On Being a Farm Wife (and other hazard Joyce Bupp Imagine that. A food marketing analysis that recently landed on the reading stack reports a fascinating new wave of home entertainment. Cooking. From scratch. I pon dered that while standing at the kitchen sink, peeling potatoes, chopping onions and celery for a family-sized kettle of homemade chicken corn soup. From scratch. But this trend isn’t about con cocting a kettle of soup. It’s about having guests hang out with you while you fix the food, sipping on beverages and munch ing on tidbits that they chow down as quickly as they are ready to eat. Gee, we’ve been doing that for years, and calling them “doggie roasts.” They’re generally held ‘* ’ bedroom' ‘ ■ ; ORGANIZER fit • Mr ENTERTAINMENT I nr center I ■ ; 529995 CLOSEOUT I L ’ CMh PHce _. 5 89 95 Reg. Ret. $2100.00 Cash Price $849.95 CLOSEOUT >' ” EHDTABLE SET •. J 3 Pack 1 (f * i ft Reg. Ret. $239.95 ! 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Electrified, with a temperature control, they can hold a hot cooking oil into which everyone sociably hanging around dipping pieces of meat, seafood, potato, veggie, for the few brief moments it takes to cook them, then promptly munching them. Lacking a specific fondue cooking pot, one could probably improvise. A little creativity with a deep-fryer, or even a crockpot, probably would have possibilities, depending on the cooking or sauce base ingredient. Little folks in our extended family would no doubt consider such a dipping-dunking-eating event a “fiin-do.” But, safer for little hands than something with hot oil would be a classic cheese dipping sauce that would be per fect during this annual observ ance of June Dairy Month. What I’ve always considered traditional fondue features cheese as the base of the hot dipping sauce, eaten by skewering a chunck of sturdy, chewy bread on the end of a long fork. With a pretty little plate handy to catch any drips, of course, between ket tle and consumption. -» UNDER WHOLESALE Blue & Burgundy ] Reg. Ret. $2300.00 Cash Price A bunch of people hanging around a cooking pot, battling each other over an area in which to eat with long, sharp forks has the potential for a fun and inti mate social gathering. We won’t even talk about “food fight” po tential, if kids are involved. Extending the “fun-do” could be chocolate sauce for dippin’ dessert. Working on the same principle, a good chocolate is melted over a low heat setting in Why Do Farmers Use All The Water? NORCROSS, Ga. It seems like there is rarely enough water in the Western U.S. to meet ev erybody’s needs. Especially after several years of prolonged drought in many areas, tempers get short when there is insuffi cient water to go around. A common cry from the urban areas is that agriculture uses more than its fair share of water. Some estimates have been made that more than 80 percent of de veloped water is going to agricul ture in many areas. Attention has been drawn to the fact that agri culture loses too much water through cracks, seepage, and evaporation from the miles of ca nals and pipelines. These losses should be addressed when financ ing is available. What is not well understood is the huge amount of water that is indirectly delivered to cities in the form of food. A report by the Water Education Foundation documented the amount of water required to produce various foods in the Western U.S. Their basic approach was to divide average evapotranspiration by average yields to determine the gallons of water per pound of food pro duced. Since some of the water delivered to a farm is unavoid ably lost as deep percolation, run off, or soil moisture storage, the irrigation efficiency was assumed to be 70 percent. Using a typical 2,300-calorie menu proposed by the U.S. De partment of Agriculture, the fol lowing meal was constructed. The gallons of water required to produce that particular food item are shown. Do farmers use a lot of water? Yes ... and we all benefit tremen- Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 7, 2003-B5 the fondue pot or similar appli ance. Dessert dippers might be chunks of pound or angel-food cake, cherries, strawberries, ba nana, maybe even well-drained pineapple. One thing for sure. From scratch cooking of the “fun-do” sort could save on the dishwash ing and cleanup. And table-set ting chores. What better reason could there be to jump on the cooking-as-en tertainment bandwagon? dously from their productivity. The water may not come from our faucets, but instead it comes to us in every bite we take. Proper plant nutrition is a vital key to achieving efficient use of water. Nitrogen deficiencies have an impact on the ability of a crop to convert available water into yield. Phosphorus is important in stimulating seedling root devel opment. This helps the plant ex plore more soil, increasing the re covery of nutrients and water. Potassium is often referred to as the regulator nutrient, influ encing the water dynamics in plants. Nutrients play an essen tial role in allowing plants to con vert water and sunshine into food. Breakfast I medium orange 2 eggs 2 slices toast 2 pais butler I cup milk 1/4 cantaloupe I unch Taco Salad (Tomato lettuce hamburger chips and cheese) 1/4 cantaloupe Snack 1/4 cup almonds I cup yogurt I cup orange juice Dinner Chicken broccoli stir Iry IKO 1 cup rice 2 slices bread 2 pals butter bruit cup I cup milk TOTAL: 1,912 gallons pur da> Water/Oallons Total T 42 Total K 46 Total 297 Total 427
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