Highland Scampi

The small town of Kindlin is a logging town on the very northern edge of Dalron. It is more then fifty miles east and a little north of NorthRidge. This town cuts timber from the Great Pine Forest and sends it either by boat or the long road to the NorthRidge ship yards. The timber is how the town prospers, but it is not what it is famous for. When the town was first settled they cleared many hundred acres of forest around the town. This was done for many reasons, to provide timber to build the town, to provide farm land for the town and to make it hard for anything hostile to sneak up on the town.

It is in the farm lands that what makes the town famous through out the trade routes begins. Since Kindlin gets very few summer months besides a few vegetables the main crop is winter wheat. That winter wheat comprises the majority of the diet of the residence. Every year though one family will tour the fields and purchase only the best ten percent of the crops. This is then brought to their distillery and is made into a Kindlin Whiskey. The exact process is a closely guarded secret but the end result is one of the most sought after liquors in the world. A bottle of this can fetch up to 50 gold crowns, the average family in NorthRidge lives on less than one gold crown every two months. To be fair though the family that brews the whiskey always pays at least three times the actually value for any wheat they buy, and gives much back to the community at large sponsoring many festivals through out the year.

The same family runs a small inn for the visiting tradesmen and Nobles that come to buy the stock directly from them. The food at this inn is expensive to anyone from out of town, a dichotomy you find in many tourist towns. The food is excellent and worth the trip to sample it. While I was in town I attempted to find out some of the recipes from one of the cooks assistance. She was quite pretty and very smart, so she only gave me one recipe.

10 shrimp (40-50 count) peeled and veined
2 tablespoons single malt scotch (your favorite)
4 tablespoons butter
Salt to taste

- Melt the butter on low heat in a small skillet
- When butter is melted add scotch increase heat to medium
- After about a minute add shrimp
- cook the shrimp until they are completely pink and the liquid has reduced about 3 min a side depending on stove
- Serve in small dish or over rice.

From the book 'Musings of economic unfairness' By Ratt World Famous Thief

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January 5, 2012: The Epub version of my book is now onsale, also in celebration discounted the price of the paperback for a limited time.

December 8, 2011: My first novel is available for sale on Lulu, also uploaded the 3 recipe stories I edited.

October 3, 2011: Due to the impending publication of my first novel, I will be taking some time off from book 2 to edit all of the stories on here. No dates will be changed unless a significant rewrite occurs and then it will be marked: new date (old date).