Make a Note to Grab Dorot™ This Holiday Season!

There’s something magical about fresh herbs and aromatic garlic in the kitchen, but peeling, chopping, and measuring can often turn that magic into a chore. Enter Dorot Gardens™, the brand that makes it effortless to bring farm-fresh flavor to your meals, no matter how busy life gets.

Dorot Gardens™ specializes in flash-frozen, pre-portioned cubes of garlic, ginger, herbs, and sautéed onions. Each cube is frozen within 90 minutes of harvest, locking in flavor, aroma, and essential nutrients. This means that every dish you make, from weeknight stir-fries to elaborate holiday dinners, carries the taste and freshness of just-picked ingredients. There’s no more stinky fingers from peeling garlic, and even better--no more wasted herbs! I can't tell you how many bunches of cilantro and parsley become a wilted mess in my crisper because I can't use them fast enough. 

The product line is extensive. You’ll find crushed garlic, ginger, sautéed and glazed onions, chopped basil, cilantro, and more. Each item is designed for convenience without compromising quality, making it easy to elevate any dish instantly. Whether you’re cooking solo, for family, or entertaining guests, these cubes save prep time while letting you focus on what really matters: enjoying your food and the people around it. 

Dorot Gardens™ isn’t just about convenience, it’s about enhancing your cooking experience. Their innovative flash-freezing technology preserves flavor in a way that traditional freezing can’t, so even months later, you can enjoy the brightness of freshly harvested herbs and the depth of perfectly roasted onions. For busy home cooks, this combination of freshness, flavor, and time-saving practicality is a game-changer. 

I swear by the garlic and ginger cubes because peeling and crushing garlic has always been a personal annoyance (my fingernails are magnets for allium odors), and ginger root, while freezable, always seems to get lost in the jumble of my freezer. I just pop as many cubes as I want into my cooking food (or into a bowl to thaw, to use in things like marinades), and put the rest in the freezer. The slim, brightly colored containers take up little space and are easy to spot, so I always know where they are when I need them.

For anyone who loves fresh flavor without the fuss, Dorot Gardens™ makes it simple to cook delicious meals that feel effortless, whether it’s a quick weeknight dinner or a festive holiday feast.

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I Wrote a Book and Lived to Tell the Tale

the cover of my first work of fiction

Some people impulse-buy shoes; I impulse-wrote a murder mystery.

In early June, I got a bee in my bonnet and decided out of nowhere to write a cozy mystery. And it just poured out of me. Like it had been bottled up forever, even though I’d never really given fiction much thought before. That’s my husband’s department. Fiction is his thing.

I guess I wanted a change. A challenge. And, well, I found one. Turns out, it was fun. The kind of fun that makes you want to do it again and again. And so, without further ado, I present my first work of fiction: Killer Sillage. And as some of you may have inferred from the title, perfume is involved. In fact, the lead character, Clare, owns a perfume shop in her (and my) hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. What I didn’t realize—rookie mistake—is that after you finish writing a book, there’s a lot of other stuff to do. I’ve written three other books with my husband, Neal (aka Mr. Minx), all non-fiction and food-related. They were professionally published, so even though Globe Pequot was hardly a marketing powerhouse, at least they handled things like getting the books into stores.

Self-publishing? Whole different animal. Suddenly, I’m not just the writer, I’m the editor, formatter, cover designer, production manager, and distribution department. Right now, Killer Sillage exists as a Kindle e-book, but a paperback will be released in mid-November.

Oh, and apparently I also needed a mailing list and a website. So, in true “let’s-build-the-plane-while-flying-it” fashion, I’ve started both: a Substack for my pen name, Kat LaGue, and a brand-new website.

If you’d like to follow along as I launch Killer Sillage into the world (and get sneak peeks at my next cozy mystery, Savage Gourmand), you can: 

Subscribe to my Substack: LaGue’s Clues, part behind-the-scenes, part fragrance chat. All New Subscribers will receive a FREE bonus origin story. 

Visit my new website: katlague.com, where all the book news will live.

And, of course, buy and read Killer Sillage! 

Come for the murder, stay for the perfume.

P.S. If you know anyone who loves cozy mysteries, perfume, or just a good story with a twist, please send them my way! Sharing this post is the best way to help a new author like me find her readers. Thanks a million!

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