
Mia King I love coffee (is there any better way to wake up? I think we've been conditioned to salivate at the sound of coffee percolating...) but I think it's time to go back to green tea and toke up on some of those amino acid/theanine benefits. I need my sleep!

Mia King To get your home smelling like the season, whip up a pan of Deidre’s gingerbread! http://www.miaking.com/?page_id=956

I read a lot. It doesn’t matter if the kids are screaming or a deadline is looming, I have to read. Fiction, nonfiction, all books call to me but at the end of the day I gravitate towards books with those gosh darn happy endings. ...

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Here is Gale's gorgeous photo of Jane's Kava Java's Kona Mocha Mac Nut Biscotti from my novel, SWEET LIFE (Berkley Books).
Recipe below or on my webiste -- visit Gail's blog and see her other fabulous
foodie posts!
Yields: 2 dozen
Ingredients:
1 package chocolate cake mix
½ cup butter, melted
½ cup whole wheat flour
2 eggs
¼ cu...p instant Kona espresso powder
½ cup macadamia nuts, coarsely chopped
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350º F.
2. Cut parchment paper to fit large cookie sheet.
3. In a large bowl, blend dry ingredients for biscotti. Add eggs and blend just to mix.
4. Add melted butter into biscotti mixture. Blend until thoroughly mixed.
5. Add the macadamia nuts. Continue to blend until thoroughly mixed.
6. Using
your hands, shape the dough into a log and lay it on the parchment
paper. Roll it out to approximately 5” wide and ½” thick. Shape into a rectangle.
7. Bake for 25 minutes.
8. Remove pan from oven and cool for 20 minutes.
9. Cut
biscotti into even horizontal strips, approximately 1” wide.
10. Lay each
biscotti on its side on the cookie sheet, leaving space between each
one.
11. Bake at
350º F for another 10 minutes, then lower the oven heat to 200º F and
continue baking for another 40 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
Glaze Ingredients:
½ cup powdered confectioner’s sugar
2 tablespoons Kona coffee, cooled
Directions:
1. Mix
confectioner’s sugar with 1 tablespoon of cooled Kona coffee. Stir
until consistency is a little thicker than maple syrup, adding the
remaining coffee as necessary.
2. Place glaze in a plastic sandwich bag and squeeze the glaze to one end. Cut off the tip of the corner of the bag.
3. Glaze
top of biscotti in a zigzag pattern. Let the glaze cool completely
before serving. Store any remaining glazed biscotti in an airtight
container.Mehr lesen
Recipe below or on my webiste -- visit Gail's blog and see her other fabulous
foodie posts!
Yields: 2 dozen
Ingredients:
1 package chocolate cake mix
½ cup butter, melted
½ cup whole wheat flour
2 eggs
¼ cu...p instant Kona espresso powder
½ cup macadamia nuts, coarsely chopped
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350º F.
2. Cut parchment paper to fit large cookie sheet.
3. In a large bowl, blend dry ingredients for biscotti. Add eggs and blend just to mix.
4. Add melted butter into biscotti mixture. Blend until thoroughly mixed.
5. Add the macadamia nuts. Continue to blend until thoroughly mixed.
6. Using
your hands, shape the dough into a log and lay it on the parchment
paper. Roll it out to approximately 5” wide and ½” thick. Shape into a rectangle.
7. Bake for 25 minutes.
8. Remove pan from oven and cool for 20 minutes.
9. Cut
biscotti into even horizontal strips, approximately 1” wide.
10. Lay each
biscotti on its side on the cookie sheet, leaving space between each
one.
11. Bake at
350º F for another 10 minutes, then lower the oven heat to 200º F and
continue baking for another 40 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
Glaze Ingredients:
½ cup powdered confectioner’s sugar
2 tablespoons Kona coffee, cooled
Directions:
1. Mix
confectioner’s sugar with 1 tablespoon of cooled Kona coffee. Stir
until consistency is a little thicker than maple syrup, adding the
remaining coffee as necessary.
2. Place glaze in a plastic sandwich bag and squeeze the glaze to one end. Cut off the tip of the corner of the bag.
3. Glaze
top of biscotti in a zigzag pattern. Let the glaze cool completely
before serving. Store any remaining glazed biscotti in an airtight
container.Mehr lesen
Quelle: bakingpictures.blogspot.com
I was born in October; I have always loved this month. My uncle Bennie, now deceased, would speculate every year whether the first frost would be before or after my birthday (14th). I think about that every year when I see the first frost...

Mia King Gale at Studio 1014 did it again: beautifully prepped, baked and photographed Deidre McIntosh's Aromatic Gingerbread from my bestselling novel, GOOD THINGS, prequel to TABLE MANNERS. Recipe on my website and please stop by Gale's blog to say hi and see her other delectable posts!
Quelle: bakingpictures.blogspot.com
This gingerbread is a lower fat version (approximately 150 calories per square) of the traditional fall favorite. I included last fall's apple and pear butter in the batter, along with chopped candied ginger.

Mia King I'll be there! http://www.bentleyshomecollection.com
Zeit:Montag, 19. Oktober 2009 16:00
Ort:Kamuela, HI

Quelle: www.chicagotribune.com
The difference between fiction and nonfiction? At the Tribune, well-documented fact is the basis of everything we do. Fiction does something different but equally important. Fiction shows us how to make ...

Mia King September 27, 2009 (Mia's Birthday!) @ 12:00 pm HST Kona Bay Books, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii: Joint Book Signing with Clear Englebert, Craig Elevitch and Baron Birtcher,

Mia King Is your book club reading TABLE MANNERS? Here is the Readers' Guide http://www.miaking.com/?page_id=86

Mia King Enjoying a long weekend after a long vacation and ready to get back to work on novel #5!

Mia King loves it when life imitates fiction: this past week has been filled with lots of good things, reminding me over and over again how sweet life really is. Hmmm, I don't know how to weave in the title for book three, but no doubt the premise -- good food and great friends -- is something worth celebrating every day. ENJOY THIS DAY!

Quelle: redroom.com
National bestselling author Mia King is the author of two novels, GOOD THINGS (Berkley, 2007) and SWEET LIFE (Berkley, 2008). Her third novel, TABLE MANNERS, will be published in 2009 by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin USA. King is a fresh, new voice in

Quelle: lifeinthethumb.blogspot.com
I received this book from Stacy @ Stacy Buckeye. She listed a bunch of books that were first come, first served, and after reading Shanghai Girls, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, and Tallgrass earlier this summer, I thought this book would be an interesting read. ...












