There's no place like the kitchen on the holidays. Find out what's for dinner this Christmas at my house, and how the library can help you make your holiday meal delightful.

A Gluten Free Learning Fair will be held at Akins Natural Foods in the Brookwood Shopping Center on Saturday, October 10 from 11 AM until 2 PM. Enjoy delicious samples, pick up literature and tour the store.

A colleague of mine, after years of stomach distress, recently discovered the cause by adopting an elimination diet followed by methodical reentry of food items. The verdict appears to be gluten sensitivity. Liz is an accomplished, creative, and adventurous cook. So she...

Did you ever consider that your Saturday night steak dinner caused an acceleration of global warming? In his newest book, Food Matters, A Guide to Conscious Eating by Mark Bittman, the New York Times Minimalist columnist and a regular on the Today Show, proposes that food considerations matter in regard to personal and planetary health. To the degree it matters is what is shocking. 

That steak dinner for four was approximately the equivalent of driving around in an SUV for three...

I don't have a name on this recipe and don't remember where I got it 50 years ago. I don't think there are many "original" recipes that someone thought up themselves out there, so in my mind the person who gave me the recipe is where it came from. I have several old christmas cookie recipes I got when my children were little kids and I belonged to The Federated Women's Club "Vallerian Study Club". We each decorated a shoe box for Christmas and gave them to an elderly person in...

I received this recipe from a young man I worked with when I was Secretary for the KDOT Materials & Research Lab for nine years.  He was a fine young man who recently died at much too young of an age.  At work there is always someone who is a lot of fun, and fun to be around; that was definitely Larry.  I will always remember him when I make this recipe at this time of the year.  Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.  Jeanette 

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Brown:  1 lb. hamburger, 1/2 lb....

I promised all of you I would send the apple pie recipe to use those other two crusts you made when you made the peach pie.  I see the local Jonathan apples are available now, so here it is.  You did make the four crusts and the peach pie didn't you??

 

 

                                          Jonathan Apple Pie

7 cups sliced, peeled, Jonathan apples, put in steamer pan (if you have one) over boiling water and cook for 15 minutes.  This helps shrink the raw apples...

Jeanette has a lot of recipes to share with everyone.  The unique thing about Jeanette's recipes is that she uses fresh ingredients and they all come with a story.