STRICTLY FOR MEN

By ELEANOR GODLEY

“Eat your vegetables.”
Where have you heard that
before?

Now, far be it from me to
influence you, but I tell the
men in my class, “If you
don't eat your vegetables,
you'll be knock-kneed, bald-

headed, pot-bellied and
impotent!” You have been
warned.

Actually, there ought to
be a Vegetable Abuse
Centre. The way some

people cook them to death,
it's a proper crime. And
theg¥fre so voluptuous, too.
Just gq into any market and

KITCHEN CORNER

An elegant pasta sauce

By JUDITH MATTHEWS

Both recipes are meatless,
both utterly elegant, easy to
prepare, and a joy to serve.
Italian bread sticks, a butter
lettuce salad round out this
easy to prepare meal.

UNCOOKED
FRESH TOMATO SAUCE
Peel and drop. into
blender:

1 pound tomatoes

stroke the satiny skin of a
purple eggplant; cradle a
crook-neck squash; smoothe
the plump contours of a
scarlet tomato. Then go buy
a little basket fit-all metal
steamer, cost you maybe
four dollars, and give up
boiling those gorgeous
creatures.

Bring a couple of inches of
water to the boil in any
saucepan, insert the basket
of prepared  vegetable(s),
and cook them just until they
are tender to the testing

fork.
Lots of butter’ or
Margarine, and do try

rubbing a tiny bit of dill

Add:
2 tbsps oil
2 or 3 green onions
‘A cup snipped, fresh
basil leaves
1 garlic clove, peeled

Blend for a few seconds.
or until well pureed.

Add.
salt and pepper to laste

toss
is suf-

Pour over fettucine,
to mix. The sauce
ficient for six servings.

at your veggies - or else!

weed over all, or grating
some fresh ginger root on
top, or tossing in some
minced green onion. You
and your vegetables will be
going steady.

Look for the young ones

_ when you're shopping--little

feathery carrots, small beets
with deliciously edible tops,
pea-pods still slender and
unwrinkled. And corn--no
dimples. Dimples in knees,
OK, dimples in corn mean a
tough disappointment. Pull
down the husk and look for
smooth glistening kernels,
not too yellow.

Corn is perfect on the
barbecue: pull down the

PESTO
SAUCE ALEX

In blender place
1 cup loosely packed fresh
basil
2 oz. pine nuts OR 2 oz.
fresh walnut pieces
2 cloves garlic, peeled.

Blend well. It will be dry.
but keep working at it,
pushing it down with a

rubber spatula. Then add:

food

For something different

FULLERTON, Calif

(UPD Bob McGregor's
prickly hot bumtos recipe
was a main dish winner in

the final cxam feast students
prepared In FY
College

Fullerton
course on cooking
with wild plants

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diced prokly pear
cactus

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bleweed also known

as Russian thistle

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« Ib monterey jack
cheese. sliced

10) tortllas

Brown sausage in a large
skillet. drain fat and discard

Blanch prickly pear cactus
, te
water drain well

S minutes ino boiling

Beat egps inia bowl Sur
salsa. Russian thistle and
prickly pear cactus into
Cggs. pour mixture into pan

with sausage slices and cook
until firm, lifting edges of the

CIT cies

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omelet as necessary so that
all the beaten eggs cook
Divide egg mixture and
cheese among = tortillas,
placing the two ingredients

along the center of each
torulla. Fold in one side and
two ends and oroll into
sausage shape Place rolled
cdge down, ino a shallow
oiled) ovenproof dish and
place ino preheated VO° &
oven about S minutes of

until cheese as) melted

burritos are warm

and

Makes 10 servings

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winemakers!
make real wine,
this fall...

husk, remove all silk, butter
the cob all around, puil up
the husk again and wrap the

whole thing tightly in foi. {| We import the best
About eight minutes each ; i
side on a good fire. Won- California grapes

derful.

If you can’t barbecue, get
a big pot of water to a
vigorous boil, salt or not as
you wish, some people put
milk in too. Undress the.

Zintandel Muscatel Pailamino
Cabernet Sauvignon (will special order)

We seli everything you need to make wine Sz
inc. grape crusher, vinoclear (filter) and tablets.

the Rosalie Delicatessen

cobs, drop them into the 1801 Lonsdale ‘

water, do NOT reduce the 2 Biks, below London Drugs 988-35 15
heat, and give them five

minutes. Maximum. Now,

into a basket, tuck your bib
under your chin, glorious.

More vegetable dishes
next week.

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in the “Sears Gives You More” advertise-
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Shore News, the Kenmore Powermate
vacuum cleaner advertised was not available
in time for the sale.

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grated.

fresh parmesan,

Blend in at low speed:
‘A cup good quality oil
Toss pasta with butter and

pass pesto sauce separately.
6 servings.

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