Raine Balkera - Romance Author

Hi, everyone! Welcome back for another installment of the MFRW Author Blog 's 52-Week Blog Challenge. This is now Week 49 of the challenge, and today's topic is: A Favorite Recipe  Having not grown up in a Betty Crocker type environment, although my mother did use her cookbooks from time to time, she just wasn't of a mind to allow her two daughters to help out around the house... least of all in the kitchen. That's right, folks! Me and my older sister were responsible for our sides of a shared bedroom and that was it. Ma did all of the household chores because that was her way: HER way and no other way, in other words. When I left home, I did my fair share of cooking and turned out (if you don't mind my saying so) to be a rather decent cook. As for baking, well, the simple answer is no. Gas or electric stove, my cookie bottoms burn, my cakes sink, don't rise, or taste 'off' in some way. As for yum-yum's, I'll tell you tha...

MFRW.org 52-Week Blog Challenge Hello, again, and welcome back to another episode of the MFRWauthor 52-Week Blog Challenge . It's Week 24, and this time we're asked to Choose/Describe our LAST MEAL. I'll begin with an irreverent shot at the blog's title for this week's challenge and say I suspect that EVERYONE will partake of a Last Meal prior to their departure from this world, eh? They just won't know it in most cases. Then I'll include something maudlin and recall my father's last day on this planet (a week ago +30 some yrs). With this being Father's Day Weekend here in the USA (MX, UK, and CA), it has its place. It was a strange day for sure, and he behaved too abnormal for my comfort or keener instincts. He had made a big stink about the night's meal, insisting that the whole family be there to help him partake of none other than carry-out from his favorite Chinese restaurant. We were a grown family of six, each wit...