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Show The Emery County Review, Tuesday, September 16, 2008 AT YOUR LEISURE Casey’s Pockets Swell Book Reviews Swell Recipes C3 Entertainment SWELL RECIPES Flexibility Helps Recipes ‘Feel’ Just Right Kathy Ockey Flexibility must be the theme for Janine Holdaway’s life. She was born in Idaho and moved throughout the Magic Valley area until she was in high school and her family moved to California. After living there for a short time, they relocated to Utah and Janine graduated from high school in Springville. Her father was a chemical salesman and it was his job that kept them on the road. She is the mother of nine children, the last three being triplets. One of her daughters married a young man from Ferron and they live in Castle Dale. She would come to visit them and her grandchildren and that is how she was introduced her to this area. She said she always had a strong feeling that she needed to be in this area and so after a divorce from her first husband she moved to Castle Dale. After living in Castle Dale for a period of time she realized she had family all around her. Her great aunt was a former Miss Castle Dale, LaVee Watts, and she is also related to several other families in this area. She soon met Will Holdaway and began helping him make his beautiful guitars. It wasn’t too long before they fell in love and married. She said Will was a very brave man in marrying her because she has nine children and also 12 grandchildren, but she said they have “an eternal view” in their relationship. Janine has been the director of the Castle Dale Senior Citizens Center for almost a year and said she loves her job because she gets to “plan the activities and give lots of hugs.” The senior citizen meals are cooked in Ferron and transported to each senior center in the county, but once a month a group of Castle Dale seniors gather to get the monthly newsletter ready to send out. She likes to cook a special lunch for them and usually makes soup or casserole. Janine said this group usually does some line dancing first and then starts on the newsletters. which take up the CASEY’S POCKETS rest of the day. When Janine was in high school she said she flunked “pie.” She was very upset and asked her grandmother her secret for making good pie crust. Her grandmother made wonderful pie crust and pies and told her “It isn’t just what you put in the crust, but how it feels.” She has been making wonderful pie crust “by feel” since then. She doesn’t usually use recipes and her basic recipe for cooking is “consistency and taste.” When it feels right and tastes right, it is done. Jeannine especially likes making different types of bread and said “you just know how the dough should feel through the experience of making it.” Following are Janine’s basic bread and cinnamon roll recipe for you to try. Janine’s Basic Bread Recipe 3 cups flour 2 Tablespoons yeast 1 teaspoon salt 1 egg 1 1/4 cup water “I mix everything in a bread mixer and let raise and then pan it out. Let is raise again in the pan until it reaches the top of your bread pan. Bake at 350 degrees until golden brown. Butter the top while still warm. You want your dough to be just past sticky, so add more water or flour if needed to get it to that stage.” Janine Holdaway Cinnamon Rolls “I hope you enjoy them as much as my family and I do!” “I use my basic bread recipe for them. I flour a surface and then divide my bread in two halves, roll out to about 1/4 inch thick, melt 1/2 cup butter and spread on dough and sprinkle on cinnamon and sugar. Add raisins and nuts if desired. “Roll into long roll and cut into pieces. Place on greased pan and let raise for 15 minutes. Bake at 350 degrees until light brown. Ice with basic white frosting while hot. SWELL BOOKS Technology Addiction Guymon Family Find Adventure by Reading Together Casey Wood Kathy Ockey Think back on your day. Consider all of the things that you have done, whether they were important or unimportant. What do the majority of them have in common? I would bet that most of them have to do with electricity and technology. The reliance mankind has on both of those things is astounding, if not somewhat frightening. We constantly use electricity, from the alarm clock that wakes us up in the morning, to the light we use to know where we are going, the car we drive, the computer we use, the microwave we cook our food in, the light we shut off as we go to bed, and everything in between. It is unbelievable to consider how big of an impact those things actually have on us and our everyday lives. Imagine if there were no electricity for one day. Imagine the impact it would have on that day. Not just the electricity that comes through the power lines, but no generators, no batteries, absolutely no electricity for just a single day. The majority of businesses would not be open because they would be unable to operate without it. We would for the most part be unable to go anywhere because our vehicles would not run. We wouldn’t have television to waste our time in front of. We would have no radios, CD players, or cassette players. There would be no computer to use, whether for work or for entertainment. We would not have a telephone to make phone calls or send text messages. We would not even have a refrigerator to cool our food and drink. Our world would be literally turned upside down. Now look at technological advancements. Look at how important it is that technology does advance. What if after something was invented it was never improved? We would still be winding up our phones and cars. Our computers would take up entire rooms and only run DOS. Calculators would be little more than pegs and beads. We would be watching black and white televisions or listening to radios as large as we are with limited channels. Clocks would be wooden pegs stuck in the sand, and we would still be using home remedies because modern medicine would not exist. Now that we have considered all these things that we have, do we actually appreciate them, or do we take them for granted? Are we focused on having the best car, cell phone, and computer, or are we grateful that we have any of those things at all? Are we frustrated with the power plant and power companies when the power is out, or are we grateful for the rest of the time when we do have power? Now look back on your day again. Aren’t you glad that when you got up this morning you didn’t have to look at the peg in the sand to see what time it was, or that you didn’t have to wind up your car or phone? Aren’t you glad that when you flipped the light switch electricity turned the light bulb on? Next time the power is out, or I’m disappointed because I don’t have the most advanced thing, I’m going to be grateful that I have any of those things at all. Jeff and Joyce Guymon have a wonderful, active, intelligent and very well-behaved young family. They have six children ranging in age from 13 to 3 and everyone is just plain cute. Jeff was born and raised in Huntington, went to college, met Joyce and then returned to live and raise his family in his home town. Their children are Jessica, 13; Laryssa, 11; Daryl, 10; Keldan, 8; Haley, 5; and Aubrey, 3. All of their children are learning to play the piano, and Laryssa also plays the violin. Jeff and Joyce said they read scriptures each night and they also enjoy reading other books together. Their older children also like to read on their own and the family likes to read when they go on trips because it seems to make the ride a lot shorter. The family recently completed reading “Summer of the Monkeys” by Wilson Rawls and were excited to talk about it. The story is about a 14 year old boy name Jay Berry. He helps his family run their farm and tries to save enough money to buy a pony and a gun. He goes looking for their cow that got away and sees some monkeys in a tree and is scared because he has never seen a monkey before. The Guymon Family He finds out they are circus monkeys and there is a reward to catch them. The story has many twists and turns and is exciting to the end when everyone’s dreams come true. Rawls also wrote “Where the Red Fern Grows” and both of these novels take place in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma where he was born. They are both good books to read together as a family and are filled with humor and adventure that every age group can enjoy. Each one in the family had a favorite part in the book. Laryssa thought it was funny when Jay Berry lost his pants, Daryl likes the part where they set up a trap and Keldan enjoyed how they caught the monkey. They love reading as a family and think every family would also enjoy reading this book because it has a happy ending. ANNALEE’S CORNER My Uncle, the Fly Guy Annalee Thayn I can’t imagine anyone wanting to do what my Uncle Wayne does for a living, but the places he travels to are fun and exotic. I proudly tell anyone who knows me, and occasionally even people who don’t, that my uncle works at the Smithsonian as an entomologist and is one of the top fly specialists in the world. He collects and studies flies and travels all over the world doing it. It wasn’t until visiting him in Washington DC that I realized saying my uncle worked at the Smithsonian is pretty vague. My uncle works in the Natural History Museum. I still don’t want to do what he does for a living because I treat bugs like I believe most people do, if they are small I kill them, if they are bigger, I go get Dad. This year I have a new appreciation for flies, especially one found right here in Green River. My uncle and aunt were here in May visiting, and as usual Uncle Wayne and Aunt Dianne had brought their killing jars and nets. They never take a strict “vacation” they always make them into “working vacations,” at their choice. While they were here, they graciously agreed to come see where I work at the Green River Archives, but after they left me, Aunt Dianne decided to do some collecting on the Green River. Aunt Dianne is one in a million, and willingly helps Uncle Wayne catch bugs. She caught some flies and that night in our kitchen, bugs were pinned and labeled. This can take several hours if the day was successful. It seemed tedious to me, but Uncle Wayne was happy. A few days later they left to go back home. On a return visit to Green River Uncle Wayne told my sister that he had found a new species of fly in our area, and that she was going to finally get her wish and have a fly named after her. He waited to tell Avan this news until I was also in the living room. He then told me that I was also getting a fly named after me. It was a “sister” species to the fly named for Avan. When you next are standing along the shores of the Green River and a hydrochama annae happens to land on your arm, please don’t kill it, at least not until I have seen a picture of it. Oh yeah, the same goes for the hydrochasma avane. |
