A FRIDAY FUNNY

I know a couple of these are going to be a little hard to read, but if you can squint or use a magnifying glass, they’re worth it. :tongue

FREE BOOK FRIDAY

This week’s Free Book Friday offering is Didn’t My Skin Used to Fit? by Martha Bolton, a very funny collection about living, laughing, & loving life after the age of forty. (Something I, of course, know nothing about, but I figure at least one of our devoted Darlings of The Dungeon may be closing in on the Big 4-0.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that. :scared )

To enter the giveaway for this book, simply leave a comment to today’s post that includes the code FBF—for “Free Book Friday,” of course—to let me know you’re interested in the drawing. (U.S. residents only for the prize, please, but everyone is welcome to chat.)

Winner will be announced during our Happy Sunday post on…well, you know, Sunday. Winner is responsible for contacting me with her mailing information—i.e. I will not be contacting you—so be sure to check back in or you might not even know you won! :crying (If prize isn’t claimed within 14 days, another name may be drawn or item may be tossed back into the goody bag to be re-used for a future giveaway.)

P.S. Please note that we have a very special Earth Day Giveaway coming up later this month.  On Friday, April 22nd—which happens to be Earth Day!—we will be giving away this very special Earth Day prize pack:

So stay tuned & be sure to stop back in for details & a chance to win!

Welcome to a new feature here in The Dungeon (at least temporarily *g*) that I like to call “What’s Cookin’, Hot Stuff?”

As you know, I’ll have a new Harlequin Desire out in June called HER LITTLE SECRET, HIS HIDDEN HEIR, & the heroine of this story runs a bakery called The Sweet Spot.  So I thought it would be fun to start posting recipes leading up to HIDDEN HEIR‘s release.

To start, I’m going to share a recipe for one of my favorite cookies.  This goody doesn’t actually appear in the book, but it totally could. :cookinme

Whenever I have over-ripe bananas, I make these.  They taste like banana-nut bread—only better.

BANANA NUT COOKIES

Ingredients:

1/3 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 to 1 1/2 cups ripe bananas (3 or 4)
1/2 to 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup white chocolate chips (optional)

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
Cream butter & sugar.
Add eggs & vanilla. Mix well.
Add bananas by dropping thin slices into batter. Mix.
Add dry ingredients. Mix well.
Fold in the nuts (& white chocolate chips, if preferred).
Place teaspoonfuls of cookie dough onto parchment paper-lined baking sheets about 2 inches apart.
Bake for 12 to 14 minutes or until outer edges are golden brown.
Remove from the oven. Place on wire rack to cool.

(Makes about 5 dozen cookies.)

Welcome to out latest Hunk of the Month poll—Hawaii Five-0 Edition. Or as I like to call it, Hawaii Five-oh, yeah. :sexy

This month, Mistress Heidi has a truly impossible mission for you—to choose only ONE Hawaii Five-0 hottie to grace The Dungeon‘s sidebar throughout the month of April.

If you think that’s a decision you can make…it’s like trying to decide which mementos to save first when the house is on fire, I swear!  :bloody …here are your choices:

Alex O’Loughlin/Steve McGarrett

Scott Caan/Danny Williams

Daniel Dae Kim/Chin Ho Kelly