Today, I welcome my good friend, Susan Royal to Food, Fiction, and Foolishness. I’ve not tried Mush Muffins, but after seeing this recipe, you can bet I will! I love bread, and I can just taste these dripping with butter!! Be sure and visit Susan’s website to check out all of her books. If you love time travel or fantasy, you’ll love her stories. 

FOOD 

Mush Muffins

Ingredients

2 c. water
½ c. instant grits
1 c. milk
2 t butter
1 t salt
2 T warm water
1 1/8 t active dry yeast
5 ½ to 6 c flour

Bring water to boil in medium saucepan. Add grits. Reduce heat. Cook on low 5-7 minutes until water is absorbed. Transfer to large bowl. Stir in milk, butter and salt. Set aside. Cool to lukewarm. Combine 2 T water with yeast in small bowl. Let stand until dissolved. Stir into grits mixture. Mix with as much flour as possible using a wooden spoon. Turn out and knead in remaining flour for about 10 minutes. Let rise until doubled (1½ hours) Punch down. Let rest 15 minutes. Roll out dough. Cut with biscuit cutter and place in shallow baking dish. Brush tops with butter. Bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes or until golden. Makes about 2 dozen.

FICTION

Talk about the worst day ever! Lara lets her friend Carrie talk her into a blind date, only it turns out the handsome stranger waiting for Lara after work isn’t Carrie’s cousin after all. And, when they’re chased through a portal to another world, Lara realizes Rhys really is out of this world.
Lyra, her alternate in another dimension, has left clues to the whereabouts of the Book of Secrets, explaining the mystery of time travel in Lara’s subconscious. Or so Rhys thinks. Power-hungry telepaths who pursue them will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means breaking Lara’s will. To complicate matters, Lara gets tangled up in her feelings for Rhys while exploring her connection with Lyra.
With Rhys as her guardian, a bear of a man named Azle to guide her, and the spirit of Lyra haunting her dreams, Lara must find the Book of Secrets before it falls into the hands of those who want its power. Only then can she return to her world safely.

Xander’s Tangled Web (fantasy, mystery)
In My Own Shadow (fantasy, adventure, romance)
http://www.tinyurl.com/bqbxm41
Not Long Ago (time travel, adventure, romance)
http://www.tinyurl.com/85vgye3
Not Long Ago book trailer
http://youtu.be/vOIQVdWUigU/
http://susanaroyal.wordpress.com/
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All books available at MuseItUp, Amazon, B&N, Goodreads

FOOLISHNESS

Book Excerpt