The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, April10; 1991. Nancy Lingley Easy as Pie Modern technology is here to stay and I’m happy to report that I have learned to live with it. In a manner of speaking. . In the newspaper business, of course, I have to deal with tech- nological advances daily, This is, after all, the age of the comput- er, I must admit that the computer certainly makes writing easy. When I can’t make out my notes, which does happen every so often — and you could probably put the emphasis on often there, I just skip that pasticular part and carry on. Then when I finally remember what that squiggle that looks like it’s crawling off of the page to die-means, I can just backtrack to where the most important quote of the story belongs und tuck it in. No fuss, no muss, no retyping of an entire page or six. However, I do havea little bit of a problem dealing with a machine that always does exactly what I tell it to do, even when I didn’t really mean for it to do that. In my kitchen, I managed to totally, completely, and utterly ignore modem technology, ie. the microwave, right up‘until last month. This despite my nearest and dearest’s claims that I could not continue to live without this revolutionary convenience that would make my life unbelievably easier, Idid to inue to live with- out a microwave right up until the day] Nearest and Dearest came home with one tucked under his arm and established it right between the refrigerator and the breadbox. Not about to tum down a challenge, I learned to nuke left- overs just as good as anybody else. I decided a microwave can actually bake a potato every bit as yummy as one made in my old wood cookstove. (Hey, when I resist modern technology, I resist modem technology. No fooling around here.) But best of all, hands down, I found that my microwave is the very best, the very quickest, the 100 per cent totally efficient way to turn out a hot chocolate spiked with rum. Which I enjoy immensely as these supper pies bake in the conventional oven. « oe Sausage and Potato Pie Savory sausage filling in a mashed potato crust, 1-1/2 pounds of potatoes (about five medium) legg 1 medium onion, chopped {about 1/2 c.) 1/2 c, cracker crumbs 2 tsp. dried parsley flakes 1 Ib. bulk pork sausage L meat .. 10 ounce can d cream of: .12 ounce can kemel com, drained Peel, cut and boil potatoes until tender. Drain well and mash until smooth. You'll have about four cups. Beat in the egg, onion, cracker crumbs, and parsley, Spread mixture evenly over bottom and up sides of a lightly buttered nine-inch pie pan. Make the sides fairly high. Brown the sausage meat in a 10-inch skillet until all the pink color is gone. Mix in the can of soup and the com, Heat thoroughly. Pile hot filling into potato crust. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 400 F. for 25 minutes or until golden brown. Makes six servings. Tuna Quiche in a Rice Crust This can be made with salmon, too. 2/3 c. regular rice 1-1/3 c. water 2 tbsp. butter or margarine 1 very small onion, chopped (about 2 tbsp.) 1/2 tsp. dried marjoram, crushed 4 eggs “one six-ounce, or thereabouts, can of tuna or salmon drained and flaked 3/4.c. milk 1c, shredded Cheddar cheese 1/4 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. pepper Combine the rice and water in a saucepan, cover, bring to a boil, and simmer for 10-15 minutes, or until all the water is absorbed. Stir the butter, 1 tbsp. of the onion, 1/4 tsp. of the mar- joram, and one of the eggs into the hot rice. Press into the bottom and up the sides of a lightly-buttered nine-inch pie pan. Make the crust fairly high. Layer the fish evenly over the rice shell. Beat together the remaining three eggs, 1 tbsp. onion, 1/4 tsp. marjo- ram, milk, cheese, salt, and pepper. Pour over the fish. Bake at 350 F. for 50-55 minutes, or until knife inserted just off-center comes out clean, Makes six servings, , Yorkshire Beef Pie Ground beef and veggies in gravy served up in a Yorkshire pudding crust. 1 1b. ground beef 1 medium onion, chopped (about 1/2 c ) 2 tbsp. flour one beef bouillon cube dissolved in 1/2. boiling water 1c. cooked mixed vegetables 2 tbsp. butter or margarine 2eggs 1c. milk 1c. flour 1/2 tsp. salt n soup Cook the ground beef and onion in a sitet, breaking up the” beef, until all the pink color is gone from the meat. Drain off the grease. Sprinkle the flour over the meat and onions, then blend in the bouilloh dissolved in the boiling water, Cook and stir until thickened. Stir in the veggies, Keep warm. Preheat oven to 400_ F, Put the butter in a nine-inch pie pan and stick it in the oven to’ melt the butter. Beat eggs until frothy with an electric or. rotary beater, Beat in milk, and then flour and salt. Beat until smooth. Pour mixture into hot pie pan with melted butter in it. Spoon meat mixture into the center, leaving one inch of pudding border ’ all around. It probably won't all fit, so set the leftover aside and : keep it warm. Bake at 400 F, for 30 minutes, or until crust is golden brown and puffed up around the filling. Pour‘ ‘any Temain- ing filing | into the center before serving. Makes six servings: : She should worry about wha riage is the same 'as.a death. And ° Dear Ann Landers: I would like to respond to the reader who _ was afraid that her father-in-law’. “would be upset if she had a‘daugh- ter instead of a son because he was eager for a male'to carry.qn the, _ family name. She wouldn't be'so!, concemed if she were in my’ Bices After cight years of marriage, ; my husband and I have had two! ‘miscarriages and still no children. For the past month I have spent three momings a week in my gyne- cologist’s office. She specializes in.) | infertility and is trying to help me get pregnant again. I’ve taken, dozens of tests trying to determine why I have not been able to con- ceive. So far there are no clues, . The procedures are not only time-* but very d i not to mention expensive, We told both our families and all our friends about the first mis- carriage. They drove us crazy with their unsolicited advice. When I became pregnant the second time, we dint’ tell a soul because we couldn’t handle the thoughtless remarks. Most people do not think of a miscarriage as a death. Please tell your readers that to the couple who long to be parents, a miscar- please ask them not to say, ‘Don't’ worry, you "ll get pregnant again soon,” because in my. case-it may not be that easy. Yes, we will try again, Ann, but |. we now. know that we may never,, succeed, But we aren't giving up. I truly believe that God has two chil- dren for us in heaven and that some day we will see them. — Empty 8 in Louisville, Dear Louisville: You, have many sisters out there, and all of them, I am sure, wish you well. Dear Ann Landers: I hope that you will print this letter in your column, Along with several million others who are not totally deaf but ~ are hard-of-hearing, I would be extremely grateful. _ ‘ Even though many of us wear gestions; | Get our some other way. Touching us on the shoulder or arm is fine. 2. Look directly ‘at us: when you talk. Never speak to us with your face tumed away. 3. Please speak in moderate ‘ tones at a moderate speed. Make an effort to enunciate every word. You’ will then not need to' repeat yourself several times, which can ‘ _ be exasperating. '.4...When. you speak into a. microphone, place the mike at chin level, not at the mouth level.” ‘The sound will come over the microphone much better and enable the , your lips, 5. Many people who now have excellent hearing will one day find themselves in the same position that we are in, Time is sure to take" its tol, There is simply no way to ‘prevent human parts from wearing out, 50 Please be compassionate, — Salt Lake City. ‘Dear Salt Lake:.Thank you ° 1, ‘Please don't shout at us. It is hard-of-bearing to read - "S aporat “bearing al aids, we still ‘rely heavily‘. on lip-reading, Here are some, sug": for a letter that could make life much easier for millions of people. Since the fastest growing segment of our society is seniors, what you have written is sure to bave special meaning for a great many readers. Dear Ann Landers: This femi- nist stuff may have gone too far, or maybe it's just that I happen to live in the beart of academia, Cam- bridge, Mass.; to be exact. So help me, I beard the following conver- sation at lunch. . Man No. 1: My wife had amaio Inst week, and we know the gender of ourunbom child, Man No, 2: Well, what will it be? Mai No. 1: A baby woman. Man No. 2: That's really won- derful.. Baby women are awfully nice. You are a very lucky guy. I swear to you, Ann, this con- versation was exactly as I reported it. Neither'guy was speaking with -an implied wink in his voice. Talk about over the edge stiffs. I’m not looking to go back to the days of “broads” and “dames,” but “baby, woman"? Give mea break. — Bummed Out in Harvard Yard Dear Bummed: I’m speechless. new s currenteompilationof lemost peculiar things people do, edited by Chuck Shepherd. Proof that true stories are weirder than made-up stories, " Dr. Michael Gilbert, 75, a prominent psychiatrist who for three decades has taken the wit- ness stand numerous times to describe criminal defendants’ mental defects, has entered a defense of insanity himself in Miami. He is charged with offer- ing to bribe a police officer to find a hit man to kill a suspected child abuser. the prosecutor thinks Gilbert is faking. Court Reporter « Lynn Persoff was sentenced for contempt of court in August for violating a court order (on a divorce settlement) not to bad- mouth her ex-husband, Myron. At a black-tie social event in Boca Raton, Fla., a community in which © both are well-known socialites, she called him a “moron.” ¢ Jill Bangle of Los: Angeles sued her veterinarian for $1,500 in and additional surgery in .. September after he removed too much skin while performing a face-lift on her Chinese Sar Pei. ¢ Hugh Craig Jr., angry that he scratched his car in a Wendy’s restaurant parking lot because ‘the curb was too high, sued the ‘Wendy’s chain in June in Indi- anapolis, and decided to throw in all the legal claims he could think of, including “false advertising” (because the hamburgers contain no ham). He is seeking $1.99 quadrillion (but will accept the amount in cheeseburgers if Wendy's buys them from White Caste). on claims that a board that fell on her head while she was, shopping in a Home Depot store four years ago caused her to lose many of her powers: She says she can still pick Tacetrack winners but can no longer “take on(other people's) - bodies (in her mind).” (She said - she never claimed to have the power to anticipate falling objects in stores, + Last summer, Raleigh, N.C., Superior Court Judge Howard E. Manning, in a dispute about whether a confiscated substance was Marijuana, ordered the bailiff to get rolling papers and light i it up. manning and a detective in the case then concluded from the smell, officially, that this substance ‘was marijuana. + A federal court in New York refused to dismiss a woman's sex- ual harassment lawsuit against ber employer last fall despite the fact that the woman had “repeatedly” stabbed her former supervisor “without provocation” at a deposi- tion. The court noted that the | worpan had behaved at subsequent. ; , ions and ised not to them is not part of that duty. ¢ In January, Donna Wallab won $11,500 for injuries suffered in a 1989 car accident. in Nashville. Among ber losses was that one of her saline gel breast implants deflated several weeks after the accident, followed short- ly by the other one, both caused, she claims, by her being thrust - © Casey Kronberger, 10, sued Dustin Zins, 8, for $78,000 in 1989 in Bismarck, N.D., fora 1988 dirt-throwing incident, but a jury mled last year that both boys * ‘were equally at fault for Casey's dental damages. In November 1990, a new trial was ordered, but the court affirmed that Dustin's parents would not be liable for against her car’s + George Franklin, 51, wad found guilty in November of killing his daughter's best friend 21 years ago. The chief witness against Franklin was the daughter, now 30, who said that she had repressed her eyewitness view of the crime until recently when a glance from her own daughter triggered a flashback. * Carlos Lerma, 45, was found guilty of 51 drug trafficking counts by a Houston jury in December, despite his having smeared broken eggs on the walls of the federal courthouse for good luck on the moming the verdict was. announced. He, was also ges under any cit so Casey can collect only from Dustin. « Janet Crowther, of Mereaux, La., won $340,000 for injuries from a K Mart store sustained in a 1985 incident. Crowther had gone to the store to buy towels, but as a clerk wheeled a cart of Cabbage Patch doll clothing in an aisle close to the towel display and then announced a “blue-light special.” bedlam broke out, and Crowther was trampled. * A man who calls himself the “World's Fittest Man” (who one did 52,000 sit-ups in 32 hours) recently broke down in tears in a San Francisco,courtroom when with his “i esharged for. stab the man. « An Illinois appeals court ruled * in a lawyer malpractice case in Novemter that a lawyer’s sexual relationship with his client had no effect on the quality of legal ser- vices provided. The court reaf- firmed that every lawyer owes a fiduciary duty to his client, but refraining from having sex with A Pennsylvania appeals court tumed down the challenge of Richard and Kathy Keranko to force Jim Osboume, a coach in the Washington County Youth Baseball League, to let their son Matthew, 16, on the team. Four years ago, Kathy poured soda on Osbourne’s head because he had benched another Keranko son. : cies.” He was describing how, i ata local trade show, he accepted a - challenge to be hooked up to the “neuromuscular stimulator,” and, according to a witness, the “world's fittest man” “shot up in e air and fell like a brick.” (Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O: box 57141, Washington, D.C. 20037.) ‘NEW HEARING AID TECHNOLOGY Is Less Conspicuous and More Effective Than Ever! _ * Quality you can see! * Quality you can hear! * Quality you can afford! Allin the ear hearing aids ¢ Ali makes repaired... ° Batteries... ° Starkey, Unitron, Siemens Miracle Ear and others... ¢ DVA ° WCB fittings ... ¢ Seniors Discounts ... e¢ GST exempt Custom canal hearing aids Nelson Hearing Aid Centre Mon. - Fri.: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. a B.C. 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Please give me some information on the late, great Jeff Chandler. - P.L., Alpine, Jeff Chandler Chandler was born Ira Gros- sel.in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 15, 1918, and died of blood poi- soning in 1961. An actor who always made a dashing ap- pearance, he was married to Marjorie Hoshelle from 1946- 54, and they had two sons. Chandler became a contract player with Universal in 1949 and won an Academy Award nomination a year later for his portrayal of Cochise in “Bro- ken Arrow.” Among Chan- dler’s other films are “Yankee Buccaneer” (1952), “War Ar- row” (1953), “Jeanne Eagels” (1957) and “Merrill's Maraud- ers” (1962). WONDERFUL’ LEMMON = Back in the late ’40s or early 50s, there .was a sitcom in which a young actor played an aspiring actor who worked as a valet or houseboy for a Broadway ‘critic. “Wasn't, this young actor Jack Lemmon? What was the name of the sit- com? - C.T.B., Birmingham, Ala. The star of the 1949-50 se- ries “That Wonderful Guy” was indeed Jack Lemmon. 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