Show H — The Herald Journal Logan Ui ah Wednesday November 24 1982 (Continued from p Harvest dinner Ths aalt Rice: wash and cook rice Mix and heat MSG until vinegars sugar salt and rice and sugar mix melts Pour over hot Cool thoroughly Shitake: wash and soak for 2 to 3 hours When in a hurry soak in warin water 1V4 C dashl Squeeze out water Combine 2 Tbs sake 1 tap Tbs 4 sugar (broth) salt 2 Tbs soy and 2 Tbs mirln (rice 1 11) Manju (Sweet Dumplings) Filling red beans (azuki) sugar ltsp salt 1C 1C Jt Crust SC (lour Vi tap salt 2tsp baking powder sugar water Soak beans 8 hrs or overnight Change water and cover beans with fresh water about inches higher than level of beans Boil and simmer until beans are soft and skin is broken Drain and force through a colander to remove skins and pulverise beans Place pulp in clean towel and squeeze as dry as possible Place in a pan heat adding salt and then gradually the sugar until all sugar is dissolved Cool Make into 18 balls Vi 4 To make crust sift flour salt and baking power Combine sugar and water in a bowl dissolve sugar and add flour mixture stirring to make a smooth dough Roll out and cut into squares to wrap each ball in a pleace of dough Pinch together pinched part down (otherwise the manju will have an Irregular surface) Place on towel in a steamer and steam for 20 minutes Remove and cool Dumplings can also be baked in 400" oven for 3 minutes r shrimp Celery: Combine W C vinegar VI C 2 Up sugar M Up salt and VI Up MSG Soak celery in mixture for about 10 minutes Eggs (tamago yakl): Combine 8 eggs VI Tbs sugar VI Up salt 1 Up MSG and 3 Up kaUkuriko melted in 3 tspwater Heat electric frying pan to 280 Place in about 1 Tbs oU wipe out Using the large electric frying pan cook half of mixture at a time Cut fried eggs into a total of 20 strips To roll: Place 2 rice bowls foil of rice onto nori Spread lightly and equally on nori — leave 1 inch to IV! inch space empty on one side of nori Sprinkle vinegar mixture on the 1 or VI inch space Place other prepared IngredienU in approximately the center of rice spread on the nori Place 4 or 5 strips of kanpyo 1 strip of celery and egg and IV! Up oboro for each roll This is a very large recipe and if you are using it as an appetizer (one roll will make 8 or 8 slices) you may wUh to halve the recipe The vinegar will be enough for 8 cups of rice Depending on how thick you make your sushi you may wish to increase your quantity of rice water 30-3- MaU Sushi For 20 rolls: 2 pkg nori (edible size) seaweed-wid- e C cooked rice 8-- 20 shitake (dried mushrooms) 3 os kanpyo (dried Ismail package) gourd 2 cans 3 411 III 1119a BoU Kanpyo: Wash with salt and rinse for about 25 minutes then remove from pot Combine 1VI C dashi (Japanese fish and seaweed broth) 2 Tbs sugar 2 Tbs sake 1 tap salt 1 Tbs soy and 1 tsp MSG Cook kanpyo in above mixture until soft Oboro: Empty shrimp into strainer and run water over them Place in cloth and wring out water and mash in same cloth Place in mixing bowl Combine and add 3 The sugar H tsp salt 1 tsp MSG and VI Up red food coloring diluted with water into shrimp and mix well Place in frying pan wiped with oiled paper and dry out the 1C 1C 4 liL A shrimp shredded stalks celery sliced lengthwise into 20 pieces 8eggs(tamagoyaki) Sushi vinegar: 1C white vinegar 3tsp MSG (monosodium glutamate) 1C sugar Tamago (lower left) maki (upper left) and inari (center) sushi Vinegared rice is spread on nori then rolled around a center of tasty morsels and cut Into serving pieces for a lunch or appetizer dish Cache w0t?t0v (Gwendolyn M Allen) V4 4 Cooks Corner that goes in it Happy Thanksgiving to all you fine valley cooks! I hope all your expectations for your turkey and dinner are realized I will be cooking my turkey this evening because we are invited out for Thanksgiving Day But I MUST have my turkey for leftover casseroles and sandwiches Sometimes I think I like turkey leftovers better than the first meal I guess there is no accounting for some people's taste The one thing I do not look forward to U taking care of the turkey after the meal is over But we all know it is a must So no matter how late it is tonight the turkey will be prepared for future use The dressing will be removed and the poor thing will be stripped to only bones Remember that a cooked turkey shouldn’t remain unrefrigerated for more than two hours Help Help! Bonnie Lewis is Still waiting for some quick nutritious casseroles that can be frozen and cooked or reheated - - later Gwendolyn Allen of Preston would like a recipe for Italian stuffed mushrooms Last but not least Betty Ferris is looking for a recipe for the “starter" for Friendship Cake She has the cake recipe but not the recipe for the fruit C margarine 1 chopped onion 1 C chopped celery potatoes cubed chopped parsley M C 1 qt 1 qt chicken broth milk 3 Tbs cornstarch V4 C water butter or margarine finely chopped parsley Melt butter add onion and celery and cook until limp about 10 minutes Add potatoes parsley and chicken broth cover and cook until potatoes are tender about 30 minutes Stir in milk and cook covered until soup is hot but not boiling Blend the cornstarch with V4 C water until smooth and add to soup continue cooking until soup boils and thickens about 5 minutes Add butter and finely chopped parsley to each bowl Makes 8 servings VI lb sliced mushrooms can be added Can any of you help out these three valley cooks? We surely would appreciate hearing from you Maybe you have a request or a favorite recipe you would share with us We always enjoy hearing from you Send recipes and requests to Martha Dixon food editor The Herald Journal Box 487 Logan Utah 84321 We'll take requests over the phone but we Hamburger Soup (a reader) 1 lb hamburger need written copies of recipes 1 onion diced 4 carrots diced Last week we said we would 3 stalks celery sliced publish some of the hearty 1 qt tomatoes winter soup recipes sent in by 2 cans beef consomme you readers With the busy 4 beef bouillon cubes holiday season here everyone 2 cans water can use a good soup recipe for a 1 bay leaf quick supper dish accompanied vi a salad a or and bread roll tsp oregano by vi C macaroni Thanks to all of you for your Brown hamburger in kettle fine recipes with onion Add remaining ingredients except macaroni Cheese Soup (Becky Ehninger) and simmer for 30 to 40 minutes 5 small potatoes diced Add macaroni and simmer for 3 chopped celery stalks 15 to 20 minutes 1 medium onion chopped Soup (Linda T Hamburger 1C evaporated milk Gittins) VI C frec milk 4 lbs hamburger parsley flanes 2 C chopped onion flour and water 2 C celery chopped salt and pepper 2 C carrots sliced 1VI C grated Cheddar cheese 2 C diced potatoes Place vegetables in pn Add 4 tsp salt enough water to cover and boil 2 bay leaves 30 minutes until tender Add 8 C water canned and freah milk and 2 qts tomato juice parsley Thicken with fluur and Cook vegetables in water until water to desired consisu-- ” tender Fry hamburger and Salt and pepper to taste Auu onion drain Mix together grated cheese Serves six nubi vegetables vegetable 6-- (752-212- 1) water and tomato Juice stew for 15 to 20 minutes Freezes well German Beef Soup (Gwendolyn M Allen) 2 Tbs oil 2 lbs stew meat 2 cans beef broth 2 cans stewed tomatoes lean dark beer VIC cider vinegar 18 oi can sauerkraut 2 cloves garlic minced VI C chopped parsley 2 bay leaves 2 tsp salt V4 tsp thyme leaves V4 tsp pepper 4 C diced potatoes 4 C diced onions 1 C shredded carrots 2 chopped celery stalks 2 Tbs butter 2 Tbs flour Put oil in large kettle and brown meat well on both sides Add broth tomatoes beer vinegar sauerkraut and its liquid garlic parsley bay leaves thyme salt pepper potatoes onions carrots and celery bring to boil Reduce heat cover and simmer until beef is tender about 2 hours When beef is done melt butter stir in flour and cook until well browned stirring constantly Remove from heat and mix enough of the broth to make a thin paste then blend into soup and simmer uncovered another 10 minutes Makes 4Vi qts Hamburger Davis) Stew (NaDean 5C water 8 bouillon cubes V C diced celery 4 onions diced 3 carrots thinly sliced 1 large can tomato soup or 1 qt canned tomatoes 6 potatoes 1 or 2 lbs browned bay leaf VI tsp garlic salt 1 hamburger salt and pepper to taste lean peas (202 size) lean corn (202 size) Combine and above simmer ingredients until done Hamburger should be browned first and drained NaDean says this is a good Dutch oven recipe Electronic games boom Dennis Hinkamp USU consumer writer — By Dennis Hinkamp Consumer Information Writer Utah State University - by Christmas Figures such as these show that home video games are more than a passing fad The This is the third year I have written a Christmas column about new electronic games Each year as I research this topic I am amazed at the advancement over a year's time Each year’s new crop makes the prior year’s lode like the stone age competition between video games companies is fierce By Christmas there will probably be seven major companies games which had tiny blips of light for players This year those interest kids about as much as rolling a tire with a stick A video console you will not be selling home video consoles The frustrating part for the consumer is that in an effort to gain their niche these seven companies have made their machine incompatible with Two year’s ago everyone was everyone else’s marveling at the little hand-hel- d For example if you buy brand electronic football and baseball If you have a good memory remember that the granddad of video games was something called “pong" a little game that simulated tennis but was about as sophisticated as a wood stove compared to a microwave oven when you put it along side today's games You might also remember that the original home video games were thought to damage television screens because they were too powerful Since that problem has been worked out sales have been doubling nearly every year able to play games made by brand B This idea is illustrated by Atari's new advertising theme “Only for Atari from Atari” you might The numbers are im- pressive: — Home video game sales will total about 82 billion for 1982 about 20 percent of the total toy market sales — At least 14 million US homes will have video game consoles by Christmas double last year's figure — There will be 0 million game cartridges in circulation 50-7- i Fortunately there are many small companies getting into the business of only making the game cartridges and not the consoles These companies usually make games to fit three or four of the major brands Also in an effort to cut costs for consumers video equipment stores are beginning to rent game cartridges Video game trade publications such as "Electronic Games" have advertisements for video exchange clubs for persons interested in trading games they have lost interest in There is a wide spread in the amount of money you can spend to outfit your home with video games The consoles can run from 8120 to 8400 without the 5 game cartridges which cost each (Next week's column will give ' you an' Idea of the variety of home video products available ) 320-84- I |