The holidays are fast approaching and my daughter Teri has requested a family favorite. Charosis is part of the sedar plate for the Passover service we have at home. Since Passover is a difficult holiday if you don’t use eggs, we also use this for breakfast, thus the larger than normal qualities. I also make mine nut free which is different from most recipes you will see.
Charosis
¼ cup honey
1 pound of chopped dates - grated
1 to 2 pounds of apples – grated (use very firm apples)
¼ cup of grape juice
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
Sugar to taste, some people like their Charosis on the very sweet side, but unless the apples are very tart I tend to skip the extra sugar.
Finely grate or chop the apples and the dates. I use the medium grating attachment of my Kitchen Aide Mixer. Place all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Please feel free to adjust the seasonings to taste. Place the covered bowl in the fridge overnight.
For breakfast I usually use ½ cup of Charosis on 1 matzo.
This is not a paid advertisement for Kitchen Aide. I have had my Kitchen Aide K-5 Mixer since about 1978 and it still one of my favorite kitchen workhorses. Way back then I invested 2 paychecks to buy it and it has been one of my best and longest lasting kitchen appliances.
Have a great evening and enjoy your families.
I will take any holiday recipe request you my dear reader ask for.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Remaking of a quilt
Well this is the queen size quilt that I started before Teri was born and was going to hand quilt. Once Eric came into our lives this just did not happen. When we needed a new quilt for our bed John in his wisdom suggested that I revamp this quilt. So I went on a fabric hunt and found some fabric that would go with the material I bought 25 years ago. It is not an exact match, but close enough to make a pretty addition to the quilt.
I will start the ripping out of the hand quilting right after I finish spring cleaning, which will be next week sometime. Just in case you are wondering I will not be hand assembling or hand quilting this quilt. This also means that Teri will not have to deal with a half finished quilt some day.
Have a great evening and enjoy your families.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Check out this food label
My nomination for the worst ingredient label I have encountered in a long time
The Product is called Honey Sauce and I will not name the company that distributes it.
The ingredients in order are: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sugar, Honey, Corn Syrup, Natural Flavor and Carmel Color.
My question is why not use plain old fashion honey?
And no I did not use it, I used old fashioned honey.
Have a great day and enjoy your families
The Product is called Honey Sauce and I will not name the company that distributes it.
The ingredients in order are: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sugar, Honey, Corn Syrup, Natural Flavor and Carmel Color.
My question is why not use plain old fashion honey?
And no I did not use it, I used old fashioned honey.
Have a great day and enjoy your families
Summer Slaw
It has been a while since I posted last. I have been very busy and getting a lot of things done. I have made a lot of stitch markers, a few earrings and key chains for the shows I have schduled and a lot of spring cleaning. Speaking of spring,here is one of my families favorite summer recipies.
Summer Slaw
Prep time less than 5 minutes. Make at least 1 hour before serving to chill.
2 pounds of Dole Coleslaw Mix with carrots
1/2 cup of Sun Maids Goldens and Cherries
1/2 cup od Marie's Coleslaw Dressing
Take the coleslaw mix. Rinse and drain well. Add the Goldens and Cherries along with the Coleslaw dressing. Toss in the dressing, cover and place in the fridge till serving time.
For my family this makes 4 servings, but then again we always cover half of our plates with vegies. So at the standard 1/2 cup of vegies per serving this should make a lot more.
*My disclaimer: I have not been paid or given coupons for any items in the above recipe. This has been a family favorite for years. So please enjoy it too.
Have a great day and enjoy your families.
Summer Slaw
Prep time less than 5 minutes. Make at least 1 hour before serving to chill.
2 pounds of Dole Coleslaw Mix with carrots
1/2 cup of Sun Maids Goldens and Cherries
1/2 cup od Marie's Coleslaw Dressing
Take the coleslaw mix. Rinse and drain well. Add the Goldens and Cherries along with the Coleslaw dressing. Toss in the dressing, cover and place in the fridge till serving time.
For my family this makes 4 servings, but then again we always cover half of our plates with vegies. So at the standard 1/2 cup of vegies per serving this should make a lot more.
*My disclaimer: I have not been paid or given coupons for any items in the above recipe. This has been a family favorite for years. So please enjoy it too.
Have a great day and enjoy your families.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
We Are OK
It has been a while sine I last posted. everything is ok here. just more of the sameold,sameold going on. Lots of knitting, late nights, laundry and making stitch markers.
I will list more of the stitch markers once my 2 shows in 2 weeks are over.
Catch me at Kathy's Spring Shearing Festival, the details are in my last blog.
I will list more of the stitch markers once my 2 shows in 2 weeks are over.
Catch me at Kathy's Spring Shearing Festival, the details are in my last blog.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
A Must go to Event for Arizona Fiber People
I just love this event. If you have not been to Kathy's ranch it is a real treat. Since it is spring there are sure to be an awful lot of cute babies around. There will be fibre artists who will have very lovely yarn and fibre that you can spin for yourself. Be sure to save some money for Kathy's hand spun lovely yarn, fibre ready for spinning. Kathy also has some Unique one of a kind items in her shop. Did I mention that she is also a weaver, felter, knitter, critter mama and care taker and all around wonder woman. I really admire Kathy and urge you to come and see all the lovelies if you can.
The Tucson Spring Shearing Festival will be the Saturday, March 27, 2010, from 9-3. Danny Smith will be here from Missouri to shear the alpacas, llamas, angora goats, and sheep. Vendors and demonstrators will be here to share their fiber art with you. This is also baby season, so there will be lambs and maybe kids to see and pet. If you are reading my blog, you will see that I have already been posting baby photos. Four more lambs more have been born since the last posting.
A nuno felted scarf will be raffled with the proceeds going to the Casa Maria kitchen.
Upcoming events: The 4th Avenue Street Fair is March 19-21, 2010, so the shop will be closed. I will be in booth number 331 - the southwest side near where I have been the last few times.
The Tucson Wool Festival (Fall shearing here at the ranch) will be November 6, 2010.
I have started an eshop where I am listing some of my nicest yarns. I still have my etsy shop.
My links are:
www.uniquedesignsbykathy.com
www.uniquedesignsbykathy.blogspot.com
www.uniquedesignsbykathyeshop.com
www.uniquedesignsbykathy.etsy.com
jmarckathy@aol.com
520-572-3758
I do hope that you can make it.
Kathy Withers
The Tucson Spring Shearing Festival will be the Saturday, March 27, 2010, from 9-3. Danny Smith will be here from Missouri to shear the alpacas, llamas, angora goats, and sheep. Vendors and demonstrators will be here to share their fiber art with you. This is also baby season, so there will be lambs and maybe kids to see and pet. If you are reading my blog, you will see that I have already been posting baby photos. Four more lambs more have been born since the last posting.
A nuno felted scarf will be raffled with the proceeds going to the Casa Maria kitchen.
Upcoming events: The 4th Avenue Street Fair is March 19-21, 2010, so the shop will be closed. I will be in booth number 331 - the southwest side near where I have been the last few times.
The Tucson Wool Festival (Fall shearing here at the ranch) will be November 6, 2010.
I have started an eshop where I am listing some of my nicest yarns. I still have my etsy shop.
My links are:
www.uniquedesignsbykathy.com
www.uniquedesignsbykathy.blogspot.com
www.uniquedesignsbykathyeshop.com
www.uniquedesignsbykathy.etsy.com
jmarckathy@aol.com
520-572-3758
I do hope that you can make it.
Kathy Withers
Monday, March 8, 2010
Food Allergies
I will pass up my planed Monday Blog in order to get this information out to as many people as possible.
Calling all people with food allergies: This is YOUR chance to weigh in as a national committee is creating new diagnosis and treatment guidelines.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is seeking public comment on a draft of Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy. AANMA founder and president Nancy Sander is a member of the committee that's working on these guidelines.
The public comment period is open until May 3. Health care professionals and interested members of the public are encouraged to review the guidelines and participate in the open comment period by visiting the NIAID Food Allergy Clinical Guidelines public comment site at www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/foodAllergy/clinical/comments.htm.
"Food allergy is an important public health problem that affects millions of Americans, and may be increasing in prevalence," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, MD. "These draft guidelines provide information to a wide variety of health care professionals about how to diagnose and manage food allergy, and treat acute food allergy reactions."
The guidelines are based on an independent, systematic review of the scientific and clinical food allergy literature. Information gathered from the literature review was incorporated into a full report on the state-of-the-science in food allergy that will be made available after the publication of the final guidelines.
As part of the process of developing the guidelines, NIAID brought together a coordinating committee that included representatives from 33 professional organizations, advocacy groups and federal agencies. The role of the coordinating committee was to appoint an expert panel, review drafts, approve the final guidelines and develop a plan to distribute the final guidelines. The expert panel, composed of 25 members with expertise from a variety of relevant clinical and scientific areas, wrote the draft guidelines.
The guidelines cover the following topics:
· Definition and prevalence of food allergy
· Natural history of food allergy and closely associated diseases
· Diagnosis of food allergy
· Management of non-acute allergic reactions to food
· Management of acute allergic reactions to food, including anaphylaxis, a severe, whole-body reaction
"These guidelines represent a major commitment on the part of many people and organizations working to improve the care of individuals with food allergy," says Daniel Rotrosen, MD, director of the Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation at NIAID. "The process of developing the guidelines has also helped us identify gaps in the current scientific knowledge that we can begin to address through future research."
All comments will be reviewed by the coordinating committee, expert panel and NIAID. Where appropriate, these comments will be used to develop final guidelines. The final guidelines are expected to be released by the fall of 2010.
More information on the development of the guidelines may be found at www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/foodAllergy/clinical/.
NIAID conducts and supports research-at NIH, throughout the U.S., and worldwide-to study the causes of infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and to develop better means of preventing, diagnosing and treating these illnesses. News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available at www.niaid.nih.gov.
The NIH includes 27 institutes and centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
For more about food allergies, visit www.aanma.org or call 800.878.4403. You can also follow AANMA on Twitter and Facebook.
Calling all people with food allergies: This is YOUR chance to weigh in as a national committee is creating new diagnosis and treatment guidelines.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is seeking public comment on a draft of Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy. AANMA founder and president Nancy Sander is a member of the committee that's working on these guidelines.
The public comment period is open until May 3. Health care professionals and interested members of the public are encouraged to review the guidelines and participate in the open comment period by visiting the NIAID Food Allergy Clinical Guidelines public comment site at www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/foodAllergy/clinical/comments.htm.
"Food allergy is an important public health problem that affects millions of Americans, and may be increasing in prevalence," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, MD. "These draft guidelines provide information to a wide variety of health care professionals about how to diagnose and manage food allergy, and treat acute food allergy reactions."
The guidelines are based on an independent, systematic review of the scientific and clinical food allergy literature. Information gathered from the literature review was incorporated into a full report on the state-of-the-science in food allergy that will be made available after the publication of the final guidelines.
As part of the process of developing the guidelines, NIAID brought together a coordinating committee that included representatives from 33 professional organizations, advocacy groups and federal agencies. The role of the coordinating committee was to appoint an expert panel, review drafts, approve the final guidelines and develop a plan to distribute the final guidelines. The expert panel, composed of 25 members with expertise from a variety of relevant clinical and scientific areas, wrote the draft guidelines.
The guidelines cover the following topics:
· Definition and prevalence of food allergy
· Natural history of food allergy and closely associated diseases
· Diagnosis of food allergy
· Management of non-acute allergic reactions to food
· Management of acute allergic reactions to food, including anaphylaxis, a severe, whole-body reaction
"These guidelines represent a major commitment on the part of many people and organizations working to improve the care of individuals with food allergy," says Daniel Rotrosen, MD, director of the Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation at NIAID. "The process of developing the guidelines has also helped us identify gaps in the current scientific knowledge that we can begin to address through future research."
All comments will be reviewed by the coordinating committee, expert panel and NIAID. Where appropriate, these comments will be used to develop final guidelines. The final guidelines are expected to be released by the fall of 2010.
More information on the development of the guidelines may be found at www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/foodAllergy/clinical/.
NIAID conducts and supports research-at NIH, throughout the U.S., and worldwide-to study the causes of infectious and immune-mediated diseases, and to develop better means of preventing, diagnosing and treating these illnesses. News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available at www.niaid.nih.gov.
The NIH includes 27 institutes and centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
For more about food allergies, visit www.aanma.org or call 800.878.4403. You can also follow AANMA on Twitter and Facebook.
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