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Friday, 21 February 2014

How to write: love your food

Everyone loves eating great food and reading about it.

Many of us love cooking it too.





When I write, I do all three in my imagination and don't gain a kilo. But my plus-size fabulous heroine Virginia does all three and stays gorgeous, curvy and sexy.

You can meet her free in my novel Love Classified now via Kindle.

Here's a run-down of her story:
 
When 35 year-old e-magazine editor Virginia Brook answers a classified ad for a female travel companion in her local paper, her life changes dramatically.

A virgin – and a gourmet cook – Virginia is sure no man could be interested in her size 18 body but she has 12 weeks of holiday-leave to use up and decides to take the plunge and meet whoever placed the ad, hoping her fear that he’s an axe murderer is just that – a paranoid fear.

She ends up travelling around the south-west of Western Australia with handsome Magnus Winchester who only has to utter one syllable for Virginia’s body to respond voluptuously. He is beyond her wildest dreams yet he sees her very differently from the way she sees herself.

There’s more to Magnus than meets the eye but Virginia, always a connoisseur, abandons herself to the incredible pleasures of love-making, not knowing until almost the end of their journey that he is a doctor living with a burden of guilt after the death of one of his patients.

Jealousy, mistaken identities, friendship and love add flavor to their deepening relationship. Magnus proves himself a good and brave man several times during their camper-van travels but not until he and Virginia rescue and treat a horse who gallops into a barbed-wire fence during a storm does he have the confidence to take up his career again, with Virginia at his side.     

There's a lot of food in this story.
 
For starters, Magnus has a voice like chocolate and eyes the colour of caramel -- yum! 

Here are some of the delicious things they eat over the course of their lovestory:
 
* spicy chicken breast with avocado sauce, topped with coriander, cumin and paprika
* delicious canapés – green mango salad on betel leaves, prawn laksa shots, duck in crisp wanton cups, camembert with pear compote on pumpernickel, chicken and port pâté on polenta crisps
* almond and orange cake with a rhubarb and strawberry compote
* omelette (made with eggs from her own hens),toasted rye bread spread with ricotta, a side of wilted spinach
* chocolate and raspberry roulade
* classic trifle, summer-ripe peaches
* pineapple, orange and passionfruit frappe
* dill potato cakes with smoked salmon
* gruyere, leek and bacon tart
* Danish pastries bursting with vanilla custard and summer fruits, washed down with champagne and café au lait
* Welsh leek soup with gruyere cheese croutons toppedwith fresh parsley
* fish and chips by the river
* asparagus omelette 
* fettucine with basil pesto
* shrimp risotto
* creamy vitello tonnato
* veal involtini
* twice-cooked duck curry perfumed with coriander, cumin, fennel and mace and served with potatoes, rice, lime leaves and basil and blonde, fruity wine
* spinach and feta cannelloni
* coq au vin for a sexy seductress' supper

Bonne nuit, lovers!
 

 


    


 


 

 

 

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