Wednesday, August 24,2022
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Recipes to mark the end of summer 2022
Summer is coming to an
end, but summer produce is
still plentiful! Take advantage
of summer’s bounties and
enjoy some delicious dishes.
Enjoy!
In the winter, I use canned
tomatoes to successfully make
gazpacho, but oh, how glori
ous to make this cold, summer
soup with fresh tomatoes.
ADLEN
ROBINSON
Columnist
parmesan and parsley. Pour
mixture into a casserole dish
that has been sprayed with
non-stick cooking spray. Bake
in a preheated 350-degree
oven for 30 minutes.
Greek Salad
Gazpacho
• 2 pounds tomatoes, coarsely
chopped
• 1 red bell pepper, seeded and
chopped
• 1 English cucumber, peeled and
chopped
• 1 small, sweet onion, chopped
• 1 clove garlic, chopped
• 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar
• !/2 cup best quality extra-virgin
olive oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup parsley, chopped
• !/2 cup cilantro, chopped
Place all ingredients in a food pro
cessor and pulse until gazpacho is the
consistency you like. I like mine on the
chunky side, but if you like it smooth,
just keep pulsing. Add more salt and/
or sherry vinegar to taste.
Yellow Squash Casserole
• 6 yellow squash
• 1 cup onion, chopped
• !/2 cup sour cream
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves
• 1 teaspoon salt
• !/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1 !/2 cup cheddar cheese, grated
• % cup panko
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 14 cup parmesan, grated
• 'A cup parsley, minced
Steam the squash and onions until
the squash is tender, about 8 minutes.
Drain well. Add cooked squash and
onions to a bowl, and add sour cream,
eggs, thyme, salt, pepper, cheddar
cheese, panko, butter, garlic powder,
Dressing:
• 14 cup olive oil
• 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• Vi teaspoon dried oregano
• Vi teaspoon Dijon
• Vi teaspoon salt
• 14 teaspoon pepper
Salad:
• 8 cups Romaine lettuce leaves,
chopped
• 1 English cucumber, peeled and
thinly sliced
• 1 red bell pepper, seeded and
chopped
• 2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved
• 1 cup feta cheese, crumbled or
cut into small cubes
• 1/3 cup thinly sliced red onions
• 1/3 cup kalamata olives, pitted
and sliced
• 1/3 cup mint leaves, chopped
• 6 pepperoncini peppers
Whisk dressing ingredients together
or shake in a jar. Place all salad ingre
dients in a large bowl. Add salad dress
ing and toss to combine.
Stuffed Peppers With
Chickpeas and Feta
• 114 cup chicken broth
• 2/4 cup couscous
• 4 red or orange bell peppers
• 2 teaspoons olive oil
• Vi cup onion, minced
• 6 ounces zucchini, chopped
• 6 ounces yellow squash,
chopped
• Vi teaspoon dried oregano
• 14 cup fresh basil leaves,
chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
• 15 ounce can fire roasted toma
toes, drained
• 15 ounce can chickpeas,
drained and rinsed
• 4 ounces feta, crumbled
• 3 tablespoons tomato paste
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bring
chicken broth to a boil and then add
couscous. Cover and remove from
heat. Cut the tops off of the bell pep
pers and remove the seeds and mem
branes. Place in a dish that has been
coated with olive oil. Roast bell pep
pers for 15 minutes.. Meanwhile, heat
olive oil over medium-high heat. Add
onion, squash, oregano, and salt, and
cook until vegetables are soft, about 8
minutes. Remove from heat and add
basil, cherry tomatoes, canned toma
toes, chickpeas, feta and tomato paste.
Add cooked couscous. Stuff mixture
into peppers, and bake for 20 minutes.
Stuffed Tomatoes
• 21/2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 6 tomatoes, preferably vine-rip
ened
• 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
flakes
• 1/2 small onion, minced
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 9 tablespoons arborio rice, or
other short grained starchy rice
• 2 tablespoons parsley, minced
• 2 tablespoons fresh basil leaves,
minced
• 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
• 1/3 cup parmesan, grated
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut the
tops off of the tomatoes and scoop out
the tomato flesh. Salt the insides of the
tomatoes and place upside down on
paper towels to drain. Add tomato
flesh to food processor and pulse. In a
skillet over medium-high heat, add oil.
Cook onion, garlic, and crushed red
pepper flakes for a few minutes. Add
arborio rice and cook for 3 minutes
until rice is beginning to brown. Add
tomato puree, a pinch of salt and cover
and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove
from heat and add parsley and basil.
Stuff the tomatoes with the rice mix
ture and top with breadcrumbs and
parmesan. Drizzle with olive oil and
bake for 30 minutes.
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Racing
build and fabricate,” Jerry
Coltrane said. “And as he kind of
got more toward the end of his
driving [career] he got into doing
more maintenance and repair for
people.”
The elder Coltrane was a dedi
cated racer from an early age —
forgoing a personal vehicle to
have his own race car at the age of
15.
Two years later, he won his first
career race by leading every lap at
Rome Speedway.
Successful both as a Late Model
car driver and builder, Coltrane
accumulated over 115 career wins.
Later in his career, he moved into
fabricating and developed the
Raider Chassis.
While Couch had racing aspira
tions since childhood, he got his
first taste of racing as a teenager
when he and the owner of his
workplace decided to go all in on
a race car that was for sale.
They soon went to their first
race in Canton.
“We were standing there and he
was asking me if I knew anything
about racing. I said I had never
drove a racecar in my life,” Couch
said. “I finished the race in fifth
place the first time I ever sat in a
racecar.”
Couch was most well known for
his success in the All Pro Series,
winning consecutive champion
ships in 1981 and 1982.
One of his highlights in that
series included a fifth-place finish
in a race that included the likes of
Bobby Allison, Dick Trickle and
Rusty Wallace.
Gray got his start out on dirt
tracks in Rome before quickly
becoming successful all over the
southeast.
After a decade of racing on dirt,
Gray earned his first Grand
National appearance in 1964 and
would start 38 races by the next
year.
1966 would prove to be his best
season, finishing fourth in the
Grand National points standings
— earning four top-5 and 18 top-
10 finishes.
“First time I went to Daytona I
ran an ARC A race. I didn’t know
nothing about what to do,” Gray
said. “I’ll tell you what though,
the first time I went down the
frontstretch into pit road to get out
on the track, I broke into a grin. I
was grinning so hard it hurt my
jaws.”
Massey was a prolific car owner,
mechanic and promoter whose
career crossed paths with many
fellow members of the GRHOF.
As owner and crew chief,
Massey won numerous races and
championships in north Georgia.
He would also become part-owner
of West Atlanta Raceway in the
1970s.
At the induction representing
the late Massey was his son Eddie,
who described one of his father’s
best accomplishments as winning
the Dixie nationals in ‘81 and ‘83
with his son Stan. The father-son
duo also won 18 straight races at
Dixie Speedway.
McGinnis enjoyed runs in multi
ple racing divisions in the 1970s,
including the Winston Cup Series.
Two of his biggest career wins
came at South Alabama Speedway
in 1979 and Lanier Speedway in
1987.
He also experienced success in
the All Pro Series during the
1980s with three wins and 27 top-
10 finishes.
“I won the Bama 300 down in
Birmingham and the first Bud
Bowl down at Lanier,” McGinnis
said. “But I think sitting on the
pole at Atlanta in the Southern
Sportsman series has got to be the
highlight of my life.”
Singleton was an accomplished
motorcycle racer known at the
time as ‘The Flying Pig Farmer’
— in a nod to his girlfriend’s
father who got Singleton to help
him feed pigs.
Already having won an amateur
championship before graduating
high school in 1973, he took just
five more years to win his first
Grand National road racing cham
pionship.
He would also win the Daytona
200 in 1979 and 1982.
The late Singleton’s brother
Spencer spoke at the induction
ceremony on his behalf.
“My dad said that we were
going to bring a pig to Daytona in
1979,” Singleton said. “Once
[Dale] won that race and we took
Elmer [the pig] to victory lane and
Dale drank champagne, it was fab
ulous.”
FROM 1B
Golf
Bamboo Car Wash and Diamond
Glass Company, respectively.
Second place went to Amicalola
Propane for the net score while the
gross score went to the law office of
Fox, Chandler, Homans, Hicks &
McKinnon.
Jeff Williams of Crye-Leike and
Nicolette Boissonneau of BioCide
Labs won the longest drive awards
while Patrick Cisco of The Norton
Agency and Kelly Caulley of Pandya
Medical Center won the closest to pin
awards.
Power expressed both how proud
she was of the tournament and her
thanks to Chestatee for hosting so
many people.
“Our golf tournament was tremen
dously successful and it would not
have been possible without Northside
Forsyth Hospital, who has been a
phenomenal supporter of the Dawson
County Chamber of Commerce for
many years,” Power said. “Chestatee
Golf Club’s course is beautiful and
we are so glad we got to work with
Cheryl and her amazing team.”
FROM 1B
Tigers
good job bouncing back from the
North [Forsyth] game.”
The game began with Dawson
using the running game to take an
early 6-0 lead on a pitch to Elijah
Smith. Regaining possession follow
ing a forced fumble, the Tigers took
over in scoring territory only to fum
ble the ball into the end zone for a
touchback.
While Jackson was kept off the
scoreboard for a while, the Dawson
offense could not capitalize on turn
overs and good field position — the
latter created by Smith on a couple of
long returns.
The Panthers took their first lead of
the game with just over a minute left
in the second quarter and led 7-6 at
halftime.
Neither team began the second half
with much momentum until Jackson
broke through on a sprawling touch
down catch. From that point, Dawson
found their second gear and mounted
a comeback victory.
Next up, the Tigers face Maxwell’s
former team Lambert, with the
Longhorns hosting the Tigers for a
7:30 p.m. matchup on Friday, Aug.
26.
A profound decision
to mind my business
Perhaps you’ll want to sit down for this. It might
even be advisable to grab a cool, wet washrag for
your forehead in case you feel swimmy-headed
over this news.
I’m going to start minding my own business.
I’m not going to preach, plea, or debate on why
people should listen to my wisdom: some of it,
hard-earned through mistakes, some of it intuitive,
and other bits just plain common sense.
Here’s a mistake: Don’t try to help load a bull for
the auction while wearing a shirt with wide, red
stripes. Bulls see red. And it makes ‘em mad.
Here’s intuitive: When a night turns unnaturally
quiet - the crickets don’t sing and the owls don’t
screech - nature is
about to unleash some
rowdiness.
Here’s common
sense: Don’t wear
high, slender heels to
the graveyard - or an
outdoor wedding -
when the ground is
soft from recent rains.
Buy block heels for these occasions. And, most
importantly, don’t spend more money than you
have.
Rarely do folks really want advice. Most just
want you to use up the limited number of words
and breaths that the good Lord anointed us with on
the day when we were born.
Why, I now wonder, if God gave me 100,136,548
words to utter over a lifetime would I use them to
fall on deaf ears? That means I’m merely taking
words off my years. Needlessly.
Tink says one of his least favorite phrases to hear
is “Tink, I’m tellin’ you....” This happens when
I’ve always forewarned of something that he should
do differently than he will do.
Like, for instance, don’t trust someone who has
proven untrustworthy. Tink has a remarkably bad
memory so he forgets who has done him wrong in
the past or who he’s suppose to be mad at.
This means that I’m suppose to remember not
only my grudges but his, as well. It’s a tremendous
burden to carry.
Tink, though, is not the problem when it comes
to advice. He says he is “afeared” of me so he usu
ally does what I “gently” advise.
The problem is two friends of more than 20
years. They are Godly women. Well meaning. Big-
hearted. Neither holds a grudge. They are many
lovely things to say about both.
However...
I have wasted far too many of my life’s allotted
words on them. It used to be that I gave them
advice without being asked. That’s my fault. Just
like the neon pink polish I chose once for a pedi
cure. It looked pretty in the bottle but was ghastly
on my toes.
I sighed that day when the manicurist asked,
“You like color?” She smiled sweetly.
“No,” I replied. “But it’s my choice. I’ll live with
it and change it next time.”
My giving up of dispensing advice to these
friends happened about the same time. One was in
all sorts of family anguish which she could have
easily stopped. It had been going on for at least five
years. One upset led to another and it became a
saga. Had it been television, it would’ve gotten
huge ratings.
It absolutely exhausted me. If for no other reason
than when she’s upset, she talks fast and leaves out
verbs so I’m depleted quickly by trying to decipher
her stories.
The other friend will call and ask for advice.
Sincerely. Once, she even said, “I’m worn out. I
can’t think. Whatever you tell me, I will do.”
This was encouraging. Exactly what a meddler
wants to hear.
Then, without fail, after I have made my careful
ly-weighed assessments and offered counsel, either
one of them will always say, “I can’t do that
because...”
So, it’s over. There will be no appeal or stay of
execution. Neither will be getting further advice.
However...
I’m still available if the rest of y’all should need
advice. It would be wrong of me to quit complete
ly-
It’s my calling.
Ronda Rich is the best-selling author of What
Southern Women Know About Faith. Visit www.rond-
arich.com to sign up for her free weekly newsletter.
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Elliott
season. He also led the
most laps in Sunday’s
race with 29.
Elliott’s consistency
combined with four
victories this season
placed him at the top of
the points standings
with 922 after Sunday’s
race. He currently has
25 playoff points and
will have the 15 addi
tional points added on
after the regular season
finale at Daytona next
Sunday.
While Elliott may not
have visibly shown his
frustration in the inter
views, his silence on
the radio in the final
laps and a post-race
conversation with car
owners Rick Hendrick
and Jeff Gordon gave a
glimpse of how he felt
about the incident.
Larson’s move result
ed in his second victory
of the season — both of
which have come at
Elliott’s expense. The
previous incident at
Fontana took the
Dawsonville native out
of contention entirely.
According to NBC
Sports, Hendrick
Motorsports believed
Elliott handled the situ
ation well.
“I think Chase did a
wonderful job post
race,” HMS president
and GM Jeff Andrews
said. “I commend him,
for all the frustration
that was there, some of
the things that could
have been said.”
The No. 9 team will
take their commanding
playoff points lead to
Daytona next week,
where the regular sea
son will wrap up at the
Coke Zero Sugar 400.
