nee pom srvcrsens ere The Castlegar sun Wednesday, March'13, 1991 Nancy Lingley b) Just Ducky | Those were the days — I think, We had this ranch, right out in the middle of nowhere —not hard to do in the Cariboo — and my passion for collecting fuzzy, furry, and feathered creatures knew no bounds, literally. The house, the barns, and corrals were full to overflowing. Sometimes they overflowed in the wrong direction. We kept a few ducks and a couple of drakes and, come spring, they tended to do what ducks and drakes do in the spring and the quacker populati iP d dingly The very first test of young web-footed agility was to learn how to hop up the back steps, enter the back porch through the catdoor (so handy to have with five cats ‘en residence”), and attack the dog food dish, which was always kept full. No easy task anyway with six dogs, three of them apparently sired by Shetland ponies. . I'd be quietly working away in the kitchen, minding my own si when I'd ly hear an of fowl mut- terings, the slap, slap, slap of little webbed feet on the linoleum,and then the machine gun-like rat-a-tat-tat of 27 duck bills inhaling the contents of the dog dish. Needless to say, this led to some pretty disorganized retreats, and lots of loose feath- ers, when I leaped through the doorway, brandishing a mean dishtowel, and 27 flapping, hysterical, feathered freeloaders all tried to get out the six-inch square catdoor at once, Then there was the day I came in to find that, having demol- ished the contents of the dog dish, the ravenous rabble boldly went where no ducks had gone before and webfooted their way down the hall and across the kitchen to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow — a big bowl of cat chow. When I got back from the barn, they were all hanging around the Suck pond, looking innocent and trying to stifle the odd belc! But it’s fairly easy to tell when there’s been a whole herd of ducks through the house. It seems to me that that was about the time I realized just what a nice baking egg a duck egg was and started using recipes like these — a lot. og Cheeseburger Quiche Yet another way to serve hamburger. Kids like this one. unbaked pastry for nine-inch pie pan (see below) 1 pound ground beef large onion, chopped (about 3/4 c.) 1-1/2. c. shredded Cheddar cheese 3 eggs . 1/2 c, mayonnaise or salad dressing “1c. milk 4 : 1/2 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. pepper Prepare your usual pastry, substituting onion salt for the regu- lar salt, Line a nine-inch pie pan with it. Cook ground beef and onion in a skillet, breaking up the meat, until the pink color is gone. Drain off the fat. Layer the meat in the unbaked pie shell. Cover with cheese. Beat together eggs, mayonnaise, milk, salt, and pepper. Pour over cheese. Bake at 400 F. for 30 minutes. Let stand a few minutes before serving. Makes six servings. tk Lemon Layer Cake A tall, showy cake that looks like spring. Cake layers: 6 egg whites 1c. butter or margarine 2c. sugar 1 tbsp. baking powder 2-3/4 c. all purpose flour /4 c. milk Lemon curd filling: 1/2 c. butter or margarine 1c. sugar 8 egg yolks 1 tbsp. grated lemon rind 1/2. c. lemon juice Icing: 1/2 c. sugar 1/4 c. comm syrup 2 tbsp. water 2 egg whites 1 tsp. vanilla 1c. flaked coconut Cake layers: Beat egg whites until stiff. Cream butter and sugar. Mix together baking powder and flour and add altemmately to creamed mixture with milk. Fold in beaten egg whites. Spread in three greased and floured eight-inch round layer cake pans. Bake at 350 F. for 25 - 30 minutes. Cool on wire racks seven minutes. Turn out of pans to cool completely. Filling: Combine all ingredients in top of double boiler. Cook over hot water, stirring frequently, until mixture is thick (will look pud- ding-ish). Chill thoroughly. Icing: Combine sugar, com syrup, and water in a small saucepan. Boil rapidly, without stirring, until a small amount dropped from a spoon spins a six to eight inch thread (242 F., if you have a candy thermometer). As mix- ture boils, beat egg whites until stiff. Pour hot syrup very slowly in a thin stream into beaten egg whites, while beating constantly at medium speed. Beat on high speed until stiff peaks form. Beat in vanilla. To assemble: Put cake layer on plate, top with one-third of filling, second layer of cake, another third of filling, last layer on top, last third of filling. Use icing to ice the sides of the cake only. Sprinkle coconut over the lemon filling on top of the cake. Makes 10 generous servings. ; 8 I goofed! (It happens occasionally) - Last week in the recipe for Butterscotch Banana -Pie, I accidently left out 2 eggs from the list of ingredients. Sorry about that, but it’s nice to know you're reading..... up 28 Let us know how much you like Kootenay Kitchen by filling out the survey on page 3B. We would sure like to hear from you | and you might win a $50 dinner for-two to the Fireside Restau-~ rant. * +] Paes Possibly world's Dear Ann Landers: Either this is the world’s greatest love story or Jam the world’s biggest fool. You decide, _Thiny years ago I gave birth to a daughter. “Harvey" didn’t marry | me because he couldn't afford it, and his family didn’t think I was the right one for him, I had my daughter alone and paid the hospi- tal bill. I have always worked at minimum wage jobs because I was only 17 when my child was bom and I had no education beyond high school. Meanwhile, I stayed in the shadows and watched the father of my daughter date and marry the “right” girl. In the past 30 years this is what has happened: 1, I raised my daughter by myself 2. Harvey had two daughters. His wife never worked outside the home although they always had full-time household help. 3. My daughter is beautiful, tal- ented and well-liked by people of all ages. 4. Harvey’s daughters are i id ive, and expensive schools, dropped out — or were kicked out — and are doing nothing. My daughter went to a state college on a'scholarship, graduated with high honors and has a wonder- ful a career as a register nurse, © Ann, this man has never given‘' me a dime, yet he claims that he has always loved me and our child. We have continued to see each other secretly for the past 30 years, and he is the only man I have ever been with. You may find this hard to believe, but I love him dearly and it hurts when I see the way his family lives while I struggle to barely make ends meet. - Tam 47 now and I.don’t know what to do. Harvey swears he loves only me and it’s his fault that our’ lives turned out like this. My doesn’t know that Harvey. ant 1 they have been in a lot of trouble. 5. My daughter was prom queen in a made-over dress I got from Goodwill. 6. His daughters went to the prom in designer gowns and later that night one of the girls was arrested for drunk driving. 7. Harvey's daughters went to is ber father, and he is pressing mo to tell her. He says he will never leave his family because they can’t take care of themselves. Please advise me. I don't know what to do. — Little Rock, Ark. Dear Rock: Do I have this right? You had a baby out of wed- lock. The father married someone continued to see him secretly and never went with another man, “| Your daughter has done beauti- } fully, but his two daughters can't .” seem to get it together. You've been hiding in the shadows for 30 years, and “Mr. Wonderful" has never given you a dime, although he has provided a very nice “lifestyle for his family, Now this yellow-bellied, lily-liv- ered, gutless wonder (pardon me, I ‘got carried away) wants you to tell his daughter that be is the father, By all means te}l be (if you don’t he will, on of these days). Then tell HIM that you want a nice big check for back child support, plus a per- manent place on his “payroll.” This is definitely not “the world’s greatest love story,” but you may well qualify as the world's biggest sap for letting this Man use you.so shamefully and allowing him to get away with such despicable behavior. : Dear Ann Landers: I am divorced with a 16-ycar-old son. “Hugh” is popular, attractive, smart and athletic — be hoy a lot going for him. It seems Hugh is having his first serious romance, When he first Started to see “Mona,” she told him that she was not like other girls, Well, she was right. I’ve found ber hiding in Hugh's bedroom closet, and she comes to our house in the moming after I’ve gone to work. ie ggest fool else and had two daughters, You . he tries to go.to an athletic event without her she harasses. him * unmercifully on the phone. ; ‘The last time Mona came to our home when I: wasn’t here’ called ber mother and asked if Mona was on the pill, I was told in no uncer- tain terms that Mona would never have sex before marriage, but I’m sure her mother is mistaken.; This girl’s obsession with my son has caused me to develop an obsession to rid him of her, It's also causing problems between my son and me. Of course, this is exactly what the girl wants, My common sense tells me to let this puppy-love thing ride itself out, but I'm afraid if I don’t insist that they obey the mules about being in this house alone, my son's life could be ruined. Any suggestions? — Obsessed Mother, Oklahoma City. Dear O.M.: Obviously you're convinced that y our son and Mona _ have crossed that line, Since Mona’s mother is bat-blind, it’s up to you to do what you can to keep these two kids out of trouble. Impress on your son the importance of being well- informed and well-equipped. I fear that abstinence is unrealistic when the gisl is so aggressive and the boy is in hormonal overdrive. If you could make a friend of Mona, it would be belpful. After she recovers from the initial shock, she might be open to friendship and you could then step out of the role of Enemy No. 1 and be really helpful. ne wes Weird Science ¢ Joey Blackbum, 24, survived six gunshot wounds in the head during an argument at a party in Tenn., in S wandering the streets for an hour before finding the hospital emer- gency room. Doctors said at least two of the bullets broke the skin and then traveled “around” the skull without penetrating it. + New Mexico state Rep. Ray Vargas, answering a DWI charge in November, said he suffers from candidiasis, a rare disease that causes him to brew alcohol inter- nally. An expert consulted by Var- gas said bacteria and yeast overgrow; in the stomach and cause - ordinary carbohydrates to ferment. quasts, (She tested clean.) + halitosis researchers at Tel Texas Chiropractic College to dis- pose of unusable bodies donated to it for research.) A local prosecutor Aviv U ty have the first world symposium on bad breath for April in Mexico. The organizer said bad breath afflicts more than 80 percent of the world adult population, and remedies contribute $500,000 million year- ly to U.S. gross national product. Creme De La Weird said 19 were missing. * In October Kathy Owen and her sister told a reporter that they had begun in March to look through files in the county court- house in Lake Butler, Fla., to ascertain information on their mother’s murder (which has when the two were small * Despite hai ing com- plaints by co-workers, Dallas County District Judge David K. Brooks told a reporter in October that he considers his “eccentrici- ty” a private matter not affecting his abilities as a judge. According ] (The prosécutor told the judge it; ” > current compilation of the most peculiar things people do, edited by Chuck Shepherd. Proof that true stories are weirder than made-up stories. In New Delhi, four men (aged 82, 71, 63, and 62) were acquitted of charges that they defrauded a government-run transport compa- ny by buying bogus motor parts. The alleged crime occurred in 1955, and the tial began in 1957, Hearings continued, off and on, for 33 years before Judge V.B. Gupta concluded in December (1990) that the government had failed to prove its case. didn’t matter where Vargas got the alcohol. the judge agreed and found him guilty.) ¢ Plastic surgeons in Beverly Hills are now offering silicon implants to enlarge men’s pec- torals. However, an official of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons believes the operation on males is riskier than the breast implants for females because the silicon is planted behind muscle, + A 40-year-old flight attendant, profoundly worried about perform- ing for a urine drug test, drank so much water that her brain swelled in rare “water intoxication,” caus- ripped a sink out of a bathroom wall. ¢ Police in Mint Hill, N.C. (near Charlotte), released Timothy Belk, 34, from his confinement in a 9-by-10-foot wire cage, where he had been held recently in the Shiloh True light Church of Christ, apparently because he was mentally ill and church officials felt they were being compassion- ate. Belk was confined with per- mission of his mother, who claimed her son was comfortable, and church leader Rommie Purs- er, who-said, “We did this out of love and concer for this young man” and called his release a case ing her to require h she is only the eighth known con- -tractor of the illness (except for of g inter- vention. casket girls). When they opened an ordi- nary cardboard box marked “evi- dence” from the case, they found their mother’s skull in an unsealed plastic bag, kept in the box since 1974. When the sisters asked to remove the head for burial, clerk . Margie F. Cason said not without acourt order. + Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of Peter Sutcliffe (the “Yorkshire Ripper” who killed 13 people), testified in December in a libel action (unre- lated to her husband’s case) against the British newspaper News of the World that the paper had unfairly referred to Peter. She said “Yorkshire” was correct because he lived there, but that “ripper” is unfair because he believed he killed his victims “humanely” with a hammer to the back of their skulls. * Florence Blankenship, 51, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in December for the July 1988 murder of a 19-year-old man in York, Va. According to the psy- chiatric evaluation, she claims she shot the man because she had people with mental di ) because it is difficult for a person to drink that much water. When she failed to perform for the test, she was told to drink water ( but was not told how much). Her hus- band believes she drank three Richard Joseph Herrin, 44, was accused in November of dumping more than 60 cadavers in mass graves instead of burying or cre- mating them as he was supposed to. (He had contracted with a signal from bandleader Lawrence Welk. (Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 57141, Washington, D.C. 20037.) oe Boyfriend fails own comparison test Q. My boyfriend and I have been together almost seven months now. We're serious about each other, but he still hasn't agreed to be monogamous, Until he does, I continue to use con- doms. He says the condoms are hurting oursex. I cannot have an orgasm during intercourse unless I am also being stimulated manually. He says no other woman in his life has needed this extra Ask Dr. Ruth By Dr. Ruth We attention, We're both in our 20s, but he has had more partners than I have. He blames not? I'm divorced and have never had a “friend” sleep over when he was here. He says I’m weird. Cc ations on having such a ny “problem” on the condi which he says must be cutting down on my sensitivity. I think he’s wrong. Is he? A. What nonsense he is giving you! Bravo to you for using the condoms until you are in a monogamous relation- ship. You must continue doing so. Most women do require direct clitoral stimulation to have an orgasm; and most women do not have an orgasm during intercourse without that. additional stimulation. Condoms have nothing to do with this. Tell him I said so! Also, I don't like what he says about other women. Itis never helpful to com- pare one lover with another one. Maybe he is not the love of yout life. Q. My 20-year-old son and I have a good relationship. We have open dis- cussions, and his friends are always wel- come here. Several months ago he called and asked if he could bring his girlfriend home from college on break with him. When I enthusiastically ~ agreed, hoasked, “What are the sleeping CAUTION ®. >! HE FOLLOWING: COLUMN CONTAINS EXPLICIT: SEXUAL MATERIAL WHICH MAY. NoT BE SUITABLE FOR :ALE. EAD: ents?” I said, “You in your room; her, in’ the guest room.” He decided they. would sleep at a friend's and visit me during the days, which they did. { rate The girl is history. My son and I still ~" have ‘a good relationship. But, for the future, I'd like to know how to handle the situation: Did I do the right thing or A. good relationship with your son. No, you aren’t weird! You have every right to set the rules in your own home. If you don't feel comfortable with your son sharing a bed, don’t go along with it. You'll just feel more uncomfortable — and probably communicate that feeling to yourson and his guest no matter how hard you try net to. ‘ Of course, if he does have a girlfriend staying in the guest room, don't think you're responsible for checking the beds in the middle of the night! ‘Wednesday, March 13, 1991 ‘The Castlegar Sun Page 7B. Ei -TO BETTER . SERVE YOU! ‘CASTLEGAR SUN HOURS are 8:30 am to 4:30 pm call to let us know if you. have any problems with the delivery of your paper 365-7848 Dialogue HOROSCOPES MARCH 17-23 ARIES - March 21/April 20 A great deal. may be said and promised this week, especially as far as joint finances and undertakings are concerned, However, ask for expert-or legal advice now before entering into any major agreements or transactions, ‘TAURUS - April 21/May 21 ‘This is very much atime when cither family health problems’ restrict your o or you are physically under par, So try to light- en your load and don’t imagine that you and you alone can resolve cur- rent family problems or be every- one’s confidant and protector, GEMINI - May 22/June 21 Not a week to spring surprises or alter plans‘and arrangements. Simply take extra care when traveling and keep reminding yourself that there is no astrological reason now why you must change your position on either tionally. Others must realize that for you there is no tuning back now. SCORPIO - October 24/Nov 22 No doubt you are determined to prove just how self-sufficient and dependent you can be, However, it would be a pity to alienate someone who has not only stood by you in the past, but also wishes to further your It is possible that this week will result in some kind of reunion. It's not a bad time to call an old flame or renew correspondence with a friend who’s far away. Pay attention to your home and try to brighten it up with some minor improvements. CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan You may find that the beginning of the week proves rather trying, with our efforts at solving a family prob- lem meeting with disapproval, but unless you take the initiative things or Others will eventually accept your proposals and opinions. CANCER - June 22/July 22 Allow for delays and disruptions if traveling this week and above all, don’t overreact if news i could get out of hand, Some kind of change, perhaps relat- ing to some ceremony, may have to be considered soon. AQUARIUS - Janusry 21/Feb 18 Avoid, if possible, taking sides this week or b i in dis- tends to suggest that an ii plan or project has to be shelved for a while. Not till later in the, month will the full story be revealed. LEO - July 23/August 23 Follow your instincts and you will be able to make some good financial investments this week. A niggling fear would be cased if you discussed it sensibly with a friend. Choose company carefully as someone close may tend to overshadow your tal- ents, Take care that you don’t ignore someone who needs you. VIRGO - August 24/Sept 22 A change of scene should give you a chance to relax; you should find this ‘DANCES' FEVER - I saw “Dances With Wolves,” and I think it is fully deserving of the 12 Academy Award nomi- nations it has received. Kevin Costner is a wonderful actor. What can we expect next from him? - P.G., Billings, Mont. Costner dons tights and takes up a longbow in a ver- sion of the Robin Hood legend, “Robin Hood:. Prince of _ Thieves,” slated for a June re- lease. The movie reportedly cost $60 million to make. ,, RUBBLE'S RACKET - What kind of work did Barney Rubble do in “The Filint- stones”? - S.K., Cleveland Spokesmen for Hanna Bar- bera, the creators of this popu- ‘lar animated series, say that although Barney's job was never. made quite clear, he worked with Fred at the quar- ry. His role may be more de- fined in the planned live action Flintstones movie, in which John Goodman will portray Fred. DRAWING A BLANK - We have been trying to remember the name of a cartoon series that featured a monkey, a cou- ple of teen-agers and a ghostly pilot. Can you help a few frus- vd trated cartoon - because, ‘ou have plodded on, you have been using up a lot of nervous energy recently, Difficulties which have previously been beyond your control should start to recede now. LIBRA - September 23/Oct 23 Financial obligations cannot be evaded or ignored this week, so fas- ten your seatbelt and anticipate a bumpy ride, However, Venus, your ruler, makes you aware that no amount of money can compensate for what you are experiencing emo- putes bi friends, Fi appear to be a major bone of con- tention, but you are not in a position to give much practical assistance or make promises and further commit- ments, PISCES - February 19/March 20 Maybe friends are just confused and in rather than deli evasive and non-committal, espe- cially about joint financial arrange- ments. 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