Thank You for Your Holiday Cards!
Post your greeting cards on the door.
Unlimited Potential: Survival English for All
Everybody has a favorite charity. Mine is Unlimited Potential, a grassroots adult literacy and ESL program for the working poor in Phoenix. The teachers there perform little miracles every day, and not a penny is wasted. Nonetheless, UP is struggling and can use help of any kind.
Rosemary Potatoes: Frugal, Fab and Tasty
Rosemary spuds is simply the best potato recipe. Just be aware to back up one hour from serving time, put a tray of these into the oven and forget about them until dinner. The recipe is for 2 pounds of spring potatoes.
What’s Your Fastest Potato?
One friend of mine cooks potato salad like salt potatoes. She cooks small pieces of potato for ca. 15 minutes. Then she tosses out the water and adds vinegar and oil etc. This would be a method worth trying.
Helmut Buchner, Sculptor of Friendship
And so friends might leave the Buchner Ranch as soulfully refreshed as the Happy Wanderer aka “Hermit,” who bids them good-bye on their way out. The Hermit, like the Flower Children, is a collage of wood fragments.
Assam Nariyal Dal, Cauldron of Magic
Do I ever stick to a recipe? Hardly. But the Assam Nariyal Dal from the Dhaba Cooking School, is so awesome that I would not change a thing. These lentils are a sheer delight of aromas for body and soul.
Neues Jahr: “Häuser hoch” von Uwe Schiller
Reden über Gott, reden über die Welt–und das Geld. Was ist der Sinn? Wozu und warum?
Ein Wüsten-Kreuzzug für das letzte Reutberger Dunkel
Der Total Wine auf der Williams Field Road in Gilbert sollte mein Reutberger Dunkel haben. Da rufe ich an, und sie schauen äußerst hilfsbereit auf ihrem Computer nach. Sonst schon, aber heute nicht, sagen sie klagend. Aber der Store in Phoenix auf der Camelback Road hätte noch einen Karton voll.
Crazy Cookies–Any Time
FOR DECORATING: Make sugar icing. Use 2 Tbsp. meringue powder (or 1 egg white in the old country) with ca. 2 cups of confectioners sugar and ca. 2 Tbsp. lemon juice (or water). Get a feel for the icing consistency. It should cover real well and not be runny. You can thin out the icing with a few drops of water or add more sugar if it’s too liquid.
Au gratin–Cheesy Potato Casserole
—–STEP 1—–
wash, peel, & slice potatoes finely (ca. 1/4 cm)
layer (neatly) half of potatoes in casserole and sprinkle with half of the cheese
repeat the layer of potatoes