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Show The Emery County Review, Tuesday, September 23, 2008 AT YOUR LEISURE Casey’s Pockets Swell Book Reviews Swell Recipes C3 Entertainment SWELL RECIPES Prize Winning Cook Shares Some of Her Favorite Recipes Kathy Ockey If you ever want to find Dorothy Childs she can probably be found working in her garden or out in her yard. She said the hard work clears her head of any problems of the day. Dorothy was born in the Panama Canal Zone to Lyle Revere Lowry and Vera Lowry Ungerman. She had one sister and three brothers. The family moved back to Castle Dale when Dorothy was 10 years old because her father started having health problems. Dorothy married the love of her life, Parker Childs, who was from Orangeville. He passed away while working at the Hunter Plant of a heart attack in 1979. They had one stillborn daughter; two sons, Allen and Kimball, and two daughters, Debbie Fields and Diane Hogara. Kimball, his wife Juanita and son Mason, were killed in a tragic automobile accident three years ago. She has six grandchildren and says without them, her friends, and the many good people of the community, her life would not be the same. She drove the school bus for 22 years and loved being there for the young people. She is happy to know that all of them remember her. She also worked five years as the stake sports director and again she worked with children, only now they were also older. She says we are all children at heart. The kids could be mad at each other one day and the next day they were best of friends. She is writing a book about some of the funny things children say and do. Dorothy joined the ladies golf team at Millsite Golf Course last year and really enjoys it. She says she always comes home after playing golf with a sore shoulder – that’s because she swings hard and never hits the ball! Dorothy also enjoys cooking and baking. This year at the Emery County Fair she won the Best of Division and the Judge’s Choice Awards for her Banana Zucchini Bread. Four years ago she won Judge’s Choice Award at the State Fair for her homemade bread and the next year for her cake. She has also won a trophy for two years for the Tidy Yard Award in Castle Dale, which she is proud of. Dorothy is sharing some of her favorite recipes and hopes you like them as well as she does. CASEY’S POCKETS Hitting the Road Casey Wood When it comes to road trips, there are three types of people, people who love road trips, people who hate road trips, and me. I suppose technically I would fall into the people who love road trips division for the most part, but I don’t love road trips for the same reason as others do. Most people who love road trips do so because they enjoy the scenery, because they like to drive, or because it gives them the opportunity to catch up on their sleep. This cannot be said for me. I am unable to stare at the scenery during a road trip. Generally speaking, scenery bores me. I do love driving, but I am unable to drive on road trips because my parents do not trust me with their lives that much. Finally I cannot sleep during road trips. The main reason for this is that I am unable to sleep in vehicles. My brothers, sisters and parents can sit in a vehicle and put in their headphones or focus on their music and be out cold. Despite my best efforts I have an unbelievably hard time sleeping in a vehicle. I am not your average road trip enthusiast, but I am, nonetheless, a road trip enthusiast. I love road trips because they give me free time; time I can spend doing whatever I want, whether it be playing video games, using my laptop, reading, listening to music, playing the guitar, watching movies, bothering my sister, or just having a nice conversation. I have taken many road trips in my day and can honestly say that as long as my parents have allowed me to surround myself with media, I have thoroughly enjoyed them. Once we drove our SUV to North Carolina, straight through for 24 hours to Stillwell, Okla., where my grandparents live and then another 24 hours to a beach house at Nags Head, N.C., and then the same consecutive 24 hour drives back home. I spent a total of eight or so hours sleeping in the entire 96 hours of driving time. I spent the rest of the trip doing the things indicated above and had the time of my life. I suppose to say I simply enjoy road trips would not be true. I enjoy traveling, but one of my favorite parts of the traveling is the driving part. When I travel I honestly do take an unbelievable amount of things to keep me occupied during the trip and during my stay. Packing light for most would be a small duffle bag with the bare essentials. If I say I’m packing light, that means that I only have my duffle bag with clothes and hygienic items, my laptop, my Zune, and my guitar. Now you may be wondering, “If that is packing light, what is packing normally?” I will not go into the details, but because of my definition of packing normally, when my parents shop for vehicles they have to make sure the trunk is large enough to fit a small hippopotamus. Only on rare occasions do I pack ‘light,’ and those occasions are generally when I have an assurance of a good conversation. The one thing more defining about me than my love for technology and electronics is my love for talking. Many people, including my friends, family and teachers can testify of that. Be sure to note that on those occasions I do still pack ‘light.’ A good conversation can only last so long and when that time runs out you can count on me pulling out at least three forms of media. So what kind of traveler are you? Are you a road trip lover, a road trip hater, or someone like me, a different kind of road trip lover? If you’re like me I am in no way advising you to put a hippopotamus in your trunk…well, at least not a full grown one. Carrot Zucchini Cake (Best of Division – Judge’s Choice Awards) 3 eggs 2 cups sugar Beat above ingredients well and add the following: 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil 1 small can crushed pineapple 1 1/2 cups carrots 1 medium zucchini 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 teaspoons soda 1 teaspoon real vanilla 3 1/2 cups flour 1 – 1 1/2 cups crushed walnuts Add all the ingredients and beat well. Bake in loaf pans at 350 degrees until done. Mexican Wedding Cake “My sister Virginia gave me this wonderful recipe” 2 cups flour 2 cups sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 small can crushed pineapple 1 – 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts Mix all ingredients very well. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. Frosting for Wedding Cake 1 - 8 ounce package cream cheese – softened 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cube margarine – softened 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar Beat above ingredients well and add 1/2 cup chopped walnuts. Dorothy Childs Rice and Curry Brown 1 – 2 pounds round steak - according to how large you want to make the recipe and add: 1 onion and 1 clove garlic Simmer to brown and add 3 cups water 1/2 teaspoon curry powder 2 small cans tomato sauce Sprinkle with garlic salt and sugar. Simmer until meat is tender. Bring to boil and then turn it down for approximately 2 1/2 hours. Serve over rice. SWELL BOOKS Book Tells Tale of Reader’s Ancestors Kathy Ockey Linda Jewkes lives in Orangeville and is married to Reece Jewkes. She is the mother of four children: Julie, Selina, Wade and Greg Jewkes. She said she can’t believe that she is now a great grandmother and her daughter is a grandmother. Her daughter Salina and her husband Chris recently visited from Texas and their other daughter Julie and her family also live in Texas. They were all in the path of Hurricane Ike, ready to evacuate when the hurricane changed directions. There was a huge sigh of relief from the parents upon hearing the good news that all was well. Reece is a native of Orangeville, the son of Lillis and Olive Jewkes, and Linda, a native of Huntington, is the daughter of Frank and Anna Cox. Linda has a reason to be very interested in the book “A Banner is Unfurled,” because it is about one of her ancestors, Ezekial Johnson. The book was written by Marcie Gallacher and Kerri Robinson, who are also ancestors of Ezekial Johnson, as are many other people in Em- ery County. The book tells the story of Ezekial Johnson, and is based on actual individuals and events in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Ezekial grew up with an abusive stepfather and a very loving, but oppressed mother. He made a vow to himself that when he became a father they would be “bound together in freedom, happiness and love.” He married Julia Hills and they become parents to 15 children. Linda is related to this family through their daughter, Delcena Diadamia, who was born in 1806 and married Lyman Sherman. Ezekial welcomed the Mormon missionaries into his home, but wouldn’t allow them to preach the gospel to his family. When his wife and family became interested he realized that he must either allow them to join the church and risk losing them, or tear them away from their new faith and end up having them hate him for it. The book is full of church history and is based on actual people in actual situations facing difficult choices. Their son, Joel Hills Linda Jewkes Johnson, becomes a poet and there are beautiful poems in the book he has written. Some have even been made into hymns. Linda said reading about these ancestors was very interesting. She said that sometimes she felt that Ezekial was not a very nice man. It brought out problems they faced and makes you appreciate what you have. It tells a lot about the times and how they lived. The story is told in three volumes, and Linda said she would recommend it to everyone because there are many people who are descendents of Ezekial and Julia. It also gives a lot of historical information about the gospel. SCANNING THE BOOKSHELF Author Gives Voice to Guantanamo Bay’s Voiceless John Wilkens San Diego and Guantanamo Bay are both by the ocean, but that’s about where the similarities end. One is known for wealth and luxury, the other for deprivation. Mahvish Rukhsana Khan straddles both worlds. She lives in San Diego, and for the past two years she’s traveled regularly to “Gitmo,” working as a translator for lawyers representing terrorism suspects housed there. She’s written a book about the experience, “My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me,” published in July. It’s a rare look behind the barbed wire. And a scathing one. “I realized the detention center at Gitmo was built in Cuba to weasel around the cornerstone constitutional principles that America was founded upon,” she said. “It was really nothing more than a lawless black hole where prisoners were hidden away from the world -- without a voice, without being charged, without an impartial hearing.” Her book gives them voice. We meet people like Ali Shah Mousovi, a 43year-old pediatrician and father of three, snatched from his home by American soldiers and accused of aiding the Taliban. Mousovi shared tales of being beaten and humiliated by his captors. A military tribunal declared him an “enemy combatant,” but refused to share the evidence, saying it was classified. Never formally tried, he spent more than three years imprisoned before he was released. The Guantanamo Bay detention center, opened in 2002, housed almost 800 terrorism suspects at its peak. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called them “the worst of the worst.” As Khan documents in her book, most were arrested after the U.S. military dropped leaflets in Afghanistan offering bounties of up to $25,000 for information on Taliban and al-Qaeda supporters. In a country “riddled with political, ethnic, tribal, geographic and religious feuds that date back generations,” and where the average person makes $300 a year, the leaflets “created a black market” of accusations, Khan said. (Copyright 2008 Creators Syndicate Inc.) |
