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- Feature Article: Thanksgiving Mishaps

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This week officially begins the 2008 Holiday Season so the tips below are doubly important to share with all those that need support and to create a memorable and cost savings holiday for themselves, their families, their business colleagues and social communities. 

“Top Ten Tips to Eliminate Stress and Overspending this Holiday Season”
Special Report

The potential for holiday stress and overspending are just around the corner.  Added to this are our concerns about not knowing how the global financial issues will affect us, our family, our community, our church and our business.  

As our holiday gift to you and yours, we have created the “Top Ten Tips for Eliminating Stress and Overspending This Holiday Season” Special Report and would like to share these stress busting tips and ideas with you.

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Now more than ever we want to support each other and help each other build long lasting holiday memories without stress and overspending.

The caring and outpouring of concern that we have experienced in the last several weeks here at NMA has encouraged us to put together these tips, techniques and strategies to be used and followed right now – easily and with confidence.  You can have the best holiday season you have ever experienced…and still have some money in your wallet and purse to start the New Year.

Everyone has a story and ours is no different.  In the past we have been stressed out and overspent ourselves.  We know what that feels like and what the results are from that kind of experience.  In this special report you are receiving our time tested top ten tips and techniques for eliminating stress and overspending for your holiday season, as well as, 43 additional tips from global experts on stress and overspending.  They have been there, done that, didn’t like it and learned from it.  Now we are sharing these tried and true tips for eliminating stress and overspending this holiday season with you.

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NAME: Kelly
      I was in my early 20s, going to one of those “orphan potlucks,” and I foolishly offered to bring the mashed potatoes. Naturally, I waited too late to get started.  In my rush after peeling 10 pounds of potatoes, I naively turned on the garbage disposal, immediately exploding 10 pounds of potato peels all over the kitchen.
     I didn’t have time to clean it up, and, being inexperienced and unknowledgeable about the potato’s true nature, I waited until the next day to clean.  By then, the peels had hardened; I literally had to scrape the dead, shriveled, peeling skins from the ceiling and walls — and repaint!   Of course, being that it was Thanksgiving weekend, I got to live with the overflowing, clogged sink until the following Monday.
     The next year, I volunteered to do the turkey, and I now leave the skins on when I make mashed potatoes

NAME: Colleen
     I was making the coleslaw, which is a family recipe, and the cabbage and celery is chopped by hand, which takes around three hours. It’s quite an ordeal. It’s a recipe that was handed down from my father and his family. He was fanatical about chopping it.
When I finally finished, I reached into the cabinet for the vinegar, and poured in two capfuls. As soon as I put the cap back on, I realized something awful: I had switched the ammonia and the vinegar around in the kitchen cabinets for whatever reason. I now had ammonia in my coleslaw.
     The question was, “Do I forget about the coleslaw?” but that would be like saying, “Let’s forget about the turkey.” So I sent my husband out for more cabbage and celery and started from scratch.
     I now keep the ammonia out of the kitchen.

NAME: Jack
     My roommate and I decided to stay in Chicago to save money on traveling and try to make our first Thanksgiving dinner. My roommate was on stuffing, yams, and mashed potatoes. I had the turkey.
     We wanted to get the smallest turkey we could find, and I was happy to discover an 8-lb. bird while my roommate gathered up the rest of the ingredients for the holiday feast and $50 worth of booze.
     When it came time to cook, I peeled off the turkey’s wrapper, took out the innards, stuffed and salted the bird before putting it in the oven. A good hour and a half had gone by, when my roommate started to clean and prep for the other fixings.
That’s when he noticed that nowhere on the “turkey” wrapper did it say “turkey.” Upon further inspection I found a delightful recipe for Perdue Chicken Salad on the back of the wrapper. As it turns out, I had bought an 8-lb chicken, stuffed it, and cooked it for nearly two hours.
     My roommate, livid, made me go out to the nearest store to find a de-thawed turkey. I came back with a 25 pound turkey for two people. I removed the stuffing, put it in the turkey, and cooked it.
      We now had a lot of meat.
     That’s when our landlord, a single mother of two, knocked on our door to deliver a holiday gift. We invited her and her visiting parents to share the feast.

NAME: Hope
     I had invited all kinds of friends to Thanksgiving dinner at my house in Montville, N.J. I thought how nice it would be for everyone to have their own hen. That’s nicer and classier than a bird.
     The hens looked great on the outside.  But when everyone cut into it — at the same time it seemed — it was raw.
     I guess because the oven was small; I had shoved the 12 hens in there. The guests were telling me that it would take another six hours for the hens to cook. I threw them away and we ate the side dishes. My sister now does the cooking.

From our Family to Yours…Happy Thanksgiving!

(All “Thanksgiving Mishaps” were contributed www.PocatelloParents.com )

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Terry’s “Sweet Roll” Recipe

Ingredients:
¾ cup milk (1-2%)
2 package of dry yeast
½ cup water
1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp salt
1 egg
3 tbsp margarine or butter
~4 cups sifted flour

1. Scald milk until it clings to the side of pan (heat slowly, 10-12 min).
2. Heat water to a luke-warm temperature and add yeast and set aside.*
3. Meanwhile, put sugar, salt, and margarine/ butter in a bowl, add scalded milk and stir until blended.
4. Add proofed yeast (should be foaming & frothy) and stir.**
5. Beat egg well and add to the mixture
6. Stir in ½ cup flour to the mixture.
7. Begin to slowly add more flour gradually in ½ cup increments.  When half of total flour has been added, stir vigorously for 3 minutes.
8. Continue added flour to make a soft dough, yet one that can be handled without too much difficulty (not too sticky).
9. Place dough on a floured counter or bread board; keep hands floured throughout this process.
10. Press dough into a ball; begin to knead the dough adding flour to prevent sticking to the counter.
11. Knead for 5 minutes until blisters can be seen just under the surface of the dough when stretched.
12. Put dough in a bowl and lightly oil the surface.
13. Cover bowl with aluminum foil and set in a warm place.  Allow the dough to rise until double in size (~1 hour).
14. Punch dough down with your fist.
15. Pinch the dough in half and form into rolls.
16. Arrange the dough on a backing sheet and put in a warm place again for a second rising, DO NOT cover rolls.
17. Let rise until double in size (~45 minutes).
18. Preheat oven for 10 minutes @ 375 degrees when dough is has about doubled in size.
19. Bake for 17-20 minutes or until golden brown.
20. Remove from pans; cool on rack.

* Heating milk too quickly can burn the milk to the bottom of the pan, stir occasionally to prevent burning
**Check to be sure mixture is not above 105 degrees, this can inactivate the yeast.

Makes approximately 24 rolls

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