Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to our amazing fans and followers!

JLB Creatives Publishing's CEO loves this holiday. Being she is of Irish decent she is always ready to serve up a good meal on this festive day. Here's a sampling of her favorite recipes to fix for her St. Patrick's Day feast...

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Start with:

Warm Reuben Spead ~
directly from Kraft.com

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Dive into the main course:

Slow-Cooked Corned Beef Recipe ~

directly from Taste of Home

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Cap off the meal with this sweet delight:

The Best Darn Peppermint Brownies
...EVER! ~ 

directly from: 
Author Janet Beasley's Hidden Earth Series cookbook
 "More Than Grilled Cheese 
and Tomato Soup" 

     Ingredients:

In a small mixing bowl create DRY MIX by whisking together:

1½ c all-purpose flour

1/3 c Hershey's Special Dark® cocoa powder

1 tsp salt

Using an electric mixer, cream together on LOW speed:

2 squares (1 oz each) white chocolate, melted

1 c sugar

1 c packed brown sugar

1 c sweet cream unsalted butter, softened

2 T light corn syrup

2 tsp vanilla extract

4 eggs—one at a time

Add DRY MIX (a little at a time) and fold in:

½ c York Peppermint Pattie® baking pieces

Preheat oven to 375º.

Grease and flour a 9 x 13-inch pan. 

Spread brownie batter into pan and bake for 35-40 minutes. 

DO NOT OVER BAKE!

Optional: Ice with Pillsbury vanilla icing. Add a few drops of green food coloring if 
so desired for St. Patrick's Day feasts

Leftovers

At JLBCP we all remember the good ol' days of
helping grandma in the kitchen as she prepared
a feast that was always fit for a king
on Thanksgiving Day. 
Photo courtesy of Janet Beasley - copyright

After Thanksgiving celebration here in America, there are always tons of leftovers. We feast on turkey dishes for a week after (at least)! Here's some great leftover ideas you can do with your leftover feast.

• Chop leftover turkey and use in soups and stews.
• How about turkey enchiladas? Chop it up and add some of your favorite Mexican seasonings.
• Turkey sandwiches can become humdrum...so why not add some avocado slices, sprouts, and/or olives to mix it up.
• Sweet potatoes? Mash 'em up and make a casserole...don't forget the yummy little marshmallows.
• Sliced turkey? Make some quick turkey roll-ups. Spread with cream cheese, add a dash of garlic pepper, and green onion. Roll 'em up and enjoy!
• Freeze turkey in individual serving sizes to use in future recipes
• Combine your left over turkey and mashed potatoes to make a base for a turkey casserole.
• Grab a bag of dry Fettuccine Alfredo to whip up, and add your left over turkey, some peas, and onions to make a warm, hearty meal
• Save your leftover cranberry sauce and use it on pancakes or waffles
• Use that leftover dressing to make a tasty filling in baked acorn-squash cups
• Leftover muffins can easily be cut in half and grilled in butter for a breakfast twist
• Too much pudding leftover? Divide into single serving cups, cover, and refrigerate for a great after-school snack.

From all of us at JLB Creatives Publishing, here's wishing you and yours a super weekend!

WEDNESDAY FEATURE "Spark Your Creativity"

#Harvest #Autumn #Pumpkins #Fall 

This week's photo takes us to Thanksgiving

Janet has titled this photo, "Bountiful Harvest"

Happy Creating!

On Wednesdays we're posting a photo taken by our CEO, author Janet Beasley to help inspire authors, painters, musicians, and other awesome artists. We've titled the new feature, "Spark Your Creativity." How did we come up with this? Read on...

When Janet isn't hard at work in the literary world, you'll find her and her husband kayaking the crystal clear, spring fed rivers of Florida. Janet's second passion next to writing is photographing nature as they glide through the serene settings these rivers have to offer. She and her husband also enjoy traveling the US, so you'll also be seeing some of Janet's

photos taken from hikes and journeys she and her husband have done nationwide. She has used her photos time and again for her own inspiration when it comes to many of her stories, and decided she would like to share the same inspiration with the literary and arts world.

And not to worry if you're not inspired this week, come back each Wednesday to catch a glimpse of what could "spark" your next amazing piece of work. And if you don't want to wait until next Wednesday, we'd like to invite you to visit our JLB Creatives Photo Gallery on Flickr where the photos are always free to download and use as book covers, business cards, wallpaper, etc. All we ask is that you give credit where credit is due - perhaps by something as simple as adding a credit link to the JLB Creatives/Janet Beasley Flickr site in your book or on your presentation. 

We hope you enjoy our new Wednesday feature, "Spark Your Creativity." And we want to let you know, if a photo inspires you to write a story that you would like to have considered for publication by JLB Creatives Publishing, be sure to visit our website at http://www.JLBCreatives.com where you'll find our company's history, be introduced to the publishing team, discover our Submission Guidelines, and may submit your work for consideration.

Enjoy!