| THE HEALTHY PLATE: Hearty, healthy, and yummy, maple-pumpkin dinner ...
Warm, fresh rolls improve nearly any meal, which can make it awfully tempting to grab some at the grocer.That is, until you look at the label and see all the mysterious, unpronounceable ingredients.Fortunately, baking dinner rolls at home doesn't have to be a chore. And besides knowing every ingredient that goes into the dough, you also get the joy of filling your home with the aroma of freshly baked bread.This recipe for maple-pumpkin dinner rolls is easily prepared in any moderate to large food processor, though you also can make the dough in a stand mixer with a dough hook or by hand.The rolls bake up moist and tender, though the recipes calls for minimal added fat. Canned, unseasoned pumpkin puree adds plenty of moisture, along with autumnal flavor and beautiful color.Maple syrup, rather than refined sugars, gives the rolls a delicate, earthy sweetness.
Happy Nowruz: Cooking with Children to Celebrate the Persian New Year
Nowruz--the Persian New Year--is one of the world's great festivals, a full month of activities celebrating the earth, the arrival of spring, and the rebirth of nature. Most of all, it is a festival for families. Children and adults alike can share in preparing special meals, decorating the house, and performing the many ceremonies that welcome the New Year. This book is a guide to customs thousands of years old yet as vital as ever--enjoyable for families no matter where they live or what their beliefs. Happy Nowruz offers twenty-five fun, easy, and innovative Nowruz recipes, with lots of photos to show you what to do. This is an ideal guide for parents, teachers, and kids--age six and older--to know more about the origins of Nowruz and to get everyone involved in preparing for the arrival of spring by:
baking Haji Firuz cookies germinating seeds in eggshells coloring eggs making a Nowruz garland jumping over fires setting the Haft-sinn (seven-s) holiday table planting narcissus and hyacinth bulbs selecting and buying goldfish banging spoons for trick-or-treating cooking the Nowruz dinner enjoying the Outdoor Thirteen picnic
Each book is shrinkwrapped with a stainless steel cookie cutter in the shape of the herald of the New Year--Haji Firuz--for making and decorating Haji Firuz Gingerbread Cookies.
Majesco lessens losses
With the casual gaming trend on the rise, few publishers have embraced the sector as wholeheartedly as Majesco Entertainment. After withdrawing from the premium-game-publishing market in 2006, Majesco shifted its focus to budget and handheld games, where it has found success with titles like Cake Mania and Cooking Mama. That approach has significantly reshaped Majesco, as evidenced by this week's release of the company's financial results for its fourth quarter and full fiscal year, which ended on October 31, 2007. While Majesco's annual revenues were down nearly 24 percent to $51 million from $66.7 million, the publisher's net losses lessened 11 percent to $4.8 million from $5.4 million. For the fourth quarter on its own, revenues were down 45 percent to $11.9 million from the year before, but net losses were cut by 66 percent to $961,000.
Harris, Diop Star Again in Possible Kidd Trade
NEW ORLEANS, La. The Nets have agreed to trade Jason Kidd again. And this time, Devean George isn't around to rain on the parade. Days after a Kidd deal with Dallas went south because George vetoed a trade to the Nets, New Jersey is awaiting league approval on a deal with the Mavs that would send out Kidd and Malik Allen and return Devin Harris, DeSagana Diop, Trenton Hassell, Keith Van Horn, Maurice Ager, two first-round picks, and $3 million in cash. A side deal would send Antoine Wright to Dallas for a second-round pick in order to meet league roster requirements. The trade wouldn't be quite as good a deal as the original trade with Dallas, which had included Jerry Stackhouse and George instead of Hassell and Van Horn. Stackhouse had to be removed from the trade after the league had a problem with the appearance of a pre-arranged deal for Stackhouse to be bought out by the Nets, wait the mandatory 30 days, and then re-sign with Dallas.
Anti-obesity campaign in Britain goes big
The British government last month outlined a new strategy, including a £75 million, or $145 million, three-year advertising campaign, to try to get Britons to slim down. Almost two-thirds of adults and about a third of children in Britain are overweight or obese, health officials say. Some people in the advertising industry are calling for the campaign to resemble the recent anti-poverty initiative that went under the name "ONE" in the United States and "Make Poverty History" in other countries. Millions of people bought white wristbands to signal their commitment to the movement. To be effective, advertising executives say, the anti-obesity initiative needs to be similarly broad-based. "We're saying, if you just run some advertising and then forget about it, it's going to have zero effect," said Hamish Pringle, director general of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, which represents British advertising agencies.
A Touch of Tuscany: Italy's warm countryside is theme for entries in ...
Kanary's Landscaping of Sheffield, Ohio, won first place in the extra-large garden category for this entry at the Cleveland Home and Garden Show. Among the plants around the waterfall are pine trees, rhododendron, cotoneaster, astilbe, ferns, bergenia and daffodils. .
Looking for a hit
After five years, Aztecs fans are still waiting to realize those expectations. SDSU won a regular-season MWC championship in 2004, but the program's postseason drought has now reached 16 years. It hasn't been easy. In fact, it's been far more difficult than Gwynn ever imagined. His teams are 142-162. .
Scandinavian cooking to warm a winter home
Ask the average American about Scandinavian cuisine and they may mention lutefisk—if they mention anything at all. Luckily, a beautiful new reprint of "Kitchen of Light: New Scandinavian Cooking" (Artisan, $24.95) is on bookstore shelves now, painting a delicious picture of food from the north. Author Andreas Viestad also hosts the PBS program "New Scandinavian Cooking With Andreas Viestad," and he used his deep knowledge of cooking to pack the volume with many amazing recipes. Even better, he often focuses on ingredients not as common in American kitchens. To supplement a couple of chicken recipes, he has other dishes that highlight squab and grouse. And for every beef dish, there are scrumptious recipes calling for goat, lamb and venison. And of course, there are plenty of meals centered on the fruit of the sea.
LaVell Edwards: A world-class warrior
That he treats co-workers so well they never want to leave his side? That he can't drive either a golf ball or a car in a straight line? That he does goofy things, such as attend the wrong funeral? That he expected to get fired during most of his career? That he's the finest man you'll ever meet, one who has moved through life without making an enemy, even in the intense world of football? That no one can ever remember anyone saying a bad thing about him, which works out well since no one can remember his saying a bad thing about anyone, either? That, despite success and fame and a healthy income, he has lived in the same modest rambler for 33 years? That one of his real passions is music, and that he has this thing for "Amazing Grace," which could describe the way he has moved through the world? That those who work with him believe he has some mystical power to control the weather? That, of all the things you could say about him, the best is that his wife and three children gush on and on about him? Write a story about LaVell Edwards? We'd better get started .
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