by Robin Kaye, guest blogger, author of Breakfast in Bed.

In my first two books, Romeo, Romeo and Too Hot to Handle, readers immediately fell in love with my heroes—men I call Domestic Gods. They actually like cooking, insist on doing the cleaning, and taking care of my heroines in every sense of the word! My most recent release, Breakfast in Bed (in stores now!), features a different kind of hero—one that is domestically challenged; Rich Ronaldi is a man used to having everything done for him… So he enlists his sister’s best friend, Becca Larsen to teach him how to do things around the house, but he never realizes that she might be the one thing he really needs!

Below are a few recipes that every Domestic God should know—take note, you might want your own DGs to keep these on file!

1. Romantic Dinner: An easy and romantic dinner of Baked Salmon

Ingredients:

• 4 fillets of Salmon
• Enough Mayonnaise to coat the top liberally
• Dill
• Garlic powder
• Lemon pepper

Directions:

1. Spray a Pyrex baking dish with Pam. Rinse and dry salmon.
2. Place the salmon fillets skin side down in dish.
3. Brush the top of salmon with a thick layer of mayonnaise so that none of the fish is showing. Sprinkle liberally with dill, a little garlic and lemon pepper to taste.
4. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 – 20 minutes until the fish flakes when poked with a fork or knife.
5. Serve with yellow rice (can be cooked in the microwave, follow directions on package) Steamed broccoli, and a Caesar Salad (you can use the packaged salad, just throw the evidence away before your date arrives.)

2. Homemade Massage Oil

Ingredients:

• 10 teaspoons grape seed oil
• 7 drops of patchouli essential/fragrance oil
• 4 drops jasmine essential/fragrance oil
• 2 drops rose essential/fragrance oil

Directions:

1. Blend well, warm up oil and hands before doing any massage. Use liberally.

3. Bubble Bath

Ingredients:

• Bath tub
• Bubble Bath
• Candles
• Wine

Directions:

1. Clean tub, buy bubble bath, run a nice hot bath, and add twice the amount of bubble bath the directions call for.
2. Light candles and place around the tub and counters being careful not to light anything else on fire except maybe your significant other’s libido.
3. Pour her favorite wine and then take plenty of time undressing her, soaping her up, rinsing and drying and then break out the whipped cream or Chocolate Fondue (recipe below) for a desert you both can enjoy.
4. Repeat as necessary.

4. Chocolate Fondue

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup heavy whipping cream (reserve a ¼ cup in case fondue needs to be thinned or cooled for other uses) *grin*
• 4 bittersweet chocolate bars chopped (3 ½ oz. each)
• 2 Tablespoons Frangelico or Amaretto (optional)
• Food for dipping such as strawberries, pretzels, marshmallows, biscotti, orange slices etc. (use your imagination.)

Directions:

1. Heat cream in microwave being careful not to scald, add chocolate and let sit in hot cream for a few minutes then whisk together with cream.
2. Stir in liqueur and transfer to a fondue pot or set the mixing bowl on a rack over a small, lit candle.
3. Dip fruit and other edibles and feed each other.
4. Then, if you wish, cool the remaining chocolate fondue off with heavy cream, one tablespoon at a time, until it’s cool enough to dip your fingers (or other body parts) in.

5. Breakfast in Bed: Easy Eggs Benedict

Ingredients:

• 2 English muffins
• 4 pieces of Canadian Bacon
• 4 spears of asparagus, with hard end broken off and then broken in half
• 4 eggs
• Hollandaise sauce (recipe below)
• Orange Juice
• Coffee
• 1 Rose

Directions:

1. Microwave asparagus in with about ¼ cup water for 5 minutes on high in a microwave safe bowl with a glass lid. Set aside.
2. Toast and butter English Muffins. (set aside)
3. Make Hollandaise sauce. Keep the sauce warm over a pot of hot water, taken off heat, whisking every few minutes.
4. Cook eggs and Canadian bacon. You can poach the eggs, but it’s not necessary. No one will complain if you make them over easy, just use a lot of Hollandaise sauce and no one will ever know
5. Assemble: Place the English muffins on plates, put one piece of Canadian bacon on each half, top with an egg, 2 pieces of asparagus and cover with Hollandaise sauce. Serve with a good cup of coffee, orange juice and a long stemmed rose. Enjoy!

Hollandaise Sauce:

Ingredients:

• ½ cup butter
• 2-3 teaspoons lemon juice
• 2 egg yolks
• 1-2 tablespoons cold water
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• Dash of white pepper (or black – it doesn’t really change the taste, white just looks better)

Directions:

• 1. Place butter and lemon juice in microwave safe bowl and microwave until melted.
  2. While whisking, add egg yolks one at a time. Beat until smooth.
  3. Return to microwave at medium for 15 seconds and watch carefully until it begins looking grainy.
  4. Quickly add a tablespoon or two of cold water and whisk until smooth. Add salt and pepper.

Directions for a Full Romantic Evening

1. Start off with a lovely dinner, wine and candlelight.
2. Move on to a full body massage and then a bubble bath for two.
3. After you’re done with the bath, let her soak on her own for a while.
4. In the mean time, throw together the chocolate fondue and then let nature take its course.
5. Be sure to wake up before she does the next morning and surprise her with a scrumptious Breakfast in Bed!

Ladies, feel free to print this for your significant others. If he can’t take a hint, or even if he can, go ahead and pick up a copy of my latest release, Breakfast in Bed. It’s almost as satisfying as all of the above. Almost, but not quite.

Be sure to check out my website (http://www.robinkayewrites.com/) for the Top 10 List of Reasons Women love Domestic Gods as well as the first chapters of all three of the Domestic Gods Books, Romeo, Romeo, Too Hot to Handle and Breakfast in Bed.

Now tell your idea of a romantic evening. You’ve already seen the recipe for mine.

Breakfast in Bed by Robin Kaye—in stores January 2010

The third funny, sexy, contemporary romance from a fresh new voice in romance fiction

Rich, the epitome of “anti-domestic,” can’t cook to save his life, and his idea of cleaning his apartment is to invite his mother over. But he’s ready to settle down, and he can’t stop thinking about the ex-girlfriend who got away. When he notices that his soon-to-be-married friends cooked and cleaned their way into their women’s hearts, he asks his friend Becca to help transform him into a nurturing man to win back his ex.

Rich is the only guy who’s taken the time to know Becca for herself. She decides she’ll give him the makeover he’s asking for, though she’ll be damned if she’s going to turn him into a domestic god for another woman. She wants Rich for herself, but how can she convince him that her kitchen and her bedroom are the only domestic locales he desires?

Buy: Breakfast in Bed

About the Author

Award-winning author Robin Kaye is a professional writer and winner of the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart award for her first novel, Romeo, Romeo. Once it was published, Romeo, Romeo won the 2008 Best Contemporary itRom (Italian Romance) Award by Romance B(u)y the Book, the 2009 HOLT Medallion Contest First Place Winner for Best Romantic Comedy and the 2009 NJRW Golden Leaf Award Winner for Best Single Title. Her romantic comedies feature sexy, nurturing heroes and feisty, independent heroines. She lives with her husband and three children in Mt. Airy, Maryland. For more information, please visit http://www.robinkayewrites.com/

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