Cooking Drunk: And Wine Tasting 101
By Patricia Steele
Cooking Drunk
contains recipes that utilize wine
or other forms of alcohol. Do
remember that alcohol dissipates
during the cooking process, but
retains valued flavors. So, please
join me as I use various types of
wines for a blending of ingredients
by threading wine in and around
them.
In my attempt to complement each of
these recipes by dribbling wines in
a dish or listing a type of wine to
drink or serve, will be a lesson in
futility if wine is not part of your
cooking habit. Otherwise, hopefully,
after trying some of these recipes,
you will share my zest and motto,
“If it tastes good in the recipe,
use it!”
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Cooking Drunk: And Wine Tasting 101
by Patricia Steele
Publisher: lulu.com (December 20, 2009)
Paperback: $23.36, 187 pages
ISBN #
978-0-557-23675-6
A Roundabout Passage to Venice
by Patricia Steele
As a woman who loves travel, photography, and writing, it seemed natural to compile a humorous travelogue of my trip to Europe, with my mother. Humor in writing has enabled me to pen my escapades over the years so friends and family could travel vicariously through my eyes, as if walking beside me. My book, A Roundabout Passage to Venice, shows how my initial invitation for her to accompany me to Paris turned into a European walkabout beginning in London and ending in Venice. Keeping up with my mother, sixteen years my senior, was incredibly noteworthy, as she stayed one step ahead of me for three weeks.
This book lures a reader into traveling the streets of London, exploring Paris, driving a car through France, riding a cramped train from Marseille to Rome and to avoid being stranded in Venice. My main challenge was to present a compelling trip, with pictures, that would succeed in the market place; not just a book filled with facts and destinations.
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A Roundabout Passage to Venice
ISBN # 978-0-557-1093-4, Hardback, 115 pages
Publisher-Lulu, November 20, 2009
Shoot the Moon
By Patricia Steele
In America today, a prescription drug war propels a Pacific Northwest insurance company to offer a different kind of prescription card, from Canada. Battling greed and corruption, Caroline Phillips and Callie Beauvais, best friends and insurance executives, fight for their lives. Unexpected romance is woven through the midst of their quest. Can these women survive long enough to fulfill their dream --- and win the drug contract by 'shooting the moon' against all odds?
Caroline Phillips and Callie Beauvais never imagined their determination to change Larkspur Insurance Company’s prescription card benefits would fuel treachery from within; subsequently fighting for their lives and patching broken bones.
Based in Portland, Oregon and filled with complex characters and relationships, Shoot the Moon is packed with highly charged emotion and unexpected twists and turns as good and evil vie for attention.Rose Dog Books site:
Shoot the Moon
ISBN #978-1-4349-9195-9, Paperback, 262 pages
Rose Dog Books (2008)
Patricia Steele is the author of a humorous travel log, A Roundabout Passage
to Venice, several magazine articles about the health insurance industry, a
cookbook and sequel to Shoot the Moon in progress. She published Living
with Cystic Fibrosis in Our Health magazine.
She is a long-time Oregonian who transplanted her life and job to Charles City, Virginia when she married her husband, J.D, in 1999. She maintains a position for an Oregon insurance agency, where she has been employed since 1989 as a health insurance consultant, looking forward to retirement in 2010.
She loves gardening, writing and her family, not necessarily in that order.
Comments from readers
I got your book when I got home from work last night. I was too tired to start reading it, but I picked it up this morning before I got out of bed and oh my.........I really don't want to go to work today. I was captured by the words in the first few pages. I am excited too that I get to pick it up tonight before I go to sleep and read more of it.
You are so talented :) Your words flow smoothly and they are so descriptive. I feel like I am in the room with the characters.
I wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying your book. I never read fiction, but I am completely captivated by the story. I am fascinated with how all the players weave in and out of the story line. I usually don't remember stories, but I remember it and the characters. Oh, and by the way they evoke so much emotion in me. I can’t stand Steven’s character at this point :)
I just spent the last 2 1/2 hours finishing your book. You are an amazing writer. I can't tell you when I have enjoyed reading a book so much. You did such a beautiful job weaving in and out of the lives of the people in the story. The ending was so real, it left me in tears. Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent and I look forward to reading your next book.
Well, who could have thought that a story about insurance, mystery and romance could keep me so enthralled? Please keep writing. I am anxious to see what Callie does in France in your projected sequel!
A charmer! Based in Portland – my home town – made me smile when I recognized the places and felt connected through the entire story. Bravo!
I laughed when I saw you had a character named after me. Thanks! I loved the story and I’m anxious to read more of your books!
The characters are so real. The CEO and her friend act like young girls sometimes even though they are closer to fifty but it’s nice for an author to understand we are all young girls inside; especially when romance titillates and teases. Great story!