Thursday, January 21, 2010

“Food for Thought: Learn to cook like a Norwegian - Tri-City Herald” plus 2 more

“Food for Thought: Learn to cook like a Norwegian - Tri-City Herald” plus 2 more

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Food for Thought: Learn to cook like a Norwegian - Tri-City Herald

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 02:43 PM PST

Curious about traditional Scandinavian foods? Always wanted to know how to make lefse or those crispy rosette cookies?

Join members of the Sons of Norway Sol-Land Lodge as they prepare for their annual Lutefisk Dinner.

Whether you just want to watch, or do some cooking, you're welcome to join them in the kitchen at Kennewick First Lutheran Church at Highway 395 and Yelm Street.

They'll be making lefse from 9 a.m. to noon today and Jan. 27. Cooking sessions will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Jan. 30.

For more information, call Karen Aanes, 438-6810, or Audrey Blegen, 783-3387.

The Lutefisk Dinner is Feb. 6 at the church. Tickets are $18 for adults and $6 for children ages 6 to 12. They are prepaid only; none will be sold at the door.

The dinner menu includes the famous Scandinavian lutefisk, meatballs and gravy, potatoes, lefse, salad and a variety of Scandinavian cookies.

The meal is served family style with seatings every 20 minutes beginning at noon and ending at 4 p.m.

To order tickets, send a check along with your name, address and phone number, along with your first and second choice of seating times, to: S of N Lutefisk Dinner, 703 Coast St., Richland, WA 99354. Be sure to include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Deadline to order is Jan. 28.

For more information on the dinner, call 375-0919.

Facts, fun and more

Enjoy cooking trivia? Visit the Olde Time Cooking website where you'll find a variety of cooking and other facts and trivia from the 1940s and 1950s. The site is hosted by a guy named Brad who digs up new factoids every month.

For example: In 1948, Pillsbury and General Mills introduced their first cake mixes; in 1962 Macy's began selling a new nonstick cookware called Du Pont Teflon and James Beard hosted I Love to Eat on NBC-TV from 1946-47. It was America's first television cooking show.

To read more, go to www.oldetimecooking.com.

New read

The book: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Substitutions by Ellen Brown.

Cost: $17

Best for: finding substitutions for out-of-season or hard-to-find ingredients, for sugar and sweeteners in baked goods and for every type of alcohol from amaretto to white wine. Plus it has the usual substitutions for common staples like eggs, evaporated milk and herbs and spices.

Get more: Read more book reviews and literature news in Sunday's Desert Living.

*Loretto J. Hulse: 582-1513; lhulse@tricityherald.com. To receive a recipe via e-mail each Tuesday register at tricityherald. com and click on newsletters. If you already are registered, click on edit account and newsletters to select Recipe of the Week. This exclusive recipe does not appear in the newspaper.

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New and Notable book reviews - AZCentral.com

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:59 PM PST

'The Unnamed'

Joshua Ferris

(LB, $24.99)

This is the bleakest novel I've read since Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." It's also one of the best. Tim Farnsworth is a successful Manhattan lawyer who has a loving wife, a teenage daughter and a bizarre secret: He suffers from an affliction that without warning forces him to stop what he's doing and walk away, with no time for explanations or even to put on a coat against the cold. Moving at a furious pace, he walks for hours, without destination, until exhaustion brings him to a halt and he can call his wife to pick him up. They managed to keep it a secret while Tim sought help from doctors in every specialty, to no avail. Twice it has gone into remission, but now it's back, and Tim is losing toes to frostbite and his job to what is viewed as incompetence. Ferris does remarkable things here. He makes us believe in Tim's disorder and its menace, an outrageous premise. He shows us the sickening stress that infiltrates Tim's marriage. And in the middle of it all, without warning, he'll suddenly make us laugh at some farcical detail. It's a terrific book.

'The Paris Vendetta'

Steve Berry

(Ballantine, $26)

Berry's new thriller opens with Napoleon Bonaparte arriving for a mysterious meeting inside a pyramid at the end of his Egyptian campaign, just before his return to France in 1799. He's only here for a few pages, and I was sorry to see him go. Cotton Malone, Berry's recurring hero, is capable enough, but he's no Napoleon. In the ensuing chapters, Malone confronts an intruder in his Copenhagen apartment, which leads to a gun battle with other intruders who have come to kill the first one. This leads to Malone's friend Henrik Thorvaldsen, a wealthy Dane whose son was killed two years earlier by assassins targeting his girlfriend, a prosecutor who was working on the case of a wealthy Brit (and dealer in stolen artifacts) named Graham Ashby. Thorvaldsen wants revenge on Ashby for ordering the hit, which involves infiltrating a secret group of rich villains intent on meddling with the world's financial systems. That, in turn, leads us back to . . . Napoleon! It just takes awhile. Berry will be at Poisoned Pen at 7 p.m. Monday.

'Game Change'

John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

(Harper, $27.99)

This is not the first book about the 2008 presidential campaign, but it's the juiciest. And the most embarrassing. And certainly the most fun. It contains an image of an obscenity-spewing Sen. John McCain (he's livid at his wife for interrupting him) that you won't forget any time soon, nor will you shake the idea that Cindy McCain had a "long-time boyfriend." Heilemann, who works for New York magazine, and Halperin, who works for Time, say this was a "Cindy rumor" that was "rooted in truth." And then there's poor Elizabeth Edwards. Her husband's political aides felt that there was "no one on the national stage for whom the disparity between public image and private reality was vaster or more disturbing." To them she was "an abusive, intrusive, paranoid, condescending crazywoman." Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton struggled with the "Bill Factor" ("I can't control him," she told Obama) and McCain staffers suspected, as the election drew near, that Sarah Palin might be "mentally unstable." This is democracy in action, folks. Isn't it grand?

'When Will There Be Good News?'

Kate Atkinson

(Back Bay, $13.99)

Atkinson's complex and much praised thriller is new in paperback. One hot summer day, a mother and her three children are walking a country path in England when they are set upon by a man with a knife. The mother, two of the kids and their dog are killed. Only 6-year-old Joanna escapes by running into a wheat field and hiding until the police find her. Thirty years later, the man convicted of the murders is released, and Joanna, now a doctor with a beloved baby and a foolish husband, disappears again and once more must be found. Around this framework, Atkinson concocts many stories, many characters and many coincidences, all of which converge in the search for Joanna. Ex-detective Jackson Brodie (from "Case Histories" and "One Good Turn") is here, as are jaded detective Louise Monroe, her patient husband and a smart and persistent 16-year-old waif named Reggie. The book is dizzy with all the elements Atkinson brings to it, but she juggles them well and has an obvious good time. So will you.

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Book Reviews: Saddle Up With Jesus - Baptist Standard

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:09 PM PST

Saddle Up With Jesus by Wanda Lynch (Xlibris)

 

Wanda Lynch opens with a poem tribute to her "Old Cowboy" husband. The author is enmeshed in the western culture and a part of the Cowboy Church movement. Thus, her poems tell the stories of this movement. A cowboy praising, trusting, spending time with, telling others about and growing with Jesus form the outline of her book of poetry.

Lynch's poetry mostly centers around the Old West cattle drives when the cowboy had much time in the saddle to think, sing and dream. She exposes the spitting, cursing, drinking kind of cowboy who underneath had a heart for God and carried God's book in his saddle bag.

This book is a fun read for those who understand the culture of the cowboy. Readers will find the poetry enjoyable. You will laugh and cry but also see the story and pilgrimage of so many who had the hard life of a cowboy and saddled up with Jesus. You also will enjoy the history and appreciate the culture as you read.

Leo Smith

Executive Director

Texas Baptist Men

 

 

Life at 80 as I Have Lived It by Joe T. Poe (Editorial Mundo Hispano—Casa Bautista de Publicaciones)

 

Joe Poe calls his book a personal memoir. But his story extends to a group of people who made an impact on the whole world. Bruce McIver and Ralph Langley led a youth revival where Poe decided that if God called him, he was willing. An Eagle Scout, the 1946 Cisco High valedictorian graduated with plans to attend the Uni-versity of Texas. But his Sunday school teacher took him to the Texas Baptist Stu-dent Union Conven-tion where he shifted his allegiance to Baylor. At Baylor's Freshman BSU Re-treat, God called him to foreign missions.

Poe shares his Foreign Mission Board autobiography to detail his salvation experience and life before the mission field. The narrative from long ago includes stories of his first sermon and how God led him to his wife, Eleanor. The list of people God put in Poe's path reads like a Baptist Who's Who.

Throughout the book, Poe intersperses sermons and notes with refreshingly honest assessments of his life's work at the Spanish Baptist Publishing House. He carefully documents events and includes numerous photographs. But mostly, Joe Poe just tells the story of how God molds and uses his choice servants.

Kathy Robinson Hillman, former president

Woman's Missionary Union of Texas

Waco

 

One Minute Praises and Promises from the Bible by Steve Miller (Harvest House Publishers)

 

Steve Miller has provided a good deskmate for those times when God provides a spare moment to focus on him. It is short, to the point and scripturally based.

The author introduces readers to the benefits of praising God as he reveals himself through Scripture. Miller then leads them to practice praise by praying Scripture back to God. The author further introduces the reader to the power of God's promises and their fulfillment and how they are applied.

Miller has prefaced each section with quotes from noted authors like A.W. Tozer, A.W. Pink and John MacArthur.

Anyone will profit from this small volume. You will find that it will be a useful tool and not just a one-time read.

Leo Smith

Executive Director

Texas Baptist Men

 

 


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