Sausage Sweet Potato Loaf
(Recipe by Velda Brotherton)
1 lb sausage
1 t sage
1 c dry bread crumbs
½ c + 2 T canned milk
2 c mashed sweet potatoes
1/4 t nutmeg
½ t salt
1/4 t ginger
1 grated apple
Mix sausage with sage, bread crumbs and ½ c milk. Shape into a loaf in shallow baking dish,
bake at 350 degrees 40 minutes. Remove from oven, drain off excess fat. Mix sweet potatoes
with spices, salt and 2 T milk. Spread grated apple over meat. Cover top and sides with sweet
potato mix, bake 20 minutes at 350 degrees. Slice to serve.
Dream Walker – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat and Think With Your Taste Buds – Desserts
“Hear
that, Injun,” Doaks snarled. “They don’t want me to kill ye. What do
you think?” She wanted to cry out that she was a white as she was red.
White like her father. It would mean nothing to these men. To them it
only took a drop of her mother’s blood to make her a filthy Injun.
Instead she steeled herself to take her punishment from Doaks. This
time she had gone too far and he would probably beat her. But not much,
she knew, because he enjoyed her waiting on him hand and foot. She
would get back at him sooner or later. The chance would come, he would
have to sleep. When he did she would cut off his privates and feed them
to him for
breakfast. Fried.
Rachel
‘Winter Dawn’ Keye was indeed half white and half Cherokee. She had
been sold to the lowlife Doaks by her own half brother but the slavery
she was sold into was about to come to an end. There was a wagon train
leaving for the gold fields of California
and she planned to be on it. She thought she had found her escape in
Daniel Wolfe who would be traveling with the train partway and then
heading north for Oregon. It turns out that Daniel wants no part of her
and ends up turning her out.
This might have been a
setback for Rachel but it wouldn’t hold her back. She was determined to
make it to California, forget her Injun side and become a white woman.
She couldn’t wait to enjoy everything that came with being white. The
fancy dresses, pretty houses and the
handsome men coming to call. She would never return to the part of her
that was always looked down upon. The part of her that was Cherokee.
I
don’t normally read romance novels. I go in for the actions of
who-done-it and leave the loving to other readers. At least that’s what
I normally do but this time I agreed to read Trail to Forever
and was totally surprised. Most romance novels start with the man and
woman hating each other, or at least saying they do, until the end.
Then they admit they are truly in love and have always been. So they
battle to see who is going to say it first. Trail to Forever
was different. It does provide the love story but it doesn’t over power
the book. It provides tension and stress as the wagon train traveled
across the country. It provides history, which I enjoyed, as both
Indian
and white man as they traveled across country for the same goal –
gold. It also provides the story of a half white, half Cherokee woman
that wanted to be all white. She wanted to be accepted by other white
women and this just wasn’t to be. Winter Dawn learns to look deep
inside herself to find who she really is and then to accept who she is
and be proud of her heritage. This is a lesson that a lot of us need to
learn. I have to admit that I did enjoy Trail to Forever.
Hi Martha, finally caught up enough to take a look at your sites. Super, a great idea to feature recipes along with books. Check out my blog if you have time at http://veldabrotherton.blogspot.com Let me know what you think.
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