Hey y’all! Welcome to week one of the Sweet Evil Read Along hosted by
Mindy at Magical Urban
Fantasy Reads and co-hosted by me here at Two Chicks on Books as well
as Rachel from Fiktshun, Tara from Tater’s Tall Tales and Nancy from The Ravenous Reader!
This week we’ll be reading chapters 10-15 and our topic this week is Pear
or Citrus recipes. I love pears and citrus and since I’m not the biggest
dessert fan I decided to share one of my favorite salad recipes. It
incorporates pears and citrus with one of my other favorite things on the
planet, blue cheese! So here’s the recipe what are some of yours?
Pear, Pecan, and Blue Cheese Salad with Cranberry
Vinaigrette
- Vinaigrette:
- 1/2 cup canned
whole-berry cranberry sauce
- 1/4 cup fresh
orange juice (about 1 orange)
- 1
tablespoon olive oil
- 2
tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon minced
peeled fresh ginger
- 1/4
teaspoon salt
Salad:
- 18 Bibb
lettuce leaves (about 2 heads)
- 2 cups sliced
peeled pear (about 2 pears)
- 2
tablespoons fresh orange juice
- 1 cup (1/8-inch-thick)
slices red onion, separated into rings
- 1/3 cup (2
ounces) crumbled blue cheese
- 1/3 cup
crumbled bacon or bacon bits
- 2
tablespoons coarsely chopped pecans, toasted
Preparation
1.
To prepare the vinaigrette,
place the first 7 ingredients in a medium bowl; stir well with a whisk.
2.
To prepare the salad, divide
the lettuce leaves evenly among 6 salad plates. Toss pear with 2 tablespoons
orange juice. Divide pear and onion evenly among leaves. Top each serving with
about 1 tablespoon cheese, 1 tablespoon bacon, and 1 teaspoon pecans. Drizzle
each serving with about 2 1/2 tablespoons vinaigrette.
Ok so lol this is totes not going to be a review again but I’m going
to share a couple of my favorite passages from these chapters and you’ll then
see why we chose pears and citrus for this week’s theme!
“What is it you
smell, exactly?” His voice too on a husky quality, and it felt like he was
taking up a lot of room. I couldn't bring myself to look at him. Something
strange was going on here. I stepped back, hitting the tub with my heel as I
tried to put the scent into words.
“I don’t know.
It’s like citrus and the forest or something…. Leaves and tree sap. I can’t
explain it.”
His eyes bored
into mine while he wore that trademark sexy smirk, arms still crossed.
“Citrus?” he
asked. “Like lemons?”
“Oranges mostly.
And a little lime too.”
He nodded and
flicked his head to the side to get the hair out of his eyes. Then his smile
disappeared and his badge throbbed.
“What you smell
are my pheromones, Anna.”
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“Would you like
to know your own scent?” he asked me.
My heart swelled
up big in my chest and squeezed small again. This whole scent thing was way too
sensual to be discussed in this small space. Any second now my traitorous body
would be emitting some of those pheromones and there’d be red in my aura.
“Uh, not really,”
I said, keeping my eyes averted. “I think I should probably go.”
He made no
attempt to move out of the doorway.
“You smell like
pears with freesia undertones.”
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He blinked at
me, seeming surprised by my easy forgiveness. I gave him a small smile and took
a sip of my orange juice. He leaned back in his chair and observed me.
“How’s your
orange juice, Ann? Does it have a touch of lime?”
The glass paused
at my lips as I processed his innuendo, and I took a second to make sure my
embarrassment stayed hidden inside. I let the drink swish over my tongue a
moment before swallowing and answering.
“Actually it’s a
little sour,” I said, and he laughed.
“That’s a shame.”
He picked up a green pear from his plate and bit into it, licking the juice
that dripped down his thumb. My cheeks warmed as I set down my glass.
“Okay, now you’re
just being crude,” I said.
He grinned with
lazy satisfaction.
Dear sweet heavens I love Kaidan lol! Make sure to check out my
complete review check here!
And come back next Sunday for Chapters fifteen through twenty-one! Oh and if
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