Recipe Dead Man Haunt
Aunt 'Cille's Deviled Eggs
We do a lot of barbequing in Texas, and one of our family's (and Alice's) favorite side dishes is deviled eggs. My Aunt Lucille showed me how to make scrumptious deviled eggs once when I visited.
1 dozen eggs
Salt (to taste)
Pepper (to taste)
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons sweet relish
2 tablespoons Miracle Whip Salad Dressing (Fat Free)
Parsley
Cover eggs with water and bring to a boil.
Boil for ten minutes.
Cool, shell and halve the eggs.
(Hint: Fresh eggs are harder to peel; eggs a little older peel easier. Also, I drain the hot water off and then dump some ice cubes on the eggs to help cool them quicker. Seems they peel lots better. I also put the drain in the sink and crack them, then peel them under a small stream of cold water.)
Scoop out the yellows.
Place the whites on your egg plate.
Add in order and mix in each time:
Salt
Pepper
Vinegar
Relish
Miracle Whip
Spoon back into the whites.
Garnish with a few shakes of parsley.
Stick in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
Yum! Especially on a hot Texas day.
Dead Man Haunt – Review by Martha A.
Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A
Dish
Alice is a writer by occupation and
resides in a lakeside cabin in Six Gun, Texas along with several cats and a dog
and a mixture of ghosts who would rather stay as they are than to go into
the light to the other side. Her closest neighbor Granny and her aunt
Twila both indulge in Alice’s taste for the spirit side of life, or
should I say death. Oh yeah, I can’t leave out the 4 legged ghost hunters, Trucker the dog and Miss Molly the cat who
accompany the 3 on all of their ghost hunting trips. And I almost forgot
Jack, Alice’s ex-husband who is a New Orleans detective who seems to be drug
into all of Alice, Twila and Granny’s tangles with the ghosts as well as the
non-ghosts. Jack just happens to be a non-believer but he can see the
ghosts. Go figure.
I can’t get enough of this
author. In Dead Man Haunt I enjoyed a real laugh when Alice and team are
accosted by a skunk and end up taking a tomato juice bath. I laughed when
Patrick would appear at the most inopportune times,
sporting nothing but his birthday suit, which seemed to be his preferred mode
of dress, or should I say undress. I laughed when the ghost Mary Ann, who
had been cut in half, appeared scaring the pants
off Delroy the ‘commando.’ But laughter isn’t all T. M. Simmons puts into
the Dead Man series. I stayed in total
suspense until the end trying to guess who killed Mary Ann and why. I
strained my mind trying to come up with the reason for Patrick, as well as
several other ghosts, still being on this side and not the other where they can
find peace. And then the characters started coming together making
the puzzle into a picture. But the ending still ended up being
nothing that I had suspected.
I seem to be reading this series
backwards starting with Dead Man Hand, book #1, which was just as good as Dead
Man Haunt, book #2, I can’t wait to read book #1 Dead Man Talking. I’ve
also read T. M. Simmons Paranormal Suspense Winter Prey, enjoying it immensely. As I said, I can’t get enough of
this author. And did I tell you that T. M. Simmons actually lives in a
haunted house in East Texas which she shares with hubby, a variety of pets and
of course her paranormal residents.
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