Killer Beach Reads: mystery & romance short story collection by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
Published: 2015-07-12T04:00:00+00:00

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Amy couldn't help but grin at the array of treats lined up on her kitchen island. The miniature pudding cups were adorable. The rich pudding was topped with a sprinkle a shortbread cookie crumbs. It was the new incarnation of the dessert recipe that had sent her through to the last round of competition. She had made a mocha pudding topped with white chocolate shavings. Brooke suggested a different espresso drink-mimicking pudding which she thought would be more appealing to her customers—butterscotch latte. The modification had turned out so good it would be a great recipe to teach for a class if she and the barbecue truck were victorious in the Melee.

She snapped the lids on the rest of the cups. The little containers were often utilized for salad dressings and condiments. They were the perfect size to let customers get a taste of what they could expect on Saturday. Brooke had proposed offering the samples, so the team could see what customers thought of the menu additions while there was still time to change the recipes. A midweek, small-scale trial run.

Amy stacked the containers in a cake pan and transferred them to the refrigerator. As she swung the door shut, her cell phone began ringing. She jogged across the kitchen to the built-in desk and plucked the phone from its charging dock.

"Hello."

"Amy? It's Brooke. I need to request another change to one of your recipes."

By the time Amy hung up five minutes later a lead balloon of dread had inflated in her stomach. Brooke's list of strange happenings had grown. This time the problem affected Amy.

The other recipe Brooke had chosen from Amy's portfolio was crispy polenta cubes with two dipping sauces—a spicy, salty Asian version and a sweet, mixed berry puree. Amy had included two sauces so diners could have the choice of making the snack savory or sweet. On Sunday Brooke had come up with the idea to deep-fry the polenta, making the dish easier and quicker to prepare in the confines of the truck. Then the cubes would be smothered in barbecue sauce-spiked gravy and topped with shredded cheese. A twist on disco fries.

Now the plan was to go back to Amy's original method of browning the polenta. She would need to fry the bite-sized cubes in melted butter on the truck's griddle, competing for space with the mounds of sautéing onions and toasting buns destined for the truck's famous overstuffed sandwiches. The deep fryer was out of order. It had sprung a leak, oozing oil all over the truck's floor during the night.

The food truck had spent the day parked in Brooke's driveway, instead of at the downtown farmer's market where it usually hung out, while the slippery mess was cleaned up. The deep fryer was down indefinitely until the restaurant equipment supplier could figure out what had caused the unusual leak and perform a repair. Did bouncing over endless miles of road lead to the malfunction or did someone cause the oil deluge? At least the flood happened when the truck was unoccupied and the oil was cool.

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