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jenkinscountytimes.com The Jenkins County Times Wednesday, September 20, 2023- Page 11 The Farm Wife at Two Pennies Farm Nancy Baker Everything I know how to cook I can’t eat d (g) 478-401-0495 W 513 Cotton Ave CO Millen, Co P ^ ^ NSON Brinson Insurance,Agmc#, Inc. in4uoWa UjhM V-wrcr+o ^Kayla Shuman •tr Auto insurance 6# Homo Insurance Life insurance g? Health insurance ex Commercial oj Medicare ^ .nsurance w Supplements g? Title Bonds gT AFLAC Products Allstate Building Services, LLC “Serving as xve xvouCcC xvant to Be served. ” | SERVING SCBKVHN COUNTY ANI) SURROUNDING AKKAS SINCE 1981 Baked trout, green beans almondine, and green salad with oil and vinegar dressing. That was the menu the first time I cooked dinner for our family of seven. I don’t know exactly how old I was, but I wasn’t yet in high school. Mom didn’t help with the actual cooking, though I think showed her the recipe. Mom was volunteering at the hospital as a Grey Lady at the time and didn’t make it home in time to cook. Each of us girls were responsible to cook dinner one night a week to help. It seems that I remember that my sisters did the same thing every week. My older sister made roast beef and mashed potatoes and the younger sister made Mac-n-cheese. Those were their favorite meals, and they felt that once they had learned to cook one meal, they were good. But I made something different every week. There were plenty of failures, but no one ever refused to eat what I cooked. This all came to mind last week when I was trying to make up a menu and grocery list for the week. I have spent years learning to cook a wide variety of cuisines, Italian, Southern, British, Chinese... Well, not the whole cuisine, but a dish or two of each kind. But now it seems that I can’t eat anything I know how to cook. No sugar: there goes all the muffins, cakes, pies and cookies I used to bake. No wheat; no more pasta dishes; no Chicken Alfredo, Spaghetti and Meatballs, or Lasagna. No milk means no ice cream, pudding, yoghurt, sour cream, or cheese. I’m not starving. There are plenty of vegetables, fruits, and proteins to eat. But ‘grill this, steam that and toss a salad’ does not seem like ‘real’ cooking. Given enough practice I guess this new (to me) way of eating will become real and normal. And except for all the chopping of vegetables it entails, it is easier than the ‘main dish, two side dishes, bread and salad’ meals I grew up with. It certainly doesn’t dirty as many dishes. I usually have the kitchen cleaned before I plate the food. Someday soon, I’m going to have to extend that cleaning to my shelves of cookbooks. But right now, purging my cookbooks would be too emotional. So many happy memories are tied to cooking for my family. ### The annual fall bird migration has begun. A reminder: Please turn off your outside lights between 12:00 midnight and 6:00 AM, August 15-November 15. And be sure to pull your shades and curtains to prevent light spilling out the windows of your home. Most birds fly their migration routes at night. It’s cooler, there is less air turbulence, and finishing their flight in the morning gives them time to forage and rest through the day. Nighttime lights disorient the birds causing them to leave their migration pathways. Leaving their routes can cause the birds to starve or become exhausted from having to fly too long. Flipping a light switch is a pretty easy way to help save our birds. |< 4 s -1 — e w s c 3 > @ www.brinsoninsurance.net Window Cleaning Window Cleaning * Pressure Cleaning * Caulking Specialist Quality Work At Its Best 2 5— y ears of experience N'm'tl Pettis, Omer P.O. Boi 1120 813-300-7188 Milieu. GA 30442 Npetthll ij yalicc-.tom TIIOMPSONSTRICKLANR-WATERS FUNERAL HOME 107 Singleton Ave, Sylvania, GA 30467 ph:912-564-2331 Email: tswfhga@gmail.com Website: thompsonstricklandwaters.com Birthdays <& Anniversaries!!! Oh g Oh Leroy & Ann Clayton Happy 69th Anniversary BRINSON'S Tree Sc Stump Removal * tree & Slump Removal * Expert Tdmmirt§ * Storm Cleanup * SkidstoorWork * ICrtd ClCCrirtg, S tush Cull ill £j, & Bush Hogging totally OwAQCJ. IktbtOd & ErtJwrttl Q CML NOW 706-52SB686 Corine & Billy Wilkes
