| New cookbook features Yellowstone recipes
Perhaps the most unconventional recipe in Bozeman author Durrae Johanek's "Yellowstone National Park Cookbook" isn't really a recipe at all. It's Joe Mitchell's Fried Trout a la Maytag.Mitchell began working as a "gear jammer," or tour bus driver, in the park in 1947. Over the next 35 years he took summer "leaves" from his jobs with General Motors and Northern Pacific Railroads to don his uniform, grab a bullhorn and lead tours, Johanek wrote. "One time, Joe was asked to take Lady Bird Johnson to the top of Mount Washburn."But the best part of his job was that he could spend every spare minute fishing in the park's blue-ribbon trout streams."Joe says, 'I had a frying pan made from an old Maytag washing machine lid. The aluminum lid was light and easy to carry for cooking (trout) and eating on the spot,' " Johanek wrote.
UK chefs revise pies
To aficionados, it is British comfort food at its best. To others, it is as appetising as its nickname - a "rat's coffin". The savoury pie, a mainstay of the British diet for thousands of years, is getting a makeover as Britain sheds a once-sagging culinary reputation and top chefs return to traditional fare. Originating around 8000 BC with seabirds baked in feathers and hedgehogs rolled in leaves or grass, the pastry-baked pie evolved from Roman times into a staple for soccer fans. In the 19th century, the fictional character of Sweeney Todd - the murderous barber of Fleet Street - played on Britons' suspicions about pie fillings with an accomplice who baked his butchered victims into meat pies. In the wake of industrialisation, pies became cellophane-wrapped rubbery microwave fodder, mass-produced on assembly lines and often oozing with fat and additives.
Chili chefs guarded about sharing secret recipes
But most agree it's one of the best ways to warm up on a cold afternoon in Michigan.Returning to downtown Dowagiac this Saturday during the 12th annual Dowagiac Ice Time Festival of Greater Dowagiac Chamber of Commerce is the Professional Chili Cook-off with its new hours from 1 to 4 p.m.This year's winter fine arts festival is being underwritten, in part, by a $2,755 fine arts mini-grant from the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo through the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. "The chili crawl, as most locals call it, is oftentimes a friendly, yet a fiercely-fought competition between participating restaurants," said Vickie Phillipson, program director of the Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Development Authority.As one of the auxiliary events of the winter festival, the professional cook-off features five restaurants that are located downtown or within easy walking distance to the central business district.Participating sites are Beeson Street Bar and Grill, located on Beeson Street; along with Wood Fire Italian Trattoria, The Wounded Minnow Saloon and Zeke's Restaurant on Front Street; and the Fraternal Order of the Eagles, located next to Preferred Printing on E.
Frozen shrimp plus angel-hair pasta makes easy diet-friendly meal
Not all fast food comes in a paper bag or a pizza box.If you keep some quick and healthy ingredients and a few time-saving gadgets in your kitchen, you can have a diet-friendly dinner ready in the time it would take you to visit a drive-through.Angel-hair pasta cooks in a snap, and multi-grain varieties like Barilla Plus contain more protein and fiber and a dose of omega-3 fatty acids.Add some seasonings along with pre-cooked shrimp, which is available frozen, and you've created a nutritious version of shrimp scampi in less than 10 minutes.I came up with this recipe one night after coming home hungry from a long day at work only to realize that my cupboards were pretty bare. Most of the ingredients I had on hand would take a while to cook, and I needed to find a sensible option fast because pizza was sounding better by the second.I pulled out the box of multi-grain pasta, remembered the shrimp in my freezer and looked up a recipe in "Cooking Light" that I could work with.While the water for the pasta was boiling, I put the frozen shrimp in a colander under cold, running water for about five minutes until the shrimp was thawed.
Not so far east
Roasted three-stripped pork steeps in a sauce smacking of cloves and nutmeg and other intricate earthy-sweet spices. But there’s a noticeable kick to it, riding up under cover of the other ingredients, never breaking into the lead. Fried chicken with sweet sauce encases downy, melt-in-your-mouth meat in a compelling coating also resembling allspice, this time laced with sugar. .
Expert: Ovechkin now league's one-man show
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Snapping out of funk won't be easy for Cats
Coming off back-to-back losses, Villanova doesn't figure to have things any easier tonight when the Wildcats try to snap out of their slump on the road against 18th-ranked Pittsburgh at the Petersen Events Center. The Wildcats (13-5 overall, 3-4 Big East), who fell out of the top 25 this week, need a win tonight to avoid their first losing streak of more than two games since they dropped their last five regular-season contests in the 2003-04 season. But the Panthers (16-4, 4-3) are an angry bunch. Not only do they want to avenge a 64-63 loss to Villanova on Jan. 6 at the Pavilion, they also want to erase the bitter taste of a 77-64 defeat Saturday at home to suddenly formidable Rutgers. The loss to the Scarlet Knights, who knocked off Villanova one week ago to record their initial Big East victory this season, was only Pitt's ninth in 100 games at the Petersen Events Center, which is in its sixth season.
GERRY BRAIDEN and STEWART PATERSON
Many need wheelchair access and homes with space; some couples must have separate bedrooms If the rules say they only need an average home they'll be forced to cover the difference for somewhere basically suitable. So as usual; 'To him that hath it shall be given; from those that hath not it shall be taken away' .
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