{Recipes for Romance} featuring Hope Tarr, author of A Cinderella Christmas Carol (with Giveaway)

All month long, we’re featuring some of our favorite authors, along with a quick Q&A and some of their favorite recipes. We’ve got daily giveaways with chances to win some amazing (and steamy!) reads plus a month-long Recipes for Romance Grand Prize Giveaway for a box filled with books and more!

Today Hope Tarr stopped by with a recipe for Hope’s Healthy Hot Artichoke Dip!

**Q&A with Hope Tarr**

What is your favorite holiday tradition?

On Christmas Eve, we go out somewhere cozy for dinner, then bundle up and take a long walk to ooh and ah over the Christmas decorations. We sit up sipping eggnog until midnight so we can say “Merry Christmas!” before the holiday is so much as a minute old.

What is your most unusual holiday memory?

Last year my boyfriend’s mom slipped and broke her hip. In my apartment. On Christmas Day. We had the paramedics with us for more than two hours. I’m hopeful of having a less…eventful Christmas this year.

What was your favorite moment under the mistletoe?

Confession: I have actually never stood under real mistletoe as Starr and Matt do in A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS CAROL. I’ll have to try it this year and see what happens. 😉

What’s your favorite Christmas carol or holiday movie?

A Christmas Carol definitely. I love that the Dickens’ classic tale is actually a ghost story!

What’s the sexiest gift you ever got/gave?

A kiss.

Peppermint Mocha or Pumpkin Spiced Latte?

Tough call but I have to say peppermint mocha

Egg Nog or Apple Cider?

Egg nog and preferably well-spiked. 🙂

Themed Christmas Tree or HodgePodge?

Themed but my boyfriend prefers hodgepodge so that’s usually what we go with.

Old School Bulbs or Icicle Lights?

Neither—I have a cat with an appetite for all things electrical. 🙂

During this Holiday Season, is it better to Give or Receive?

I’m hoping to do a good bit of both. 🙂

We can’t wait to try out Hope’s delicious recipe for:

**Hope’s Healthy Hot Artichoke Dip**

Message from Hope:

It has never once let me down. Never. Leftovers reheated in the microwave are just as delish.

Appetizers

Prep Time: 5-10 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Serves: 8 to 10

Ingredients:

• 1 can or jar of artichoke hearts (whole or quartered) packed in water
• 1 8 ox container of low fat sour cream
• 2 tablespoons of low fat mayonnaise
• 1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
• 2 cups 2% shredded Mozzarella
• Tabasco Sauce to taste

Directions:

Drain artichokes and mash with fork. In a medium to large mixing bowl, combine the artichokes with sour cream, mayonnaise, three quarters of the cheeses, and Tabasco Sauce. Mix and pour into an oven safe baking dish. Sprinkle remaining cheeses evenly on top. Bake on 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes or until casserole is bubbling. Serve immediately with pita crisps, slices of French bread or your favorite snack crackers.

Want more Appetizers? Get recipes for Appetizers and lots of other delectable holiday dishes from your favorite authors all month long right here on Steamy Guys After Dark!

**About A Cinderella Christmas Carol**

A Cinderella Christmas Carol by Hope Tarr
Series: Suddenly Cinderella
Published by Entangled: Flirt on November 28, 2012
Pages: 58

There’s nothing On Top managing editor Cynthia “Starr” Starling hates more than Christmas. With an important deadline looming, plus her dreaded Christmas Day birthday, Starr just wants the holiday to end. But when she wakes up Christmas Eve night to the ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future—all in the form of the super-hot Matt Landry, the new art director—she knows she’s in for a long night.

Matt is the one person on Starr’s team she can’t boss around and the only one she doesn’t need to. He’s also her employee and totally off limits, even if he does seem interested. Though he’s seven years younger and all kinds of forbidden fruit, he’s the form the Powers That Be decided she’d be receptive to.

Because they have a message for her: learn the true meaning of Christmas spirit or risk being alone for the rest of her life.

Other Books in Suddenly Cinderella Series:

Other Books by Hope Tarr:

***GIVEAWAY***

One copy of Operation Cinderella (Suddenly Cinderella Book #1), either e-book or autographed trade paperback, winner’s choice.

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Don’t forget to enter our month-long Recipes for Romance Grand Prize Giveaway for a box filled with books and more!

Happy Holidays!

xo-
The Steam Team

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