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Valentine’s Day is the sweet tooth’s favorite day. Big heart shaped boxes of candy may be the traditional sign of affection for the day, but delectable treats from your kitchen can be just as appealing. Your family might like to start the day with Caramel Apple Sweet Rolls. Charlene Kagele served these at a recent quilters gathering. She got the recipe from an article in Costco Connection, featuring Ree Drummand’s new cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holid...
7 will have arrived by the time you are reading this column. As promised, I have some recipes to help you use up the last of the Christmas cooking ingredients. Either you didn’t get to that recipe or you had to buy more than the recipe called for and now you have leftovers. Our goal for January is to work those items into the weekly menu plan. Emma Cloud brought a delicious Enchilada Casserole to the Community Christmas dinner. Many requests came in for the recipe that i...
So much to do, so little time. With Christmas and New Year’s celebrations right around the corner, Odessa cooks are bustling about with last minute preparations. Throw in a couple of December birthdays, and the schedule overflows. Most families seem to have a favorite cookie recipe, just for special occasions. Peanut Butter Blossoms has been a favorite since my youthful days. My sister and I would try to eat all around the chocolate center without it falling off. The recipe h...
Thanksgiving Day is just around the corner. Many families are already planning meals for celebrations, and often the menu includes roast turkey. Some readers may be new to cooking a turkey. Old pro or first time poultry cooks may find these preparation guidelines useful. Most commercial frozen turkeys come pre-basted and all that is needed is to thaw and roast following package instructions. That said, there are a number of ways to make your turkey a cut above, with extra...
Recipe requests make up a large part of this column. This week brings four recipes that have been requested over the last five months. To start with, we have Jason Schaal’s baked bean recipe, submitted by Charlene Kagele. She had made this recipe for a graduation party early this past summer. Charlene states she is not sure what title Jason has given the recipe but she named it Jason Schaal’s Beans. It makes about a gallon of beans and is super easy to prepare, a great rec...
Crisp fall weather brings out the urge to bake bread. Yeasty dough rising and the aroma of baking bread is comfortable and cozy to the senses. With the development of rapid-rise yeasts, bread machines and their specially formulated yeast, bread baking is not nearly the lengthy process it used to be. Anne Baselt shared two recipes requested by folks who tasted her loaves donated to the Museum Bake Sale at Fest time. Pumpernickel is always a favorite and her recipe is easy to...
Early fall freezing weather has done in most Odessa gardens, but you may have a few zucchini awaiting your attention. Zucchini Crisp, submitted by Jackie Winfrey, Quincy WA, works well with all sizes of this prolific summer squash. She adapted her favorite apple crisp recipe to create this recipe, and states that most crisp recipes would probably convert well. Zucchini Crisp Topping: 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup rolled oats 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1/2 cup butter or...
Deutschesfest is over for another year. By the time you are reading this column the trappings of the event will be stored away, the trash picked up and the streets cleaned. Many recipe requests came my way, for items from the bake sales. I am in the process of rounding up the recipes. One request was for Kaese Kuchen (Cottage Cheese Kuchen) That recipe I know by heart, so was able to jot that on napkins or whatever was handy, for out of town visitors. For those who subscribe...
Love that German food and wish you could take the weekend menu home with you? The Odessa Memorial Hospital Auxiliary has compiled a cookbook with over 500 recipes of German and local cuisine, entitled “Unser Tagelich Brot, The Staff of Life V”, available at various sites throughout Odessa. The actual recipes for many of the menu items you enjoy at Deutschesfest are in this book. Kuchen, German coffee cake, is one of the easiest to prepare, but like most German recipes, the...
Bake sale season is coming. Odessa area residents received postcards reminding them of the Odessa Museum German Bake Sale held Friday of Deutchesfest, and soliciting donations of baked goods. Though kuchen and pfefferneuse are hot sellers, there are lots of buyers looking for quick breads, yeast breads and rolls, pies, cakes and cookies. Wendy Cronrath, Lacrosse, WA served several baked items at an Odessa, summer event. I don’t usually devote an entire column to one persons r...
So many recipes, so little space. Over the next few weeks, I will get all the submitted recipes published. This weeks column will focus on the most summery recipes, and of course, zucchini. Kathy Ratkowski brought UnPotato Salad to a recent community potluck picnic. Cauliflower is used in place of potatoes to create a low-carb salad. Kathy made note on the recipe that she uses a little less mayonnaise than the recipe calls for, and substituted the light version. UnPotato...
Zucchini quiche, stir-fry, and yeast rolls are on the menu this week. Merleen Smith served a Zucchini Bacon Quiche at a recent brunch gathering that garnered numerous recipe requests. She got the recipe from Nancy Floether, who found the recipe in the 2004 August/September issue of Taste of Home Magazine. The recipe is attributed to Sheri Krueger of Black Creek, Wisconsin. Zucchini Bacon Quiche 1 tube (8 ounces) refrigera- tor crescent rolls 2 tsp prepared mustard 6 bacon stri...
Zucchini plants growing in Odessa gardens are beginning to produce the annual over abundance of this versatile vegetable. There is no end to the number and variety of recipes devised to use up the abundance of fruit produced by this prolific plant. Cakes, breads, cookies, casseroles and salads, the recipes keep coming. Several years ago Cindi Bell, formerly of Odessa, gave me copies of a stack of zucchini recipes that she had collected and developed to incorporate zucchini...
Odessa seems to be overrun with skunks this year. Monday of this week I saw three skunks, all in different areas of town. To my way of thinking, that is three skunks too many. Eradicating skunks is probably not a kitchen subject, but de-skunking dogs, other animals and items, could be. Ingredients for a good de-skunking solution are mostly found in the kitchen. Leanna Schafer’s dogs had an unpleasant meeting with a skunk several years ago. She found this recipe on A...
Mother’s Day is this coming Sunday. Mom might like a batch of Steel-cut Oatmeal Granola Bars for quick snacks or lunch time fare. Several weeks ago, they were a number of granola recipes in a Spokesman Review article. Most contained expensive ingredients not readily available locally, but several called for steel-cut oats. What I did learn from the article is that toasting the steel-cut oats before adding them to any recipe allows them to take on flavors and absorb liquid b...
Slow-cooker meal preparation fits nicely into spring activity schedules, allowing home cooked meals to be ready when a quick dinner is required. Fix-It and Forget-It, Feasting with your Slow Cooker, by Dawn J. Ranck and Phyllis Pellman Good is one of my favorite slow-cooker recipe resources. There is a recipe for just about everything in it. Awfully Easy Chicken, by Martha Hershey of Ronks, PA is a wonderful base recipe for combining chicken and just about any bottled sauce....
First on the menu this week is a correction. I omitted part of a sentence in the cooking instructions for Roasted Brussels Sprouts. The third paragraph of instructions for the recipe should read as follows: Place in oven and bake 15 minutes, turn sprouts with spatula and bake 15 minutes more. Sprouts should be browned and very dark on the edges. I apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused. Start your day with Amish Baked Oatmeal, a recipe submitted by K...
It is snowing as I sit down this early Monday morning to write the column. Is March going to come in like a lion or a lamb? Either way this yummy, Chunky Apple Cake recipe, submitted by Kathy Jantz, is perfect for late winter and early spring. Additionally it just might be the recipe Nancy Liner has been searching for. The ingredients are the same and if one makes the small goof that Nancy reported making, the results would be the same. Nancy’s error, she reported, was m...
Super Bowl and a simmering pot of stew, a recipe sure to please game day sports fans. Slow Cooker BBQ Beef Stew, from www.kraftrecipes.com is easy to prepare. A smoky barbeque aroma develops as your slow cooker does the work and you won’t miss a play of the game. Slow Cooker BBQ Beef Stew 1 Tbsp cooking oil 2 pounds beef stew meat (11/2 inch cubes) 5 carrots (3/4 pound), peeled, cut into 1 inch pieces 1 large onion, cut into chunks 2 1/2 pounds small red potatoes, quartered 3...
Here it is, as promised, my list of “must keep” cookbooks. If I had to pare my cookbook library to just twelve books, these would be my selections. With these twelve publications I would feel well equipped to prepare edible fare from just about any potable item that came my way. 1. Ann Pillsbury’s Baking Book, 1961 2. Fix It and Forget It Cookbook by Dawn J. Ranck and Phyllis Pellman Good, 2000 3 Searchlight Recipe Book, Household Magazine, 1945 4. Best of Country Cooking, Rei...
Cook what you eat, and eat what you cook. Could this be your resolution for 2013? With rising food costs, meals take a bigger bite out of the family budget. Wasted food increases the cost, with no benefit to family or the budget. According to a CNN report, August 12, 2012, American families throw out 25% of purchased food, amounting to approximately 20 pounds per person a month, totaling from $1,350.00 to $2,275.00annually for a family of four. The article goes on to speak of...
Snow on the ground, the last days of school for the year, company coming and the bustle of the season seems to make kitchens the hub of activity. Let’s start off with an easy but a bit unusual, Apple Cranberry Salad, quick to prepare at a moments notice, from ingredients you can keep on hand. I came across this recipe in my dads recipe box. It was written out in his own hand using a fountain pen, but no notation of where or when he got the recipe. My guess would be around 1...
“Christmas Time’s a Comin’…..Home for the Holidays”, familiar lines from popular Christmas songs, sounds, sights and aromas bring visions of seasonal delights to our minds. Time to get out your holiday recipes and plot a baking plan. I’ve added a new favorite to my list of Christmas recipes. Faux Pecan Pie was a hit with the family at Thanksgiving. This pie is made with pretzels, and if you choose a nut free brand (not produced in a factory where nuts are processed)...
The feast of Thanksgiving is upon us, and as we gather with family and friends to give thanks and celebrate, let us not forget the Thanksgiving part. Here is a quick way to create a visual reminder of all we have to be thankful for. Take fall colored construction paper and cut into strips about 5 1/2 inches by 1 inch. Gather up some fine point marking pens and a stapler or two. Throughout the day or even the several days around Thanksgiving encourage everyone to write things...
Several requests for sugar free recipes have come in over the past two weeks. The holiday baking season is fast approaching, and folks who have recently been diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes are struggling to find suitable recipes to replace traditional sweets. I have found that it is best to use recipes developed by the sugar free sweetener companies, as each product is a bit different, and none of them cook up the same as granulated beet or cane sugar. Splenda.com...
