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Ring In The New Year
With These Tasty Tidbits
Entertaining is defined as pleas
ing, amusing, diverting, and inter
esting. No where do we see the
words tension, anxiety, starched
linens, polished silver, or elaborate
menus ascribed to its meaning.
Here are fun foods to prepare,
many that can be made ahead of
time. Whether you’re hosting an
intimate gathering or an all-out
bash for a crowd, the basics of
entertaining are the same:
• Make a detailed list.
• Plan the menu
• Keep it simple.
• Gather the serving pieces
ahead of time. Feel free to use pap
er products. Or mix and match
plates, flatware, and stemware. As
long as the pieces complement
each other, blending is in the “in”
thing to do.
* Keep the lights low so you
don’t have to dust
Anything goes when it comes to
entertaining in the ’9os. So relax,
be casual, and let the fun begin.
New Year Brings Reflection, Anticipation For Bashores
LOU ANN GOOD The year 1997 is coining to a close
Lancaster Farming Staff and 1998 lies ahead. For the
LEBANON (Lebanon Co.) Bashores and most other families.
The end of the year, the beginning of the new, brings a
time of reflection for Rlckl and Roberta Bashore and their
children. After surviving surgery for a brain tumor, Roberta
said, “We have learned to appreciate life more, to live one
day at a time, to enjoy each day for what’s Its worth.’’
SMOKED SALMON
AND HERB CHEESE
NAPOLEON SLICES
2 packages frozen puff pastry,
thawed
1 egg, lightly mixed with 1
tablespoon water
3 ounces craam cheese, softened
H cup shredded muenster
cheese
V* cup shredded harvarti cheese
2 tablespoons milk
2 teaspoons mustard
'A large cucumber, peeled, thin
ly sliced
2 tablespoons fresh dill,
chopped
14 cup thinly sliced red onion
8-10 ounces thinly sliced
smoked salmon or lox
Fresh dill sprigs (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Thaw frozen puff pastry, if neces
sary. On a lightly floured board,
roll one sheet of the pastry into a
rectangle approximately
12x1 S-inches. Cut rectangle cross
wise into 3 strips making three
12x5-inch pieces. Place rectangles
on a lightly floured baking sheet
Pierce three pastry rectangles with
a fork at 1-inch intervals. Brush
tops with beaten egg, without drip
ping egg down pastry sides. Bake
for 5 minutes, repierce any puffed
areas. Bake an additional 10 to 12
minutes or until golden brown.
Rotate if necessary to ensure even
browning. Remove from oven and
cool. If stored overnight, cover
with foil at room temperature. In a
medium-size bowl, mix cheeses
together on medium speed with an
electric mixer. Add milk until mix
hire is of spreadable consistency.
Trim pastry to even edges if neces
sary. Place on pastry rectangle on a
platter and spread with a thin layer
of mustard. Spread with 'A cup
cheese mixture and top with half of
cucumbers, overlapping slightly.
Add half of the diU, onions, and
salmon. Place second pastry
rectangle on top and spread with
'A cup cheese. Repeat layering
with remaining cucumber, dill,
onion, and salmon. Spread under
side of third pastry rectangle with
remaining cheese and place on top
of Napoleon, cheese side down.
Garnish with fresh dill. Cut into 10
1-inch slices. Makes 1 Napoleon,
serves 10.
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it’s a time for reflection and a time Since then son Ricki Jr.’s wife her other ear.
of anticipation. took over Roberta’s milking “I appreciate life more—
Ricld and Roberta Bashore are chores. especially the grandchildren. I live
counting their blessings, remem- “Now I get to babysit my grand- one day at a time and enjoy each
bering what could have been, "if son.” Roberta said. Make that and day for what it’s worth,” she said.
they hadn't found the brain tumor granddaughter. Last week Ricki Jr. Andrea said that the diagnosis of
so quickly.... If they hadn’t oper- and Stacy had a baby daughter, her mother’s brain tumor changed
ated. If she hadn’t gone to the doc- The saga of Roberta’s brain her perspective on everything.
lor to find out why she couldn’t tumor actually began in September jj ct Q f “She
hear out of one ear. If they had Us- 1996. Because she had lost hearing has the softest heart in the family.
tened to the first diagnosis... If they in one ear, her husband encour- Ifs changed us all. I’m not into as
hadn’t operated. If medical tech- aged her to go to the doctor. She much n, s hing as before. I don’t go
nology hadn’t been able to patch had no other symptoms. for ashing through milking,
her skull with a steel plate. ... A magnetic resonance image taking a quick shower, and driving
But all these “ifs” were climi- (MRI) revealed a brain tumor. The fastas Icansol won ’ t be late for
nated and the outcome is optimis- news was devastating to the fami- a meet ing. Now I work slower. I
tic because the Bashores believe in ly. “I had grown up with only one stay home more and just enjoy the
Roberta’s adage: “pray a lot and grandmother, my kids had grown family.”
believe in miracles.” up with only one grandmother who hi a way> an( j Roberta
That belief was established nine died recently, and I thought my came out with opposite ideas on
years when daughter Melissa was grandson was going to grow up w hat it means to enjoy life to the
bom after doctors had told the with only one grandmother. I fullest While Ricki desires to stay
Bashores she could never have bawled for three days,” she said, home and savor ?ar h moment, his
another baby. Andrea, then 8, But life had to gone on. Two w ife is so delighted to be alive that
prayed fervantly for a baby sister, days after the diagnosis, she was in she wants to do everything and go
and was rewarded with a baby sis- charge of the closing program for everywhere,
ter bom on her birthday—Dec. 22. Bible school. The kids w etc show- “She’s in enough of stuff for us
The Bashores live on a 150-acre ing cattle at the county fair and she, both,” Ricki said of his reason for
farm, most eye-catching for the red as a 4-H leader, was to set up a dropping membership in several
painted message etched on the side booth at the fairgrounds. foro, organizations,
of their white bam; “Drink Milk” Despite the family doctor’s j n a44 i t i nn to serving as dairy
and the real seal. belief that it was a slow-growing promotion chairperson, Roberta is
With 100 cows to milk, Rober- tumor and non cancerous, the fam- a 4 . H ghe is president of
ta’s place had been firmly ily insisted on a second opinion. Lebanon Farm Women Group 20.
entrenched in the bam along with A Hershey neurosugeon recom- has a dream and a verbal
her husband Ricki and kids Ricki mended immediate surgery. It’s a commitment from her husband—
Jr., Jennifer. Andrea, and Melissa, good thing he did. When they to open a craft shop in the summer
until operated, the tumor had already house on their farm. She sews
“After they put a metal plate in penetrated the skull, and that is the extensively and enjoys numerous
my head, they warned me not to reason a steel plate needed to be of cra ft making,
get hit in the head,” said Roberta, inserted to replace the section of More pressing at this time of the
who had been kicked and bumped the skull that was removed. year is the upcoming Pennsylvania
in the head numerous times while Today, Roberta has no side Farm Show. It’s the time when
milking cows. effects from the tumor. Ironically, daughter Andrea will receive the
The family decided milking the hearing loss for which she first pFA Keystone Degree. (Andrea
cows wasn’t a safe place for her to sought medical treatment is not other Keystone red
be, especially after she touched a | considered to have any connection j w m be profiled in Section 1
frayed wire and the electrical cur-1 to the brain tumor. Roberta still ] o f the Jan. 9 issue of Lancaster
rents defined the exact spot where i cannot hear in that ear and believes 1 Forming).
the steel plate was in her head.' that her hearing is deteriorating in ' p. um to page Bl2 >
Smoked Salmon and Herb Cheese Napoleon Slices are
mamma well worth the extra time required to make this spectacular
dish for a New Year’s buffet.