60 - Wednesday, December 10, 1986 - North Share News

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

PD LOVE to be able to
boast ehout how organized
our hess. ts for Christmas.
but I'd iute to lie.

One thing, though, I can boast
about. For the first time in about
15 years our Christmas tree is yo-
ing to have a whole new look. One
of my daughters and [ spent about
three days last week scouring the
shops for all new ornaments.

It was great fun and took us to
Gastown, Lonsdale Quay, any
number of florist shops and almost
all the major department stores.

We purchased odds and ends
nearly everywhere but of the major
department stores we found the
best variety and lowest prices at
Woodward’s.

budget
beaters

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by Barbara
McCreadie

But the real joke is that as we
searched for bargain prices we
worked up a kealthy appetite. Our
three lunches on the town cost be-
tween $10 and $17. I refuse to
think about the hole that made in
our ‘“‘savings.’’ but I suspect we’d
have been better ofi ordering by
phone to the most expensive shop
in town and having the baubles
delivered by limo.

But it wouldn’t have been half
the fun and, as one booth operator
at the Quay remarked, ‘‘Isn’t it
wonderful to have a daughter who
takes an interest?” It is.

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Christmas shopping can be ex-
pensive in more than obvious
ways. After a full day of prowling
through crowded malls it’s so easy
to say, ‘“‘Let’s noi bother eoing
home. Why not grab a bitc to eat
downtown?"’

Such temptation.

One way around it is to place
your dinner in the oven or crock
pot before you leave. Opening
your front door to the aroma of
dinner ready does wonders for
your morale, even if your feet hurt
and you’ve got 2 collection of stuff
that you know is the wrong size,
wrong color or needs an engineer-
ing degree to assemble.

Here are a couple of casserole
recipes that might do the trick:

Venezuelan Rive
1 th. grcund beef
i large onion, diced
1 green pepper, diced
1 28-oz. tin tomatoes, chopped
I tin consomme
Y eup sherry or apple juice
2 teaspoons chili powder
salt and pepper
1 cup raw, regular while rice
1 cup sliced ripe olives
I cup grated cheddar cheese.

Saute meat with onion and pep-
per until pink is gone. Add
tomatoes, consomime, sherry and
seasonings and bring to a boil.
Add rice and return go a boil. Stir
in olives.

Turn into a large, greased cusse-
role dish. Set oven timer so that
the mixture will begin to cook

about ah dur botere veup aitnad
homy. set temperature to 324° EF,

When vou get bome, sprinkle
cheese on and cook until
cheese melts.

(if vou're home to wateh this, it
normally bakes hour at 375°F
and 15 minutes more after you add
the cheese. The lower temperature
gives you more leeway if the traffic
is bad!)

Serves six generously.

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Five-Tin Casserole

This recipe is probably 30 years
old — from the time when exotic
ingredients such as chow mein
noodles, cashews and even
mushrooms were available mostly
in tins. Don’t hesitate to substitute
fresh ingredients, but it’s much

faster te use the finned.

17-04. tin chicken of chunk tuna
(rinsed)
1 tin mushroom soup
1 tin chow mein noodles
I tin ed or button mushrooms
1 tin cashews
1 cup diced celery
M4 cup diced onion
pepper

Combine all ingredients and
place in a greased,one quart casse-
role. Cover and bake at 300°F
about an hour or until bubbly.
(Here again, the temperature is
lower and the time longer to allow
for timed baking). Serves four.

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Lonsdale Quay
Market

RESERVATIONS

“The right stuff”

WW II FLYING JACKETS

Custom-made with top quality sheepskin. The on-
ly designer in Western Canada to produce this

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FACTORY
980-6813

BEST BUYS:

BUY LOW: Boneless sirloin up
roasts, $2.68 Ib.: Nabob coffee,
$3.37; Macintosh apples, 39¢ {b.

STONG'S: Sausages (pork,
breakfast etc.), $1.68 Ib.; Boneless
top sirloin steak, $2.98 Ib.:
bananas, 25¢ |b.; mushrooms,
$1.88 Ib.; bunch spinach, 49¢,

WOODWARD'S: Young ducks,
$1.19 Ib.; Delnor petite peas, 350
gm, $1.07; Parkay margarine, 3

th. $2.17; Stove Top stutfing, $1.07.
SAFEWAY: Cragmont soft
drinks, S8¢; Schneider’s bulk
sausage meat. frozen, 500 gm,
$1.49, Lucerne sour cream, 250
ml, 65¢, Crest toothpaste, 150 em,
$1.59.

SAVE-ON-FOODS: Pork chops,
$1.88 Ib.;  Olafson frozen puff
pastry, 78¢; Green Giant frozen
vegetables, 300 gm, 88¢, Camp-
bell’s tomato soup, 36°,

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