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Show The Emery County Review, Tuesday, November 4, 2008 AT YOUR LEISURE Casey’s Pockets Swell Book Reviews Swell Recipes A7 Entertainment SWELL RECIPES A Few Favorite Recipes from the Draper Home Kathy Ockey Walking into SaraLe Draper’s home I was greeted with a cozy fire burning, a beautiful Christmas tree, and three very cute and active children, Shaylyn, Ollie, and Orrie. Ollie was excited to show me the tool box he is very proud of. SaraLe grew up in Cleveland and is the daughter of Scott and Irene Allred. Her husband, Jeremy, was raised in Cedar Fort. The two met at a Buzz baseball game and the rest is history. The Draper family likes to go camping and fishing but SaraLe admitted, “it is a challenge packing for three kids and all of the other necessary things you need on a camping trip, but we still have fun.” SaraLe also likes to read, but her favorite pastime is spending time with her children and her family. The two older children said they like to have their mom jump on the trampoline with them. SaraLe is an excellent cook and said she enjoys cooking, “as long as I know somebody is going to eat it.” She said her mom taught her how to cook and she has received several recipes from Jeremy’s mom and grandmother. SaraLe said both she and her husband enjoy Mexican food and they have it quite often, but the children aren’t very fond of it so she also makes them what they like. SaraLe likes to cook and try new recipes, often adapting them to what they all enjoy. She said she is now learning a lot of short cuts to cooking that speeds up meal preparation time. Following are several recipes that are their family favorites: Grandma Joan’s Chocolate Cake (Jeremy requests this for his birthday cake every year) 2 cups sugar 1 cup shortening 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups milk 1 tablespoon vinegar 1/2 cup cocoa 2 1/2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt Mix sugar, shortening, vanilla, eggs, and cocoa. Add vinegar to milk. Mix rest of dry ingredients together. Mix half of dry ingredients in, then half of milk, half of flour; then mix together second half of ingredients. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes, (may take a few minutes longer). Frost with fudge frosting (below). Fudge Frosting 2 cups sugar 3 – 4 squares cocoa 3/4 cup canned milk Cook at medium heat until boiling – boil for three minutes. Remove from heat and add: 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/3 cup chocolate chips 2 handfuls miniature marshmallows 1 cup chopped nuts Pour on hot cake while mixture is still hot Pork/Shrimp Enchiladas Pink sauce: Mix together 11/2 cups sour cream; 1/2 cup green onion, 1/8 cup cilantro, 1 teaspoon Cumin, 1 teaspoon garlic, 1/2 teaspoon chili powder, 11/4 cup salsa. 2 pounds pork tenderloin, cooked and shredded 2 cups small shrimp 1 small can of green chili enchilada sauce Shredded cheddar cheese 8 tortilla shells Pour 1/2 can of green chili sauce in the bottom of a 9 by13 inch casserole dish. Put desired amount of pork and shrimp mix in center of tortilla. Add pink sauce and cheese and roll. Place in casserole dish. Pour remaining green enchilada sauce and shredded cheese on top. Cover and bake at 350 degrees until heated through, approximately 45 minutes. High School Kids are Dumb Despite arguments by many, including myself, last weekend forced me to come to terms with the fact that teenagers, specifically high school students, and even more specifically the Emery High Sterling Scholars, are idiots. Some of the Sterling Scholars along with a few others got together for an activity at Canyon View Junior High School. When we were finished, one student had parked behind all of our cars, preventing us from backing out. Another student, a Sterling Scholar, thought that, rather than waiting, he could drive a truck through the snow built up on the edge of the parking lot. He thought wrong. As he pulled forward, he took the truck over the curb and into deep snow. The remaining six boys and three girls tried to push the truck forward through the snow while he tried to steer the vehicle onward. After failing at that, we tried to push the front end of the vehicle as he backed out. Despite our best efforts, the only thing that we accomplished was getting cold. Because we were men such intelligence, three of us were wearing shorts. A man having fun in the snow with his family approached us and offered his help. He tried to direct the pilot of the truck while the rest (now up to 10 people) pushed and pulled. I believe the man summed up the driver’s intelligence, by saying, “And this kid is going to graduate?” A question that we are no longer sure we can accurately answer. Following that statement he proceeded to justly chastise the (We have this every year for Christmas and it is delicious) 2 small packages raspberry or strawberry Jello 1 package frozen raspberries or strawberries 2 cups hot water 1 or 2 mashed bananas 1 or 2 pomegranates 1/2 cup chopped pecans 1 13 ounce can pineapple – crushed and drained 1 diced apple 1 pint sour cream 3 ounces cream cheese 2 medium bowls Cool Whip 1 Danish Dessert Dissolve two packages Jello in 2 cups hot water. Add bananas, pomegranates, pecans, pineapple and apple. Pour half of the mixture into a 13 x 9 inch glass dish and refrigerate until set. Leave other half of mixture on the cupboard until first half is jelled. Mix 1 pint sour cream and 3 ounce cream cheese with 1 medium Cool Whip. Spread this mixture over Jello mix. Pour remaining mixture over top and refrigerate until set. Prepare the Danish Dessert. Cook and cool. Pour it over the Jello and refrigerate until it sets up. Cover with the other Cool Whip and top with chopped nuts. SWELL BOOKS CASEY’S POCKETS Casey D. Wood Pomegranate Salad rest of us for our stupidity. “So what,” he asked, “are you guys student council?” “Sterling Scholars,” we answered in unison. “Oh yes, of course,” he chuckled, “Sterling Scholars.” Having given up and being unable to find any rope or cable to pull the truck out with, we piled into our separate cars and waited as the kid driving the truck and the owner of it deliberated about what they should do. Finally after about 15 minutes of waiting, the owner of the truck’s father showed up in an SUV with a towing cable, effectively pulling the truck out and making us feel even more stupid in a matter of moments. In my household it has been argued many times that “Book Smarts” mean nothing, and the only intelligence that holds any real value are “Street Smarts.” I am usually the advocate for “Book Smarts,” while the remainder of my family argues the case for “Street Smarts.” The incident with my seemingly “Book Smart” counterparts reveals that, while each of us could probably have measured the rate at which the truck’s tires were spinning out in the snow, all 10 of us put together couldn’t figure out how to get the truck back on the street. I guess for that kind of task it takes “Street Smarts.” Busy Schedule Doesn’t Stop Love of Reading Kathy Ockey Nicky Nielson is a wife, mother of four children, an EMT, works in the emergency room at the hospital, is involved in sports, and absolutely loves to read. She said she grew up with books. “It all kind of started with my mom,” she said. Her mother, Carole Larsen, has been the librarian in the Orangeville Library for “at least 35 years” and Nicky said she grew up around books and is teaching her children to love books and reading as well. She has a 7 year old daughter that loves reading almost as much as her mother. She lets her children pick out books at the book fairs at school and they have their own book case so they can select books anytime they want to read. Nicky loves sports and gets her children involved in T-ball, baseball, or whatever sport season it is. She also loves her job in the emergency room at the hospital. She has worked there for more than two years and said, “I love to help people. I don’t feel like I’m going to work.” She also said you never know what is going to happen, what you are going to get and has experienced a lot of things while working there. It was hard for Nicky to select just one book to review but she decided to tell about “The Fire of the Covenant” by Gerald Lund. She has also read Lund’s series of “The Work and the Glory” and several other books he has written and said she likes his writing because he places fictional characters into a non-fic- tion world. The characters are not real but the settings and the history really happened. “You learn a lot of history and you know it isn’t happening to these fictional characters but it helps you appreciate the pioneers.” “The Fire of the Covenant” takes place in the summer of 1856, when three handcart companies were sent west from Iowa to the “Valley of the Great Salt Lake.” All went well with the first hand cart company but the two additional companies, one captained by James G. Willie and the other by Edward Martin, left England late in the season. When they arrived at Iowa City, they were past the time for a safe departure across the plains. They still left and when they reached Florence, Neb., it was near the end of August and they still had more than 1,000 miles to go. President Brigham Young also thought that the arrival of the first three handcart companies ended the migration for that season and ordered the resupply wagons back to Salt Lake. “Fire of the Covenant” is the story of those handcart pioneers and their exodus to the Salt Lake Valley. There is a combination of tragedy, triumph, courage, sacrifice and great faith. “Anyone who wants to know more about the pioneers coming to Utah would like this book and you don’t have to be LDS to read and enjoy it,” Nicky said. |