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WRAP-UP: IMB reports cautionary finance news
Joyce Stevens of Illinois joins other International Mission Board trustees as they sign their names on a large globe during their Nov. 10-11 meeting in Houston, in what IMB President Jerry Rankin described as an act symbolizing trustees' commitment to help complete the Great Commission.
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HOUSTON (BP)--While celebrating the largest number of missionaries under appointment in recent years, trustees of the International Mission Board also heard some cautionary finance reports during their Nov. 10-11 meeting in Houston.
The potential effects of investment losses, a weakened dollar and flattened giving to the Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering could have a significant impact on the board's work next year.
These economic pressures forced board members to approve a budget for 2009 that includes no room to exceed the total number of missionaries currently under appointment. Attrition in the missionary force (completions, retirements, resignations and deaths) creates the need to appoint new missionaries each year, but IMB President Jerry Rankin said the ability to expand the missionary force beyond current levels rests in the hands of Southern Baptists.
"God has always proved His faithfulness through the giving of His people that His mission might be carried out around the world," Rankin said. "Even in these austere economic times we must press forward in our vision to reach a lost world and be obedient to our Great Commission task.
"God continues to call missionaries from Southern Baptist churches, and we pray Southern Baptists will not be deterred from providing the support needed in spite of the personal sacrifice that might entail."
The $319.8 million budget approved by trustees marks a $15 million increase over 2008 expenditures, $10 million of which will be used to offset the rising cost of support for missionaries already on the field.
On Tuesday evening, trustees appointed 105 new missionaries at Houston's First Baptist Church, bringing the current number of field personnel to 5,541. The Houston group is the third-largest number appointed since at least 1980. Trustee chairman Paul Chitwood of First Baptist Church in Mt. Washington, Ky., acknowledged that this feat, in spite of a tough economy, is much to the credit of Southern Baptists and God's eternal glory.
"The question facing us now as we look to the future is: Will we again experience a setback?" Chitwood asked. "Southern Baptists will decide the answer to that question as they give their gifts through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering this year."
Southern Baptists gave a record $150.4 million to the Lottie Moon offering in 2007; the goal for 2008 is $170 million -- about a 16 percent increase.
"You can't get more for your money than sending a missionary," said David Steverson, IMB treasurer and vice president for finance.
"That's an investment -- not an investment that you put in your portfolio -- it's an investment in the lives of people around the world."
Despite a gloomy economic forecast, there is some good news.
The percentage of the budget used for stateside administration and promotion dropped nearly 1 percent, from 15.44 to 14.56 percent.
The dollar also is making a recovery in the world marketplace, gaining as much as 20 percent over some foreign currencies in the past four months. Though the gain has not yet achieved parity with the dollar's buying power prior to the decline, another 20 percent increase would put the dollar on a one-to-one exchange rate with the euro -- the currency of the European Union. Gains like these are beneficial because nearly 85 percent of the IMB's budget is spent overseas.
Steverson added that the IMB's well-diversified portfolio helped minimize investment losses during the market crash, falling about 19 percent compared to an average market drop of 40 percent.
"Our faith is in the Lord -- not in our bank balance," Steverson said. "I'm convinced that in trying times we need to be dependent on God. Maybe that's what He's trying to tell us -- 'Depend on Me, not on your resources.' So that's what we're going to do."
Chitwood called on trustees to make Southern Baptist churches aware of the need to give and challenged them to "dig deeply" into their own pockets for the Lottie Moon offering.
"I pray our generosity would match that of the Macedonian churches who gave as much as they were able, and [the Apostle] Paul says, gave even beyond their ability to do so," Chitwood said. "I know these are challenging days -- they're challenging days in my church. They're challenging days for all Southern Baptist churches.
"But by God's grace, and through our sacrifice, if we give beyond what we're able to give, I trust God will honor that by both meeting the needs in our homes and churches and meeting the needs on the mission field."
Trustees were given good reason to answer Chitwood's challenge. They were presented with record numbers of church growth and Gospel advance in the 2008 Annual Statistical Report, reporting missions data from the previous year.
Southern Baptist missionaries and their partners worked to share the Gospel among more than 1,190 people groups, about 100 of them for the first time. Previously no one had been trying to start new churches among them. The newly engaged groups have a combined population of more than 188 million, nearly all of them less than 2 percent evangelical Christian.
In 2007 missionaries and their partners also saw the number of overseas churches climb to the highest level in history -- nearly 182,000, surpassing the 10-million-member mark for the first time. Of that number, 27,000 of those churches were newly started.
Baptisms topped 565,900, an average of about one baptism per minute.
Gordon Fort, vice president of the IMB's office of overseas operations, told trustees these numbers represent the "tip of the iceberg" in terms of understanding the complete picture of God's work around the world. He explained that church-planting movements grow quickly beyond the IMB's ability to track them.
None of this would be possible without Southern Baptist churches, he said.
"We need your partnership more than ever," Fort told trustees. "We need your influence among your [Southern Baptist] constituency. We need you to go back to your churches and share with them the vision that God has given and how they can come alongside and be involved with us."
West Africa regional leader Randy Arnett told trustees about the powerful impact that strategically involved churches can make on the mission field.
He shared the story of a particular area in West Africa that is home to 350,000 Bambara people. Before 2007, there were only a handful of small, struggling, Christian outreach groups among some 336 villages in this area.
But in February 2007, a partnering Southern Baptist church began to send short-term teams to the Bambara. Soon, a second church joined the effort. By the end of 2007, five Southern Baptist churches had committed to send teams at least four times a year.
One of those churches, Beulah Baptist Church in Hopkins, S.C., averages 200 in Sunday worship and sends a team every six weeks.
"Today, nearly 200 [Bambara] have been baptized, but more importantly, [the handful of] outreach groups have turned into 36 churches and outreach groups," Arnett said. "And it's because Southern Baptist churches have caught a vision."
In addition to tackling a tough economy and celebrating Southern Baptists' work around the globe, trustees also affirmed a number of new recommendations related to the rollout of a sweeping internal reorganization.
The reorganization, initially adopted by trustees in September, is designed to accelerate the board's work overseas by maximizing the effectiveness of frontline missionaries while creating a more efficient, cost-effective structure of administration and support.
As part of this reorganization, trustees endorsed Randy Pegues as vice president for the newly created office of global logistics support and Tom Williams as vice president of the office of global personnel. Pegues currently serves as an associate vice president in the office of overseas operations. Williams heads the IMB's Western Europe region. They will remain in their current roles until completing the transition to their new assignments in mid-2009.
Trustees also affirmed three existing vice presidents: Gordon Fort will continue to head the office of global strategy (currently known as the office of overseas operations); Ken Winter, office of church and partner service; and David Steverson, office of finance.
Trustees also endorsed personnel selections for eight new leadership positions known as "affinity group strategists." The strategists' names were not made public for security reasons. They will be responsible for leading each of the IMB's eight "affinity groups."
Affinity groups are large groupings of related peoples who share similar origins, languages and cultures -- a lens through which missionaries can focus and coordinate strategy to share the Gospel.
Chitwood thanked the trustees for their support and patience during the reorganization process, a task he compared to eating an elephant.
"You know how you eat an elephant? One bite at a time," he said. "As we undertake the process of reorganizing an organization that stretches to nearly 200 countries, with 6,000-plus employees and a budget nearly a third of a billion dollars, we have an elephant on our hands."
Chitwood also emphasized the motivation driving the changes.
"We began this journey focused on effectiveness.... We are out for results and we don't apologize for that. We want to see more souls saved, we want to see more churches planted, we want to see more new believers discipled, we want to see the Gospel taken to every nation, language and tribe."
IMB President Jerry Rankin closed his report by asking trustees to sign a large globe as a symbol of their commitment to fulfilling the Great Commission.
"A thrilling aspect of our work over the years has been to see the attitude of our missionaries who started using the expression 'wigtake,'" Rankin told trustees. "When faced with a challenging assignment or dangerous and formidable task, they respond with that expression -- wigtake -- whatever it's going to take.
"That is the attitude and commitment we all must have. Whatever change is necessary. Regardless of how it may affect us personally, whatever the cost and sacrifice, driven by vision, faith and courage we will do whatever it takes to reach all the peoples of the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
The next trustee meeting will be Jan. 26-28 in Richmond, Va.
Don Graham is a writer for the International Mission Board.
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After a long economic downturn, experts say the job market is improving. New survey findings show more job openings this year than others, and in several different fields. That's positive news for students graduating from college this month.
In a few weeks Kurt Oleszko will graduate.
"It's a pretty good feeling," Oleszko says,
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The fun is ready to begin, and you can watch every second of the New York City Resident Evil: Retribution Live Global Streaming Event right here at 11:00 am Eastern / 8:00 am Pacific. What better way can you think of to spend the morning than hanging with Milla Jovovich?
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Resident Evil: Retribution Live Global Streaming Event Trailer Touches Down
Okay, kids! We've just sunk our claws into a new trailer for the super cool event and trailer premiere taking place in New York city in honor of Resident Evil: Retrbution. Yes, a trailer for the event that's going to unleash the trailer! Keeping up? Good!
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We told you earlier about the live global streaming event happening in New York City in promotion of Resident Evil: Retribution, and now if you're in or around the tri-state area, we're getting you in to the big show!
Resident Evil: Retribution Live Global Streaming Event and Official Trailer Launch on June 14th
There's one thing for certain about the filmmakers behind the Resident Evil film franchise: They know how to treat their fans. Case in point - this super cool event and trailer premiere that's happening next week. Read on for details.
Blood and Desolation on Display in Latest Resident Evil: Retribution Stills
Screen Gems has released three new stills from the forthcoming Resident Evil: Retribution, and we've got them both here for you, ravaged city and all. Check them out, and look closely as we finally get a peek at some red stuff in one of them!
International Resident Evil: Retribution Artwork Home to Much Destruction
We'll say this: If we can get just a third of the cataclysmic destruction present and accounted for on this international one-sheet for Resident Evil: Retribution along with some zombie action, this next entry could result in being a good popcorn flick!


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By GREG KEIM
It seems there is always an athlete coming up through the ranks that is deemed to be the next great one in his or her sport.
One such youngster is in the area this weekend competing in the Northridge Area Swimming Association meet at Northridge High School.
Fourteen-year-old Michael Andrew of Lawrence, Kan., could be the next standout is his sport and is being compared to Michael Phelps, the sport's most decorated Olympian of all time.
"It's a special felling when someone compares me to Phelps," Andrew said. "It gives me a chance to be a role model. I've been blessed by God with a talent and want to use that as a platform to get the word out. It gives me the drive to be the best I can be."
Michael has the physical ability as he is already 6-foot-4.
"He was a great kicker in my belly," his mother Tina quipped about her son who weighed 10 pounds, three ounces at birth.
Michael comes by his height naturally as dad stands 6-5 and mom 6-2.
"All the doctors and scientists we have talked to expect me to grow to 6-8 or 6-9," Michael said.
Michael began swimming competitively at age 7, Prior to that he had been playing soccer, basketball and football.
"The very first race he was ever in he qualified for state," Tina Andrew said.
Michael has broken 12 national age group records in the 9-10 category and 21 in the 11-12 one.
Michael made news recently by turning professional when he signed an endorsement contract with P2Life, becoming the youngest U.S swimmer to ever turn pro.
"We are getting flak in the worst way," Tina Andrew said. "We have been accused of keeping our child in a bubble. But we want him to have a balanced life. If it ever gets to the point where I don't think it is I'll be the first one to pull the plug."
Phelps turned professional at age 16 and went on to win a total of 22 Olympic medals, including a record-shattering 18 gold.
"People hammer my parents all the time," Michael said. "They think I'm naive, but we are smart enough to make the decisions and I'm mature enough to handle things."
Michael has a younger sister Michaela who also swims.
"Right now she swims for fun," Peter Andrew said. "You can't push kids into a sport. They have to want to compete. To me with Michaela it's more important that she love me as a father than hate me as a coach."
Michael swam three events on Saturday. He won the 100-yard backstroke (50.17), the 50 freestyle (20.66) and the 200 breaststroke (2:09.14).
His goals for Saturday were to try and break the national age group records in the 100 back (48.73) and the 500 free (20.29).
"I'm happy with how I did," he said. "My times except for the 200 breast were personal bests."
Michael was born in the United States, but his parents are originally from South Africa.
"My wife and I traveled the world for eight years," Peter Andrew said. "The U.S. was our last stop and we loved it here. After Michael was born we went back to South Africa to run the family farm. But that is not a friendly environment to raise children.
"America is the best. There is such a democracy here. You can say when you don't agree with the government. You can't do that in a lot of countries.
"We are so blessed in this country."
Michael has been home schooled until he recently enrolled in a high school academy at Liberty University.
"The biggest problem we've had with most programs is they wouldn't allow Michael to work more than one week ahead," Tina Andrew said. "He is very smart and had tested at a high school junior level in math, science and English.
Michael has established short and long-term goals.
"My short-term goal is to set as many national age group records as possible," he said. "My long-term goal is to make the Olympic team for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. It's not unheard to make the Olympic swimming team at a young age, but it seems to happen more with the women than the guys,"
"He has not grown into his strength yet," Tina Andrew said. "He is still a baby."
Michael just turned 14 on April 18.
Part of the controversy comes from the training methods. A normal training according to Peter Andrew consists of swimming between 1,000 and 2,000 yards, which is much less than you would expect from a world-class athlete.
"Not many train with the methods we are using," Peter Andrew said. "That is another reason why we let him turn pro. We don't want to spend the next three years getting him ready for the Olympics and then turn him over to a college program and let them change his training. It's hard to go from a yardage-based training system to what we are doing."
Northridge High School swimming coach Joe Keller shared his feelings about the training.
"Michael is a really good athlete with a lot of talent and a lot of physical ability," the coach said. "I wish him all the best and I hope he makes his goals. I'm just not sure I would try the methods he is using. The bottom line is success and none of the top athletes in the sport have used these methods. I don't want to take anything away from Michael. If he believes in what he is doing that is half the battle."
Andrew went head-to-head in the 50 free with recent Northridge graduate Austin Flager who was the state champion in the event at the 2013 state meet. Flager finished second in a time of 21.08.
"Austin has been training hard and his goal today was to just go out and see what happened," Keller said. "Austin's best time is a 20.3."
Peter Andrew is more concerned about the future.
"At the end of the day no one really remembers what an athlete does when he is 14. What they remember is the world championships or the Olympics," he said.
Michael's dad sees an advantage to the training style.
"Michael doesn't have to taper," Peter Andrew explained. "We feel he can go out and have a competitive swim any day."
The family was impressed with the facilities at Northridge.
"This is an amazing pool," Peter said. "We like to come to Indiana whenever we can. We love Indiana. Swimming is celebrated in Indiana."
Michael's dad played rugby in South Africa and his mom was on a British version of the television show "American Gladiators."
"Both Peter and I tried out to be contestants on the show, but due to some injuries they called and asked me to be on the show as a character called Laser," she said. "Being on the show gave me a chance to see how people handled fame and how some didn't."
Both parents feel that experience happened for a reason.
"Without a doubt I feel that happened to prepare me for what we are going through with Michael." Tina Andrew said. "It keeps us grounded and keeps our priorities in order."


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Once the diagnosis is established as Hodgkin's disease, the second important part of diagnosis is assessing how advanced the disease is. Depending on where the initial lymph nodes are, you may need some or all of these tests.
Computed tomography (CT) scan of your chest, abdomen, and pelvis. In this test, an X-ray beam takes pictures of the body from many angles. A computer puts these pictures together, making a cross-section of the body. The doctor may enhance the pictures by asking you to drink or by injecting you with a contrast material before the X-rays. A CT scan is needed to show up groups of lymph nodes, an enlarged spleen, or abnormalities in your liver.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). An MRI uses magnets and radio waves to take pictures of the inside of the body. MRIs are not as useful as CT scans but may tell whether there is bone marrow involvement with Hodgkin's disease.
PET scan. This is the latest addition to the Hodgkin's disease workup. It's useful because it can give quick information on the presence of lymphoma almost anywhere in the body. For this test, you take a radioactive sugar. The cells of Hodgkin's disease take up this sugar, which shows up on a scan. A computer can reconstruct the pictures in many different ways. It can also help look at areas seen on the CT scan to tell whether they are lymphoma or not.
Ultrasonography. This test uses sound waves to look for things in the body that do not belong, such as tumors. The sound waves bounce off body parts and send back signals, much like sonar on a submarine, to the computer. The computer makes an image of the body using those signals. This test is very helpful in seeing whether a tumor is a cyst, a fluid-filled sac that is probably not cancer, or a solid tumor, which may be cancerous.
Gallium scan. For this test, you first get have a gallium isotope injected into a vein in your arm. One to 3 days later, you'll go to the hospital or clinic to have a special camera take pictures of your body. Doctors use this scan to look in your chest and to see whether any active lymphoma has been left behind after treatment. It is being replaced by PET scanning.
With increasing availability of CT, MRI, and PET scans, as well as changes in treatment, ultrasonography, gallium scans, and abdominal surgical procedures are becoming outmoded.
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Isa Chandra Moskowitz is a familiar name to many vegans; she's written a number of vegan cookbooks, including the classic Veganomican, an essential recipe collection and culinary guide for those who avoid cooking with animal products, and she has a popular website focusing on vegan baking and cooking, Post Punk Kitchen. Her latest cookbook endeavor is Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildy Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week, and let's just say I'm in love. Isa Does It is chock full of over 200 delicious and easy-to-make recipes, highlighted by beautiful photos and charming illustrations. As with all her recipes that I've made, I've found them to be fairly quick (between a half-an-hour to an hour to make) and layered with complex flavors. This is a great cookbook for people who aren't vegan, too; as a vegetarian, I find I'm occasionally disappointed by vegan cookbooks because they use a lot of uncommon ingredients or dairy replacements that I wouldn't want to buy. Isa Does It relies on fairly common ingredients, making it a great choice for not only vegans, but also for vegetarians and for omnivores looking for ideas for "Meatless Mondays."
Here I go again. The library's non-cook is writing about a cookbook. But, the historical aspect of this book is what attracted me to it. There are 100 recipes here, one for each year from 1901-2000, included by 100 different chefs. To give the readers of this blog a flavor (pun intended) of what's in this book, I'll list a few of the recipes: 1909 - Baked Alaska; 1910 - The Comet Coupe (in honor of Halley's Comet that year); 1932 - "The Sun Also Rises" Punch; 1945 - Original Brain Tapioca Ambrosia (not the brain one thinks with, but because of the invention of the ENIAC computer); 1952 - Geraldine's Maryland Crab Soup; 1976 - Firecracker Fourth of July Beef Ribs (to commemorate the U.S. Bicentennial); 1979 - Meatball and Potato Pizza. Some of the 100 sound delicious; others I would never consider touching. But I think that's how it would be for anyone looking at any recipe book, not just me. Clever and fun idea - yes. Good photos - yes. Bon appetit - maybe.
I love cookbooks. I just enjoy looking through them, even if I never make any of the recipes. With Mollie Katzen's newest cookbook, though, I can almost guarantee that you will want to try some recipes. The book is called "The Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a new Generation". The recipes I tried were delicious and used ingredients that are easily available. The pictures alone are enough to make you want to get started ASAP, and you really don't have to be a vegetarian to appreciate the recipes. I don't usually buy cookbooks, but this just may be an exception!
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because I love to cook (and eat). A few years ago when I was living in New Hampshire, where all my extended family lives, I prepared a huge Thanksgiving dinner for them and made everything from scratch, including the pumpkin pies, which required baking, scraping, and pureeing two whole sugar pumpkins. I relied on several books and resources for recipes and cooking techniques, and I recommend them highly.
I'm not much of a meat eater and don't cook meat very often, but that Thanksgiving I prepared what my uncles say was the best turkey they've ever eaten. I owe all the credit to Alton Brown and his Good Eats Roast Turkey method, which involves soaking the turkey in a brine for a minimum of eight hours. I got the pumpkin pie recipe, which I must say was the best pumpkin pie I've ever eaten, from Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook. Additionally, I referred to Pie: 300 Tried-and-True Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pie for tips on mixing and rolling pie pastry. I also used Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook for her multigrain rolls, which were tasty and much easier to make than I anticipated. If you're looking for vegetable sides, Recipes From the Root Cellar is a great book with tons of recipes for sweet potatoes, squash, Brussels sprouts, rutabagas, carrots, parsnips, beets, turnips-- all the great winter vegetables currently in season. The Maple-Balsamic Root Vegetables are a favorite. For past vegetarian Thanksgiving meals I've made a lentil loaf as the main dish, but that rarely goes over well with omnivores. I suggest Deb Perelman's Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onion Galette from The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. It is so flavorful and satisfying, that I can't imagine even a meat lover not asking for seconds. The one dish that remains completely elusive for me is stuffing; I cannot find a recipe I like. I'll happily take your recommendations!
We have a bit more than two weeks to plan Thanksgiving meals. KPL has a wonderful cookbook collection, so you should have no trouble finding some great recipes to try. What will be on your menu this year?
One of my absolute favorite cookbooks is the 1990 James Beard Award-winning Please to the Table: the Russian Cookbook by Moscow native Anya von Bremzen. The book allows me to recreate some of my delicious memories from the time I spent in Russia several years ago, with recipes for everything from adzhika to pirozhki to vareniki, originating from across the former Soviet Union. So naturally I was delighted to discover von Bremzen's forthcoming memoir Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, and I devoured it almost as quickly as a plate of blini. Von Bremzen's book is not simply about food—something that is so inextricably bound with culture, tradition, politics, economics, the environment. And it is not only personal memoir and family history, but a sweeping account examining the twilight years of the Russian Empire, the nearly 70 years of the Soviet Union's existence, the Russian Federation's bleak early days, as well as its more recent economic boom. Into this epic history, she weaves in details of her family's experience. Like her paternal grandmother Alla, who was born in Central Asia, orphaned, and then raised by an early activist for women's rights who was later exiled to Siberia. Alla moved to Moscow as a teenager, and brought Uzbek recipes with her. Von Bremzen's mother's bout with scarlet fever, suffered while subsisting on wartime rations, contrasts sharply with her first taste of Pepsi-Cola a decade later. And von Bremzen's own experiences – rejecting on principle difficult-to-procure products like special candy from the Red October Chocolate Factory at her school for children of Communist Party elites, to her confusion over Pop Tarts as an immigrant in Philadelphia – are shared with earnestness.Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is a satisfying read, and especially suggested for readers of food memoirs like Gabrielle Hamilton's candid Blood, Bones and Butter: the Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, or Russian culture enthusiasts who enjoyed Elif Batuman's The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them.
In terms of food preparation, we're living in a time when even the microwave seems too slow. With that thought as a backdrop, please consider this 2013 offering by Ms. Caitlin Freeman. She has written this book of dessert recipes that derive their inspiration from famous artists and their works. I would probably have been one of the last on the library staff to pick up this book; however, I had a wonderful art history course at WMU during my undergraduate days, the memory of which this volume caused me to recall. I think it would take even an experienced cook a lot of time and patience to make these treats, but the pictures make them look so good that I'm sure someone out there will want to give Matisse Parfait, Mondrian Cake, and Warhol Gelee a try.
For most of my adult life my cooking repertoire has been severely hindered by both a lack of experience, and thus confidence, and by limiting myself to just a few very basic skills (think - boiling water, pushing down the toaster mechanism, or programming the microwave). But then just a couple years back, likely through a combination of my awareness of the seemingly endless supply of tantalizing cookbooks that KPL acquires for the collection and a growing interest in cooking that developed through the popularity of cooking shows on television and how easy they make things seem, I started to really read those cookbooks and began looking for things that I could actually attempt. It hasn't taken me long to figure out that a good recipe makes all the difference. I can't say that everything that I create would challenge Bobby Flay, but when it works it feels like nothing short of alchemy to me to be able to pull together a great meal from simple, healthy ingredients and with my limited culinary skillset. My favorite recipes and best results have come from Martha Stewart's Everyday Food, but I've had success with other cookbooks as well. The latest recipes that I've tried came from Simply Ming one-pot meals: quick, healthy & affordable recipes by Ming Tsai. I've made Chicken & tri-bell pepper chow mein (pg. 34), Wonton shrimp & noodle soup (pg. 156), and Asian sloppy joes with hoisin sauce (pg. 71) and they were all just as advertised – quick, healthy, and really good!
I roasted it! It's 10x easier than you think. (1) get a hot air popcorn popper. Yep, that's right: popcorn popper (got mine from Target); (2) get green beans (got mine from local roastery, also check out sweetmarias.com they seem really good); (3) put 1/3 cup in the popcorn popper, wait 5-8 minutes (listen for the "second crack"); (4) cool beans, grind, and enjoy. Done. (Obviously it's a bit more complicated…visit sweetmarias.com or youtube for how-to videos). The longer you roast coffee ("dark roast"), the less caffeine.
It's amazing that every single coffee bean that you see was probably individually picked by someone's hand (machines aren't smart enough for them yet). Coffee is born on coffee trees by the equator. The beans are actually found inside little red fruit cherry balls. Coffee beans are the seeds inside the fruit, small green hard beans that smell like spicy bread. It's hard to imagine why someone roasted them in the first place, but very old civilizations certainly had coffee (there are various theories about how they stumbled on it).
Oh yeah, the biggest question of all: taste. My first batch tasted great and had a distinct smell. Not as good as a fresh cup of Starbucks or Waterstreet, but extremely close. I imagine they will get better. If you are looking to satisfy your do-it-yourself impulse, save some money (about 15-25%), and have the freshest coffee you've ever had, I recommend giving it a try. If you don't like it, perhaps because of the smoke it fills your kitchen with, you've only wasted 25 bucks.
You don't need a chemistry degree to bake great whole grain bread, but the better you understand things like enzyme activity and gluten development, the easier it will be to create loaves your family loves, rather than cardboard health food. This is what the master does so well in Peter Reinhardt's Whole Grain Breads. He has developed techniques that take what is great about artisanal bread, and brings it to the world of 100% whole grain. He describes why it works at the molecular level, so that you can use his basic recipes to develop your own signature creations. If your idea of homemade bread is frozen dough that you pop out of a can, then this is probably not the book for you. But as someone who has always enjoyed baking, I found that his techniques are simple to follow, and yield delicious results.
Though I find stories of heroines from the renaissance, medieval saint's lives, and stories about art forgeries fascinating, these are not the best subjects for books blogs. I mean, there's just not enough widespread interest in these topics. But that's one of the great things about the library isn't it? Everyone can find something they are interested in to read and enjoy. So I am taking this opportunity to transition out of my "I Geek Art History" mode into something more widely enjoyed…food!
I saw this book pop up on our new book feed and I almost ran down to the rotunda to check it out. Tacos, Tortas, and Tamales…oh my! The pictures look good; the food tastes better. Here's an overview of what I made, how it tasted, and what I recommend.
"My doctor told me I had to stop holding intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people." – Orson Welles
Meal #1
Recipes: Tacos of Roasted Poblanos and Cream (p. 16), Tomatillo-Árbol Salsa (p. 134), Refried Black Beans (p. 148)
Tunes: Moondance by Van Morrison
Before I begin talking about this meal, I will give a little information about my cooking style. I view recipes as suggestions, not rules. As a result, it's common that I make substitutions (in this cookbook, oregano for epazote leaves) and I often don't measure. I also live alone and frequently halve recipes. Some people like cooking once and then having the same thing as leftovers for a week but I get bored! I must confess, there is one ingredient I never halve: garlic. Sometimes I halve a recipe and add more garlic than what the full recipe asks for. A little extra garlic never hurt anyone (unless you're a vampire, in which case you wouldn't like these recipes anyway!).
This evening found me roasting both tomatillos and poblanos. I am not sure I toasted the tomatillos long enough to get much of a smoky flavor out of them. Another recipe I have found advises dry roasting tomatillos in a pan for closer to 30 minutes. In the future, I would like to repeat this salsa but roast the tomatillos in the oven like you would tomatoes (halve, place on baking sheet, drizzle with oil and salt, 450° for maybe 40-50 minutes). However you decide to prepare your tomatillos, they'll go well with the remainder of the ingredients. Depending on your preference for spiciness, you may use less árbol chiles (they had me shedding a layer on a cold winter night) and I will likely add a couple tablespoons of lime juice next time I make this. The salsa was fresh and earthy and continues to be quite delicious with tortilla chips.
The tacos themselves were tasty, though I may add bacon to them next time as a recipe later in the book does. (Is bacon ever a bad addition??) A note to readers and my future self: it is much easier to char the skin on poblanos that can lay flat on the burner rather than peppers that have a bend in them. The black beans were an earthy, delicious, and simple accompaniment. It was as I was making my black beans though that a sad thing happened…as I was reaching into the cupboard a jar of spicy mustard came tumbling out. I am happy to say the jar didn't break and no mustard was lost however my blender that it fell on was not so lucky. To be truthful, this blender had seen much better days and I wasn't that sad to lose it. But I was bummed that I had no way to make the Mexican Limeade from the cookbook. I'll be watching sales on blenders and making the limeade in the near future.
"My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order." – Dolly Parton
Meal #2
Recipes: Potato and Chorizo Tacos (p. 39), pickled red onions, Fresh Green Salsa (p. 133)
Tunes: Robinella and the CC Stringband
Wow, this was a good meal. I generally like chorizo a lot so I can't say I was surprised. I added eggs instead of potato to the tacos. I garnished them with pickled red onions (I used a recipe that I really like from bon appétit Magazine instead of the one found in the book) and the fresh green salsa. If you check out this book and only make one thing, let it be this salsa. I made the alternate recipe for the salsa adding more jalapeno peppers and avocado and it was fantastic! It was light, creamy, and a little spicy. And the combination of the fresh salsa, sweet and tangy onions, and spicy chorizo was excellent, plus it was pretty. As my mom always says, "pretty is important" when it comes to food. I have repeated this meal since I first made it and enjoyed it each time.
There are a number of other things I didn't get a chance to try that sounded great from this book: Thick Mexican Hot Chocolate; Ground Beef, Olive and Raisin Tacos; and Yucatán-Style Pork Tacos. I was tempted by the Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream since I have made some before and it was excellent. If you are ever up for a little more intensive recipe I would recommend this one: Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream Cake with Orange Meringue. Definitely take a look at this book if you get a chance and enjoy your tacos, tortas, and tamales!
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For many more years than I would like to admit to, I remember spending innumerable Saturday afternoons enjoying Julia Child's cooking shows on the local PBS station. First, there was her classic "French Chef" series, then "Julia Child & Company," followed up by "Julia Child and More Company." All in all, her television career lasted for over thirty-seven years, and included nine more separate series in addition to the ones already mentioned. Considering the hundreds of episodes that she appeared in, it isn't all that surprising that in 1996, TV Guide named her to their list of the "Fifty Greatest TV Stars of All Time."
Of course, fine food was the centerpiece of all these programs, as it also was in Julia's personal life. But there was an additional source of great pleasure for her that until recently was not all that well known. Cats!
When Patricia Barey's and Therese Burson's book entitled Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in The Company of Cats appeared late last summer, I immediately placed a hold on the title. Being unabashedly cat crazy myself, and admiring Julia Child's spunky, unpretentious, joie de vivre style, I very much looked forward to reading this slim volume, which is enhanced with many black and white photos of Julia and her felines.
As is told in the book, Julia's story begins in 1948 as a newly wedded bride of thirty-six, who is madly in love with her husband Paul. They start married life living in Paris, France, a country and city obsessed with food and romance. There, Julia and Paul begin to collect the first of many cats who would grace their lives, several of whom adopted the young couple rather than the other way around. By throwing in their lot with Julia and Paul, these felines ended up winning the cat equivalent of the lottery, going on to live in the lap of luxury with a master chef and hanging out as the perfect kitchen comrades with the couple who truly adored them.
But this book is not only about cats. It also follows Julia as she begins attending the world renowned culinary school, Le Cordon Bleu. Here, she receives a failing grade in her final exam at the hands of her instructor and nemesis Madame Brassart, who states that, "Julia does not have any great natural talent for cooking." Over time, this has come to be recognized as one of the greatest misjudgments in the history of culinary arts education. In 1961, after her well received book titled The Art of French Cooking hit the stands, Julia went on to become an overnight sensation, and her name is still synonymous with fine cuisine to this day.
In addition to this adult account, released at about the same time was a children's volume about Child and one particular cat. Minette's Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat by Susanna Reich is a forty-page book about Julia learning to cook in Paris with her devoted feline friend, Minette, at her side. Although she has the best products of fine food preparation within constant reach, truth be told, Minette is not too fond of gourmet meals, often preferring the taste of a freshly killed mouse instead.
So, whether you are a Julia Child admirer, a cat devotee, both or even neither, you are in for a treat with these two volumes. As Julia might have said, "Bon Appétit, happy reader, Bon Appétit!"
It should be noted that had she lived, Julia Child would have celebrated her 100th birthday last August.
If you dabble in interior design or take a lot of pictures of the food you make, chances are I've read your blog. I'm a regular reader of a number of blogs that focus on DIY house projects or made-from-scratch recipes, and lately it seems as though the writers of all my favorite blogs are getting book deals. I've been really excited about the release of Deb Perelman's book, The Smitten Kitchen. The Smitten Kitchen is my favorite food blog, mainly because the author uses simple ingredients to create mouthwatering dishes in a tiny, tiny kitchen—in other words, she makes me think I can recreate her recipes in my own kitchen. Perelman's photography skills make the blog particularly appealing, and I'm hoping that the cookbook has the same appetizing look.
In addition to The Smitten Kitchen cookbook, I've been looking forward to the book from Sherry and John Petersik, creators of the house blog Young House Love. Like the blog, the book Young House Love is full of do-it-yourself projects to decorate the home. I'd categorize their style as bright and cheerful with modern elements, and their casual manner and detailed instructions make it easy to bring their look into your own home. They're very inspiring for people slightly afraid of a DIY challenge.
The Smitten Kitchen and Young House Love aren't the only blogs that have made their way to print recently. Checkout Joy the Baker (http://joythebaker.com/), Dinner: a Love Story (http://www.dinneralovestory.com/), or Design Sponge at Home (http://www.designsponge.com/).
Cookbooks are one of my reading weaknesses; the best ones have lovely photos, recipes that are unique but not silly, and are written with an interesting voice.
The Back in the Day Cookbook has all that. It's cheerful and fun to read . . . and now my "Bake This" list is even longer!
The recording-breaking heat this summer has lead to an abundance of reddening tomatoes in my garden—a bit earlier than usual. I love growing lots of tomatoes because they can be preserved easily and they make great additions to soup and stews in the winter months. It's always a nice reminder of summertime when I open a can of homegrown tomatoes in the dead of winter!
Although preserving vegetables isn't difficult, in order to ensure safety, canners must be precise. I use the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving to get canning recipes and tips for problem-solving. It includes recipes for jams, salsas, and all sorts of canned vegetables. It's a great guide for beginners, but offers plenty of great recipes for experienced canners.
If you or a family member are one of the estimated 1 in 133 people needing to avoid gluten, due to celiac disease or gluten intolerance, look to KPL for more information. We have dozens of gluten-free cookbooks. Most have helpful suggestions in front about navigating a gluten-free lifestyle, like which foods to avoid and what ingredients to keep on hand. And the recipes are inspiring! Consider these options: Artisanal Gluten-Free Cooking, by Kelli and Peter Bronski. Check out the Crab Cakes recipe on p. 52. Getting your Kid on a Gluten-Free Casein-Free Diet, by Susan Lord. Filled with straightforward advice and easy tips from a registered dietician, whose daughter was diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and has been on a gluten-free, casein-free diet for many years. The "Nutrition First" chapter has wise tips for anyone pursuing a gluten-free diet. I can't wait to try the Pad Thai recipe. Deliciously G-free: Food so Flavorful They'll never Believe it's Gluten-Free, by Elizabeth Hasselbeck, co-host of The View. Chock-full of delicious recipe ideas, such as Smoked Salmon on Corn Fritters, Chocolista Chocolate Cupcakes and French Toast with Caramel Rum Banana. This one is even available in an e-book.
The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making is a compilation of recipes for pantry stapes by food blogger Alana Chernila. Mother of two young children and avid home cook, Chernila shares her recipes for such stapes as sandwich bread, ketchup, jam, salsa, and even vanilla extract. If you're really adventurous in the kichen, you can try her recipes for homemade mozzarella, toaster pastries, or peanut butter cups. Although she does include recipes for entrees such as lasagna (with homemade noodles!), generally you won't find full meals here, but recipes for food that most people probably buy prepackaged and that might be a component in a meal or snack—breads, condiments, soup, dressings, etc.
Chernila admits that buying prepackaged food certainly is faster and easier, especially for busy families for whom dinnertime can be rushed and chaotic. She gives five reasons in particular for making the effort to prepare more food at home: 1. Food made at home is better for you; 2. Food made at home tastes better; 3. Food made at home usually costs less; 4. Food made at home eliminates unnecessary packaging; 5. Food made at home will change the way you think about food.
While I agree with her reasons, I seriously doubt that I'm going to make potato chips or fruit roll-ups any time soon, and I feel no guilt about that whatsoever. Food can be a very sensitive subject in our culture, with plenty of judgments being passed around regarding what and how people eat; I've glanced through plenty of cookbooks that come off as snobby or authoritarian, but this isn't one of them. Chernila is simply sharing recipes for food she likes to make at home, and she makes home cooking look easier and more worthwhile than always relying on prepackaged food.
You won't find ghosts, ghoulies, or anything supernatural in Heidi Swanson's Super Natural Cooking and Super Natural Every Day, but you will find delicious recipes made with all natural, whole ingredients. San Francisco-based Heidi Swanson is well known to foodies in the blogosphere for her site 101 Cookbooks, where she posts recipes for food simple in nature but complex in flavor. It doesn't seem to matter what vegetables, grains, or dairy she uses, she knows how to put things together to bring out the best in every ingredient. I've been a fan of her blog for ages, so I was very happy to find that KPL has copies of both of her cookbooks. My favorite recipes are for Straw and Hay Fettuccini Tangle, a pasta dish that uses asparagus and spinach to create a really tasty nontraditional pesto, and Double Broccoli Quinoa, a recipe that might convert even the strictest of broccoli haters. If you're looking to incorporate more whole foods into your cooking, Super Natural Cooking and Super Natural Every Day is a great place to start.
Now that you've all had time to put tips from the book I last blogged about into practice, here's the follow-up you've been waiting for. Your time to cook : a first cookbook for newlyweds, couples & lovers by Robert Blakeslee will tell you everything you need to know to keep yourself and your new friend(s) fed. It could just as easily be titled So you've never used a stove: what to do when you've just moved out of your parents' home and all you eat now is take-out, for this well-illustrated tome will walk you through every step, almost as though you are in the author's kitchen. On my to-try list: stuffed mushrooms, and basil & cheese twirlies. Yum!To justify the name, before every chapter is a page with marriage trivia, some romantic and some shudder-inducing, but really this book is just a solid introduction to culinary magic with a few exciting frills.
I have always struggled with feeling good about the dinners I prepare for my family. And now that I have teenagers whose extracurricular activities decrease the likliehood that we'll all be home during the conventional dinner hour--whatever that is--it has become all too easy to leave them to their own devices to find something they WANT to eat, WHEN they can, and just take care of it themselves. But then I feel guilty about not sitting together at the family table because that connection is still important to me. It's an ongoing battle.
So you can imagine how interested I am in this new book (currently on order) by Jenny Rosenstrach based on her blog of the same name. According to the author:
Family dinner is a mindset, and once you get comfortable with the idea of not doing it, the harder it becomes to make it happen. But the more you force yourself to make meals for your children, the more it will become second-nature, and the more addicted you'll get to all the pleasures and dividends a family meal can yield.
Family dinner is a mindset, and once you get comfortable with the idea of not doing it, the harder it becomes to make it happen. But the more you force yourself to make meals for your children, the more it will become second-nature, and the more addicted you'll get to all the pleasures and dividends a family meal can yield.
At this point, I'll take all the help I can get!


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Foundational Scripture
"But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. 3 You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says the Lord of hosts.
Malachi 4: 2-3
Fountain of Hope Ministries of America ("FOHMOA") is an Arizona Bible-based, Christ-centered, nonprofit corporation with 501(c)3 status. The Lord has graciously kept us serving since 1987. Reverend Susan Stacey is the Founder of the Ministry who has a vision to bring restorative healing to the great State of Arizona.
- FOHMOA's mission is to preach to broken-hearted women and girls, and to help them come to the full knowledge that God loves them. He is deeply moved, particularly by the afflictions of the fatherless. Ephesians 6:4, which says: "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord."
- There are children who have not been under the protective canopy of a watchful father. To the contrary, we have thousands who have been abused by their dads, step-dads or other male family members, or even close friends! God often calls specialists, those who He has trained in unique ways, such as Rev. Susan Stacey, who has this God-given passion to see girls and women freed from the bonds of childhood sexual abuse. To implement action to the vision, Rev. Stacey has a three-part ministry.
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To reach girls who are living in group homes. They are high-risk for future sexual abuse, especially if they leave the system. Within hours, most of these girls will be picked up by pimps for the purpose of sex-trafficking. They are sometimes shipped out of Phoenix to L.A. or Las Vegas. Susan has written and currently teaches curriculum for girls ages 12-17 years old, who live in group homes. The Girl's Curriculum fulfills Sex-Education requirements, but from a Christ-centered, Biblical worldview.
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In addition, she has written and teaches a discipleship program designed for women. The Women's Curriculum is geared for women who have been victimized by childhood sexual abuse and other abusive relationships.
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Lastly, Susan has opened a drop-in center, called "The Fountain" for girls and women, who are still trapped in the sex-trade on the streets .
Ways to get involved!
- Prayer Partner: Let us know so we can send you monthly updates, on the progress and work that God is doing.
- Prayer Walk: Please contact us to find out when!
- Seed Sower: All donations are tax-deductible. Together we can greatly impact the lives of these girls and women.
- Take a Tour: The Fountain is a safe place for our guests still on the streets. So tours must be scheduled.
- Volunteer: At The Fountain. This Involves special and on-going training.
- Donations: Food, water, hygiene items and jewelry supplies are always welcome.


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