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AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE
Welcome to this issue.
The Spice For This Issue
Editor's Comments
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Welcome to another issue of Around the Kitchen Table! We have a lot to celebrate this month. February is American Heart Month, American History Month, Ground Hog Day February 2, Thomas Edison's birthday February 11, Abraham Lincoln's birthday February 12, George Washington's birthday February 22, Mardi Gras, and Leap Year - 29 days this February! For you sports fans the Super Bowl is Sunday, February 3. You can't enjoy the game without plenty of mouth-watering treats, like warm Cheesy Artichoke-Crab Dip, Cinnamon Football Cookies, and Touchdown Chocolate Fantasy Bars. Make your special valentines Conversation Cupcakes or Conversation Heart Cookies for Valentine's Day, February 14. Write a message on each cupcake or cookie. Check out this month's specials. Stock up your pantry and your medicine chest. Each month one of you is chosen to receive a free full-sized product so enter the contest. You might be the winner! The recipes this issue include Cheesy Artichoke-Crab Dip, Italian Beef, Chicken Scaloppine Marsala, Conversation Cupcakes, Conversation Heart Cookies, Cinnamon Football Cookies, Touchdown Chocolate Fantasy Bars, and Creamy Spiced Tea. Starting February 1st you can join Watkins for just $39.95. Join for the 25% discount on your own products and earn a 25% commission on sales. If you are interested in starting your own Watkins Home Business get all the details at Watkins Business Details (http://www.vanillasage.com). Join for the discount, for part time income, or a full time career! Build your own home business so you can stay home with your family, save for your children's college fund, retire early, pay off bills, or save for retirement. With consistent effort you can build a thriving business! Let me help you.
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MOTIVATIONAL WORDS
Kin Hubbard
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.
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The winner of the Trivia Quiz is Lorraine from Wisconsin.
ENTER FEBRUARY CONTEST Thanks for reading my newsletter and entering each month. Please don't quit; you might be next month's winner!
I don't know if you are experiencing cold stormy winter weather where you live but to help you through the winter doldrums I'm going to give a product from each of our stores for February's newsletter contest prize. I'll give a product from the Gourmet Pantry, Bath and Body, Home Remedies, and Home Care, my choice of products! To enter February's contest answer this question. With all the concern about global warming, depleting natural resources, over-flowing landfills, pollution, and endangered plant and animal species what are you doing to help make this planet a better place to live? Email your answer with your name and address to eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com with "February Contest - Save the Planet" in the subject line. Make your life the best it can be. Eat nutritious foods, exercise, love, and laugh!
Make Heart-Shaped Cupcakes For Valentine's Day
Cleaning Coffee Pots
Use Pain Relief Spray (02350) $8.99 for those cold weather aches and pains. The pain-relieving properties of Watkins Liniments and the penetrating vapors of our Breathe Easy Relief Mist come together in this convenient, fast-acting spray. Menthol and camphor provide quick, relief from sore muscles, aches and arthritis pain; eucalyptus and thymol add a soothing, purifying aroma.
A girl phones her boyfriend and says, "Please come over here and help me. I have got a very difficult jigsaw puzzle. I can't figure our how to get it started." Her boyfriend asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?" She answers, "According to the picture on the box it's a tiger." He decides to go over and help with the puzzle. She lets him in, shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table. He studies the pieces for a moment, looks at the box, turns to her and says, "First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to assemble all of these pieces into anything resembling a tiger." He takes her hand and says, "Second, I want you to relax. Let's have a nice cup of tea, and then (he sighed,) let's put all the Frosted Flakes back in the box."
1/2 cup/125 mL real mayonnaise Mix together mayonnaise, cream cheese, Watkins Garlic Granules and Watkins Crab Snack and Dip Seasoning in a bowl until smooth.
Add chopped artichokes and cheese; mix well.
2 teaspoons Watkins Grapeseed Oil or canola oil
Serve with mashed potatoes or noodles.
Potatoes
Chicken
1 package (18-1/4 ounces) white cake mix
Prepare cake mix according to package directions.
Place paper or foil liners in a heart-shaped or standard muffin tin. Fill cups half full of batter. Bake according to package directions for cupcakes. Cool for 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
For frosting, cream butter and shortening in a small mixing bowl. Add vanilla and butter flavoring for added buttery taste. Add sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in milk until light and fluffy.
Divide frosting into fourths; place in flour separate bowls. Leave one bowl untinted. Add food coloring to the other three bowls; stir until well blended. Frost cupcakes. Pipe untinted frosting around edges and decorate tops with Valentine phrases. Yield: 24 cupcakes.
Favorite Soft Sugar Cookies
1/2 cup shortening (part butter or margarine)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Mix shortening, sugar, egg, and vanilla thoroughly. Blend dry ingredients. Add to sugar mixture alternately with sour cream.
Divide dough; roll out on a well-floured board. Cut with heart-shaped cookie cutters. You can make these as thick as you want, the thicker, the chewier.
Place cookies on lightly greased baking sheets. Sprinkle with sugar unless you are going to ice them. Bake 7-8 minutes or until very lightly browned around the edges. Makes 3-4 dozen.
If you like chewy cookies, roll them out a little thicker. If you like thin, crispy cookies, roll a kind of thin but not real thin or you won't be able to remove to them from cookie pan.
This dough is very easy to work with too! I always double it because I like the thicker cookies.
Decorating Cookies
Make frosting with powdered sugar, butter, and milk. Divide frosting into five separate bowls and add a drop of red (this will make pink colored frosting), blue, green, and yellow food coloring to each. Mix and frost cookies. Add enough food coloring to the last bowl of frosting to make the frosting red or use a tube of purchased red decorating gel or frosting. Add the red frosting to a plastic baggie. Push the icing into one corner of the baggie. Snip off the very end point to make an icing bag. Print Valentine’s Day words and sayings onto the cookies.
Cookies
Decorating Glaze
1 (18.25 or 18.5-ounce) package chocolate cake mix
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 13X9-inch baking pan. In large bowl, combine cake mix, oil and egg; beat on medium speed until crumbly. Stir in nuts. Reserve 1 1/2 cup of crumb mixture. Firmly press remaining crumb mixture on bottom of prepared pan.
In small saucepan, over medium heat, combine remaining ingredients. Cook and stir until chips melt. Pour evenly over prepared crust.
Sprinkle reserved crumb mixture evenly over top. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until edges are firm. Cool. Cut into bars. Drizzle with icing (optional). Store loosely covered at room temperature.
3/4 cup unsweetened instant tea
In large saucepan, combine tea, orange peel and spices. Add sweetened condensed milk; mix well.
Over medium heat, slowly stir in water. Heat thoroughly but do not boil. Store leftovers in refrigerator.
Makes 2 quarts.
Tip - May be stored in refrigerator up to 5 days. Mix well and reheat before serving.
February is National Wild Bird Feeding Month. As the winter weather continues natural sources of food for birds become scarce. Help out your backyard birds by providing bird seed and water. Jays, chickadees, nuthatches, and many other bird species eat suet during the cold winter months because it contains fat for needed energy. You can buy blocks of suet at your supermarket or birding store or make your own.
The 11th annual Great Backyard Bird Count is February 15-18. Join thousands of North American nature enthusiasts by participating. The information you gather in as little as 15 minutes will help support and protect wild bird populations and their habitats. Find tools to help with identification and details on how to participate at www.birdcount.org.
Visit my birdwatching blog California Birdwatching for pictures of my backyard friends.
Top 25 bird lists by state and region for the 2005-2006 season are now online.
Map of FeederWatch Count Sites
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DID YOU KNOW THAT WATKINS:
Dont let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway. We might just as well put that
passing time to the best possible use. - Earl Nightingale
If anything in this newsletter has added a little spice to your life tell me about it. If you have any other helpful hints for using spices and herbs, share them with our
readers. Email me at: eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com
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Hope to see you next month!
Watkinize Your Life
Copyright 2002-2007
The statements made and opinions expressed in this newsletter are those of the Independent Watkins Associate who is the publisher of this document, and are not
to be construed as the statements or opinions of Watkins Incorporated. Sponsoring or selling Watkins products outside U.S.,U.S.Territories and Canada is strictly
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Lilly from Pennsylvania is January's newsletter contest winner. She wins a bottle of 
Cheesy Artichoke-Crab Dip
Italian Beef
Chicken Scaloppine Marsala
Conversation Cupcakes
Conversation Heart Cookies
Cinnamon Football Cookies
Touchdown Chocolate Fantasy Bars
Creamy Spiced Tea
If you are bored and have some extra time on your hands how about making an edible snowman for your backyard birds. The birds will find these edible snowmen delicious. They’re made of Cheerios, popcorn, cracked corn, birdseed, suet, dried cranberries, peanut butter and baby carrots.
