Butternut Squash Fettuccine

I just love autumn. I love the fall colors in all their splendor. I love the harvest. I have the most wonderful memories of harvesting fruits and vegetables with my family from our large garden when I was growing up. Our kitchen was a canning extravaganza. My mother was always covered in either raspberries or tomatoes. I think the amount of corn I’ve shucked in my lifetime is higher than I can count. Those were the days when parents had uninterrupted time to actually talk to their children. What else can you do when shucking corn? The smell of corn silk still evokes pleasant memories that make me smile.

I served this fettuccine to my finicky eaters last week. They absolutely LOVED it. They didn’t even realize they were eating their vegetables! I omitted the garlic due to sensitive tummies. It was just as superb.

BUTTERNUT SQUASH FETTUCCINE
Ingredients:
•1 Tablespoon minced garlic • 1 Tablespoon salt • 1 Tsp black pepper • 1 Tsp dill seed • 1 2-pound butternut squash, peeled and diced • 1 C real butter • 5 cubes chicken bouillon dissolved in 3 Cups of water or 2 14 oz cans chicken broth • 2 C heavy whipping cream • 1 tsp ground cloves • 1 tsp ground allspice • 1 tsp ground nutmeg • 1 lb your favorite dry fettuccine pasta, cooked according to package directions • Parmesan Cheese

Method:
Melt butter in large saucepan over medium heat. Stir in garlic, salt, pepper and dill seed. Add butternut squash and stir. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for about 15 minutes, until squash is very tender. Pour squash mixture into blender and blend until puréed. Pour sauce back into saucepan. Add chicken broth, heavy cream, ground cloves, allspice and nutmeg. Stir and simmer to blend spices. If you desire consistency to be thicker, thoroughly mix 3 Tbps flour with 3 Tbps water, stir into sauce. Let lightly boil for 2-3 minutes until thickened to desired consistency. Serve just like spaghetti sauce over your favorite pasta. Sprinkle parmesan cheese over the top. Enjoy! Serves 4-6

Sue Hardy

Words That Make Me Smile

What makes me smile? Short quotes that make me better.

Here are a few.

"No one has ever become poor by giving" Anne Frank

"Within your heart keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go, and sheltered so, may thrive and grow - where doubt and fear are not. Oh, keep a place within your heart, for little dreams to go." Louise Driscoll

"When you help someone up a hill you get that much closer to the top yourself" Unknown

"To be happy: Don't do whatever you like - Like whatever you do!" Unknown

"A teacher affects eternity; she can never know where her influence stops." Henry Brooks Adams

Carrie Lamprecht

Whole Wheat Pancakes

I have a really simple, filling, and healthy pancake recipe. My husband and I started a little Sunday tradition in our home where we make breakfast for dinner. With the whole wheat, it really fills you up fast!

WHOLE WHEAT PANCAKES
1 1/4 Cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2-3 egg whites
3 Tbsp applesauce (or a large mashed banana)
1 tsp Vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg or cloves
1 1/2 tbsp crushed pecans (or whatever nut you may like)
Mix ingredients and pour on to griddle in pancake sized puddles. Top with whatever makes you happy.

My favorite toppings include: fruit flavored yogurt, peanut butter and powdered sugar, Maple syrup, fresh fruit, applesauce

In any case, I hope you enjoy!

Aly Larsen

General Relief Society Meeting - Broadcast Link

If you were unable to attend the General Relief Society meeting on September 26, 2009, or you would like to listen to any of the wonderful talks again, below is a link to the Church website new video stream media player. This wonderful tool ("Move") allows you to play any church broadcast, pause it when you need to, and resume watching it at your convenience. There are instructions on the Church's website to help you install any software that your computer may need.


http://www.lds.org/broadcast/grsm/0,6220,285-1-41-1741,00.html

If you have additional questions, please refer to www.lds.org.

Welcome Summer & Abbie

Summer Pendleton and Abbie Ludlow are two good friends who recently moved into our ward. Summer and Todd Pendleton AND Abbie and James Ludlow were married this summer. Both couples live in Lee Way Circle.

Summer and Abbie met last summer while working and living in Maui, Hawaii while doing an internship. The two have been friends ever since.

Summer grew up in Wyoming and graduated with a B.S. in exercise science from BYU. Summer loves boating, snow skiing, and BYU football. She also is a member of "the Muss" (the U of U student cheering section - because her husband is a student at the University of Utah).

Abbie grew up in Salt Lake City and graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Human Development. She too loves to snow ski and enjoys playing and watching tennis, which is good because her husband is a professional tennis player. James graduated from BYU.

I wonder if they wear red or blue when the U of U plays BYU...

We are thrilled to have Abbie and Summer in our ward! If you have not met them, please go and introduce yourself.

Commercial interruptions :0)

Relief Society was wonderfully interrupted for a commercial message from our priesthood barbershop quintet today. They reminded us to "smile!" and we LOVED it!! Thanks guys.

Joy of a Good Book

I love to read. I have wonderful memories of spending time in the old Sam Weller bookstore downtown just browsing at books with my father. I love the way a book feels in my hands. When I was little, there was a time that my parents could not figure out why I was always tired. They tried all sorts of things like changing my diet, to more exercise, to an earlier bed time. My sleep did not improve much until my mother took away my beloved flashlight and book, carefully hidden under the covers of my bed. That was a sad day.

I am blessed to have found a companion who shares my passion for reading. We are able to rate vacations by the number of books finished on a trip. (“It was a 2 book trip.”) Today it is not uncommon to find either of us tucked away with a book. One of my hopes is to instill this love of reading in my children. Several of my children have already become amazing readers. This makes this mom’s heart go pitter-pat!

I would like to share some of my/our favorite books of all time. I asked my oldest children to help me compile this list. It flowed onto the paper. We didn’t intend it to be so long. For this I apologize. We thought the list was complete, but when my daughter returned from the bookcase with a stack of must-include books, I could not resist. The “I LOVE that book... or that one makes me cry EVERY time!” or a “that one is THE BEST!” are truly what make some of these books special. We have read all of these books. I recommend them as great reads for adults as well as kids. As a parent, I try to preview most of my kids’ books. For the few I have not read, my older kids recommend them wholeheartedly. I am a happy mom.

(p.s. Another child has just wandered in, and is now thumbing through the stack…he can’t help himself but to open them, touch them, and say their names aloud, and comment on them. I smile. It's a start for him. I pray he'll learn to love to read!)

Children/Young Adult:
The Outsiders by SE Hinton
Holes by Louis Sachar
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Stargirl / Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
Inkheart (series) Cornelia Funke
Fablehaven (series) Brandon Mull
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Hatchet / Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen
The Chronicles of Narnia (series) by CS Lewis
Anne of Green Gables (series) By LM Montgomery
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
PrincessAcademy (series) By Shannon Hale
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Uglies / Pretties / Specials by Scott Westerfield
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
City of Ember (series) by Jeanne Du Prau
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Gregor the Overlander by Nancy Pearl
Pendragon (series) by D. J. MacHale
Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
39 Clues by Patrick Carman
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Amber Brown (series) by Paula Danziger (younger girls)
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Judy Moody (series) by Megan McDonald (younger girls)
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lord of the Flies / The Princess Bride by William Golding
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Diary of Wimpy Kid (series) by Jeff Kinney (younger boys)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Matilda by Roald Dahl
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Goose Girl By Shannon Hale
Series of Unfortunate Events (all of them) by Lemony Snickett
Stephanie Pugsley

Communicating Matters

Have you ever shared your heart only to find that no one seemed to care? Bloggers are great risk takers. The same is true of people who share their innermost feelings in E-mails. It is not easy to expose fears and weaknesses, but we do it anyway.

I remember in junior high school, trying for the first time to really communicate what I thought and felt. I would turn in an English paper or poem and wait in fear until it was graded and returned. It was such a relief to have it back in my possession.

We don't get to take back blogs or E-mails and keep them safe. They remain hanging out in the open, flapping in the breeze, being looked at, being criticized, being ignored more likely. But the one who put it out doesn't forget. We continue to look for feedback, to wonder if anyone cares.
It is easier to just read what others write and even to respond compassionately within ourselves, but if we don't comment or writeback, the writer doesn't know. I remember being reminded by my sons that it took courage for their wives to share their lives with me inE-mails and that they needed to know what I thought about what they had written. I am grateful for those reminders and have tried to bemore faithful in responding. I am sure I have at times under responded or missed giving feedback entirely. I'm sorry. Forgive me.

Responding to blogs is more optional because they aren't specifically addressed. But comments do make a difference to bloggers. I want to commend those of you who regularly and naturally "let your lightshine" and also those who "reflect the light of others," suns and moons both.
To all of us, I submit a reminder that it might be a good thing to go through our Emails and look for ones that are hanging out all by themselves waiting for a response.

Jane Babcock

What makes YOU smile?

We want to know what makes you SMILE? :-)

Please share your stories, happy thoughts, photographs, or even that sweet little nothing that simply made your day.

We hope you'll share them in the "comments" below.

Health

The following is a suggested two-week supply list that we can have on hand in preparation for a flu outbreak. For this and more information go to www.cdc.gov/h1n1 or www.flu.gov.

* Over-the-counter medicines
* Alcohol-based hand cleaners
* Tissues
* Prescription medications that are taken regularly
* Canned soups, hydration fluids, etc.
* Facemasks (for use by the sick person if able when around other people)

Take care.

recipe

When I was growing up we lived next door to an older widow whom we called
Bessie. Bessie's kitchen window looked out over our yard and she kept track of us. If we were quarrelling in the sand pile, she was out the door to restore order. If we were late getting in from a date, Bessie casually mentioned the time she saw us come in. She scolded us and loved us in the course of any day. But she was a life line for us. If our parents were gone, we always had Bessie. She could apply a bandaid better than anyone around.

Bessie lived a life of routine and order. On Monday we all filled the wash tubs and did the week's laundry. We talked across the fence while we draped sheets over clothes lines and hung socks with clothes pins.
On Tuesday Bessie would come over, wander through the house until she found the ironing basket that mother had tried to hide. She took it home and ironed it all on her mangler.
On another day, she cleaned, another she worked in the garden and every Sunday morning she called for a ride to church. Summer and fall were the best. Day after day she stood over her hot stove canning, peaches, pears, plums, cherries, apricots, beans, beets, peas, carrots, tomatoes, raspberries. But the day she made Green Tomato Relish was our favorite. Because on that day the smell of sweet vinegar and stewing veggies filled the entire neighborhood.
Well, this is a long intro to the recipe for Bessie's Green Tomato Relish. I made some last week and experienced a wave of nostalgia as I filled those little jars and lined them up on my kitchen counter. For just a moment, I wanted to be a little girl again, go home, and let Bessie say, "Landy child, you are growing so fast!" I loved her and I love her relish!



Bessie's Green Tomato Relish

2 qts. ground cukes (not peeled) (about 10 large)
1 qt. ground onions (2 1/2 lbs)
2 qt. ground green tomatoes (10 lg)
9 ground green peppers
3 ground red peppers

(Bessie used a hand grinder, but I use a Cuisinart)

Pour off some liquid after each grinding.

In large pot put ground veggies and add:

3 cups vinegar
6 cups sugar
1 1/2 T mustard seed
1/2 t. green food coloring
2 T salt
1 1/2 T tumeric
1 1/2 t. celery seed

Boil together 20 minutes. (this is when the smell will fill your house and neighborhood of the doors are open). Put hot liquid into jars and put lids and rings on. To secure preservation, store in freezer.

Makes 13 pints

Showering Cassie

My husband got off work just in time for me to go to Cassie's baby shower. I had so much fun. The cupcakes were addictive and the gifts were so cute. I wish I could remember all of the names I learned. I hope whoever made the chocolate desert posts the recipe. Those were Yummy!
Susan Collier

Fragrant Orange Chicken with Scallion Mashed Potatoes

Fragrant Orange Chicken
1 chicken, cut in 10 pieces or 4-5 chicken breasts ($6.50)
zest and juice of 3 oranges ($1.00)
1/4 cups honey
3 Tbsp. soy sauce
2 Tbsp. olive oil
2 tsp. finely minced garlic (.10)
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
salt and black pepper
2 Tbsp cilantro - in season

1. Place the chicken in a large bowl. Combine remaining ingredients and marinate 2-4 hours.
2. Remove chicken 30 minutes before cooking. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Place chicken in pan, pour 2/3 cup of the marinade into the pan.
3. Bake chicken, basting frequently, for 1 hour.
4. Transfer to a platter. Strain pan juices into a small saucepan and boil until thick. Pour sauce over the chicken and sprinkle with scallions. Serve with scallion mashed potatoes.
Serves 4: 590 calories, 19g carbs, 53 g protein, 156 mg cholesterol and 32 g fat.

Scallion Mashed Potatoes
2 pounds russet potatoes ($1.00)
4 Tbsp butter (.40)
1 cup milk (.30)
salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1/2 bunch scallions, cut 1/4 inch

Peel and boil potatoes. Mash all ingredients together.

Serves 4: per serving: 460 calories, 49g carbs, 29g protein, 80mg cholesterol, an 19g fat.
Total cost: $9.96 (including potatoes)

Sue Newbold

Calling all Grandview Farmers...

The 3rd weekly Grandview "farmers" market will be held right after church in the Relief Society Room. Thanks to all of our wonderful neighborhood "farmers" who have contributed to make our produce sharing such a success. If you have something you can share, please bring it!

We plan to continue our sharing until the harvest is over.

H1N1 (Swine Flu) Fireside

There will be an H1N1 (Swine Flu) Fireside on Sunday, September 20, at 6:00 p.m. in the Relief Society room. Mary Ann Douglas will make a presentation on the Swine Flu Virus, and the precautions necessary to limit the effects on our families.

Bishop G. Hansen

Smile in September

I am not naturally a smiley person. I was considered too serious as a child, a shy secret worrier. I married a man who smiles. My father cautioned me to not ever let that change. He knew me well enough that he feared my potential impact on my husband. It was a wise warning.

Ken reinforces my efforts. My smiles and small laughs please him. I guess he knows they are sincere when they happen. I have tried to relax and let my happiness show. Blank and private faces are almost as unhelpful as frowns. I am convinced letting your "light" shine makes a difference. A smile is a light.

I was a substitute teacher for about eight years. It was often a difficult task, but it taught me that one of the very best ways to have a good day is to be happy. The kids could tell. They responded. It is a lesson that I need to relearn and apply. When I have family problems, criticism doesn't help, Worry and fear don't help. Smiling might.

Jane Babcock

Good Reading

I recently re-read the biography of Marie Curie, the woman who invented radium. It is a fascinating book and tells of a woman who was ahead of her time. "Hers is a story of a simple, intense and deeply humble woman to whom science brought a rich life and a happy marriage. And who gave in return the brilliance and devotion which won her the gratitude of mankind. " The book is titled, Madame Curie by her daughter Eve Curie. It is an old book, probably out of print, but I have a copy I would be happy to lend. My mother always refered to this as her favorite book! I enjoyed it the 2nd time around!

General Relief Society Broadcast

Saturday, Sept. 26, 6:00 pm

Wilford Stake Center Chapel

You are invited to join other sisters in the stake for the following pre-broadcast activites beginning at 5:00 pm

Humanitarian Service Project

Compile School Kits

(Like the ones shown in Relief Society this week)

Bee Prepared Refreshments

Prepared by Ward & Stake Bee Prepared Specialists

Friendship & Sisterhood

Autumn Peach Crumble

I love it when the air begins to get just a little bit crisp in the evenings. It makes me hungry for one of my favorite autumn treats using fresh peaches dropped off by the neighbors. It's easy and makes our home smell delightful.

Fresh Peach Crumble

8 ripe peaches, pitted and sliced

juice of 1 lemon (bottled juice works fine)

large pinch of ground cinnamon

large pinch of ground nutmeg

1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1 stick butter, chilled and cut into pieces

1/4 cup quick-cooking oats

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Arrange peaches in buttered shallow baking dish, sprinkle with juice and spices. In separate bowl, combine the flour and sugar. With your fingers, blend the butter until it resembles a coarse meal. Stir in oats and sprinkle on top of peaches. Bake until peaches are soft and topping is brown (approximately 25-30 minutes).

We love to serve this with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Welcome to our Blog

Grandview 1st Ward sisters, we are joining the blogging world!  We hope you will join us.  Soon we will have recipes, good news, photos, enrichment informaiton and all sorts of other wonderful messages about our Grandview Relief Society.  We hope you will check in frequently.  If you are interested in being a guest blogger, or posting something on our blog, please send something to us at grandview1rs@gmail.com.