Chef Maurice And a Spot of Truffle (Chef Maurice Mysteries book 1)
“Lang Chapter 14 PC Lucy surveyed her troops. Two large onions. A bag of arborio rice. Chicken stock, shop-bought—but still, better than a stock cube, surely? A small wedge of parmesan, slivers of which she kept popping into her mouth. A large block of butter.
(She could hear her mother’s voice, saying one could never have enough butter when it came to dinnertime. Witnesses to Mrs Gavistone’s impressive bearing might have begged to differ.) The gourmet food store in Cowton had only had one p...acket of dried mushrooms left on its shelves. PC Lucy snipped it open and tipped the whole lot into the pot. It didn’t look like much. And the last thing she wanted was for Patrick to think she’d skimped on ingredients. Still, it would have to do. Unless . . .
Her gaze slid across the room to a large clear plastic box containing the various bags of dried mushrooms she’d removed from Ollie’s lodgings, if only for the purpose of stopping Chef Maurice from getting at them.MoreLess
(She could hear her mother’s voice, saying one could never have enough butter when it came to dinnertime. Witnesses to Mrs Gavistone’s impressive bearing might have begged to differ.) The gourmet food store in Cowton had only had one p...acket of dried mushrooms left on its shelves. PC Lucy snipped it open and tipped the whole lot into the pot. It didn’t look like much. And the last thing she wanted was for Patrick to think she’d skimped on ingredients. Still, it would have to do. Unless . . .
Her gaze slid across the room to a large clear plastic box containing the various bags of dried mushrooms she’d removed from Ollie’s lodgings, if only for the purpose of stopping Chef Maurice from getting at them.MoreLess
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