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AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE
Welcome to this issue.
The Spice For This Issue
Editor's Comments
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Welcome to another issue of Around the Kitchen Table! Temperatures are cooler now but Autumn hasn't officially arrived. My tomatoes are finally ripening, all at once! Our 2007 Holiday Gifts and Entertaining Products are now available at our online catalog. Some of the new products include Holiday Sprinkles Set, Baked Potato Soup Mix, Snowflake Cookie Cutters, Mini Shower and Travel Kit, Mini Moisturizer Kit, Head to Toe Starter Kit, Roasted Garlic Snack and Dip Mix, and Country Gravy Mix. You'll find them under Gifts. Recipes this issue include Smoked Sausage with Pasta, Hearty Pasta Tomato Soup (Crockpot Recipe), Banana Sour Cream Cake, Crock Pot Pumpkin Butter, Maple Apple Pie. If you are interested in starting your own Watkins Home Business get all the details at: Watkins Business Details Join for the discount, for part time income, or a full time career! Build your own home business so you can stay home with your family, save for your children's college fund, retire early, pay off bills, or save for retirement. With consistent effort you can build a thriving business! Let me help you.
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If you like to prepare food and freeze for future meals don't fill your freezer with baking dishes. Line dishes with foil before assembling a casserole, wrap and freeze the finished casserole and then lift from dish and store in a resealable freezer-weight plastic bag.
Eating to Prevent Osteoporosis Changing your diet can be an effective, gentle, inexpensive and even delicious way to prevent, relieve or even reverse a wide variety of conditions. If you are at risk or have been diagnosed with osteoporosis, or simply want to help prevent future health issues, consider adding calcium-rich foods to your diet. Low-fat or non-fat dairy products, canned sardines and canned salmon, dark green vegetables such as broccoli, collard greens and bok choy, tofu, calcium-fortified juices and soy milk, black-eyed peas, molasses, poppy seeds, sesame seeds, almonds and figs are all good choices.
Smoked Sausage with Pasta
4 ounces uncooked angel hair pasta Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large nonstick skillet, saute the sausage, mushrooms, garlic and basil in oil until mushrooms are tender. Drain pasta; add to the sausage mixture. Add the tomatoes, salt and pepper; toss gently. Heat through. Makes four servings.
Hearty Pasta Tomato Soup (Crockpot Recipe)
6 cups beef broth made with 3 1/2 tablespoons of Watkins Soup Base and 6 cups boiling water Place all ingredients except the last two in a 5-qt. slow cooker. Cover and cook on High for 4 to 5 hours until the vegetables are tender and the sausage slices are cooked and tender. At this point, add pasta to your taste and continue cooking for 15 to 20 minutes or until pasta is cooked. I used orzo, so only had to wait about 15 minutes. Rotini or elbows would probably take 20 minutes or so. If you choose to use the tortellini, you need to cook it first, then stir into the soup and cook for about 30 minutes or so. Yield: 10-12 servings.
1 pkg. (2-layer size) yellow cake mix Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour 13x9-inch baking pan or two 9 inch-square pans; set aside. Beat cake mix, eggs, bananas, sour cream and oil in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed just until moistened, stopping frequently to scrape bottom and side of bowl. Beat on medium speed 2 min. Pour into prepared pan(s). Bake 30-35 minutes or until wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely.
Frosting Remove cake from pan; cut crosswise in half if using a 9x13-inch baking pan. Place one cake half, top-side down, on large serving plate; spread top with frosting. Top with remaining cake half, top side up. Frost top and sides of cake with remaiing frosting. Carefully press walnuts into frosting on sides of cake. Store in refrigerator. I used 1/4 cup of butter and 4 oz. of cream cheese and the frosting is still very rich tasting. Can anyone tell me how to put chopped nuts on the sides of a cake? I used my hand and part of the nuts fell on the plate and I had frosting all over my fingers!
Crock Pot Pumpkin Butter
5 lb pumpkin gutted and quartered Quarter pumpkin. Remove 'guts', seeds, and stem (leave skin on). Place pumpkin and 2 cups water in your crock pot. Cook 4 hours on low. Scoop pulp out of pumpkin skin. Mash with potato masher. Add sugar and spices to mashed pumpkin. Cook down 6-8 hours on low setting. Spoon into jars. This recipe is made as a refrigerator butter. If you wish to preserve pumpkin butter for shelf storage, use a standard hot water bath canning method. Great on home made breads, or stirred into plain yougurt. Maple Apple Pie
Filling
Crumble Combine dry ingredients and sprinkle 2 tbsp. of it over bottom of piecrust. Add the rest to apples, along with maple syrup and sour cream and stir. Turn into pie and cover with crumble topping. Bake at 425 for 15 minutes, then bake at 325 for 45 minutes longer or until nicely browned. Remove from oven and cool. Yield: 1- 9 in. pie
Too Many Backyard Friends! I bought a birdseed feeding pole that has arms to hold several bird feeders. It has spikes on the bottom that stick in the ground. Previously I had my bird feeders hanging from the overhead beams of our deck. I enjoy feeding and watching the birds but part of our deck was always covered with shells from the bird seed. Now our deck looks much cleaner. Now my problem is that we have attracted other animals besides birds. Some of our backyard visitors are raccoons, skunks, mice, rats, and wild turkeys. I know, turkeys are birds but they swoop in and eat all the birdseed before the smaller birds so I shoo them away when I see them in the yard. A few nights ago I looked out and we had two skunks scratching around under the bird feeders. Skunks and raccoons are nocturnal and usually only come out at night. Once I saw a shink scurry through our yard during the day. I think they have taken up residence under our deck. All we need is a bunch of baby skunks! Does anyone know how to discourage skunks and get them to leave your yard? I read an article that said to place rags covered with ammonia at the opening of their den. I'm using that suggestion and hope it works!. If you have any other suggestions, please email them to me. I'd appreciate your input. I decided to stop feeding the birds for a few weeks to discourage our other backyard friends. Visit my birdwatching blog California Birdwatching for pictures of my backyard friends.
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This recipe is from Diary of a Stay at Home Mom a blog by Sandra. If you like Pumpkin Butter and don't want to make your own, Watkins Pumpkin Butter (#05624) is included in our 2007 Holiday Gifts and Entertaining Products available now through December. Watkins Pumpkin Butter has homemade taste with a rich sweet flavor. Spread on bread, toast, bagel, Watkins Good Tastings Bread, or quck bread.
