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Newspaper Page TextWednesday, June 8,2022 dawsonnews.com I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I 3B Salad ideas to liven up summer dinners, gatherings I love salad—especially during the hotter months of the year. As all of you know, the hot weather is here and it is here to stay for the next few months. Salad makes a wonderful dinner and you don’t have to heat up the kitchen with the stove or the oven. In addition, even a big salad won’t leave you feeling bloated—it is a great way to get your daily intake of healthy vegetables. Salad doesn’t have to be boring! Think ahead when you are cooking other things for dinner. For example, on taco night, double up on the taco meat so you can use the leftovers in a taco salad. When grilling chicken breasts, cook extra to slice and throw into a salad. I always have extra boiled eggs in the refrigerator—perfect for topping a chef salad. Vary the lettuces you use. Add some radicchio or napa cabbage to the lettuce to change up the texture and taste of the salad base. Don’t forget fresh herbs—add them to the salad dressing or straight into your salad. ROBINSON Columnist Make your own salad dressing, and make extra dressing while you are at it. Homemade salad dressing—even if it is just good olive oil and quality vinegar, is infinitely bet ter than the bottled kind at the grocery store. Here are some of my favorite salad recipes, along with some classic salad dress ings. Enjoy! Taco Salad with Mexican Salad Dressing • 4 cups crisp Romaine lettuce, tom into bite sized pieces • 4 cups Iceberg let tuce, chopped • 1 red bell pepper, stemmed, seeds removed and chopped • 1 carrot, peeled and grated • !/2 Vidalia onion, thinly sliced • 1 cup cilantro leaves • 1 cup cherry toma toes, halved • 1 avocado, seeded, peeled and chopped • 1 !/2 cups favorite cheese, shredded • 2 cups cooked taco meat, cold • 1/3 cup black olives, sliced • Vijalapeno, sliced • 2 cups tortilla chips, crushed • Mexican Salad Dressing (recipe follows) In a large salad bowl, toss together lettuces, bell pepper, carrot, onion, cilantro and cherry toma toes. Divide into four salad bowls. Top with avocado, cheese, taco meat, black olives, jalape- no slices and tortilla chips. Top with salad dressing. Mexican Salad Dressing • 1 cup sour cream • !/2 cup favorite salsa • V2 lime, juiced • Pinch of salt and pepper • Dashes of hot sauce • Combine all ingre dients. Just ask your deli to cut a few slices of ham, tur key and cheese a bit thick—tell them you are going to cube it up for a salad. Chef Salad with Buttermilk Ranch Dressing • 4 cups Romaine lettuce (or your favorite lettuce) • 1 cup napa cab bage, chopped • 1 cup radicchio, chopped • 1 Vi cups cubes of deli ham • 1 Vi cups cubes of deli turkey • 1 Vi cups cubes of Swiss cheese (or your favorite cheese) • 1 cup cherry toma toes, halved • 1-2 carrots, peeled and grated • Vi cucumber, peeled and sliced • 2 boiled eggs, peeled and quar tered • Buttermilk Ranch Dressing In a large salad bowl, combine lettuce, napa cabbage, radicchio, ham, turkey, cheese, tomatoes, carrots, and cucumber. Divide salad into salad bowls and top with eggs. Add Ranch dressing and serve. Salad with Grilled Chicken and Balsamic Dressing • 4 cups spring mix lettuces • 4 cups Butter or Bib lettuce, torn into bite sized piec es • 1 cup radishes, trimmed and sliced thinly • Vi cup cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced • 1 cup cherry toma toes, halved • 2 grilled chicken breasts, thinly sliced or chopped • % cup blue cheese crumbles • 2 cups croutons • Balsamic Salad Dressing (recipe follows) In a large salad bowl, combine lettuces, cucum bers, cherry tomatoes, chicken breast slices, blue cheese, and croutons. Pour balsamic dressing over all and toss well. Divide into salad bowls and serve. This is by far my go-to salad dressing recipe. The better quality of balsamic vinegar and olive oil you use, the better the dress ing is. You can make this in minutes. You can make the basic dressing, or you can add some extras such as minced garlic, minced shallots, fresh herbs, or different mustards. Balsamic Salad Dressing • 14 cup balsamic vinegar • 'A cup extra-virgin olive oil • 1 Vi teaspoons Dijon mustard • Pinch of salt and pepper Combine ingredients in a small jar and shake to combine. Its hard to give up a dear old friend like Dinah to heaven It was Friday night. We had just walked in from a supper of ham burgers and Cokes, with all the family, at the Soda Fountain. A friend, Barbara, texted urgently that our mutual friend, Dinah, was being rushed to the hospital. Possibly a stroke. Dinah, a dark-haired beauty from my girlhood, was a teen ager when I was in patent leath er shoes and lace-trimmed socks. Dinah wore dresses with swirling skirts and tiny waists. She was kind and, though I was little and not of much use, she always had time to entertain me, listening to the stories that my five-year-old self recited. Her laughter was like a light weight, springtime green leaf. Fike many mountain families, she and her parents lived in a neat, small house within a stone’s throw of her grandparents’ two- story, frail farmhouse that carried the scent of a hundred years that it had seen. They lived within holler ing distance so they stood on their porch es, talking across the yard. The memory is faint but still there: Daddy and Dinah’s granddaddy sitting on that gray- weathered porch, their chairs rocking gently back and forth. Both men with their shirt sleeves rolled up and Bibles open while I sat on the rickety steps in my ruffled church dress, watching the red dust kicked up by cars rumbling along the nearby dirt road. I can still remember the gen tleness of the breeze across my freckled cheeks as Daddy and the wise, old man discussed the Word of God. Dinah and her mother, seeing our car in the drive, always hur ried down to see us. It was for ever joyous to see that beautiful girl dance out from the porch, the screen door banging behind her. In our living room is a black and white photo that Dinah took of me with my parents. My smile is glowing and my petti coat is showing. “It looks dire,” Barbara said. “Please, pray.” I took myself to our back porch and then to the back yard. It was a beautiful night. An enormous, storybook-like full moon hung in the sky, sur rounded by a smattering of twinkling stars and Jupiter and Mars. In the night’s quiet, I stilled myself and began to pray. Suddenly, I stopped and, looking at the majestic sight, whispered, “What a beautiful night to go home.” I could hear Sister Vestal Goodman singing, “What a beautiful day for the Ford to come again.” As I watched the sky, high overhead, flew a southbound passenger jet headed for Atlanta’s international airport. “In 20 minutes,” I whispered, “that plane will be setting at the gate.” Seconds later, another plane appeared. Turning toward the east, I saw another jet adjust its course toward the airport. Apparently, a lot of jets land in Atlanta around 8 p.m. on a Friday night. Still, holding Dinah’s image, I watched those blinking lights, pondering that a lot of people would soon be home. I imag ined their relief at seeing the lights of home as the aircrafts circled before landing. Atlanta is a beautiful, twinkling city to behold at night, from the sky. In my mind’s eye, I could see happy family reunions: a girl friend embracing her sweetheart while toddlers waddled toward grinning grandparents. Is Dinah home yet? I won dered. Her family was waiting, too, in long anticipation of a family reunion. The hardest prayer is when we release selfishness and ask that a loved one or dear friend may find the peace of heaven. The dogs took off in a clatter after deer then, as quiet slipped back over the Rondarosa, I began to sing an old Appalachian hymn. To the stars, the moon, and the passing jets, I used the haunting, wailing voice of my people. “Oh, come angel band; Come and around me stand.” If the angel band was coming for Dinah that night, they turned back to heaven. Her heavenly family reunion will have to wait. And her early family is relieved. Ronda Rich is a multi-best-selling author. Visit www.rondarich. To sign up for her free weekly news letter. RONDA RICH Columnist Rio White Dawson County News Brad Bennett performs a motorcycle stunt at the event on Sunday. FROM 1B Show wheel as well as tight turns that put him inches away from awestruck kids. He then proceeded to try stunts on top of a car as well as special stunts with Fead Pastor Dustin Gillespie. Relying on Gillespie’s trust — and nerves — Bennett performed several tricks that put the pastor at the center of the program. After that, two other members of Real Encounter performed ramp stunts on BMX bikes. Several dif ferent kinds of tricks were done, including some that involved going upside down and others that involved no hands. At the end of the program, Bennett spoke to the audience about his background in stunt riding and how it tied into his group’s role in religious out reach. For pastor Gillespie, the event epitomized his vision of the church as a place where the communi ty has priority. “To get people to come to campus to see that we are a church that cares about our community and that our doors are open means a lot,” Gillespie said. “We have an open relationship with our community, and we want to communicate that.” FROM 1B Vita academic approach used by the country’s education system. “I was much more stressed out at home...I had about 15 subjects,” Govorkova said. “But also, now it is easier for me to study [in America] having had the harder time in Russia.” With a greater degree of individual education paths offered in the United States, she noticed that her own workload decreased but that each student seemed to have their own amount to com plete. Socially, she saw signif icant differences between how students communi cate with each other. On one hand, certain ideas of American teenag ers — as portrayed by television and film — are not necessarily the case. She found that the con cepts of cliques and strict social classes were not Rio White Dawson County News Vita Govorkova runs during a track meet earlier this season. present at DCHS. “I would say that every one was so nice,” Govorkova said. “I like people here...it just feels like home.” On the other hand, she said that most students in Russia keep one set of close friends while many American high schoolers have a combination of close and peripheral friends. Because of this, she witnessed the often indi rect way American teen agers communicate, con trasting to the blunt nature of Russian conversations. Despite the vastly dif ferent social environ ments, Govorkova found people at DCHS who would have an imprint on her life. Many of these people came from athletics, spe cifically the track and field team. While she was able to meet the many members of the team throughout the season, her most cher ished moments were with those she got to know on the long bus rides to the Region Championship and State Sectionals. “I think State was one of the best [experiences] because we had so much time,” Govorkova said. “We were so close because we were always together and supporting each other. We got to know each other...and now I have friends from the track team and we hang out.” In fact, her bond with the track team grew so much that Coach Pruett wants to bring some of the team to visit Govorkova at her next stop in Arkansas. That level of friendship and dedication is some thing she said was unex pected, yet all the more amazing. Aside from her life at school, she was also able to travel to many parts of the United States with her host family. She had her first snow less New Year in Miami, traveled to Fas Vegas, saw the Grand Canyon and went to a concert in Nashville. “One of the best parts [of my stay] was traveling a lot,” Govorkova said. “Even if it’s just a couple days, it’s just amazing emotions with so much energy and adrenaline.” Overall, Govorkova’s time in Dawsonville will be remembered both by her and the many friends she made along the way. While she has now left to stay in Arkansas for the summer, she has become a Tiger for life, wherever the future may lead her. FROM 1B Coaches asset to our program,” Anglin said. “She has been loyal to our schedule for the last few years as a community coach, and it was vital for me to help find her a job.” She will also be begin ning her first year as a teacher, joining the staff at Black’s Mill Elementary as a Kindergarten and 1st- grade Focus teacher. Two individuals will be kept on from the previous staff, including Anglin’s wife, Carly, who finished her DCHS career in 2013 as the third all-time lead ing scorer for the Fady Tigers. Anglin has been on the coaching staff since 2018 but will be tasked with new responsibilities next season, as she was named head coach of the 8th- grade team and will over see all basketball opera tions. “Working with your wife is a unique opportuni ty that I won’t take for granted,” Will Anglin said. “As a coach, she can relate with the players and give them realistic expectations about playing at the next level. She will be a huge blessing to our 8th-grade team. She understands what the kids need to suc ceed at the high school level because she has been there for four years.” Also kept on staff is Natosha Beary, who has been successful as the Middle School basketball coach for the past nine years. In that time span, her teams have won five Mountian Feague Championships. She will continue as the 7th grade team coach next season and will also over see the youth development programs. “I was excited to keep Natosha on board,” Anglin said. “She does a great job connecting to the players, and they enjoy playing for her. I’m excited about working with her over the next several years.”