Shepard Me to the Pie!

I have this thing for food in literature.

Maybe I'm just ultra-suggestable? But every time a read about food, I. Must. Have it!

I'm pretty sure that if reading professionally were my side hustle, I'd weigh over 390 pounds.

Heather Graham's A Dangerous Game is no exception. What a perfect book to read around St Patrick's day?! It's got all your Irish comfort food and crime fighting shenanigans wrapped in a kelly green bow!

One of my favorite settings for this book is an Irish pub in downtown Ney York City. It's been handed down through the character's family generation after generation. You can imagine those walls have seen all the good and bad that ever happens to these characters. Ms. Graham does an amazing job of taking us there.

And best of all, she has fooood! Shepard's pie, to be exact. A comfort food that I hadn't indulged in for so long, it makes my pallet weep!

Quick side, note, my kids hate, hate, hate shepard's pie. But tonight, I don't care. after reading about it, I'm heading home to bake one huge batch of all that gooey, cheesy, melty yumminess! And I am going to ignore my children's wails and muppet flails of injustice as each spoonful enters my mouth.