You had me at bourbon: the cranberry recipe from That Mistletoe Moment

The story behind the story of the cranberry recipe… If you read my novella, “A Boyfriend by Christmas” in the multi-author holiday anthology THAT MISTLETOE MOMENT from Kensington, which released in September of this year, you might remember the opening scene. The heroine, Noelle, was in the middle of cooking her famous cranberry sauce to bring to her boyfriend’s parents’ house for dinner when disaster strikes. She is forced to run out to the food store for more ingredients, which is where she meets the hero, Nathan. They exchange recipes, which leads to so much more… Noelle’s recipe is really my real life friend Donna’s recipe. She makes it every year and trust me it is INCREDIBLE! It is our pleasure to bring you the actual recipe, just in time for your holiday cooking. The recipe is in the photo of this post, and also on the RECIPE page, as well as pasted below. And, in case you missed the cranberry scene in my story, it follows the recipe for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! Drunken Cranberry Sauce As seen in “A Boyfriend by Christmas” by Cat Johnson in THAT MISTLETOE MOMENT 3 bags cranberries (fresh, whole) 1 ½ cups bourbon ½ […]

Midnight Cowboys & Thumbprint Cookies

Enjoy this peek into my Midnight Cowboys series book, Midnight Heat, and then scroll down to the bottom for my friend Donna’s famous Thumbprint Cookie Recipe, the cookies “with the jam in the middle” that the cowboys are fighting over in the scene. MIDNIGHT HEAT (Midnight Cowboys #3) He needs to escape… Justin Skaggs is on the road to anywhere—as long as it’s far from home—when fate throws a kindred spirit across his path. She needs to get to Oklahoma… Phoenix Montagno can’t believe her luck when she runs into the hottie from the bar. He’s the key to her getting everything she’s always wanted, but she can’t tell him that. Luckily he’s not interested in learning her story any more than he is in sharing his. It’s perfect . . . until they decide to share a bed. MIDNIGHT HEAT EXCERPT “Dang it, it’s colder than a witch’s tit out there.” Colton came into the kitchen accompanied by a gust of cold wind. From his seat at the kitchen table, Justin cocked a brow at Colton’s colorful metaphor. He waited for him to close the door before saying, “It’s December. What the hell did you expect?” Colton screwed up his face […]