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Cooking show teaches user-friendly recipes
Published 3/19/2010 in Local News
By MONICA SPRINGER
Spring means warmer weather, and warmer weather brings with it family functions and parties.
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Brad Nading/Telegram Danielle Edmonds, a Taste of Home culinary specialist, talks about using bell peppers in a recipe Thursday night while conducting a cooking school in the Finney County Fairgrounds Exhibition Building.
And the Taste of Home Cooking Show wants people to feel comfortable feeding family and friends during those parties and functions.
The cooking show stopped in Garden City on Thursday night, where Danielle Edmonds, a home economist, stirred up 10 recipes and answered questions from the crowd.
She also shared cooking tips with the audience of about 450 people.
Edmonds made the following recipes: asparagus tomato salad; zesty penne, sausage and peppers; Jimmy Dean maple breakfast casserole; orange chocolate tart; fresh mushroom clafouti; Gram's chicken pot pie; freezer berry jam; angel hair with chicken and artichokes; romaine caesar salad and sour cream blueberry muffins.
Carrie France and Kinlee Roth, Garden City residents who attended the Taste of Home Show for the first time this year, said they liked the show and planned to come back in the future for more shows.
"It made me hungry," Roth said.
Some tips Edmonds shared included only place pasta in water that's boiling, and then add salt to the boiling water. When cutting blocks of cheese, such as Velveeta, spray the knife blade with non-stick spray first for easier cutting.
France and Roth especially liked one tip that Edmonds shared. To keep a magazine or a recipe clean, stick it in a clear plastic bag, like a Zip Loc bag, then seal the bag and the ingredients will never stain the recipe.
The two women said they liked the Taste of Home recipes featured in the show, as well as in the magazines and cookbooks, because they feature easy-to-find items that they can find in local grocery stores.
France said she was impressed with the variety of recipes made on Thursday night and said she planned to try the sour cream blueberry muffins.
The event was sponsored by The Garden City Telegram.
Taste of Home does about 40 cooking schools a year, and Garden City has hosted shows in the past. Edmonds said that this spring, she will do 40 cooking schools in the midwest.
She went to Marysville earlier this week and will travel to Salina next week, she said.
Edmonds said Taste of Home does the live cooking shows to bring the brand into different communities and have everyone experience the brand.
All of the recipes are from the magazine's subscribers, she said.
"All of the ingredients are ingredients that you can find in your pantry. You don't have to go to a specialty store. I think that's why people love Taste of Home so much. It's very user friendly," Edmonds said.
Her favorite recipe from the cooking show was the asparagus tomato salad, a salad that also includes zucchini, green onions, parsley, and a dressing made of red wine vinegar, mustard, olive oil and garlic.
"I really like it because it's fresh and I'm a big fan of asparagus," Edmonds said.
Another Garden City resident that attended the show, Julie Wagner, said she also liked the asparagus tomato salad and said she planned to try it at home, along with the blueberry muffins.
She attended the cooking show with a handful of friends and said she learned several things, including to store fresh basil in water at room temperature, one of many tips Edmonds provided.
"The recipes look good," she said.
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