September 2022 - Gimme The Recipe - You came for the food now stay for the romance!

I’ve released an ebook collection of my 50 favourite dinner recipes and one of my top 5 would have to be Chilli Con Carne. This recipe is delicious, and what makes it doubly so is the fact that you can reheat the leftovers, add some jalapenos, tortilla chips and melt some grated cheese on top to have some fantastic nachos the next day.

As I say in the recipe if you really do like it hot add another tsp of hot chilli powder but to my mind the recipe is perfect. I have shared it before and you can find the link to it here or if you are interested in purchasing my 50 favourite dinner recipes and having them available on your phone or device via the free kindle app then click here for ‘Gimme Dinner’. (You’ll find the kindle app in the app store – I like being able to check ingredients easily when I’m shopping without having to bring a list and find this very handy).

Reheat the chilli, use a base of salsa, add in tortilla chips, jalapenos and top with grated cheese – excellent with sour cream and guacamole

In other writing news I’ve started on my second romance novel which will be a sequel to ‘Good Enough.’ The ideas have been bouncing around since ‘Good Enough’ was released last December 2021 and I’m so happy to say that the words are starting to be written.

xx Sheila

A question I ask in the introduction to my ebook ‘Gimme Dinner‘ (ahem, IT’S out NOW) is :

‘Does answering the question, “what’s for dinner?”, sometimes make you want to scream?’

Or is it just me?

It doesn’t happen too much now but when my kids were small and feeding them was something to accomplish before rushing out the door to some sporting or other commitment it used to drive me CRAZY.

I would have been doing my best to speedily complete the task with a fair idea of what I needed to do under serious time pressure and then someone would aimlessly wander in and interrupt all that with what I could argue was a fairly pointless question.

Really! Did it really matter what the answer was? Whatever it was it was certainly not up for discussion or about to change anytime soon.

My hope now is that ‘Gimme Dinner‘ will come in handy to anyone who is time frazzled and under pressure to answer that (stupid) question without raising blood pressure. I’ve just discovered the free kindle app myself lately and now have my book on all my devices so when I’m out shopping I can quickly check ingredients lists on my phone and in the kitchen use a tablet/ipad etc for a larger view when cooking. Also if someone does wander in and wants to know what’s cooking , you can just point at the device and silently get on with what you are doing!

If you, reading this, happen to be the person who from time to time wanders into the kitchen and asks that question can I make a suggestion please? How about instead of ‘What’s for Dinner?’ you take a leaf out of André’s book and ask :