What are my characters eating in Willow Creek, Pennsylvania, deep in the heart of Amish country? Anything sweet or hearty that will accompany tea. Daisy Swanson and her Aunt Iris co-own Daisy’s Tea Garden in Willow Creek. Many of the foods my characters enjoy are based on Pennsylvania Dutch cooking. Daisy at the tea garden tries to give them a twist, as does her kitchen manager, her best friend from high school, Tessa Miller. Daisy’s Tea Garden offers sweet and savory items from potato and leek soup, carrot-grape-pecan salad to lemon tea cakes and cinnamon scones that are involved in solving the murders in this small community. In each novel I include at least three recipes that have appeared in the mystery. Daisy’s teenage daughters Jazzi (Jasmine) and Vi (Violet), have their own favorites. Both girls enjoy whoopie pies—soft chocolate cookies with peanut butter cream or vanilla cream centers as well as their mom’s lemon pepper tomato mozzarella salad. Frequent v...
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