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Food on the Hill: Mushroom Tart

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This Week’s Recipe:
Mushroom Tart
 
Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Ingredients:

1 sheet of puff pastry, thawed
1 egg, mixed
Parchment paper, sprayed on one side with vegetable spray
6 oz of mixed mushrooms, sliced ( I used oyster and baby bella)
3 tablespoons of butter
Vegetable spray (Pam)
1 teaspoon dried thyme
4 sprigs of fresh rosemary (2 for cooking and 2 for garnish)
2 cloves of garlic, pressed
1 tablespoon flour
1/3 cup plus 3 tablespoons cream

Directions:

Photo by Sue York/ladailypost.com

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Unfold the pastry and press the seams together if Read More

Solo Traveler: Free Lodging, Part I

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Solo Traveler: Free Lodging Part I

Column by SHERRY HARDAGE

I have mentioned in previous columns how traveling solo over many months can be rather expensive. And I’ve talked about house sitting as an alternative to paying for expensive hotel rooms. But there is another excellent way for people to travel without paying a dime for lodging.

For those who own homes, the cheapest way to travel abroad is to trade houses with other people.

I’ve had friends express horror at the thought of strangers using their stuff, and possibly stealing or breaking their things. But the flip side of that is when you trade Read More

Sydney’s Corner: Food of the Netherlands

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Sydney Frazier, 8, with Poffertjes. Photo by Jason Frazier

FOOD OF THE NETHERLANDS

Introduction by Teralene Foxx of Los Alamos

I have previously updated you on the around the world travels of our daughter Kerri Foxx Frazier, Jason Frazier and their 8-year-old daughter Sydney. Every week, as part of her home schooling Sydney does a blog of something she has found interesting. Having just been in the Netherlands on a river cruise, I found this blog about her experience with food in the Netherlands delightful and wanted to share it with you.

 
SYDNEY’S CORNER: FOOD OF THE NETHERLANDS
By Sydney
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How the Hen House Turns: Lucy Goose

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How the Hen House Turns: Lucy Goose
Column by Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, Ph. D.

We inherited Lucy the goose in 2002, when my neighbor said she couldn’t keep a goose in the house. Lucy kept banging on the glass door, wanting in when she saw the people inside. My hen house and pen were available, so I said—not realizing that geese live 25 to 30 years—okay.
Young Lucy fit right in, with Little Bear the turkey, White Silkie hen Fluffy, and two Polish chicks sporting creative feather-dos (another story for another day).

The young dogs, DeeDee and Scooter, our pointer-heeler mix fugitives from the 2000 fire, Read More

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Hosts 38th Annual 4th of July Parade

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Los Alamos Police lead the way at the 38th annual White Rock Children’s Parade, which began shortly at 10 a.m. Thursday on Grand Canyon in White Rock. The event is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 366 Grand Canyon. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

The parade began following a flag ceremony and the singing of the national anthem and was filled with children in decorated bicycles, tricycles, scooters, strollers and wagons – walking or riding around a one-half mile block back to the parking lot of the church. A carnival followed in the back yard of the church Read More

Warm Hearts Yarn Offers July Classes

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WHY News:

Warm Hearts Yarn will is offering a number of summer classes this month, including classes for kids and classes for beginning knitters.

Visit https:////www.warmheartsyarn.blogspot.com/ for a complete list of classes and more information.

Stop by 35 Rover Blvd., Suite D in White Rock, call (505) 672-2008 or email Katie at classes@warmheartsyarn.com to register. Instructors appreciate 24-hour advance registration. Read More

Los Alamos Winemaker Tony Fox Wins Bronze Medal

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Tony Fox in the basement of his White Rock home where he created his award winning ‘Red Blend’ wine. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos winemaker Tony Fox has won a Bronze Medal in the 2013 New Mexico State Fair Wine Competition.

A friend tasted his “Red Blend” wine and suggested Fox enter it and it wound up medaling in the “miscellaneous red varietals vinifera” category. Fox describes his winning wine as a blend of vinifera – the traditional Mediterranean grapes, which he said make the

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New Subway Restaurant Opening in September

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Renovations have begun and workers were hauling old cabinets out of the space where the new Subway Restaurant is scheduled to open on Central Avenue just east of 15th Street in the former Don Taylor Photography location. Workers told the Los Alamos Daily Post Tuesday that the restaurant should open in about eight weeks. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More