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AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE
Welcome to this issue.
The Spice For This Issue
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Happy New Year! Welcome to another issue of Around the Kitchen Table! I hope 2007 is your best year ever! I'm planning to bring you more delicious recipes and cooking and health tips. Each month I will give away a free Watkins product so enter today. Recipes this issue include Cajun Chicken Fettuccine, Winter Beef Stew, Slow Cooker Sweet and Sour Chicken, Barbecue Ranch Chicken Salad, Chocolate Orange Cheesecake Bars, and Chocolatey Football Bites. Enter this month's contest to win one of our new lotions, Lemon Cream Hand and Body Lotion. If you are interested in starting your own Watkins Home Business get all the details at: Watkins Business Details Build your own home business so you can stay home with your family, 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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ENTER JANUARY'S CONTEST Thanks for reading my newsletter and entering each month. Please don't quit; you might be next month's winner! Now that the fun of the holidays is past, I hope that you will find time to enter the contests. Lilly from Pennsylvania is December's newsletter contest winner. She wins an Aloe and Green Tea Candle in a unique tin designed to keep furniture cool.
Her answer to December's contest, "Does your family open presents Christmas eve or Christmas morning, or do you celebrate other holiday traditions? "Our family opens presents Christmas morning while drinking a cup of eggnog. (We opened presents one year on Christmas eve then Christmas morning was kind of empty so we haven't done it since.) Since it's only the two of us, we actually open presents much of the day taking our time sipping eggnog and coffee. We follow my husband's family tradition for the Christmas eve supper of the Russian Orthodox faith. His includes: potatoes, mushrooms, gravy, rice, sauerkraut, pierogie, peas, prunes, garlic, honey and light a candle. Christmas Day we enjoy a dinner of ham and lasagna with a glass of red wine." Lilly, thanks for sharing your Christmas traditions with us.
I have two goals for 2007 - advance to the next level with Watkins and lose 15 pounds. Name one goal you would like to achieve in 2007 to enter January's contest. Email your answer, name and address to: eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com with "January Contest - Achieve" in the subject line. Make your life the best it can be. Eat nutritious foods, exercise, love, and laugh!
Make your slow cooker preparation even faster - get ingredients ready the night before and place in the slow cooker. Remove inner container and refrigerate until ready to cook the next day. Every time you lift the lid, you lose heat. So, keep the lid on and resist the urge to peek!
Cajun Chicken Fettuccine
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Saute the bell peppers, onions, and garlic in the butter until the vegetables begin to soften slightly. As the vegetables are cooking, cut the chicken breasts into bite- size pieces. Prepare a medium-size pan over high heat with the olive oil. When the pan is hot, add the chicken and cook, stirring, for 5 to 7 minutes or until the chicken shows no pink.(Over cooking will dry out chicken.) Add the chicken to the vegetables in skillet. Mix chicken soup base with one cup boiling water to make chicken broth. Add the tomatoes, mushrooms, chicken broth, 1/4 teaspoon salt, cayenne pepper, paprika, pepper, and thyme and continue to simmer for 10 to 12 minutes until it thickens. In the meantime bring the water to a boil in a large pot. Cook the fettuccine in the boiling water until done. This will take 10 to 12 minutes. When the noodles are done, drain them and add the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter. The butter should melt quickly on the hot noodles. Toss the noodles to mix in the butter. Serve the dish by dividing the noodles in half onto two plates. Divide the chicken and vegetable sauce evenly and spread it over the top of the noodles on each plate. Makes 2 large servings or 4 smaller servings.
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Winter Beef Stew
3/4 cup Italian salad dressing Pour dressing over meat in large resealable plastic bag. Seal bag; turn to evenly coat meat with dressing. Refrigerate 30 min. to marinate. Meanwhile, cook bacon in large saucepan on medium heat 5 minutes or until crisp, stirring occasionally. Remove bacon from saucepan; drain drippings. Add mushrooms and onions to same saucepan; cook on medium-high heat 10 minutes or until tender, stirring occasionally. Mix beef soup base with boiling water. Remove meat from marinade; discard marinade. Add meat, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, beef broth and bacon to saucepan; stir. Bring to boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 1 hour 15 min. Uncover; simmer an additional 15 min. or until meat is cooked through and sauce is thickened, stirring occasionally. Makes 8 1-1/2 cup servings. Add 1/2 tsp. Watkins Thyme with the beef broth for extra flavor.
How to Prepare Stew in Slow Cooker
Slow Cooker Sweet and Sour Chicken
1 medium onion, sliced Place onions, carrots and celery in slow cooker; top with chicken. Add combined brown sugar, dressing, soy sauce and ginger. Cover with lid. Cook on LOW for 7 to 8 hours (or on HIGH for 3-1/2 to 4 hours). During last 30 min. of cooking time, increase to HIGH. Stir cornstarch into reserved pineapple liquid; add to slow cooker along with the pineapple and peppers. Cook 30 min. or until peppers are crisp-tender and sauce is thickened. Serve over rice. Makes 6 servings.
Barbecue Ranch Chicken Salad
1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into strips Cook and stir chicken in barbecue sauce in skillet on medium-high heat until chicken is cooked through. Stir in additional barbecue sauce to moisten, if desired. Toss greens with tomato and onion in large bowl; top with chicken. Add dressing; mix lightly. Sprinkle with cheese. Makes six servings.
Chocolate Orange Cheesecake Bars
1 cup all-purpose flour
Chocolate Orange Filling Beat cream cheese and sugar in medium bowl until fluffy. Add cocoa, milk, egg, vanilla and orange peel; beat until smooth.
Chocolatey Football Bites
6 squares Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate Microwave chocolate, corn syrup and butter in large microwaveable bowl on HIGH 2-1/2 min., stirring after 1-1/2 min. Blend in vanilla. Add cereal; mix well. Cool 10 min. Shape into 18 (3-inch-long) football shapes with lightly moistened hands. Place on large sheet of wax paper; cool completely. Use decorating gel to add "lacings" to "footballs." Let stand until gel is firm. Individually wrap these chocolatey treats in plastic wrap and bring to your next tailgate party.
How to Make a Brushpile
To start a brushpile, pick a spot in the yard a distance from your house but still visible, so you can observe the pile's inhabitants. The finished size will depend on the amount of room you have. A good rule of thumb is to make the pile about twice as wide as it is tall. To start your brushpile, place four logs or thick branches about 6 feet long in a square. On top of these, place five or six thinner limbs, propping them against each other to form an inverted cone, or teepee shape. The leafy ends of the branches should be toward the ground. Place smaller branches, again with the leafy ends down, against the uprights to fill in the spaces. This allows roosting birds access but keeps out nighttime predators such as raccoons foxes, and cats. The pile can be a great winter hideout for rabbits, too, if you keep two of the corners of the four bottom logs at least 4 inches apart before adding the branches. Make the brushpile thickest on the side facing the prevailing winds. Add more branches as the pile breaks down over the months and years. As you continue to build, crisscross the sticks to create a honeycomb effect. Brushpiles are one way a backyard wildlifer can attract many animal species. From shelter for wintering mammals to reproductive cover for low-nesting birds, or even as a spot for hibernating butterflies, the brushpile is a great attraction that uses plant material that would otherwise be put out on the curb for trash.
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The prize for January's newsletter contest is a bottle of one of our new lotions, Lemon Cream Hand and Body Lotion, an ultra-rich, nourishing lotion containing soothing aloe vera gel, panthenol (vitamin B5) and vitamin E, and moisturizing botanicals. Light, non-greasy formula; refreshing lemon fragrance.
Keep a bottle of Watkins Aloe and Green Tea Antibacterial Liquid Hand Soap in the kitchen and bathroom. It keeps skin soft with naturally-derived moisturizers, soothing aloe vera gel and a special botanical blend.
Take Watkins Rezist Plus to enhance the body's natural defenses against colds and the flu. It is more effective than echinacea in boosting the immune system. It also aids in reduction of allery symptoms.
High on the list of important microhabitats you can create for wildlife in your backyard is the brushpile. Do not confuse the brushpile with your compost pile; make sure the brushpile is made with only branches, sticks, and twigs. No lawn clippings, leaves, or compost should be used, because they will compact and block off the many entrances and exits that make a brushpile the great hideout that it is.
