Shrimp Stuffed Mirlitons (NOLa Cuisine) Recipe - Food.com I LOVE CHAYOTES!!! So finding this creole recipe using chayotes was a welcome surprise. Mirlitons (chayotes) grow in abundance in southern Louisiana https://www.food.com/recipe/shrimp-stuffed-mirlitons-nola-cuisine-503704 I found this recipe for stuffed mirliton (chayote squash). It's the wa...

Remember those old horror movies where the woman always falls while running from the monster? Yeah, I'm over it. And as much as I love mysteries, I think I'm becoming irritated when the amateur sleuth goes alone to confront the suspect or walks alone at night in some dark forest or on a lonely street.  I knew I had had it when I found mys...

After a ten+ year hiatus (I was bathed in grief and stress), I have completed a manuscript for another Creole-influenced murder mystery. It's with an incredible edtor and fingers are crossed that she doesn't say, "this is crap." Wish me luck. I'll share the verdict. Have a blessed and magical day, everyone. 

Just because I write fiction, it doesn't mean I don't respect and recognize the truth I received this quote today from the blog of author, Pam Grout: Truth sings to you with an absence of conflict, a lightness that requires no defense and offers no offense. Grout's books teach us to manifest the lives we choose and hold visions of a bette...

Bon jou! After a ten year creativity desert, I'm writing again. My new mystery is nearly finished and headed to an editor. Lotus Angelle Hayes is a California native with Louisiana Creole roots, just like Sarah. But Lotus lives in Sacramento, finds her groom getting "serviced," minutes before their wedding, and learns to lick her wounds b...

I was thrilled with the opportunity to contribute to an anthology last fall, but writing a short mystery was a bit intimidating. Turned out to be great fun and friends said, "make it a little book." So, it's now a little book on Amazon! California Creole sleuth Sarah Doucette Jean-Louis gets her first chance to make the family Reveillon Dinner, but...

Stuffing Stuff One Stuffing, 3 Dishes The oven can be your best friend when you don't have a lot of time on your hands. Whether you need a meal or sides, don't forget to stick them all in your oven so while they cook, you can work or enjoy a glass of wine. Sarah is into efficiencies, even when sleuthing or planning a dinner party. Here's a great ex...

It has been the year of unimagined happenings. It has been the year of the pivot and a time of flux. So, flux it! Time to approach this differently. Resolution is a firm decision to do or not do something. Evolution is a gradual development of something from a simpler to a more complex form. 2020 was a bitch. Nailbiter elections, a predatory diseas...