Honey Citrus Immunity Tea

This comforting, immunity-boosting herbal tea is especially nice on cold winter nights when you’re curled up next to the fire.

Honey Citrus Immunity Tea
1 lemon thinly sliced
½ orange thinly sliced
1 inch knob of ginger, peeled and minced
½ tablespoon turmeric
½ cup raw honey

Combine first four ingredients into a glass jar and pour honey over the mixture. Let infuse for several days. When you feel a cold coming on, add 1 heaping tablespoon of the mixture to hot water and sip until gone. You can store in the refrigerator for up to one month.

Jennifer Beckstrand is the award winning Amish romance author of The Matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill series and The Honeybee Sisters series for Kensington Books. Huckleberry Summer was nominated for the RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award and the 2015 RITA® Award, and Huckleberry Hill won the 2014 LIME Award for Inspirational fiction. Both Huckleberry Hill and Huckleberry Christmas appeared in Examiner.com list of top ten inspirational books for 2014. Her much-anticipated Amish series, The Honeybee Sisters, was released summer of 2016 and has created a lot of romantic buzz. Sweet as Honey received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and Sweet as Honey and A Bee in her Bonnet were both awarded Top Picks from RT Book Reviews. Jennifer has always been drawn to the strong faith and the enduring family ties of the Plain people and loves writing about the antics of Anna and Felty Helmuth and the Honeybee sisters’ aendi Bitsy. Jennifer has a degree in mathematics and a passion for Jane Austen and Shakespeare. She and her husband have been married for thirty-two years, and she has four daughters, two sons, and four adorable grandchildren, whom she spoils rotten.

For more information about Jennifer, check her Web site.  

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Black bean, Orzo, and Sausage Soup

Black bean, Orzo, and Sausage Soup

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 40 minutes
Total time: 55 minutes

This recipe is one you can pretty much use the measurements you want.
2 sausage sliced
1 cup black beans soak overnight in water and cook for about an hour prior to adding to soup.
3/4 cup orzo
1/4 bell green pepper cut into large pieces
1/4 bell red pepper cut into large pieces
1/4 onion cut into large pieces
1 jalapeno
2 cloves garlic
5 small tomatoes cut in quarters
2 cups broth
2 cups water
1 tsp oil
Salt and Pepper to taste
Basil fresh about 1 tbsp

Saute veggies in oil. After the veggies are tender add the sliced sausage. Once the sausage is browned out the liquid bring to boil add beans and simmer for about 10 minutes. Add orzo about ten minutes before done.

Serve with rolls and salad. It pairs with a nice blush wine.