AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE
Watkins Newsletter
Editor: Eleisia Whitney
Email: eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com
Website: http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
Make Your House a Watkins Home
May 15, 2008
Volume 7, Issue 81
All Rights Reserved
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Welcome to this issue.
Pour yourself a cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate and pull up a chair.
Get ready to spice up your life!
The Spice For This Issue
Editor's Comments
May Specials
Contest
Cooking Tip
Recipes - Cowboy Burgers, Slow Cooker Baked Beans, Strawberry Cupcakes, Pear and Cherry Crisp.
Bird Watching
Customer Rewards
Shipping Rates
Join Our Team
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If you would like to receive a Watkins catalog and product sample, send me an email with catalog and sample in the subject line. Send to:
eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com
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EDITORS COMMENTS
Welcome to another issue of Around the Kitchen Table!
We celebrate Memorial Day May 26 this year. Use Watkins gourmet ingredients to create delicious, unforgettable meals and snacks for your guests!
The recipes this issue include Cowboy Burgers, Slow Cooker Baked Beans, Strawberry Cupcakes, Pear and Cherry Crisp.
If you try one of the recipes found in this issue please send me an email to tell me how it turned out and if you would make the recipe again. I'll include your comments in the next issue.
Each month you could be chosen to receive a free full-sized product so enter the contest. You might be the winner!
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Build your own home-based 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.
I love to hear from you. Any suggestions to make this newsletter more informative and helpful are appreciated.
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Until next issue,

eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com
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ENTER MAY CONTEST
Thanks for reading my newsletter and entering each month. Please don't quit; you might be next month's winner!
Lori from California is the winner of April's newsletter contest. She wins a Treat Your Feet Gift Kit, for an in-home foot spa. Comes with a bonus pumice stone stick and reusable vinyl bag.
Includes
Peppermint Shea Butter Foot Repair Moisturizer
Peppermint Gentle Exfoliating Foot Scrub
Peppermint Refreshing Foot Spray
Natural Pumice Stone
The winner of May's newsletter contest will receive a Hand Repair Gift Set. Beautify your hands with Watkins! Gently scrub hands and nails with the nailbrush and pat dry. Then apply either Watkins Aloe and Green Tea Hand and Body Lotion or Lemon Cream Hand and Body Lotion.
Includes
Aloe and Green Tea Hand and Body Lotion (8.3 fl. oz./250 mL)
Lemon Cream Hand and Body Lotion (8.3 fl.oz./250 mL)
Lemon Cream Shea Butter (8.6 oz./250 g)
Nail Brush with J.R. Watkins Logo
Cotton Gloves
To enter May's contest answer this question. "Do you buy organic products such as eggs, fruits, and vegetables. Email your answer with your name and address to eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com with "May Contest - Organic" in the subject line.
Make your life the best it can be. Eat nutritious foods, exercise, love, and laugh!
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COOKING TIP
What is London Broil?
London Broil is the name of a recipe or method of cooking; it is not the name of a cut of beef. The recipe first appeared in print in the U.S. in the early 1930's, and consisted of marinated flank steak, broiled or grilled and sliced thinly across the grain. Top round steak and chuck shoulder can also be used.
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RECIPES
Cowboy Burgers
2 tablespoons Watkins Grapeseed Oil
3 onions, thinly sliced, separated into rings
8 hamburger patties (1/4 lb. each)
3 tablespoons Watkins Steak Sauce
2 tomatoes, sliced
8 hamburger buns, partially split
8 American cheese singles
Preheat grill to medium heat. Meanwhile, heat oil in large nonstick skillet on medium-high heat. Add onions; cook 5 min., stirring frequently. Cover with lid. Simmer 20 min. or until onions are golden brown, stirring frequently.
Meanwhile, grill patties 5 minutes on each side or until medium doneness (160 degrees F). Stir steak sauce into onion mixture.
Place 1 tomato slice and burger on bottom half of each bun; cover with 1 slice of cheese, 3 tablespoons of the onion mixture and top of bun.
Slow Cooker Baked Beans
3 cans (15-16.5 oz. each) pinto beans, baked beans, or pork and beans
1/3 cup Watkins Original Barbecue Sauce Concentrate
2/3 cup ketchup
1 small onion, chopped
1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
2 slices bacon, chopped
Place all ingredients in slow cooker; mix well. Cover with lid.
CooK on LOW for 4 to 6 hours or on HIGH for 3 hours.
Strawberry Cupcakes
Cupcakes
1-1/2 cups chopped strawberries (about 1-pint basket)
1/4 cup granulated sugar plus 1 cup
1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
2 cups cake flour (not self-rising)
1 teaspoon Watkins Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature
3 eggs
1 teaspoon Watkins Vanilla
3/4 cup buttermilk
Frosting
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, at room temperature
1-3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1/4 teaspoon Watkins Vanilla
Garnish
9 strawberries, halved or quartered
1/4 cup strawberry jelly, melted
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 18 standard-size muffin cups with paper liners.
- Cupcakes Mix chopped strawberries, 1/4 cup granulated sugar and lemon rind in medium-size saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, 8 to 10 minutes or until sugar is dissolved and mixture is thickened. Spoon into small bowl; let cool completely, about 1 hour.
- Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl.
- Beat together butter and remaining 1 cup granulated sugar in medium-size bowl until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each. Beat in vanilla.
- On low speed, beat flour mixture into butter mixture in 3 additions, alternating with buttermilk, and ending with flour. Swirl in cooled strawberry mixture to create a marble pattern. Divide batter equally among prepared muffin cups.
- Bake in 350 degrees F. oven for 18 to 20 minutes or until cupcakes spring back when gently touched. Let cool in cups on wire rack for 5 to 10 minutes. Unmold cupcakes onto rack to cool completely.
- Frosting Beat together butter, confectioners' sugar, milk and vanilla in medium-size bowl until smooth, about 3 minutes. Cover bowl with plastic wrap.
- Garnish Place cut strawberries on large plate. Liberally brush melted jelly over each piece. Set aside.
- Frost tops of cupcakes. Top each with glazed strawberry piece(s).
Pear and Cherry Crisp
This recipe is a good way to "sneak" heart-healthy whole grains and nuts into the diet via an irresistible dessert.
For the fruit
Watkins Cooking Spray
Juice of one lemon
5-6 fresh pears, the riper the better
1 cup dried cherries
Zest of one lemon
1/2 cup pear juice (may substitute apple juice)
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon Watkins Almond Extract
1 teaspoon Watkins Vanilla Extract
1/2 teaspoon Watkins Ground Cinnamon
1 tablespoon flour
For the topping
1 cup organic vanilla granola
3 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sliced almonds
1/2 teaspoon Watkins Gound Cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon Watkins Ground Allspice
1/4 cup trans fat free margarine spread or butter
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly spray a 9-inch baking dish with cooking spray. Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil and set aside.
Fill a large bowl halfway with cold water and the juice of one lemon. Cut the stems off the pears and peel them, placing each one in the lemon water. Then, half, core and seed the pears and cut them into inch-thick lengthwise slices or chunks, returning each sliced pear to the lemon water until the job is completed.
Drain the cut pears in a colander and return them to the mixing bowl. Add the cherries, lemon zest, pear or apple juice, honey, flavorings, spices, and one tablespoon of flour to the fruit and stir to mix everything well. Let the fruit stand or macerate for fifteen minutes; then, place it in the prepared baking dish.
Make the topping. Place the granola, flour, brown sugar, almonds, and spices in a large mixing bowl and toss them together lightly.
Add the margarine spread and use your hands to work the spread into the dry ingredients until blended but crumbly. Or cut butter into small pieces and work into dry ingredients.
Spread the topping over the pears. Place the dish on the foil-lined baking sheet and bake the crisp for 30-35 minutes, until the top is golden brown and the juices are bubbling and translucent. Serve warm.
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BIRD WATCHING
If you've been a subscriber for a while you may remember that last year we had three families of doves in the nest near our front door. The nest is protected from wind, sun, and rain and the birds love it! This year the housefinches decided to make the nest their home. They've added other plant material to make it nice and cozy.
Visit Project FeederWatch for more information and to find out how you can become a citizen scientist and count the birds you your own backyard!
Find out more about this year's Backyard Bird Count 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.
View lists of the most common feeder birds in each state or province.
Map of FeederWatch Count Sites
rightbird.com for information about familiar and unfamiliar birds. Instantly see illustrations of birds that match the attributes you select. The more characteristics you know, the narrower the search is for the "right bird." Includes audible bird call samples.
Project FeederWatch
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The Watkins Company is beginning its 140th year of providing outstanding products that people use every day. What other company has such a history of
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DID YOU KNOW THAT WATKINS:
- Offered the first known money-back guarantee?
- Had two leaders presented in Success Magazines We Create Millionaires article on MLM?
- Is 140 years old?
- Was rated as one of 5 Hot Home Based Companies in Executive Female Magazine?
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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
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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
If you would like to receive a Watkins Monthly Highlights catalog, our Watkins Mainline catalog, and a FREE sample please send your request to
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Thank you once again for your continued support and for remaining a valued subscriber to Around the Kitchen Table - Watkins Newsletter!
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When your family gives thanks remember to include a prayer for the men and women standing guard to keep us all safe and free.
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"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." - Henry Ford
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*** Integrity Since 1868 ***
140 years of experience and integrity goes into each one of our products.
J.R. Watkins started a lasting tradition when he introduced the world's first money-back guarantee, which we still honor on every product we sell.
Hope to see you next month!
Eleisia Whitney
Independent Watkins Associate, ID# 335001
23 Oak Ridge Lane
Danville, CA 94506
Watkinize Your Life
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Around the Kitchen Table
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