Text 13594, 143 rader
Skriven 2014-05-24 05:07:00 av Dave Drum (76623.cooking)
  Kommentar till text 13551 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: News(?)paper
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-=> Ruth Haffly wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> I ran/edited/wrote/reported/delivered, etc. small country weeklies for
 DD> a number of years. So, I have a fair idea of what goes into making a
 DD> decent paper. Aside from the "hard" news, that is. All the "who
 DD> visited" and "with the sick" and other back-fence gossipy stuff is
 DD> important in a small town. As is the local school and youth sports
 DD> stuff. And the town council activities. And an extended report on what
 DD> the editor sees when standing on Wednesday looking both ways for
 DD> Sunday - which is pretty much all there is to do in small town America
 DD> these days.

 RH> Births, deaths, and so forth. The paper I grew up with had been going
 RH> so long that it ran a 10-20-50 years ago column. Overall, tho, very
 RH> little editorialising except when big issues came up.

In my grandparents' town there were two weeklies - the Macoupin County Enquirer
and the Carlinville Democrat. Oddly the Enquirer was the Democratic party
leaning paper and the Democrat favoured mostly Republican and right-wing
positions. AFAIK 

A quick trip to Saint Google tells me that the name of the only paper in
Carlinville is the Macoupin County Enquirer-Democrat. It's located at the
original editorial offices of the Enquirer ... so, I am going to assume that
the Enquirer took over the Democrat (and, yes, I know about assuming). The
title-piece (often mis-called the masthead) brags "Since 1852".

http://enquirerdemocrat.com/ 
 
 DD> I read the occasional local news item on out on-line edition of the
 DD> local bird-cage liner. But, it's painfully hard to get to what one is
 DD> looking for. Much harder than opening a physical paper and flipping
 DD> through the pages, scanning for items of interest. Wednesday and

 RH> It's easier to pick up and put down a paper copy when you're juggling
 RH> loads of laundry between washer and dryer, cooking/clean up from a
 RH> meal, etc. Sometimes if I don't get the morning paper read until
 RH> evening, I tell Steve I want to get it read before it turns into
 RH> yesterday's news.

The Macoupin County weekly paper has a *much* more attractive web site than my
metro-area daily the, State Journal-Register.
 
 DD> Sunday papers have the bulk of the grocery adverts - and other than

 RH> We get them on Wednesday here. Kroger used to do theirs on Sunday but a
 RH> while back, fell in line with the other stores. They only do a back of
 RH> a section ad whereas Harris Teeter, Lowe's, Food Lion and Aldi's do a
 RH> separate flyer.

I am waiting to see where (Wednesday or Sunday) that the new Hy-Vee flyers get
published. The one for their We're Open! Ain't We Great? was in a Sunday paper.
Humphrey's (an important market to me) has a weekly quarter-page and Meijer has
their flyer insert in the Sunday editions. Also China-Mart, K-Mart, Target,
etc. County Market/Cub Foods, Shop & Save, Schnuk's, ALDI, etc. all put their
flyers in the Wednesday edition. I wish we had a Kroger again. What we have is
Ruler Foods (a Kroger brand) that is a poor imitation of Sav-A-Lot and would
like to be compared to ALDI. As if.   Bv)=
 
 DD> that there isn't much of interest to me in *any* edition of the State
 DD> Journal-Register. I made the mistake of taking a 12 week Wednesday
 DD> thru Sunday "trial" subscription. WOW! Talk about a full-court press
 DD> to get me to re-subscribe. Snail mail, e-mail, phone calls, etc. They
 DD> simply won't accept my SCROOM! attitude over their rag.

 RH> We canceled Sirius recently and they've started coming at us to renew.
 RH> I'm going to drop "Cooking Light" when it expires in a few months; I
 RH> know I'll get innindated by offers to renew. It has some interesting
 RH> recipes but a most of them are not low carb. Lower calorie is even
 RH> debatable, low carb is more of a joke.

 You're not the only one they publish the rag for, though. Both my satellite
radios are XM (same company). I can't see myself cancelling anytime soon. Even
though the parent company does raw crap like preempting the Savoy Express (40s
on 4) to turn it into the Billy Joel channel for 4 months. When I emailed them
to complain I asked them not to try to "spin" me if they bothered to reply. So,
guess what I got in reply?

 DD>       Title: Ropa Vieja *
 DD>  Categories: Latino, Beef, Chilies, Sauces, Wine
 DD>       Yield: 10 Servings

 RH> I've done similar, but without the wine.

I didn't even think about/notice the wine. I have a lot of recipes that call
for wine - but I usually wind up with a substitute ... not for religious
principles, rather for frugality. I won't open a whole jug of wine for a
quarter or half cup. I already have plenty of vinegar, thank you very much.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Homemade Girl Scout Cinna-Spins
 Categories: Cookies, Snacks, Desserts
      Yield: 30 servings
 
      1 c  Butter; softened
  1 1/2 c  Powdered sugar
      1 lg Egg
      1 ts Vanilla
    1/2 ts Almond extract
  1 1/2 c  All-purpose flour
      1 ts Baking soda
      1 ts Cream of tartar
      2 ts Cinnamon (for rolling dough
           - in)

MMMMM-----------------------DRIZZLE (ICING----------------------------
      3 tb Milk; as needed
      1 c  Powdered sugar
 
  Preheat oven to 375øF/190øC. Add butter and sugar to a
  mixing bowl. Mix well. Add egg and mix again. Add extracts
  and mix. Sift together flour, salt and baking soda. Mix
  until just combined.
  
  Take 1 tablespoon of dough and roll into a log shape 5
  inches long. Create a line, 5 inches long with the
  cinnamon, kind of mounded. Let the dough touch the
  cinnamon just on one side. Then roll the cookie up like a
  cinnamon bun with the cinnamon side on the inside.
  
  Add the icing. It's too easy to make, just combine
  powdered sugar and about 1 -3 teaspoons of milk. Just very
  slowly add the milk to the sugar until you get the right
  consistency, then drizzle over baked cookies when they are
  still warm.
  
  Place cookies on baking sheet and bake 7 - 10 minutes.
  
  Makes about 30 cookies
  
  By: Angie McGowan for Babble
  
  From: http://www.babble.com
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
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