56 - Werinesday, May 8. 1991 ~ North Shore News

Family Services’ recipes are fast and fantastic

THIS HAS been a beautiful spring but if you're an allergy
sufferer as | am, hasn't this been about the worst on re-

cord for pollens? [ have

had that helped get so much in the air.

great season for fruit trees.

It youre planning to treeve
fruits, think about buying a few
of your supplies each week — it
makes sense to ake nibbles out at

the family budget rather than a
bie bite
eos
Speaking of ‘bites’ — FP came

into my kitchen the other morning
to find a strange cat snackiag at
the chow dish. T shooed hin out
but he hung around tor days.
you have this problem, be aware
that the Vancouver Humane
Socieiy operates a free computer
service to try and re-naite lost cats
and awners,

On che Narth Shore. call 980-
0933.

IT think my guest must have
found his way heme on his own
because he’s not been back since
last Sunday and Pve had no calls
about him.

[| don’t ofien do cookbook
reviews as space is limited and the
object of this column is to try and
save money. Some of the ingre-
dients poputar in fancy cookbooks
are only feasible if you’re enter-
taining your prospective mother-
in-law for the first time (and then

she'll tell her kid that you're a
spendthrift, and to rethink the
idea).

However, if a non-profit

organization comes up with two as
good as North Shorr Family Ser-
vices are marketing, do have a
look.

The two books “Fast and
Fantastic?” and ‘More Fasi and
Fantastic’? are great. The recipes
are well presented —- in other
words, easy to follow and appeal
to me as an average honiemaker.

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299. 0666.

DAYS A WEEK

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This mas mean a

Barbara ;
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BUDGET BEATERS

If you have a gift that needs
buying, the set would be ideal, but
you will be tempted to keep them
for yourself. Move over, Best of
Bridge — you've got some fine
competition right here on the
North Shore.

The organization has given me
permission to borrow any recipe
that I try and like, so you'll prob-
ably be secing quite a few in the
next while!

A reader called to praise two of
my recent recipes (Spanish Rice
and the "Don't Fell Anyone it’s
Eggplant’). After she hung up 1
remembered another eggplant
combo that I love!

Egenlant Caviar
This resembles the popular an-

tipasto combination but that
secret ingredient is eggplant.
1 eggplant

% cup olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
1 medium green pepper, chopped

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2 tabtespoons alive sil
'. cup tomato pasie
hs cup water
I teaspoon sugar (or a bit mores
salt and pepper
2 rablespouns wine vinegar
Ts cup each green and black olives
faptionaD © 2 cup cocktail onions
foptional §: cup walaut pieces
parsley to varnish

Poke the eryphint on a tew
Places “ith a fork (these hitthe
devils can explode when biked).
Place on a baking pan and bake

at 389° about JQ minutes ar until
you can stab it) right: through

without too much trouble,
Cool, peel and dice coarsely.

Heat otf and cook onion and

green pepper gently until limp but
nol
and water
heat

brown. Stir in tomato paste
and stir over medium

unui thickened by evapora

with sugar, salt) and
pepper. Add vinegar. Stir in egg-
plant. Chill. Add olives (onions
and walnuts if you like} and gar-
nish with snipped parsley.

I love this with big sesame
crackers. 'd love to be able to tell
you it’s especially ‘‘good for you"”
but, unfortunately eggplant isn't
up there with broccoli on the
nutrition top line!

ason

Did you know that liver is sim-
ply delicious if you marinate it in
a bit of bottled French dressing?
Why do so many people dislike
liver? Probably because our
mothers over-cooked it, Under-
cook thin slices of baby beef liver
évau should see a faint pink tinge
inside).

If you're having me for dinner,
whip up a big piece of Hubbard
or acorn squash to go along.
There’s something about that
combination that is irresistible but
don't try to serve it to any other
member of my family!

ese

People stuff mushrooms with

WATCHES
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diameter —- they arent often
availuble but when sou see them
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bits and microwaved crisp
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Dbunch green onions, chopped

ts eup fine. dry breadcrauntbs

ly cup grated Parmesan cheese

'a cup finely chapped walnuts
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some downright sadistic Chings
and Imi one of them. fattening?
You bet.

These are simply delicious with
steak o-- first outdoor grifling
coming up?

Tabeays cook these inside i my
regular oven — thes re cae much

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