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C6 - Sunday, January 8, 1984 - North Shore News

YOUR AVERAGE recipe junkie is only distant
cousin to the well-known cookbook-collector. Peo-
ple with shelves of cookery books are essentialty
readers; the recipe freak is first and foremost an
eater, clipping, tearing, copying, begging from
friends, not above stealing for that very best recipe
for the very best salad-dressing or pie-crust or souf-

fle or whatever.

If forced to live with one,
you. learn to accept that your
daily newspaper will look like
a Swiss cheese when passed
on to you; you’re never sur-

prised that there are serious

gaps in the action in the
magazine stories — there ob-
viously was a recipe on the
other side of the page! And
the jaggedy bits of paper ac-
cumulate on the kitchen
counter like sea-wrack.

_ To cope with my own
mess, I labelled three big
envelopes and taped them to

the inside of the cupboard
doors: one is for ‘‘Things I
Must Try’’, one says ‘‘Possi-
ble Column Material’’, and
the last is for ‘‘Irresistible
Desserts’’. So now, before
the pile gets too unmanage-
able, I shift the stuff into
these hidey-holes. When the
doors will no longer stay
shut, 1 shall have to make
another move.

On New Year’s Day, when
the thought of food made my
eyes bug out, | groped
around in my clippings and

Aound a way out — a recipe
for ‘‘Chili Soup’’, exactly
what we needed for the leap
from overindulgence to reali-
ty. You could make it and eat
it in a span of about three
hours, but I preferred to start.
it and Jet it ripen overnight to
sharpen the anticipation. I
put extra chili powder in
mine, and a little extra salt at
the end, but here it is and it’s
beautiful:

2 green peppers, chopped
2 large onions, chopped
6 cloves garlic, minced

2 bay leaves, whole

% cup of oil (60mL)
2 Tbspns. of chili
powder (30mL)
2 tspns. of cumin (10mL)
2 tspns. of salt (10mL)
ltspn. of sugar (SmL)
\ Ib. of ground
beef (500g)

Ye cup of bourbon

(Lonly hadrye!) (60mL)

1 can of chili peppers,
chopped,

(il4mL)

l can (large) of crushed
tomatoes (796mL)
(or use fresh, chopped, or
frozen, mushed)
1 can (large) of
kidney beans (796mL)
One of the pleasures in any
kitchen is a big heavy soup-

Chili soup for recipe junkies

pot. Put the oil in the bottom
of it and cook the vegetables
and garlic over medium heat
until soft. Add the chili

Saunter
past it once in a while and
give it a stir, from the bot-
tom. It was at this juncture

lid for two hours.

the kitchen ranger

by Eleanor Godley

powder, the cumin, salt and
sugar, and stir and cook for
two minutes. Add the meat,
and mash and stir until it is

browned. The rest of the in- |

gredients can go into it now,
including the juices from
tomatoes and kidney beans,
and let it simmer Without a

that | put it out on to the
deck to ‘‘marry’’, not ab-
solutely necessary, and then
heated it up slowly the next
afternoon. We each had two
bowls full, with slices of beer
bread, and I had a little teen-
sy bit left for the freezer. The
recipe says ‘‘serves eight’’.

MY APOLOGIES to
the mother who wrote
me a long letter about
taking her baby (along
with husband, another
couple and their baby)
to Hawaii. | read the let-
ter very quickly and
because it touched on
areas that I hadn’t writ-
ten, about for a coon’s
age, I set the letter
asidé, planning to give it
a lot more thought in
the New Year. I’ve lost
the letter.

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1! hope my memory will
cover the appropriate bases
but af “it doesn’t, ether
forgive me or write again

Her first question was
abourtiming a trip to Hawan
with regard to costs This
group of six was fairly Mex
ble anytime from now into
May. The fact that they are
taking two infants doesn't
matter You may pay a few
dollars more lo go in January
or February than in’ May
Pay the catra and get out of
here when the rain has to be
shovelied. It) doesn’t matter
when calculating food costs,
it matters very httle with the
aubhnes, and condos don't
Rive you outrageous savings
in the spring

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by Barbara
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paper on getting re runs,
BUT There are a few

tropical hints about
that ygu must hnow The sun
tsa killer No intant should
be exposed to the
more than a few minutes
Phere skin is so tender that ut
burns inp an unbehevably
short time A hat is a must
Sos a shade over the stroller

infants

sun for

Watch for one leg or arm that
gets exposed despite all your
precautions. Use heavy-duty
sunscreen and keep the baby
covered.

An infant or small child
can die from exposure to the
sun in even moderate doses.
You aren't doing your heir
any favor by taking him to
the beach. The heat, even if
he's covered, can cause
dehydration, rise in
temperature and exhaustion.

If | should be so unlucky as
to bring a fair-skinned infant
to a tropical country, I'd
prepare a cotton circle —
about two yards in diameter.
It would be self-lined (that
means two circles sewn
together) and have a neck
hole cut into it with cotton
lies The whole thing would
cover his body from neck to
toes when he was sitting ina
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capped with a wide brim der-
by, attached under his chin
with a soft elastic. His face
would have a thick layer of
sunscreen. He would be on
non-stop fluids —_ sterile
water in a cup or bottle.
Because food spoilage is so
much of a problem in the
tropics, he’d eat only titned
food, freshly opened and the
remainder discarded. His
milk would be dry powdered,

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tinned formula brought from
home. I'd dilute it with tap
water I’d boiled a minimum
of 20 minutes.

Diaper rash is another pro-
biem. Don’t let baby stay wet
for more than a few minutes.
Forget plastic pants and stay-
dry linings. Put the baby in
cotton training pants — the
super thick ones — and set
him on a doubled-over
Pamper. At mght, providing

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Shading babies - a tropical must

the room is decently cool, go
for the Pampers but don’t let
him sit in them for a 10-hour
sleep. If he gets a diaper rash
or prickly heat, turn him
loose to the air with ap-
propriate medication. The
sun, in very small doses, is
often kind to rashes. I found
the best cure for diaper rash
is undiluted cod liver oil, ap-

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