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A taste of summer with these refreshing recipes!
In USA Today bestselling author Maddie Day’s Country Store Mystery series, Robbie Jordon’s rustic country store and café in South Lick, Indiana attracts hungry customers—and murder—with her home-style cooking. Straight from Robbie’s vault of recipes from her quaint store/café Pans ‘N Pancakes are two delicious cold recipes that are the perfect complements to a hot, sunny day.
Cucumber-Dill Soup
When the weather is just too warm for a bowl of hot soup, I like to serve this creamy cold soup for lunch.
Ingredients
- 2 English cucumbers, peeled, seeded, and chopped
- ½ cup roughly chopped fresh dill
- 2 cups buttermilk
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt, more if needed
- dash habanero sauce
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, more if needed
For garnish
- 1 large ripe tomato (seeded and diced)
- 1 tablespoon fresh minced dill
- 1 pint sour cream
Instructions
Combine all soup ingredients in a blender and process until smooth. Refrigerate in a covered container for at least two hours. The soup can be refrigerated for longer than two hours, but be sure to give it a shake before serving as it tends to settle the longer it sits. Adjust seasonings after it is chilled.
When ready to serve, toss the seeded and diced tomato with the tablespoon of fresh dill. Fill each bowl with the chilled soup and garnish with a tablespoon of sour cream and a tablespoon of the diced dilled tomatoes. Serve immediately.
Pell’s Yogurt-Honey Fruit Salad Dressing
I like to serve this as a refreshing addition to fruit salad or granola in the summer heat.
Ingredients
- 1 pint whole-milk, plain regular yogurt (Greek yogurt is too thick)
- 1 tablespoon local honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Directions
In a quart bowl, stir honey and vanilla into the yogurt. Beat hard to mix. Sprinkle cinnamon over the dressing and stir in.
Serve over cut fruit. Also good with granola or plain with a spoon.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maddie Day is a talented amateur chef and holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha-nominated and Amazon-bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writes award-winning short crime fiction, which has appeared in a number of juried anthologies. She lives with her beau and three cats in Massachusetts, where she’s currently working on her next Country Store mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen. She hopes you’ll find her at maddiedayauthor.com.