Recipes With Maddie Day: Colorful Coleslaw

By Maddie Day

Colorful Coleslaw

Robbie serves up this easy side dish in Grilled for Murder.

Recipe thanks to Bill Castle.

Serves six.

Ingredients

  • 6 cups shredded red and green cabbage
  • 2 carrots, peeled and shredded
  • 2/3 cup mayonnaise
  • 2 tablespoons vinegar (cider vinegar or white vinegar)
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1 tablespoon fresh prepared horseradish
  • 2 tablespoons sugar, or to taste
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground celery seed
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt, or to taste
  • Chopped fresh dill

Directions

  1. Toss cabbage in a large bowl with the carrots.
  2. In a bowl, whisk together the remaining ingredients except the dill. Pour the mixture over the cabbage and carrots and toss to coat thoroughly.

 


Robbie Jordan may have had reservations about the murder victim, but she still needs to turn up the heat on a killer if she wants to keep her new restaurant open for business…

In the charming small town of South Lick, Indiana, Robbie has transformed a rundown country store into the runaway hit Pans ‘N Pancakes. But the most popular destination for miles around can also invite trouble. Erica Shermer may be the widow of handsome local lawyer Jim Shermer’s brother, but she doesn’t appear to be in mourning. At a homecoming party held in Robbie’s store, Erica is alternately obnoxious and flirtatious–even batting her eyelashes at Jim. When Erica turns up dead in the store the next morning, apparently clobbered with cookware, the police suspect Robbie’s friend Phil, who closed up after the party. To clear Phil and calm her customers, Robbie needs to step out from behind the counter and find the real killer in short order…