Archives for September, 2009
Good Morning! Well, I’m a little late this morning — doing taxes all day yesterday — hopefully you’ll forgive me and understand that my mind has been a little pre-occupied. This is really a Pueblo recipe. Here goes: Start with 2 large handfuls of masa organic cornmeal (to make masa cornmeal, take some dried corn, [...]
This recipe is at least 120 years old. It came from a cookbook of pioneer recipes put out by the church ladies in my hometown. I’ll confess I haven’t tried it. If you do, I’d love to know how it comes out. Not sure about how to sour the buttermilk… 1 cup (scant) white flour [...]
I’ve made this recipe so many times while the girls were growing up, I can just about type it out for you from memory. It’s great comfort food for a cold day. Just put it in the crockpot and let it slow-cook all afternoon! COWBOY STEW 4 medium potatoes, sliced 4 large carrots, sliced 1 [...]
Hello everyone! This is one of my husband’s favorite meals. It’s one of mine, too. You won’t find an easier stovetop recipe, and it can be as spicy as you want. It also keeps well in the fridge, so you can make enough for leftovers. Ingredients 1 lb. ground beef 1 medium onion 1 green [...]
I love cooking and I usually cook to taste, so recipes are difficult to share. A touch of this and a touch of that is my usual explanation when asked for quantities. I test along the way and add a spice here, more salt there. In this I take after my grandmother who never measured [...]
One of the hazards of writing historicals (at least for me) is my love of research books. I found The Original White House Cookbook 1887 Edition a few years ago on a list of clearance books. In it you can learn how to fix a tear in a lady’s silk gown, [...]
Hello Darlings, The Fillies again have a real treat in store for you. Next week we’re veering away from the norm. Can’t let you get too comfortable here at the Junction. Reckon you’ve heard that saying that variety is the spice of life? Well, it durn sure is! Just ask me. Hee-hee! But back to talking about [...]
The winner of a copy of Kathleen Y’Barbo’s new release, The Confidential Life of Miss Eugenia Cooper is Buuklvr81 Buuklvr81, please email me at mary at maryconnealy . com and I’ll get your mailing information to Kathleen. And thank you EVERYONE who entered our contest.
I love a good historical, and any story with an unlikely hero is bound to find its way onto my keeper shelf. When I discovered Gone With the Wind, I found both, as well as a love for Civil War era tales. Imagine my surprise when I found out one of the most surprising [...]
I’m a lover of American history and I don’t apologize for thinking we live in the most wonderful country in the world! Even as a child, I was fascinated by our founding fathers and what they had accomplished. Fascinated by the drive and determination of a people who wanted freedom from oppression. Fascinated in the brilliance [...]
Up next to entertain and stimulate us this weekend is Miz Kathleen Y’Barbo. Romance fills Miz Kathleen’s thoughts. She dearly loves spinning a good tale about a man and woman in the throes of an unexpected love. Shoot, ah like reading those stories! Sets my blood to pumping and my thoughts whirling. So get the kinks out of [...]
A few weeks ago I blogged about loading up the “pod” and our upcoming move to Lexington, Kentucky. The Pod is long gone, which means my husband and I are camping in our own home. My youngest son is here, so he’s camping too. The only things we have in the house are things that will [...]
Stories of the vast size of the buffalo herds in the American west have always left me with doubts. Could the herds have been this big? The talk of buffalo herds miles across, the whole land alive and moving as they migrated, walking along grazing. Because of that I found some supposedly reliable first person accounts [...]
Good Morning! In the tradition of some of my recent posts, I thought I’d shower you with some traditional American Indian recipes — specifically Plains Indians. Now, before I get started, let me reference the cook book that I’ll be using. The info I’m giving you comes directly from the book Cooking With Spirit by [...]
I was doing some research the other day… Hmmm – it seems that most of my posts open this way. I hope you all don’t mind that I use my research efforts as fodder for this blog. Anyway, to continue, I wanted to insert an ‘armadillo incident’ in my current work in progress, which is [...]
Woo-Hoo! We have a winner for Pamela Nowak’s CHOICES. And the winner is………. KAITLIN Congratulations! Now all you have to do is send your mailing info to Pamela at pamelanowak@pamelanowak.com and she’ll get the book to you before you can turn around. Thanks to all who stopped by to chat. You really helped us show Miss [...]
I want to thank Petticoats and Pistols for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to share with all of you. This is a favorite site of mine and blogging with you here is beyond exciting! This week, my second novel, Choices, was released. Set at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory in 1876, it tells the [...]
Sometimes research can turn up a gem of information that can send your story in a different direction. When writing my second novel, Touched by Love, I needed a place for the heroine’s kidnapped brother to be taken. I knew the general area where I needed him to be held, just [...]
Hello Darlings, This weekend Miss Pamela Nowak comes calling! Yee-haw! The Fillies need your help in giving Miss Pamela a big ol’ Wildflower Junction welcome. We hope you all turn out to visit with her. Miss Pamela has in mind to discuss the military on the frontier and how rules and regulations affected their wives. Ah [...]
I got lucky last night. Every so often in anticipation of a new release I google the title in hopes of seeing the cover. Last night I found Her Colorado Man on amazon. I’m in love. Again. I didn’t think they could match Her Montana Man for favorite covers of all time, but this is [...]
Oh, I had another blog all started for today, and of course I’ll get to it someday. But the idea of sunflowers literally burst into my head yesterday when I bought ten stems of them for the wall vases my hubby got me a while back with the dictum, never leave them empty. The [...]
Looks like everyone had fun today talking about your favorite series. Seems this is a subject near and dear to our hearts. And now for the moment you’ve been waiting for…… Melissa D. and Kathy Steffen have won their own autographed copy of Texas Wedding For Their Baby’s Sake. Congratulations! Now if you’ll send Kathryn your mailing [...]
Thanks for having me here, Fillies. I appreciate the chance to talk a little about my new release — Texas Wedding for their Baby’s Sake. It is a continuation of The Rebel and the Lady, but also a book that can stand alone if you haven’t read the first one. Here’s a short blurb: [...]
Hi, all. Thanks for your great comments! I wish we had enough prizes to give each and every one of you. But here are the names that came out of the hat: Connie Lorenz, Laney 4, and Marelou. Connie, could you contact Pam at pacrooks@radiks.net and give her your mailing address? Laney and Marelou, you [...]
It’s not even October yet, and the cowboys are already gathering under the mistletoe. Mary’s COWBOY CHRISTMAS made its debut in September. In October, another COWBOY CHRISTMAS, the Harlequin Christmas anthology, will be on the shelves. Pick it up, and you’ll see stories by our own fillies, Pam Crooks and Elizabeth Lane, as well [...]
