COTTAGE KITCHEN

In a well-furnished kitchen there are not only crystal goblets and silver platters, but waste cans and compost buckets---some containers used to serve fine meals, others to take out the garbage.
Become the kind of container God can use to present any and every kind of gift to his guests for their blessing.
" You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies." Psalm 23:5

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

COOKBOOKS


I have a cookbook called "FARM RECIPES AND FOOD SECRETS FROM THE NORSKE NOOK" The author has a "roadside cafe" in Osseo Wisconsin. I love cookbooks with stories in them and this book is one of those. It is a variable delight of mid-west dinners and treats with a scandinavian flair. It is one of my favorites. It helps me to understand the mid-west way of life a little better. I am learning all about hot-dish (casserole) and bars( cookies in a 13x9 inch baking pan) . Well..now that I think.. there are alot of bars also ..a lot of activities are at the bars, even the church bazaar has a beer garden. It may be the German influence. When my son was stationed in Germany he called home to tell us you could buy beer at McDonalds if you were 16 or over. Coming from a strictly scandinavian background this was foreign to me. Coffee and sweets I understand. At our family functions ther was always a big line-up at the dessert table not the beer garden.
The book comes from a farms point of view so there are things I won't be making but it is an interesting read. The author( Helen Myhre) was on NBC news and David Letterman back in the early 90's. The cafe is about 4 hours from where we live. It was a fun day.

2 comments:

Carol Murdock said...

I lived in Germany for two years,I also have a granddaughter who is german/american ( Mandy)
the one I just went to see in Oklahoma, it is true germans start drinking beer very young.
However German Beer is not nearly as intoxicating as American beer so they don't actually get drunk. I myself could never stand the smell or taste of either!

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