Doot's Tomato Aspic
1 envelope gelatin
1/2 cup cold tomato juice
1-1/4 cups boiling hot tomato juice
* salt to taste
1 small bay leaf
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
1 beef bouillon cube
by Anne McKeown
on September 3, 2010, 12:44 pm
The anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has come and gone. You missed a good one if you did not see NBC’s Dateline on 8/22/10, The Five Days after Katrina. Previously I had refused to watch any of the media, it upset me so. I watched this one but cried off and on through out the whole thing. Sad, it was, but I was able to handle the program. Thank God for the survival of N.O. and the MS. Coast of such a devastating storm. My son recommends “I Am New Orleans” on you tube.com. Thank you, Ben Rauch, for making me a DVD of your recording of the Dateline program.
by Ann Coulter
on September 3, 2010, 12:36 pm
The anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has come and gone. You missed a good one if you did not see NBC’s Dateline on 8/22/10, The Five Days after Katrina. Previously I had refused to watch any of the media, it upset me so. I watched this one but cried off and on through out the whole thing. Sad, it was, but I was able to handle the program. Thank God for the survival of N.O. and the MS. Coast of such a devastating storm. My son recommends “I Am New Orleans” on you tube.com. Thank you, Ben Rauch, for making me a DVD of your recording of the Dateline program.
by Gloria Q. Smith, Special to the Gazette
on September 3, 2010, 12:30 pm
A short five years
As any one of you who watches television or reads a newspaper is aware, Hurricane Katrina occurred five years ago last Sunday. The week after that occurrence proved to be one of the toughest we had faced in our neck of the woods in a long time.
by Dawn Dillon Barrett, Gazette Contributing Editor
on September 3, 2010, 12:28 pm
The bean-counters have struck again-- this time in the sports pages. Two
> New York Times sport writers have discovered that baseball coaches from
> minority groups are found more often coaching at first base than at third
> base. Moreover, third-base coaches become managers more often than
> first-base coaches.
> This may seem to be just another passing piece of silliness. But it is
> part of a more general bean-counting mentality that turns statistical
> differences into grievances. The time is long overdue to throw this race
by Thomas Sowell
on September 3, 2010, 12:18 pm
Do you have a picky eater? I was one. Just ask my mom! Now I have one.
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Thinking about all the foods I wouldn’t eat reminded me of some picky eaters I have known. I remember all the Thanksgiving dinners that included pizza because a nephew, now an adult vegan, would only eat pizza. At the community college where I worked a parent protested the requirement to buy a meal card and won because her son only ate Fruit Loops.
by Allyn M. Evans, Gazette Contributing Editor
on August 30, 2010, 2:13 pm
Mindless Games/Surviving August
“August – parched season of the puffball
and the milkweed and the peeling nose…
and the sun abateth not.” ~ Peg Bracken
I recently pulled Peg Bracken’s “I Hate To Cook Almanac” down from the shelf to find an easy cookie recipe, settling on “Peanut Butter Pokies” – only 3 ingredients, mix, bake, eat. While the cookies did what cookies do (350* for 10 minutes), I skimmed the book, enjoying the humor.
by Beth Jacks, Gazette Delta Editor
on August 30, 2010, 2:10 pm
Aimee’s Curried Chicken Salad
8 to 10 chicken breast tenders
½ cup Lite soy sauce
1 bunch green onions, sliced
1-1/2 stalks celery, chopped fine
1 can sliced water chestnuts, drained
1 lemon, juiced
1 can sliced black olives
¾ cup pecan pieces, toasted
3 eggs hard boiled and chopped
1 teaspoon curry powder
½ teaspoon onion salt
½ teaspoon freshly grated black pepper
1 cup mayonnaise
by Anne McKeown
on August 30, 2010, 2:06 pm
"Nativism in American politics has become so rampant that it is considered scandalous in Republican circles for a judge to acknowledge paying any attention to foreign courts and their legal rulings." -- New York Times editorial, Aug. 3, 2010
The New York Times runs this same smug editorial every few months -- at least I think it's the same editorial -- to vent its spleen at conservatives who object to American judges relying on foreign law to interpret the U.S. Constitution.
by Ann Coulter
on August 30, 2010, 2:02 pm
Last week – Aug. 18, actually – marked the 90th year that American women have enjoyed the right to vote. They won that right when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1920. This year is also the 81st anniversary of the Persons Case in Canada, which finally declared women in that country to be persons.
by Dawn Dillon Barrett, Gazette Contributing Editor
on August 30, 2010, 1:57 pm
