{"id":518,"date":"2018-12-31T12:38:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2018-12-31T12:38:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:38:04","slug":"texas-reads-archiveglenn-dromgoole-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

5.1.16\u00a0\u00a0 Cookbook features healthier Mexican cuisine<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Lubbock food writer Angelina LaRue has produced a wonderful full-color cookbook,<\/span> The Whole Enchilada: Fresh and Nutritious Southwestern Cuisine<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Pelican, $27.95 hardcover). LaRue includes about a hundred Tex-Mex and Southwestern recipes, and nearly half of them are accompanied by compelling color photos. Several even have step-by-step illustrations. The author says Mexican food \u201ccan often get a bad rap for being calorie-packed, cheese-heavy meals,\u201d and some of her recipes do fall into that category.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut,\u201d she adds, \u201cthe majority of recipes that make up the book will allow you to pair loads of colorful fruits and vegetables with healthy protein for scrumptious meals you can enjoy every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few of the ones that especially caught my eye were shrimp ceviche shooters, fresh fiesta salad, green chile chicken enchiladas, and migas. Pass the grilled avocado salsa, please!<\/p>\n

Ransom Canyon: <\/span>Best-selling Amarillo novelist Jodi Thomas<\/span> has two more books in her West Texas-based Ransom Canyon series out already this year, with another one due in August.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Rustler\u2019s Moon<\/span> (HQN books, $7.99 paperback) was published in January, with Lone Heart Pass<\/span><\/a><\/span> hitting bookshelves in April. They are the second and third novels in the series, which began last summer with Ransom Canyon<\/span><\/a><\/span>. The fourth book, Sunrise Crossing,<\/span> is scheduled for release on Aug. 30.<\/p>\n

Thomas\u2019s books are considered in the romance genre, but they are really just good, strong, fast-moving and uplifting tales that can be enjoyed by men as well as women.<\/p>\n

I zipped through Rustler’s Moon,<\/span> featuring a museum curator who gets death threats, and I look forward to picking up Lone Heart Pass<\/span> soon. Check out Jodi’s website, jodithomas.com<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Preacher\u2019s home: <\/span>Original Cyn<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Sylvia Dickey Smith<\/span> (White Bird Publications, $18.99 paperback) is a novel about a Baptist preacher, the Rev. Wilburn Carter, and his wife, Cynthia, who prefers her nickname \u201cCyn,\u201d but that’s just not a name Wilburn can bring himself to call her, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n

Wilburn is driven to build a bigger church and make a name for himself in the state denomination, but Cyn is feeling there should be more to life than trying to please him and the ladies of the church. And, then, just as Cyn is working up the nerve to stand up for herself, she is stunned when a deep, dark secret manifests itself and plunges the church and the Carter family into chaos.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s because I grew up in a preacher\u2019s home, but I couldn\u2019t put this one down. I started reading it one evening and finished it the next day. About 120 pages into the book comes the shocking scene that changes everything.<\/p>\n

Smith, who lives near Austin, is a former pastor\u2019s wife herself. Read about her and her other books at sylviadickeysmith.com.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is More Civility, Please. <\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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