother came from the beautiful county of Argyll on the west coast of Scotland. She has four brothers and one sister.

In 2007 Yvonne, her husband, and sons, made the momentous decision to relocate to the USA. They packed up and moved 4000 miles to Atlanta, Georgia where they still live today.

Yvonne has a recipe for us.  It looks delicious.

Sticky Toffee Pudding 


Ingredients

     100g/3½oz butter, softened, plus extra for greasing

     175g/6oz light muscovado or brown sugar

     2 large eggs

     225g/8oz self-raising flour

     1 tsp baking powder

     1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

     3 tbsp black molasses

     275ml/9½fl oz full-fat milk

     Whipping cream or vanilla ice cream, to serve

For the sauce


100g/3½oz butter
125g/4½oz light muscovado or brown sugar
1 tbsp black molasses
300ml/10fl oz whipping cream
1 tsp vanilla essence

     

1.    Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Butter a wide shallow 1.7-litre/3-pint ovenproof dish.

2.    Put the butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and molasses into a mixing bowl. Beat using an electric handheld whisk for about 30 seconds or until combined. Pour in the milk gradually and whisk again until smooth. Pour into the prepared dish. Bake for 35–40 minutes or until well risen and springy in the center.

3.    To make the sauce, put all the ingredients into a saucepan and stir over low heat until the sugar has dissolved and the butter has melted. Bring to the boil, stirring for a minute.

4.    To serve, pour half the sauce over the pudding in the baking dish. Serve with the cream or ice cream.

About the Book . . .

Cuckoo in the Nest: Lauren is the first book in a contemporary romance trilogy, each has a 'Happy for now' ending but there is continuing suspense that's revealed in the third book. The second book is also available and the third will be released in a couple of weeks.

The beautiful Baker triplets, Lauren, Madison and Angel.

Children's book illustrator Lauren Baker takes a break from work and goes to Scotland to try and uncover the truth behind her birth almost three decades earlier, after a shocking death bed confession by their father. He admits in his confused state that he and his wife Nancy were not the birth parents, but the sisters don't know which one of them he was talking about.

Reeling from the implications, she rents a cottage in the quaint Scottish village in the beautiful Angus countryside to begin her search for the truth. Distraction is the order of the day however in the form of local Adonis Dr. Daniel Reece and his adorable son Dylan. Innocent Lauren finds herself caught up in a love affair so intoxicating she puts it above all else.

And then there's Anna, his late wife's sister, cold, calculating, beautiful and out to catch Daniel, anyway she can. When Lauren finds evidence that Daniel has been intimate with him, she flees from him, her heart crushed.

From the bright lights of Atlanta to the beautiful Scottish countryside, follow these strong, independent women as they fight to uncover the truth about their identity and find love and passion along the way.

This is Lauren's story. 


See more about her novel and get a copy of Cuckoo in the Nest: Lauren here on Amazon.


So glad you joined us today, Yvonne!