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This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes. This weekend, we travel to Wamego, for the Kansas Sampler Festival where our daughters will be performing on Saturday and Sunday. If you're in the area, be sure to have a listen! See more HERE. 
Kielbasa Potato Skillet
Baked Cheese Dip

Featured Author, Anne Green, shares her recipe for Death by Chocolate Truffle.

Kansas Sampler Festival

This next weekend, we'll return to Wamego, for the Kansas Sampler Festival where our daughters will be performing once again. This is an incredibly fun event for anyone who wants to get a taste of all things offered in Kansas. THE VOGTS SISTERS will perform on the two main stages as well as in the SE Kansas Tent. (See schedule below)


The 26th annual Kansas Sampler Festival will be held Mary 2-3 in Wamego’s City Park. The festival is designed to provide the public a sample of what there is to see, do, hear, taste, learn, and buy in Kansas. In addition to the entertainment and historic performances, the festival will also showcase community attractions, Kansas products, and Kansas foods. Entertainers and all historic performers will also have booths. More than 150 communities will be represented at this Kansas celebration.


We all know how much Maggie likes her Kettle Corn, but there's also bierocks, schnitzel sandwiches, bison hot dogs, fruit kabobs, homemade ice cream, Swedish baked goods, smokehouse salads and Scottish sausage are just a few Kansas specialty items served by 22 food vendors.

FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE TIMES:
Saturday, May 2 - SE Kansas Tent - 10:15 - 11:00 AMSunrise Stage (East) - 12-12:30 PMSE Kansas Tent - 3:30-4:15 PM
Sunday, May 3 - Sunset Stage (West) - 1-1:30 PM
SE Kansas Tent - 2-2:45 PM

Book Preview ~ The Secret of Pembrooke Park

The Secret of Pembrooke Park, by Julie Klassen

Abigail Foster is the practical daughter. She fears she will end up a spinster, especially as she has little dowry, and the one man she thought might marry her seems to have fallen for her younger, prettier sister. 

Facing financial ruin, Abigail and her father search for more affordable lodgings, until a strange solicitor arrives with an astounding offer: the use of a distant manor house abandoned for eighteen years. The Fosters journey to imposing Pembrooke Park and are startled to find it entombed as it was abruptly left: tea cups encrusted with dry tea, moth-eaten clothes in wardrobes, a doll's house left mid-play...

The handsome local curate welcomes them, but though he and his family seem acquainted with the manor's past, the only information they offer is a stern warning: Beware trespassers drawn by rumors that Pembrooke Park contains a secret room filled with treasure.

This catches Abigail's attention. Hoping to restore her family's finances--and her dowry--Abigail looks for this supposed treasure. But eerie sounds at night and footprints in the dust reveal she isn't the only one secretly searching the house. Then Abigail begins receiving anonymous letters, containing clues about the hidden room and startling discoveries about the past. 

As old friends and new foes come calling at Pembrooke Park, secrets come to light. Will Abigail find the treasure and love she seeks...or very real danger? Purchase the book HERE. 


Three-time Christy Award winner Julie Klassen loves all things Jane--Jane Eyre and Jane Austen. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Julie worked in publishing for sixteen years and now writes full time. She and her husband have two sons and live in St. Paul, Minnesota. Learn more at www.julieklassen.com.

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes. This weekend, our daughters have performances at The Artichoke Sandwich Bar in Wichita on Friday and at Ad Astra Books and Coffee in Salina on Saturday. If you're in the area, we'd love for you to join us! See more HERE. 
Blonde Brownies
Kettle Corn
Featured Author, Terri Reed, shares her recipe for Onion Pasta.

Prom 2015

Earlier this month, we celebrated our youngest daughter's last prom. She decided to reconstruct a used dress she'd been given, and then worked for weeks adding beading to the upper lace. It turned out beautiful.
She went with a 50's hairstyle that reminded me of Lauren Bacall. She and her date looked quite spiffy.
It's hard to imagine that she's in her last year of high school and will be graduating in only a few short weeks. What do I always say??? ..Enjoy the moments ...

Book Preview ~ Plots and Pans

Plots and Pans, by Kelly Eileen Hake

Order dictates Tucker Carmichael’s life— his  orders. On a cattle drive, a moment’s hesitation can mean death. The Chisholm Trail is dirty, dangerous, and no place for women. After years at school, Jessalyn Culpepper has come home and is determined to show everyone that a woman can manage everything from cooking to cattle—whether they like it or not! Tucker tries to manage his partner’s headstrong sister, horrified when she wants to join the cattle drive. But when they need a chuck wagon cook, Jessalyn seems the only solution. Will God stir up love along a trail filled with their Plots and Pans? Purchase the book HERE. 

Kelly Eileen Hake received her first writing contract at the tender age of seventeen and arranged to wait three months until she was able to legally sign it. Since that first contract a decade ago, she s fulfilled twenty contracts ranging from short stories to novels. In her spare time, she s attained her BA in English literature and composition, earned her credential to teach English in secondary schools, and went on to complete her MA in writing popular fiction.Writing for Barbour combines two of Kelly s great loves history and reading. A CBA bestselling author and member of American Christian Fiction Writers, she s been privileged to earn numerous Heartsong Presents Reader s Choice Awards and is known for her witty, heartwarming historical romances. A newlywed, she and her gourmet-chef husband live in Southern California with their golden lab mix, Midas! Visit Kelly's website HERE. 

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes. Our daughters will be performing twice this weekend--Friday night in Carthage, MO, and Sunday afternoon in Olathe. See more HERE. 
Cracked Sugar Cookies
Batter Fried Chicken
Cookbook Preview ~ Around the Table Cookbook by Martina McBride

Our Week with Emma

Last week we had the joy of watching our granddaughter while our oldest daughter was in Phoenix. 
Emma is growing up to be such a little "stinker"--full of two-year-old enthusiasm, energy, and expressions! 
She's quite the talker, too, and loves playing--inside or outside. Her "aunts" had a delightful time playing with her and showing her around.
She especially enjoyed the little doll house we brought in from storage. Her aunts did too! 

Book Preview ~ Beyond All Dreams

Beyond all Dreams, by Elizabeth Camden

Anna O'Brien leads a predictable and quiet life as a map librarian at the illustrious Library of Congress until she stumbles across a baffling mystery of a ship disappeared at sea. She is thwarted in her attempts to uncover information, but her determination outweighs her shyness and she turns to a dashing congressman for help.
Luke Callahan was one of the nation's most powerful congressmen until his promising career became shadowed in scandal. Eager to share in a new cause and intrigued by the winsome librarian, he joins forces with Anna to solve the mystery of the lost ship.Opposites in every way, Anna and Luke are unexpectedly drawn to each other despite the strict rules forbidding Anna from any romantic entanglement with a member of Congress. From the gilded halls of the Capitol, where powerful men shape the future of the nation, to the scholarly archives of the nation's finest library, Anna and Luke are soon embroiled in secrets much bigger and more perilous than they ever imagined. Is bringing the truth to light worth risking all they've ever dreamed for themselves? Purchase the book HERE.  Elizabeth Camden is the author of six books and a RITA and Christy Award winner. With a master's in history and a master's in library science, she is a research librarian by day and scribbles away on her next novel by night. Elizabeth lives with her husband in Florida. Visit her website at www.elizabethcamden.com.

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes. Enjoy your weekend! 
Goulash
Seven Minute Frosting
Featured Author, Sally Jadlow, shares her recipe for Oatmeal Scotchies