Provident Living: Back to Basics 2010 Handout

Thanks to Carolyn, our Provident Living Specialist for all her hard work helping the Stake to organize this fair. The following link will take you to the handouts.

https://secure.lds.org/units/attachment/display/1,18744,335311,00.pdf

Chicken Pasta Salad from Sherrie

This recipe has two parts, the first part you have to make the night before!


6 cups diced or shredded chicken
1 12 oz. bag Bow Tie pasta (cooked)
8 oz. of cole slaw dressing (Hidden Valley, Kraft, or Kroger makes it)
2 cups mayonnaise
6 diced green onions (optional)
Combine all ingredients and chill overnight


Before serving:
add 1 can drained pineapple tidbits
1 cup celery
1 lb. purple grapes-cut in half
5 diced apples - skins off
1 pkg. slivered almonds

Super Saturday is April 17th from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Don't Forget!

There will be something there for everyone so put it on your calendar and plan to attend!
We have lots of craft projects to work on (sign-ups and money due by the end of March!), as well as some free classes like:

• Grandparenting 101 by Colleen Hansen--The best grandma in the world!!!... (But then again, I am biased--she's the grandmother to my kids so we certainly think so!)
  

• Bundt Cake Decorating by the owner of Nothing Bundt Cakes

• Flower Accessories with clips or pins to attach to your jackets, sweaters, shoes, hair, headbands, pillows, and more...by Alison Memmott. Bring your favorite fabric or get a cheap fat quarter from the store and you will walk away with a darling accessory!
  

• Pillowcase Dresses by Kirsten Knapp. She will have sewing machines there and will teach us how to make darling little girl dresses out of pillowcases or your favorite fabric! Bring a couple of yards of ribbon, thread, and a pillowcase or fabric and she'll show us the rest!

• Allene will be showing us her famous Pressure Cooking Demonstration! If you haven't seen it, you will definitely want to! And if you already have seen it, here is an entertaining refresher course!

• Kathy Rawlings will be there to teach us a class all about Family Games! How to entertain and be entertained in small families and large families! She has some really fun ideas--you wont want to miss this one!

You really won't want to miss this day! We will be serving snacks and lunch all day so come and enjoy good company, cute projects, and fun ideas! If you have any questions, call Cami Hansen or Robbin Logan!

Almost No-Knead Bread with Olives, Rosemary and Parmesan Baked in a Pot

3 cups unbleached all purpose flour
1/4 tsp. instant or rapid-rise yeast
1 1/2 tsp. table salt
4 ounces finely grated Parmesan Cheese (2 cups)
3/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp. water, at room temp
1/2 cup chopped green olives (pitted)
1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp. non alcoholic lager*
1 Tbsp. white vinegar
1 Tbsp. minced fresh rosemary
*This is what they call near-beer. If you feel queasy about purchasing it--I have made it without and just used water and it turns out, too. It's just not as strong a flavor.

Whisk flour, yeast, salt, parmesan and rosemary in a large bowl. Add water, non-alcholic lager, vinegar and rosemary. Using a rubber spatula, you just fold it into scraping up all the flour from the bowl until you have a shaggy ball. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it sit for 8 to 18 hours. If you feel it is dry, I just add a little more liquid.

Cut a 12 by 18 piece of parchment paper and put in a round cake pan or a 10-inch skillet and spray it with nonstick cooking spray. Take dough out of bowl and on a lightly floured surface, knead it 10 to 15 times. Shape it into a ball and put it in your round lined pan. Cover with plastic wrap--I spray the plastic wrap with nonstick cooking spray so it doesn't stick, too. Let your dough rise at room tempe until it has doubled and does not readily spring back when you poke a finger in it. This is about 2 hours.

About 30 minutes before you bake it, put your oven rack to the lowest position and place a 6 to 8 quart heavy bottom Dutch oven with lid on rack and heat oven to 500 degrees. I use several varieties of pots--a Le Cruset is wonderful but I have an old oven stew pot that is probably from my grandma and it works, too. My friend uses a 35 dollar Ikea pot and it works, too. Lightly flour top of dough and make a slit along the top of dough with a sharp knife or razor blade--6 inches long and 1/2 inch deep. Carefully remove pot from oven. Pick up dough and put in pot. Cover pot with lid and put in oven. Reduce temperature to 425 and bake 30 minutes. Remove lid and bake about 20 to 30 minutes longer. Remove bread carefully and take out of pot and let cool 2 hours before cutting.

Do you want to work on your 3 month supply of food?

Every week for the next three months, we will post a shopping list for you that will have menu ideas for 7 different meals, if rotated weekly, will get you through 3 months. Keep in mind that if you don't like these meals, you can replace them with something else.
Week 1: Shopping Items to buy
Spaghetti Dinner (Serves 4)
8 oz. Spaghetti noodles............................6 pounds
1 (26 oz.) Spaghetti Sauce with Meat..............12 jars
2 gallons of water and 2 Toothbrushes

Bread Class will be rescheduled

The Bread Class with Jorie will be rescheduled but was cancelled due to caucus meetings. The First Presidency encouraged us all to leave the night free so that we could go there.

March 25th!!!

On Thursday, March 25th, you can stop by Allene's home to look at the display and signup for our Super Saturday on April 17th. We only have two weeks to see these displays. You will have to pay for everything by March 28th, too. While you are there, you can help Allene tie a quilt for Haiti! Come by from 10 to 1 and from 5 to 8.