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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008
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is of best quality or flavor. It is not a purchase or safety
date. “Use-by” date indicates the last date recommended
for use of the product while at peak quality. The manufac
turer of the product determines this date.
Once you have successfully completed your pantry clean
ing project, remember to place new products behind the
existing products. This rotation will help you use the older
products first.
To receive information on safe food handling, contact
Peggy Bledsoe at 478-987-2028
Banana Continued from iC
Old-fashioned Banana Bread
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup softened butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs, beaten
2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9x5 inch
loaf pan, Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a large
bowl. In a small bowl, cream together butter and brown
sugar. Stir in eggs, vanilla and mashed bananas until well
blended. Stir banana mixture and nuts into flour mixture;
stir until well mixed. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
Bake for 60 to 65 minutes. A good banana bread tradi
tionally has a crack on the top crust. Let cool in pan before
turning out. It will slice better if you keep it cool.
Quaker Oats Banana Bread
This one comes from Quaker, and has a crunchy topping.
Topping
1/2 cup Quaker Oats® (quick or old fashioned,
uncooked)
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1-1/2 tablespoons margarine or butter, melted
Bread
1 cup Quaker Oats® (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup fat-free milk
1 cup mashed, very ripe bananas (about 3 medium)
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Heat oven to 350° F. Spray bottom only of 9 x 5-inch loaf
pan with cooking spray. Combine all topping ingredients;
set aside. For bread, combine oats and milk; let stand 10
minutes. Add bananas, oil and eggs to oat mixture; mix
well. Combine dry ingredients. Add oat mixture to dry
ingredients all at once; stir just until dry ingredients are
moistened. (Do NOT overmix!) Pour into prepared pan.
Sprinkle evenly with reserved topping; pat gently. Bake 55
to 65 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes
out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan; remove to wire rack. Cool
completely. Store tightly wrapped.
Eggs Continued from iC
degrees and put a large heat-proof bowl in to preheat. Fill
a large pot with water and add the salt and olive oil. Bring
the water to a boil and add the spaghetti, reduce the heat
and boil on medium about 12 minutes. Drain the pasta well
and put into the preheated serving bowl.
Meanwhile, whisk together the eggs and cream. Put the
mixture into the skillet with the bacon drippings and heat
over VERY low-whisking constantly until slightly thickened.
(It should be the consistency of thin custard, not scrambled
eggs.) Toss the pasta with the butter and add the cream
mixture and Parmesan. Crumble the bacon and mix with
the pasta. Sprinkle with black pepper and serve with extra
Parmesan.
Omelet
2 eggs
2 tablespoons water
1/8 teaspoon salt
pinch of black pepper
1 teaspoon butter
About 1/3 cup filling: Sauteed spinach, sauteed mush
rooms, roasted peppers, cheese, etc.
In a small bowl beat together the eggs and water. Season
with salt and pepper. Melt the butter in a 7 inch skillet
or omelet pan until the foam subsides and a drop of water
sizzles when dropped in. Quickly add the egg mixture tilt
ing the pan to spread evenly. When the eggs have firmed up
somewhat, use a spatula to gently push the cooked portions
toward the center. Tilt to allow the liquid portions to run to
the space left on the sides. When the top of the omelet is firm
and no liquid remains, add the filling. Use a pancake turner
to fold the omelet in half. Slide onto a plate to serve.
Eggs in Sauce
1 1/2 cups meatless tomato sauce (homemade or from a
jar)
6 eggs
6 thick slices Italian or French bread
1/3 cup grated mozzarella
Parmesan
Put the sauce in a 10-inch skillet and, stirring constantly,
heat to a boil. Quickly reduce to simmer. One at a time,
break the eggs into a custard cup and slip them into the
simmering sauce. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Cook
until the whites are set and the yolks are thickened and
clouded over. Sprinkle each egg with mozzarella, cover and
set aside.
Toast the bread and put the slices into deep soup bowls.
Put a poached egg and tomato sauce on each slice of bread.
Sprinlde with Parmesan.
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Troop #44 will be selling cookies for the next few weekends at Lowe’s on Watson Blvd in Warner Robins. Fridays 4-
6pm and Saturdays 10-4 pm. Pictured above are Gabby Bibb, Olivia Bryan, Emily Grace Williams and Christie Hilton.
Get involved in the eight-week Walk Georgia Program
Move More, Live More
Get involved in Walk
Georgia and improve your
health! Walk Georgia is an
eight-week program spon
sored by the University
of Georgia Cooperative
Extension designed to
increase your physical
activity in a fun, commu
nity-oriented manner. You
may participate as an indi
vidual and track your prog
Sending a son off to college with basic skills
QUESTION: Our son
will be leaving for college
next fall. Is there anything
we can do to help ease the
transition from home to
dorm life?
DR. DOBSON: For start
ers, author Joan Wester
Anderson suggests that
you make sure that your
teen has the basic skills
necessary to survive dorm
life. Can he operate a
washer and dryer, stick to
a budget, handle a check
book, get along with room
mates, and manage his
time wisely?
It’s important as well to
prepare your son for the
negative aspects of campus
life. Too often, adults pres
ent a rosy portrait of col
lege as “the best years of
life,” which creates unreal
istic expectations that lead
to disappointment. Remind
your son that homesick
ness is to be expected, and
that he can call home any
time just to chat, or keep
in contact by e-mail.
During the first semes
ter away, letters and treats
from home can ease the
pain of separation anxi
ety. And be pleasant when
that young man returns
for visits. If he feels like
an intruder, he just might
decide to visit someone
else’s home for future
vacations.
Going away to college is
a milestone for those who
embark on that journey.
With proper planning, it
can be a positive time of
growth for the whole fam
ily-
• • •
QUESTION: I know that
my husband is a “woman
izer” - a guy who can’t
resist anything in a skirt.
Will he always be like this?
Can I change him?
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ress with other individuals
in your county and across
the state or join as a team
of four to exercise together.
Individuals and teams from
counties across Georgia will
be tracking their progress
during the weeks of March
2-April 30.
Registration is open from
now through March 10. To
register for Walk Georgia go
to www.walkgeorgia.org. If
DR. DOBSON: It is dif
ficult, if not impossible, to
change anyone. It certainly
cannot be accomplished by
nagging and complaining
and chastising. That only
causes a person to dig in his
heels and fight to the finish.
What you can do is make it
clear to your husband that
he can’t have you and a
harem too, and that he must
make a choice between his
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Dr. James
Dobson
Focus on the Family
select one over the other.
He would rather have both
toys. That’s why there will
probably come a time for
loving toughness when you
back your words by firm
ness and definitive action.
• • •
QUESTION: My little girl,
Tara, is sometimes sugar
sweet, and other times she
is unbearably irritating.
How can I get her out of
a bad mood when she has
not really done anything to
deserve punishment?
DR. DOBSON: I would
suggest that you take her in
your arms and talk to her in
this manner: “I don’t know
whether you’ve noticed it
or not, Tara, but you have
two ‘personalities.’ A per
sonality is a way of acting
and talking and behaving.
One of your personalities
is sweet and loving. No one
could possibly be more lov
able and happy when this
personality is in control.
It likes to work and looks
for ways to make the rest
you have questions, contact
Peggy Bledsoe at 987-2028.
The goals of Walk Georgia
are to help you to become fit,
develop the habit of regular
physical exercise, receive sup
port from others also inter
ested in moving more and
having fun. We know that
physical activity can have
a significant impact on our
health. It can lower risk for
heart disease, improve blood
of the family happy. But
all you have to do is press
a little red button, ‘ding,’
and out comes another per
sonality. It is cranky and
noisy and silly. It wants to
fight with your brother and
disobey your mom. It gets
up grouchy in the morning
and complains all day.
“Now Tara, I know that
you can press the button for
the neat personality or you
can call up the unpleasant
one. Sometimes you need
help to make you want to
press the right button.
That’s .where I come in. If
you keep on pressing the
wrong button, like you have
been today, then I’m going
to make you uncomfortable
one way or the other. I’m
tired of the cranky charac
ter and I want to see the
grin-y one. Can we make a
deal?”
When discipline becomes
a game, as in a conver
sation such as this, then
you’ve achieved your pur
pose without conflict and
animosity.
Dr. Dobson is founder and
chairman of the board of the
nonprofit organization Focus
on the Family, Colorado
Springs, CO 80995(www.
family.org).Questions and
lust and
his love.
Unfort
unately,
merely
putting
these
alter
natives
before
him ver
bally will
not force
him to
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you are one of the 25% of
our population that is not
moving, make the decision
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answers are excerpted from
“Solid Answers” and “Bringing
Up Boys,” both published by
Tyndale House.
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