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Show B2 The Emery County Review, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 The HOME PAGE Home Life Swell Recipes Book Reviews Movie Reviews Entertainment SWELL RECIPES Cooking Up a Few Well Loved Meals Kathy Ockey When you talk about cooking, Joan Snow has just about done it all. She cooked school lunch for 15 years, (back when you had to make everything from scratch), catered for seven years, and raised a family of six children. Joan said she can’t really remember what she cooked for her kids when they were small, but it was a lot and she enjoyed it. Joan started a catering business when her children were young, but said she doesn’t know how she cooked everything. She had one kitchen, one oven and would cook up to 500 pecan tarts, crème puffs and other enormous amounts of food in one week for various events. She said she never realized any profit from the catering business, but “it taught her children how to work and also to work together as a family.” She figured she made enough money from the catering business to buy a set of pans. Joan and husband, Gene Austin, also opened a flower shop in a building next door to their house. She had never had any experience with floral arrangements or decorating but a friend coaxed her into doing a wedding for her and it grew from there. Their floral business lasted for seven years and Joan said she learned a lot, mostly by experience. They often had as many as four weddings on a weekend. Joan didn’t mention her musical abilities. Being raised in the same town as Joan, I know she is an accomplished pianist, organist, and also has a beautiful singing voice. Joan is a gracious, lovely lady and would like to share the following recipes with everyone. Yummy Chicken Pot Pie “These are really tasty” 2 Boneless, skinless breast halves or thighs Salt and pepper 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 cup finely chopped onion 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 cup sliced carrots 1 cup frozen peas 3 tablespoons flour 1 can low sodium chicken broth 1/2 teaspoon dried Thyme 1 egg yolk plus 1 tablespoon milk dough to side of bowl until all is moistened. Form into a 4” wide disk. Wrap in Saran wrap and chill for 30 to 40 minutes before rolling. After top is on pie, brush with egg and milk mixture. Filling Directions Cook chicken in skillet until done. Add butter and some oil to the skillet at medium heat. Stir in 3 tablespoons flour, add broth and Thyme. Cook and stir until bubbly and thick. Pour over vegetables. Add frozen peas just before you put into baking dish. Put in a 2 quart baking dish. Roll out the pastry and cut slits in top and cover dish. Brush with egg mixture and bake at 425 for 20 – 30 minutes. Add more butter and some oil. Delicious Chicken “My husband got this recipe listening to the radio one day while driving in his semi at work. Our whole family loves it and it is so quick and easy as well as delicious” 6 Chicken breasts 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup chopped bell pepper 1 cup chopped onion 1 clove garlic, crushed 1/4 cup catsup 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 12 ounce can or bottle of Coca-Cola 1 pint salsa (Use your own or can be purchased) 4 cup cooked noodles Heal oil, sauté onions and peppers. When tender all the rest of ingredients, except the chicken. Let the ingredients boil and cook the liquid down a little. Add chicken breasts to of sauce and cook for 10 minutes. Turn over and cook for another 10 minutes. Put cooked noodles on a platter and lay chicken on top and pour sauce over all. Nummy. We sometimes make double the amount of sauce so that we have as much as we want on the noodles. Baked Spaghetti “Very good” Crust Prepare pastry first 1 1/4 cup flour 1 tablespoon sugar and 1/2 teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons cold butter, pinch of salt, 1/3 cup Crisco, 4 – 5 tablespoons cold water. Put dry ingredients in bowl. Blend flour, butter and shortening with pastry blender until pea size, sprinkle water over a little at a time and stir with fork. Push moistened 1 8 ounce package spaghetti, cooked and drained 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese divided 1 cup Mozzarella cheese 1 24 ounce container ricotta or cottage cheese 1 pound ground beef 1 jar (about 28 ounces) chunky garden style pasta sauce Preheat oven to 400. Line a 13 x 9 pan with aluminum foil. Joan Snow Combine spaghetti with butter, stir until coated. Add 1/2 cup parmesan. Brown ground beef, drain, add pasta sauce and heat until bubbly. Spoon over all. Top with mozzarella and remaining parmesan. You can cut down on the parmesan if desired. Cover with foil and bake 30 – 40 minutes. Uncover and let brown slightly. Let stand 10 minutes before serving. This is fine in a Pyrex or aluminum pan without the foil. Correction: In Laurel Johansen’s recipe for oatmeal pudding cookies that was printed in the June 10 edition of The Emery County Review, the recipe calls for 1 tablespoon of flour, not baking soda, as printed. FILMS IN FOCUS THE HAPPENING Tippi and Rod, please come back. All is forgiven. Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” was shot in 1963, after Hitchcock had directed a series of mas- terpieces featuring bona fide stars: Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh. “The Birds,” though, is saddled with Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren, a pair of Star Fun Center Grill & Arcade Monday - Saturday 11:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. NEW ROCK CLIMBER DRINK Fresh Limes-Shakes and More See You Soon ! Movie & Meal Special $20.00 Star Theatre 155 N Main Huntington Phone for information 435-687-(STAR)7827 Open Friday & Saturday Matinee Saturday 4 P.M. Night show at 7 P.M. Coming Soon! SWELL BOOKS low-wattage schlubs. Or so I thought for 45 years. After catching “The Happening,” M. Night Shyamalan’s riff on “The Birds,” a reconsideration is in order. In both films, humankind is suddenly menaced by Nature. In both, the plot races from city to country, the characters fleeing from crowded streets to isolated fates. In both, horror descends on a couple who, despite early crankiness, are Meant For Each Other. “The Happening,” then, might have been an exercise in deja view. But as the bickering Elliot and Alma Moore, Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel accomplish the near-impossible: They had me yearning for Tippi and Rod. “The Happening.” Running time: 1 hour, 31 minutes. Rated: R. 1 star. THE INCREDIBLE HULK - “The Incredible Hulk’s” most powerful feat doesn’t involve pummeling, clobbering or giantfisted fisticuffs - it involves memory erasing. After being worked over by Ed Norton’s muscular take on the Surly Green Giant, you’ll probably forget that Ang Lee’s “The Hulk” ever existed. Watching “The Incredible Hulk” is like going to a fast-food restaurant and ordering a big salad: Sure, it’s cheap and easy, but at least you don’t feel sick afterward. There’s a lot of supersizing, of course: “The Incredible Hulk” has at least three outstanding action sequences, each finding clever ways to depict Norton’s transformation from nebbish to brutish, from Jekyll to Hyde, from passive-aggressive to aggressive-aggressive. Variety wins the day: You might see Hulk fighting in an airy green pasture or a nighttime metropolis, and the villains change and develop throughout the film, rendering it redundancy-free. “The Incredible Hulk.” Running time: 1 hour, 52 minutes. Rated: PG-13. 3 stars. Copley News Service Cindi’s Cafe Now Open! HO T Lunch Specials Drive through window Best Local Breakfast Around! Breakfast Burritos 687-9432 5 AM - 2 pM Monday-Saturday 19o S. Main, Huntington Valerie Chynoweth Reading ‘The Tale of Emily Windsnap,’ Again Kathy Ockey Valerie Chynoweth lives in Castle Dale with her mother and father and also a younger brother and sister. She will be in the sixth grade this coming year. She said she “loves to read” and it doesn’t matter what kind of books – she likes them all. Valerie said her mom and dad also like to read. She has now started the “Levin Thumps” series. She likes to go to the library and says the librarians are very nice. She read the book “The Tale of Emily Windsnap” by Liz Kessler, and said it was so good she was reading it again. She explained that Emily Windsnap is 12 years old, lives on a houseboat but has never been totally in water – she takes showers. She discovers that she is a mermaid, but we can’t tell you how she discovered this, you will have to find out by reading the book. Emily’s mother is a normal person, but her father is a merman. King Neptune didn’t like him marrying Emily’s mother so he puts him in prison. If you want to know what happens to this family, you can find the book at your local library. |
