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Why I Love Cooking MEMORIES FROM THE KITCHEN
-David Brauns With October being National Cookbook Month, I hope you’ll take the opportunity to get into the kitchen. Try your hand at a new recipe or recreate an old one. You may not make an award-winning dish, but there’s something to be said about a homemade meal — even if it’s overcooked or dry meat from the grill. snacks for everyone. Maybe someday these meals and snacks will become part of her favorite memories, just as Mom’s coleslaw or barbecue chicken with potatoes au gratin, peas, and apple sauce has become nostalgic for me. (My family loves the latter meal now, too!) was her coleslaw. The ironic part is that it’s a “no recipe” recipe in the style of “two scoops of mayonnaise” and “two globs of vinegar.” I made sure I learned how to make this dish so we can enjoy it at home. Our house is also the place where my daughter’s friends like to hang out. (We kind of created it that way!) Whenever she has friends over, I love to make a huge spread. We’ll often grill or make shareable
There’s something about food — the way it cements our memories or the way in which it can create and evoke a feeling of love for those around you. Food, both in smell and taste, triggers the sensors in our brain that create those feelings of connectedness and memories. In fact, some of my earliest recollections of childhood are of me in the kitchen with my mom, making spaghetti. I’ve been cooking since I was young, developing my craft in the kitchen and on the grill. Before I was even a teen, I tried my hand at grilling meat, and I can still remember my parents graciously eating it — despite everything being overcooked and dry. Thankfully, I’ve learned a lot since then. My lessons started in the kitchen where I worked at just 14 years old. (I got a work permit to work at such a young age.) I worked at restaurants until I was 23 years old, bouncing from fry cook to managing a pizza oven. You name it, and I’ve probably done it in a restaurant kitchen. Today, I’m the weekend master chef of our household. I try to make everything from scratch, whether it’s nachos or barbecue. My weekends in the kitchen can often get
long, and I use a lot of pots and pans, since I prefer fresh ingredients. But the flavors and excitement from my family are well worth the work! I’m not sure what it is exactly that drew me to cooking. It certainly fits well with Type A personalities; there’s a certain rhythm, structure, and order when it comes to cooking. But the biggest components that I enjoy are what it offers me and those I care about. As an attorney, the work I do is very cerebral and thought-focused. I spend all day deep in legal jargon and ideas, and while I really enjoy that kind of work, cooking offers a different challenge. Its rewards are physical and creative! You see the inputs of your work in a tangible product, and there’s just something to be said for the present gratification that cooking offers. More importantly, I love the connections cooking offers! It creates this energy and bond unlike any other thing. I often recreate some of the recipes I grew up with or that my mother was known for. Like every mom in the ‘70s and ‘80s she had a few staple dishes that she brought to every barbecue and potluck. Her most famous
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4 DEEP-CLEANING HACKS TO PREP FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Prepping for the holidays is exciting and fun, but it requires tons of planning, cooking, decorating, and cleaning. To avoid getting bogged down while preparing for cheerful celebrations with friends and family, try these easy ways to get your house sparkling clean and ready to host.
Roll the Ceilings When it comes to ceilings, especially if they are textured, thoroughly cleaning off dust, dander, and cobwebs can be challenging. When you use a broom, chunks typically go flying around and make a larger mess. However, if you whip out a painting roller, dampen it, and roll your ceilings just like you are painting, you are sure to get the job done! Socks on Your Hands Have you ever run a finger along a panel of your blinds and it comes up black? Blinds tend to be huge dust collectors. By throwing some socks on your hands, you can get back to clean blinds. All you have to do is
find a pair of old socks, “glove up,” and dampen them. From there, if you grip each individual blind panel and slide your hand along the length of it, you will gather tons of nasty dirt and dust onto the sock. Cleaning Balls Utilizing tennis balls for your house chores may sound strange. However, when drying a bulky bed comforter in your dryer, adding a few tennis balls will ensure the stuffing does not gather all to one side. The balls help keep everything nice and even. Pillowcases and Fans Your ceiling fans collect all of the nasties — dirt, dust, bugs, and allergens. For an
easy way to clean them without spreading all the grime around your home, turn to old pillowcases! Simply slip the pillowcase over each individual fan blade and then wipe. All of the debris will end up in the pillowcase itself. A clean home is the key to happy living and is paramount for hosting over the holidays. With these tricks up your sleeve, you are now a cleaning expert!
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STAY SAFE (AND SPOOKY) THIS HALLOWEEN 3 Tips to Keep in Mind
back and on their candy bucket or pouch. This way, they will appear spooky but be visible to traffic.
For Drivers Avoid driving in neighborhoods after early evening. Young families will start crowding streets early, whereas teens may stay out later when it’s dark. If you do have to travel into a neighborhood on Halloween night, be vigilant. Go slow, put your phone down, and give pedestrians the right of way. While you may want to get to your party or scary movie night as soon as possible, a little patience could save your life and the lives of those walking around you. For Your Home From jack-o’-lanterns to fake spiderwebs, Halloween decorations can be dangerous! Keep your home spooky without the real fears by using fake tea lights or battery-operated lights in your pumpkins. Avoid having open flames or lights that give off heat near fake spiderwebs, as these can easily catch on fire. Furthermore, while
Few holidays are as exciting for kids as Halloween! As ghouls and goblins don their favorite costumes and go door-to-door for what will (hopefully) be a more normal Halloween, be sure to take a few safety precautions to protect trick-or-treaters, pedestrians, and your family.
For Trick-Or-Treaters Halloween night was made for kids, but kids were not made to wander in the dark. Young children should always be accompanied by an adult, and you should obey all traffic signals. Only walk across the street when you are signaled to do so and stay on sidewalks or the sides of the street. It’s also best to trick-or-treat in neighborhoods that have minimal traffic, like subdivisions. This can limit the threat. Additionally, costumes should be bright or reflective. If you don’t want to kill the vibe of your child’s witch or zombie costume, try taping some reflective tape to their
the prevalence of razor blades in candy has been debunked, you should always examine your child’s candy. Candy with opened wrappers should be tossed, just in case. Report suspicious activity, too!
You can learn more Halloween safety tips at SafeKids.org!
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OKTOBERFEST SOFT PRETZELS
Ingredients • 1 1/2 cups warm water • 1 tbsp salt • 1 tbsp sugar • 1 packet active dry yeast • 4 1/2 cups flour
• 3 tbsp oil, divided • 2/3 cup baking soda • 2 eggs, beaten • Coarse salt, for sprinkling
Directions 1. In a bowl, combine water, salt, and sugar. Add yeast and let rest for 5 minutes. Add flour and 2 tbsp oil, then mix thoroughly into a dough. 2. Remove the dough from the bowl. Coat bowl with remaining oil, then return the dough, cover with plastic wrap, and set it aside in a warm place for 1 hour. 3. Preheat oven to 450 F. 4. Cut dough into 8 pieces. Roll them into thin ropes, then twist ropes into pretzel shapes. 5. In a large pot, boil water. Add baking soda, then boil each pretzel for 1 minute, flipping halfway through. 6. Transfer pretzels to a baking sheet. Brush them with egg and sprinkle with salt. Bake for 10–15 minutes. Enjoy!
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How the MLB Helped Create Disney+
BASEBALL’S FORMER COMMISSIONER AND STREAMING TV THANKS, BUD!
You don’t become America’s national pastime without learning how to adapt — and Major League Baseball (MLB) made the ultimate pivot. This October, MLB’s biggest stars and teams with the most wins all-time will take the field for the 2021 playoffs. The winners will be crowned champions of the world, but the league these champs call home already owns an equally prestigious title: the founders of streaming services. Their legendary reign started back in the early 2000s, when former MLB commissioner Bud Selig asked every team in the league to contribute $4 million for the creation of Baseball Advanced Media (BAM). At that time, the dot-com bubble had yet to burst, and Selig wanted America’s once favorite sport to “keep up with the times,” so to speak.
BAM created a website for each team, but it soon took on other qualities that gave it an edge. The Hustle reports that BAM offered online video, multidevice watching services, and a large data and broadband structure before other major platforms even existed. BAM was such a smashing success that it soon turned BAMTech and started creating platforms for other popular sports leagues like World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and the National Hockey League (NHL). (It even assisted HBO!) In 2017, one of the biggest players in movies, Disney, invested in BAMTech, claiming a majority stake, and began its transition into streaming services. Soon after, as The Hustle reported in July 2021, Disney announced Disney+, a streaming platform whose features were similar to that of Netflix and BAM. In March 2021, Disney+ hit more than 100 million users,
making it a powerhouse in streaming — all created because of BAMTech.
Today, BAM and BAMTech are credited with being on the forefront of streaming services and continue to hold a power position over streaming and within entertainment companies. “Media companies are not good at tech and really struggle with large scale,” says investment analyst Rich Greenfield in The Verge. “They don’t trust companies like Google or Amazon, who want to displace them. BAM is seen as friendly.”
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