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January is a good time to try new recipes. In theory, life has slowed, the holiday rush is past and winter weather keeps us indoors. Since our last column I have tried a number of new recipes, most successful. Recipes for one or two is a frequent recipe request. Recipes are most often designed for 4 to 6 servings or in the case of muffins, 8 to 12, leaving a single person eating the same thing for a week. Blueberry Muffin for One, a bakery style muffin from One Dish Kitchen,...
ODESSA – The Odessa Chamber of Commerce met Jan. 11. Colley Walter presented a proposal to offer presale orders of Deutschesfest Biergarten German Sausage. Orders would have to be placed by sausage-making time, around Aug. 1. The Chamber website at www.odessachamber.com and The Odessa Record will provide ordering details in early summer. In other business, the Chamber is seeking community members to form a Downtown Christmas Lighting/Decorating Committee for the 2022 Christmas...
Crazy weather, causing extended travel delays has cleared area store shelves of a number of often-used ingredients. Items with a short shelf life are quickly bought up and stores wait for fresh orders to come in. What can the meal planner do? Plan ahead for grocery supply interruptions. Substitute ingredients for missing items. Keep a package of powdered milk on hand in case stores run out of fresh milk. Canned milk diluted maybe substituted in most recipes. Canned kidney or...
Cooking for a crowd can lead to leftovers. Hosts want to make sure there is plenty for everyone, and if the number attending is in flux, estimating amounts is difficult. At family gatherings, the host usually wants plenty to send home with the kids. “Planned-overs” is the term I prefer to use. Over the years I have collected a few recipes for make-ahead dishes using turkey and ham dinner planned-overs. If you happened to have planned-over prime rib, the solution is easy, pri...
ODESSA – Odessa Chamber of Commerce met December 14 to elect officers for 2022, hear year end reports and plan 2022 events. While those gathered enjoyed a soup and bread lunch, President Norman Ott opened the meeting. By unanimous ballot, elections set Norman Ott, president, Ed Deife, vice-president, Paige Smith, secretary, Larissa Zeiler, treasurer, Matt Roberson, Phyllis Sebesta and Chuck Watkins, board members. The hospitality tent at the Stumpjumpers Desert 100 weekend, s...
Pinterest and Facebook often put me on the trail of good recipes and interesting culinary stories. Young cook, Koren Hale, prepared Chicken Enchiladas for his Spanish class last week. His mother posted a photo of him on Facebook doing the preparations and reported he found the recipe on Pinterest. Easy to prepare, this is a great recipe for a family dinner or potluck meal. With adult supervision, even the youngest of cooks could enjoy making this recipe. Chicken Enchiladas 4...
Turkey leftovers should now be safely tucked into your freezer for later use. At this date, any leftover turkey in your refrigerator is probably past its prime for eating and should be disposed of. Cooked turkey may be used in almost any dish calling for cooked chicken. Spicy White Chili, a recipe I received from my late sister-in-law, Tammy Bubemyre, is equally good with turkey or chicken. Additionally, dicing the meat cooked from the turkey carcass may be used in...
Thanksgiving is a week away. Turkey is most commonly associated with the holiday. Roasting is the traditional method of preparation and easiest for all levels of culinary skill. My preferred method for roasting is in a large brown paper grocery sack, but those are hard to come by so I may have to resort to my mothers roasting technique. You will need a high-sided roasting pan large enough to accommodate the turkey without it touching the sides of the pan and extra-wide...
Some area gardeners have lots of green tomatoes box ripening. They are great for soups and sauces but not as exciting for salads or other fresh tomato recipes. I recently came across this recipe for Cream of Tomato Soup on the www.asweetpeachef.com website. With the addition of a stalk of celery and substituting evaporated milk for almond milk, this is nearly the flavor and texture of Campbell's. Following is the recipe as posted, with my changes following in the notes. Cream...
Gardens are put to rest for the winter, with root crops straw-covered to protect from frost, and old vines composted to amend the soil come spring. There are apples to sauce, tomatoes to stew or turn into salsa, squash to bake and other bits of produce to put up for the winter. Where to start? Since the rind on the winter squash began to harden mid-September my mouth has been watering for a warm piece of baked squash. Winter squash have good keeping qualities if you have a dry...
Frosty nights bring on clean-up-the-garden time. Some fortunate gardeners gained an abundance of green beans after the hot summer temperatures subsided. Former Odessa resident Sherie Heimbigner asked if I had the recipe for the green bean soup served at the annual Mennonite Auction. I do not have the Mennonite recipe but I shared with her the recipe I have used. German Grun Bohne Suppe [editor’s note: or in grammatically correct modern German, “gruene Bohnensuppe”] attri...
Deutschesfest 2021 is in the books. As I write this column on Monday morning, cleanup is in full swing and you can hardly tell there was a festival here the last four days. I have been receiving requests for recipes of items at the German Bake Sale, and the new item, Dill Pickle Soup, served in the Bier Garten. I will be looking into what recipe they kitchen crew used but meanwhile, Zupa Ogorkowa: Polish Creamy Dill Soup, is the recipe I use. Pickle soup is widely used in...
Apples, zucchini and back to school snacks. How can we combine the bounty of early fall with the need for afterschool snacks? Granola is a favorite of many and may include dried apples and other dried fruits. I recently tried a recipe for Slow Toasted Granola made in a slow cooker. Applesauce is included in the granola coating. The recipe comes from the Better Homes and Gardens recipe site. Slow Toasted Granola 1/2 cup honey 1/2 cup applesauce 1/4 cup canola oil 1/4 cup...
Zucchini season is here. There are many ways to use this prolific vegetable. Small, tender zucchini sautéed with a bit of onion, or added to a stir-fry, grated in breads, cookies or cakes, and some sneaky cooks puree and add to just about anything. Camouflaged with chocolate, baked into breads and pastries and mixed into sauces and soups, vitamins and fiber are added to diets with out the eater knowing the difference. Chilly nights the past few days found me searching for...
Summer 2021 has produced a very long string of hot, rainless days. I have said on a number of occasions, we skipped July and went straight to August in the weather department. Thankfully, most days have been blessed with cool nights. As an early riser, the cold mornings make me think comfort food, but by noon the idea of macaroni and cheese has turned into pasta salad. Tuck this recipe for Super Macaroni & Cheese away for the first true autumn day. Clarene Haynie shared this...
Harvest is in full swing throughout much of the Inland Northwest. This means many folks are preparing harvest lunches. In light of this, we chose to make Chocolate Oatmeal No-Bake Cookies in one of the Go! Odessa Recreation's summer cooking classes. The class meets in the commercial kitchen of the Odessa Chamber of commerce in the community center. Thank you Odessa Chamber for making it possible to offer this activity for Odessa youth. The children were divided into two...
Uffda! By the time you receive this issue of The Odessa Record, temperatures may have cooled to 102 degrees. What do we cook when it is so hot we are already cooking? Salads are always a good choice, as most ingredients don’t require turning on the stove. Merleen Smith brought a cabbage-based salad to a recent event, and it garnered many requests for the recipe. Merleen had put it together using the some-of-this and a-little-of-that method, with ingredients she had on hand. F...
Blueberries will soon be in season, and blueberry pancakes and muffins are a favorite of many. Most prepared pancake mixes include optional directions for adding blueberries, as do most plain muffin recipes. My favorite recipe for blueberry pancakes is a variation of the Darigold Buttermilk Pancake recipe. With no added sugar in cakes, they are a perfect compliment to maple syrup or honey. Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/4 tsp baking soda 3/4 tsp...
Rhubarb, sometimes known as pie plant, has thrived in our cool spring weather throughout the Inland Northwest. Karma Henry, formally of Odessa shared a recipe on Facebook for Baked Sticky Rhubarb Pudding. This is any easy recipe to prepare and the end result is like magic. This would be a fun recipe to have kids help make as it looks funny with water on the surface when you put it in the oven but comes out with a crispy crust over a pudding mixture underneath. Baked Sticky...
Spring brings many seasonal flavors to mealtime menus. Asparagus, fresh herbs and tender young spinach are sprouting up in area gardens and the market place. Locally grown produce always retains the best flavor and texture. Early spring asparagus is so tender it is good raw or cooked. Sliced thin in salads, steamed or lightly sautéed as a side dish or included in main dish recipes, asparagus adds flavor and pleasing texture. Impossible Salmon-Asparagus Pie is my go-to recipe...
Spring Rhubarb is sprouting up in area gardens. This tart garden plant, produces long stalks that make wonderful pies and crisps, jams and chutneys. Though carefully tended rhubarb can continue to produce into the early summer, spring is the best of the crop. Spring Rhubarb Pie, a recipe from my 1960 Ann Pillsbury Baking Book, is simple but tasty. The addition of nutmeg mellows the tartness of the rhubarb. Spring Rhubarb Pie Pastry for a 2-crust, 9-inch pie 4 cups rhubarb cut...
Old family recipes are the best. A friend recently noted that grandma's recipes are often a list of ingredients, with few or no instructions. The recipe sharer assumed you knew what to do with the ingredients. Many shared recipes of the past were seasonal in nature. As various foods came in season, cooks exchanged recipes to utilize the bounty. Local asparagus season will soon be here, and Marilyn Fink, the grandma in the above conversation, shared her recipe for Pickled...
Last fall, a basil plant kept growing in a patio container. Due to inattention on my part, it went to seed. Now I have a nice little patch of minuscule seedlings sprouting up. If I remember to cover them at night, I should have plenty to transplant. Basil is a versatile herb, sliced or chopped fresh in salads or garnish, simmered in soups and sauces or baked into quiches and casseroles. With starter plants already in many garden shops, this herb is easy to have fresh for any...
Borscht Soup is a spring menu item in my book. Though it was a Deutschesfest menu item for many years provided originally by the Odessa Baptist Women, the dish was most often made in springtime with fresh young dill. If you ever had one stalk of dill in your yard, you know it seeds prolifically, and there will be lots to thin out. Six-inch-tall dill is mild, yet full of flavor. Traditional borscht soup consists of a lot of broth with a minimal amount of vegetables and meat, in...
March and St. Patrick's Day brings corned beef to mind for many folks doing the meal planning. Corning, the old time method of preserving meat before refrigeration came along is done for us and the product is readily available in the markets. The method is not difficult but our modern standards require refrigeration and 10 days of curing time. Most of us don’t want to sacrifice the refrigerator space, but the end result is worth doing at least once in your lifetime. There a...
