For starters today, we have some great feedback from Camano Island cook Sue Schultz.
Referring to the recipe for San Diego pink salad, shared by Jill Beach of Camano Island in an Aug. 18 Forum column, she says, “My introduction to the salad in question was at a Tupperware party in the late 1970s.
“The lady doing the party called it the ‘Yellow Servalier Salad’ because all the ingredients could be dumped into that particular Tupperware item, enclosed with the lid, shaken well, and be set by the time you arrived at the party.
“I think her description included a story about running late and having a son or daughter put the salad together as she drove from the grocery store parking lot to a party. In her recipe, however, the gelatin could be any flavor, ergo any color. Although lemon gelatin in a yellow container might be too monochromatic … “
Winding up, Sue mentions, “I’ve always threatened to write an ‘open and dump’ recipe book, and this would be one of the winners!”
Next, Helen Powell of Marysville clarifies a suggestion she previously shared in an Aug. 11 Forum regarding Evelyn Tracy’s question about keeping her Toll House (original recipe) cookies from getting very dry and quite hard.
Helen says, “I use 1 stick oleo (I prefer Imperial brand) and a half-stick (not half of a half-stick) of butter-flavored Crisco. I hope this helps. I make the cookies often, and this never fails.”
Special offer: Forum gardeners, Nancy Thurmond of Everett tells us, “I have a good green tomato bread recipe, for readers who always have leftover green tomatoes from their vines.”
If you’d like to take her up on her offer to supply this tried-and-true recipe so you’ll have it on hand at the end of the growing season, please write to Judyrae Kruse at the Forum, c/o The Herald, P.O. Box 930, Everett, WA 98206.
Then we’ll ask Nancy to share, and will print her recipe in a future Forum column.
Please remember, when getting in touch with the Forum, that all letters and all e-mail must include a name, complete address with ZIP code and telephone number with area code.
No exceptions and sorry, but no response to e-mail by return e-mail; send to kruse@heraldnet.com.
Now that you know for sure where to send or ask for help, here’s a really good SOS sent along by J. Erickson of Everett.
“Now that the appliance-saving Shaver Clinic on Evergreen Way is closed,” she writes, “is there another place in Snohomish County one can take small kitchen appliances for repair/replacement parts? The Shaver Clinic kept my 25-year-old coffeemaker going throughout the years, and I was always able to get replacement parts/rings/lids/containers, etc. for other small kitchen appliances there.
“Does anyone know where there is a comparable service for us cooks that don’t like to toss an appliance just because it gets cranky or throws a part out?”
The next Forum will appear in Monday’s Time Out section.
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