Eye Wit (28 page)
Authors: Hazel Dawkins,Dennis Berry
Ingredients:
1/2 cup olive oil
2 cups each of chopped onions and mushrooms
3/4 cup chopped celery
1 cup each chopped green or red peppers and carrots
1 TBSP minced garlic
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
1 TBSP ground cumin
3/4 TBSP dried basil (or lots of fresh)
2 TBSP chili powder
3/4 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp pepper
Salt to taste – Terry uses 2 tsp
2 cups tomato juice
2 cups tomatoes, chopped
2 cups kidney beans (you can use the liquid)
1/2 tsp Tabasco
2 TBSP lemon juice
3 TBSP tomato paste
1 TBSP Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup dry red or white wine
2 TBSP chopped canned green chilies or to taste
Steps:
—Heat olive oil in a large skillet.
—Over high heat, add onions, celery, green peppers, garlic, mushrooms, spices, salt and pepper.
—Cook, stirring, for 1-2 minutes.
—Add remaining ingredients & bring to a boil, stirring.
—Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes, uncovered.
—If too thick, the chili can be thinned with more tomato juice.
About the Authors
Hazel Dawkins, an editor-writer who started out in London’s newspaper world, has worked in Paris and New York and now is based in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
Her factual books on behavioral optometry, a specialty in optometry that is available in forty countries, are published by (and available from) the Optometric Extension Program Foundation in California, the professional organization for optometrists (
http://www.oepf.org/
).
Eye Wit
is the second Dr. Yoko Kamimura mystery. The intrepid behavioral optometrist and sleuth was introduced in Hazel’s first mystery,
Eye Sleuth
, a cozier read, also set in New York City.
Dennis Berry’s career as a writer includes stints with the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, architecture and engineering firms in the Pacific Northwest, the Royal Saudi Navy and the Saudi Aramco oil company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and The Boeing Company in Seattle.
Journalism credits include feature articles for the
Daily Astorian
in Astoria, Oregon and the
Chinook Observer
in Long Beach, Washington.
Works of fiction, besides
Eye Wit,
include
Mommie Dearest,
an Andy Eastman novel
,
and
Papa Doc
, another Andy Eastman novel (to be published in 2012).
Dennis enjoys life with a diminutive yet stalwart badger hound in Oregon’s tsunami zone near the mouth of the mighty Columbia River.
Both authors’ books are available at:
http://www.murderprose.com
