The Murdery Delicious Hamwich Gumm Mystery - A Very Bloody Mary

Vodka and tomato juice are not the only ingredients in this wicked cocktail laced with murderous intentions. Do read on in my hilarious and chilling novel, The Murdery Delicious Hamwich Gumm Mystery available now on Amazon.com and BN.com!

A Recipe for a Very Bloody Mary

Serves a single solitary sot 

Ingredients

1 ½ ounces vodka, or more

4 ounces squeezed juice from the innards of a rotting tomato

Crushed black pepper

Half of a bitter lemon, the mournful life all but squeezed out of it

1 teaspoon sauce from Worcestershire

Horseradish left unattended in the back of the ice box

Dash it all with searing-hot pepper sauce

Method

Combine all of the unfortunate ingredients together in a shaker filled with doomed bergs of ice. Throttle repeatedly with vituperation. Drain the contents into a large, unwilling glass and clutter your concoction with the following:

Garnishes

Towering, ominously stiff stalks of celery

Wilting fronds of dill

Speared cornichons

Slimy pearl onions, floating belly up

Grim, green olives stuffed with highly odiferous blue cheese

The Murdery Delicious Hamwich Gumm Mystery - A Recipe for Devil's Eggs

Vile deviled eggs are delicious at any social situation but what do they imply when murder is afoot? Find out in my fiendish novella, The Murdery Delicious Hamwich Gumm Mystery available now on Amazon.com and BN.com.

A Recipe for Devil’s Eggs

Serves an unwelcome brood

Ingredients:

12 mewling eggs

4 tablespoons unctuous mayonnaise

1 tablespoon dreadful Dijon mustard

A dashed shallot

Salt and pepper, suited to a grim taste

Caviar, for a funereal wreath garnish

Method:

Boil fresh eggs to death, cool and cut in half, depositing the yolks in a small bowl. Mash them with mayonnaise, further assault with mustard, screw in the shallot and season with salt and pepper. Stuff the eggs until they suffocate, scatter the caviar on top like ashes and serve over a hornet’s nest of greens.

The Murdery Delicious Hamwich Gumm Mystery - Smoked Duck Tea Sandwiches

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Smoked Duck Tea Sandwiches with Watercress and Chutney Butter

Serves Three

Whip salted butter into bitter orange chutney.

Wrest some smoked duck from a doomed endeavor.

Wrench a bunch of watercress for greens.

White bread, crusts removed, for delicacy.

The Murdery Delicious Hamwich Gumm Mystery - An Impromptu Menu for an Unexpected Guest

Uninvited, unexpected guests are such a nuisance, aren't they? Particularly when murder is involved! What to serve? Find out here, with things collected from such places as random cupboards or perhaps even suspicious clothing hampers, at last unearthed in a menu from my new novel, The Murdery Delicious Hamwich Gumm Mystery...other recipes may be found here on eveningswithpeter.com as well...in hideous parts...

An Impromptu Menu for an Unexpected Guest

To Sip

Sanguine ruby red port

To Snack

Smoked almonds

Gutted herring

Withered figs, apricots and plums

To Sweet

Treacly Tart

The Murdery Delicious Hamwich Gumm Mystery - Blood Curdling Duck Breast!

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A Recipe for Blood Curdling Duck Breast with Red Wine Sauce

Slays Four

Ingredients

2 rough handfuls of shriveled, black Mission figs

2 cups of scorching, dry red wine

2 cups of hideously canned chicken broth, or thereabouts

2 shards of cinnamon

5 tablespoons butter

1/3 cup hacked apart shallots

1 pound of wildly assorted mushrooms, sliced to ribbons

A teaspoon of ginger, chopped and relieved of its skin

3 tablespoons furtively achieved chives

¼ cup drearily drizzled honey

4 6 ounce duck breasts, ripped off the bone, skin intact

1 tablespoon olive oil

Method

Halve most of the figs and simmer in an appropriate pan with wine, broth, and cinnamon until thick, about 30 hand-wringing minutes. Strain and throw out the solids. Light a fire in the oven to reach 450 degrees. Sear the shallots in four tablespoons of butter. Proceed to toss about the mushrooms and ginger until all is unspeakably calm. Pour in the rest of the liquid and simmer down for a few minutes before tossing in the chives. Cloak remaining figs in honey about a glass baking dish and cook until they have surrendered. This should take less than 15 minutes. Litter the duck breasts with salt and pepper before abandoning them skin side down in a heavy skillet laced with melted butter and olive oil, placed over medium heat. Turn and turn until boredom sets in and breasts are still nearly bloody. Serve with a portent of the mushrooms, figs, and a wicked whim of warmed sauce.

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The Murdery Delicious Hamwich Gumm Mystery - Persephone's Bush

As my fiendish murder mystery is about to hit the shelves, I present a sneak peak of the dastardly recipes fraught, rigidly fraught! with clues to be found in the pages of The Murdery Delicious Hamwich Gumm Mystery.
 
While we anticipate the foul murders in my novel, please peruse the series of recipes and cocktails in the upcoming weeks, here on eveningswithpeter...presented...in hideous parts.  


PERSEPHONE'S BUSH
This will take some time, so prepare accordingly. First, address the following:

Purloin fresh lavender and stick it in a bottle of vodka. Let it sit in darkness for about two weeks to make the extract.

Put sprigs of rosemary and perhaps some thyme in a bottle of Stoli honey flavored vodka. Let that sit for about two weeks as well.

Once these agrarian touches have come to fruition, do this:

Rinse chilled Champagne glasses with the lavender extract. In an ice-filled shaker, use about 2 oz per serving of the rosemary/thyme steeped honey vodka. Add perhaps the barest breath of rose water if so inclined. A squeeze of lemon is welcome. Shake and pour into your glasses. Top off with fizzy, almost freezing Champagne. Do note that this cocktail must be served vitally cold--and garnish with fresh, fragrant thyme sprigs.

Then throw it on the floor.

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The Murdery Delicious Hamwich Gumm Mystery - Presumptive Pie Pastry

As my fiendish murder mystery is about to hit the shelves, I present a sneak peak of the dastardly recipes fraught, rigidly fraught! with clues to be found in the pages of The Murdery Delicious Hamwich Gumm Mystery. My Nana used this basic recipe for pie pastry and somehow it wound up in my book. Think of it would you when turning toward the holiday season--pork pies! Pumpkin pies! Pecan pies!

While we anticipate the foul murders in my novel, please peruse the series of menus in the upcoming weeks, here on eveningswithpeter...presented...in hideous parts. 

A Recipe for Hamwich Gumm’s Presumptive Pie Pastry

 Ingredients

1 1/2 cups flour

Salt

1/2 cup Crisco shortening

3 tablespoons plus ice cold water

Method

Sift flour and salt into a bowl. Cut in shortening with a destructive device such as a blender or two very sharp knives until crumbly. Add ice water, stir cautiously with a fork and add more water just until it holds together. Make into a ball and knead with prudence.

Beware: Handle as little as possible.