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Subdeacon Joe

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  1. https://www.facebook.com/reel/135024533035279?mibextid=9drbnH
  2. Today's Food Bank Seniors Nutrition Box: Some form of hot cereal, powdered milk, some protein - e.g. canned chicken or salmon, cans or pouches of chili with beans, canned fruit, canned vegetables, rice, split peas, lentils, or dried beans, and a 2 pound loaf of a processed American Cheese product. One box per person per month. Regular food bank will be fresh veggies, usually carrots and cauliflower, sometimes onions, potatoes, bok choy, cucumbers. Frozen meat, usually chicken drumsticks, although a couple of months ago we got a nice cryopac pork loin. Fruit of whatever is in season, rice, beans, split peas or lentils. Often a pound each of raisins and walnuts. Lately we've been getting single serving containers of applesauce and frozen apricots.
  3. This would also work with Yellow Squash, Zucchini, or even Sweet Potatoes. I like it just for that Tomato Butter (great on chicken breast or pork). And I don't bother with the "Toppings." HASSELBACK TOMATO-BUTTER EGGPLANT WITH BASIL & FETA Eggplant: 1 medium eggplant Salt Olive oil 1/2 cup basil leaves 1/3-1/2 cup feta • For the butter (you will not need all of this, but you do not want to have too little): 6 tbsp softened butter 6 tbsp tomato paste 1 tsp salt 1 tsp garlic powder 1/2 tsp pepper • Toppings: Sunflower seeds Feta Chopped basil • 1️ Preheat the oven to 425. 2️ Make the butter. Add all ingredients to a small bowl and mix to make a paste. If it is not combining, heat in the microwave for 15 seconds. 3️ Place the eggplant on a cutting board with two chopsticks on either side of the eggplant halves and make thin slices throughout. Repeat for the second half. 4️ Make the eggplant. Drizzle some olive oil on the bottom of an oven safe pan. Open the eggplant into a fan, add some salt, then add a smear of the butter to each layer. Next, add basil leaves throughout, every 3-4 layers. Repeat with the feta cheese. Place each half next to each other on the pan, then cover and bake for 35 minutes. Reduce the heat to 375 and cook another 20-25 minutes, until the eggplant is tender. This may vary depending on the thickness. 5️ Top with the basil, feta and sunflower seeds.
  4. GHAPAMA - Armenian Stuffed Pumpkin * 1 Pumpkin * 2 cups Basmati Rice rinsed * 2 sticks Butter 1 cup Honey 1/2 cup Almonds, slivered works best 1/2 cup Walnuts roughly chopped 1 cup Dates pitted and chopped 1 cup Dried Apricots chopped 1 cup Dried Raisins or Cranberries 1 tsp Salt 2 tsp. Cinnamon 1/2 tsp. Nutmeg Parboil rice. Melt butter in skillet, add dried fruit and nuts, saute for a few minutes until fruit starts to plump up. Add honey and butter to rice, along with spices. Mix in fruit and nuts, stuff into pumpkin. Bake at 350 for 2 hours. Serve. Alternative is to put in your smoker at 325 to 350 for 2 hours. ANOTHER: INGREDIENTS 3 small pie pumpkins or one larger pumpkin 2 cups water 1 cup basmati rice 1 teaspoon salt 5 tablespoons melted butter 4 tablespoons honey 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 ¼ cup chopped walnuts 1 ¼ cup dried fruit e.g. raisins, cranberries, diced apricots, diced dates 1 finely chopped large green apple INSTRUCTIONS Wash the outside of the pumpkin(s) and cut the lids out in a starburst shape (for a tighter fitting lid and pretty presentation) or just in a plain circle. Then, clean out all the pulp, seeds and stringy fibers and rinse the inside out. Pre-cook the basmati rice. First rinse therice under cool water in a fine mesh sieve. Then add the rice with 2 cups of water and a teaspoon of salt to a pot. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes, or until about half-way done. Then remove the rice from heat and drain and reserve the cooking liquid. Place the rice in a large bowl to cool down quickly and allow enough room to stir in remaining ingredients. Chop the apricots, dates or any other dried fruit that you are using in addition to the raisins and dried cranberries. Also core and dice up a green apple. Melt the butter and honey together on low heat in a small saucepan. Lightly coat the insides of the pumpkin(s) with approximately 1 tablespoon of the honey butter mixture. Pour the remaining honey butter mixture into the rice and stir. Then add the dried fruit, nuts and cinnamon to the bowl and toss until combined. Fill the pumpkins or pumpkin with the rice mixture. Loosely pack the mixture into the pumpkins until it nearly fills the brim. Pour the reserved cooking liquid (from the rice) on top of each filled pumpkin (trying to distribute evenly). You can add 2-4 tablespoons water to each pumpkin if you don't think you have enough cooking liquid to finish cooking the rice. Secure the pumpkins lids on each pumpkin and then place the pumpkins on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Lightly spray the outside of each pumpkin with cooking spray to give the pumpkins a glossy finish. Bake in a 375 degree Fahrenheit oven for 1-1 ½ hours, or until the pumpkin flesh is soft. (You can test by gently poking it after about 50 minutes of baking and see if the flesh gives a little.) To serve, cut vertically all around the pumpkin and serve a piece of the pumpkin along with a scoop of filling.
  5. Thing is, you stepped up and did it. You willingly took on that low paying, dangerous, unappreciated job.
  6. A little information about that POW camp: https://www.awm.gov.au/visit/exhibitions/stolenyears/ww2/japan/sandakan https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/pows-pacific-remembering-sandakan
  7. Taken from the Australian War Memorial FB page. The importance of sport to Australians serving overseas, including those in captivity, endured throughout the Second World War. In 1942 prisoners at Sandakan prisoner of war camp marked Melbourne Cup day with a race. A track was set up between the officer’s huts divided into thirty squares. A race caller drew cards from a deck to determine how many squares each ‘jockey’ could advance. The first to reach the end was the winner and was presented with this ‘Melbourne Cup’ an empty bully beef tin mounted on a wooden stem and base. Accession number: RELAWM24544 #objectoftheweek #AWMobjects #AWMemorial
  8. The irony of it is that they don't know the history of the Antifaschistische Aktion . It was just the Stalinist version of the National Socialist Sturmabteilung. What they were calling fascist was just a different sect of socialism.
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