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Show The Emery County Review, Tuesday, October 14, 2008 AT YOUR LEISURE Casey’s Pockets Swell Book Reviews Swell Recipes B3 Entertainment SWELL RECIPES Variety Makes for Unusual Recipes from Scratch Kathy Ockey Doris Mangum is one person that really knows a lot about cooking. She started cooking school lunch at Ferron Elementary and then at San Rafael Junior High. She worked in the lunch program for a total of 21 years, many of those years as the manager. Doris said when she worked everything in school lunch was “made from scratch” and nothing was processed, frozen or ready to eat. They had to meet guidelines to include meat, dairy, bread and vegetables, and they also made their own menus to meet these requirements. She said the food they served was delicious. They usually had two or three cooks in the kitchen who worked about six hours a day. The day the parents were invited for school lunch they sometimes served up to 500 meals. She loved cooking school lunch and enjoyed the ladies she worked with. Her daughter, Donna Thomas is following in her footsteps working in the school lunch program. Doris was born and raised in Emery. She married Donald Mangum, and they moved to Salt Lake to work. They lived in several other areas until their oldest child, Donna, was ready to start school. They returned to Emery. They have two daughters, three sons, 20 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Doris loves to fish and do crossword puzzles, and the exercises at the senior center every morning, which is just next door to her home. Donna said, “I’m not much on following recipes” and likes to try a variety of ingredients when she cooks. Following are several of the recipes she wants to share She said some are unusual and delicious. Spam Fried Rice “This really is good” 1 cup rice (uncooked) 1 can Spam 3 medium carrots (grated) 1/4 cup diced onion 2 eggs Soy sauce to taste Bring rice, 2 cups water and 1 teaspoon salt to boil in sauce CASEY’S POCKETS Early Graduation pan. Turn down and steam for 25 minutes or until done. Meanwhile, sauté onion in 2 to 3 tablespoons oil until soft and stir in carrots and Spam. Stir until carrots are soft. Add eggs one at a time and scramble until done. Add cooked rice and stir until well mixed. Season with soy sauce. This is also good using ham or bacon, but Spam is the best. It is also good with mushrooms. Stuffed Pepper “Fast and easy” 1 pound ground beef 4 medium green peppers 1 can whole kernel corn 3 medium tomatoes or 1 can diced tomatoes 1/4 cup diced onion Remove seeds from peppers and boil for five minutes. Brown ground beef and add onion until soft. Add drained corn and diced tomatoes and mix well. Drain peppers and stuff with ground beef, corn and tomato mixture. Place in oven safe deep dish and add 1 cup water. Bake at 350 degree for 35 minutes. Orange Zucchini Cake 4 cups grated zucchini 1 1/2 cups salad oil 1 cup nuts 1-2 eggs 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons cinnamon 2 teaspoons baking soda 2 cups sugar 1/2 cup orange juice Combine all ingredients and mix well. Bake in 9 inch by 13 inch cake pan at 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean. Serve with hard sauce. Hard Sauce Melt half cube butter or margarine and add 3 tablespoons flour. Add 1 3/4 cups water and 1/4 cup orange juice. Cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add enough brown sugar to Doris Mangum bring to a rich caramel color. Pickled Garlic “Try it, you will be surprised how good it is” 4 quarts peeled garlic cloves (Sam’s Club has #3 bottles already peeled) 3 pints cold water 1 cup salt 2 cups sugar 1/4 cup mixed pickling spices 2 quarts white vinegar Dissolve salt in 3 pints cold water. Add to garlic and let sit for 12 to 24 hours. Drain and cover with cold water. Drain again and tie spice in cheese cloth bag. Add to sugar and vinegar, heat to boiling point and remove spice bag. Add garlic and heat to boiling point again. Pack in sterile jars, fill with vinegar syrup and seal. SWELL BOOKS Book Lover Recommends ‘Zookeeper’s Wife’ Casey Wood Kathy Ockey More and more often you hear of Emery High seniors graduating at the end of their first semester. On rare occasions you even hear of students graduating as juniors and completely bypassing their senior year. This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. By graduating early so many opportunities are bypassed and so much is missed out on. In my life I have looked at my K-12 school career in many different ways. From early ages with excitement, to junior high with distaste, to my sophomore and junior years with stress, and now, to my senior year with a certain mixture of each of the elements of the past, but with a new element of regret and disappointment. That is because I regret all of the things I missed out on and didn’t take advantage of in the years past, and because I am disappointed that I have to move on. People are only given 18 years of easy, carefree life where they can live at home, go to school, and be taken care of. After those 18 years are over, what many consider “life in the real world” begins. As we graduate we must begin taking responsibility for our actions and for our lives. We can no longer rely on mom and dad to take care of us; we can no longer survive without a job. Many things change on graduation day, perhaps because that day signifies the end of our “childhood,” or perhaps because that day marks the beginning of our adult lives. With people commonly living to be 80 and even 100 years old you only get to spend between 20 and 25 percent of your life in school, and that time is unlike any other. At school you learn values and ethics, you learn about the world, about cultures, about government, about health and anatomy, about careers and things you may consider for your future, and you learn an infinite number of other things. You are given opportunities to grow in countless ways and to become the person you want to be. In high school you learn to function in society, and you learn important social skills. To put it simply, you have experiences that you will never be able to have again, and those experiences shape you as a person. I do not completely fear or dislike the idea of moving on. Life holds many great and unbelievable experiences and futures in store for us. Without moving on we cannot be true adults or function like adults in society, we cannot raise our own families and we cannot fulfill our destinies. Graduation does not in any way signify the end of our lives, or the end of our happiness, or dreams, or aspirations. It simply means that an important section of our life has ended, and it is time to begin a new equally important portion. In my opinion because of the short amount of time we have to be in school and are given these opportunities to have these experiences, it is very important not to cut this already miniscule time in your life shorter than necessary. If you only need a few credits, take fun classes and enjoy your last year. If you want to spend that time working, get involved in the work study program. If you want to get ahead, start on college, take Ed-net, AP, or concurrent enrollment classes. There is never a better time to take advantage of these opportunities, so before you consider graduating early, consider all that you’re missing out on and enjoy high school, before it’s too late. Janice Spencer is an avid reader. She can name book after book that she has read and is excited to talk about them and what it is that makes each one different and interesting. Janice keeps up on what books are new and interesting by looking at book catalogs, i.e. Bargain Books and Bas Bleu, and also in newspapers and magazines. She reads the short descriptions of the books to decide which ones she would be interested in reading. She often uses the inter-library loan system available at the county libraries to acquire the books she wants to read. She said the inter-library loan system is a wonderful tool to use because you can get books from almost anywhere and the librarians are really good to help. Janice and Gerry Spencer have been married for 32 years and have six children, and every one of them likes to read. Gerry enjoys fantasy books, while her children have a variety of favorites. Janice mentioned several good books she has read recently and among them was “The Zookeeper’s Wife” by Diane Ackerman. This story takes place in Poland during World War II, when a hundreds of Jews were saved by the zookeeper of the once esteemed Warsaw Zoo. Janice said, “It is a beautiful book and doesn’t bring out the horror of the time but emphasizes the courage and love that people have for one another under adverse conditions.” As the book’s title suggests, the story is taken from the zookeeper’s wife’s perspective and uses many of her journal entries. Another book Janice recommends is “The Caliph’s House” by Tapir Shah. It is the story of the author’s move from the safety of rainy England to an old house he fell in love with in Casablanca. It tells how he, his wife and two young children endure dealing with the unfamiliar customs of the people, the problems of renovating the old house and dealing with Janice Spencer the workers remodeling the house. Janice said this is a popular writer who has a good sense of humor, loves people and gets into their inner most thoughts. Janice also mentioned “Garlic and Sapphires” by Ruth Reich, “The House of Exile” by Nora Wahl, and the eye-opening book “Opium Season” by Joel Harvenstein. She could mention many more books she has read and would love to if there was time and space to cover it. Janice is excited about reading and is careful about what she reads saying, “What you put in your mind is very important.” She quoted a saying she had heard. “Eat something bad and you can throw it up, but you can’t with your mind”. SCANNING THE BOOKSHELF ‘The Hemingses of Monticello’ is a Challenging Work Peter Rowe “The Hemingses of Monticello” is garlanded with so much advance praise; you might pick it up, expecting an autumnal beach book. You’d be disappointed. Early chapters slog through colonial Virginia, and the narrative halts often for musings about law and love, sexual attraction and family dynamics, freedom and slavery. The tale gains speed whenever Thomas Jefferson and Sarah “Sally” Hemings appear, but this remains a serious history. A professor at New York Law School, Annette Gordon-Reed builds her account like a legal brief instead of a pageturner. Perhaps that’s just as well. It’s unlikely that unescorted minors will wander into -- and later emerge scarred from -- this disturbing and poignant book. So, we’re all adults here. Maybe it’s time we grappled with this part of our heritage in grown-up fashion. Gordon-Reed’s thesis is straightforward and scalding: that our third president and Hemings, one of his slaves at Monticello, had a 38-year relationship that yielded seven children. This is a brave position but hardly an unreasonable one. In 1998, DNA tests proved a genetic link between descendants of Jefferson and Hemings. The obvious implication: One of our Founding Fathers established a second family with an enslaved mother. How historians -- and others -- greeted these findings charted the racial fault lines under American society. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the nonprofit that maintains Monticello, commissioned a study by scholars and foundation members. Their conclusion: “the weight of all known evidence ... indicated a high probability that Thomas Jefferson was the father of Eston Hemings, and that he was perhaps the father of all six of Sally Hemings’ children listed in Monticello. ...” In Virginia, where the cult of Jefferson approaches religious fervor, the backlash was instant. A year after the foundation’s study, the rival Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society reached the opposite conclusion. Hemings was “a minor figure” in the great man’s life, and it was improbable that he fathered any of her offspring. Instead, Jefferson’s younger brother was pointed to as the more-likely parent. Hemings left no letters or diaries; Jefferson left piles of both, but was notably circumspect in his private life. As the liaison first became public in a salacious 1802 newspaper article written by one of Jefferson’s political foes, there’s a temptation to dismiss the tale as unfounded, or at least unprovable. Gordon-Reed will have none of that. History, she writes, is “an imaginative enterprise; when writing it or reading it, we try to see Continued on Page B6. |