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AMANA COLONIES The restaurants in the Amana Colonies are the nicest places to eat around, and pretty low cost. All of them have family style eating (big, refillable bowls of saurkraut, freshly made cottage cheese, salad, corn, potatoes, etc. are passed around the table). The Ox Yoke Inn and Ronnenburg's are two good places in Amana. Dinners may cost from $2.50 to about $5, but you can get a "vegetable plate," pay 50c about a dollar for an empty plate and eat all the general food on the table and split a main course with a friend. Old Homestead Inn in Homestead, and the Colony Inn in Amana are less expensive and more informal. A woman once came to Mahatma Gandhi with her little boy. She asked, "Mahatma-ji, tell my little boy to stop eating sugar." "Come back in three days," said Gandhi. In three days the woman and the little boy returned and Mahatma Gandhi said, "Stop eating sugar." The woman asked, "Why was it necessary to return after three days for you to tell my little boy that?" The Mahatma replied, "Three days ago I had not stopped eating sugar." ROWE'S SOMBRERO Grandview Iowa (near Des Moines) Cheap Mexican food. Converted storefront serving Mexican specialties on weekends. Ethnically decorated family basement and country store combined. Has a juke box with Mexican music, frosted pitchers of beer, and an old parachute serving as ceiling in main room. Very informal. "Four adults ate to satiation for $9." BAILEY'S WEST SIDE SQUARE Fairfield, Iowa (70 minutes from Iowa City) Located on the second floor of a building in the town square: candlelit, romantic blue decor, excellent service, run by a former chef of Persons College who was trained in the Cordon Bleu French Cooking School. Three people report they had two drinks a piece and a complete dinner from soup to beef bouginoune to desert with brandied coffee for $25.00. YOGURT RECIPE Yogurt made from whole milk is more custardy & less gluey-rubbery than evaporated milk to I like it better. But both ways are worth a try. See Let's Cook It Right by Adelle Davis for evaporated milk recipe. 1 quart whole milk. 3 T to one-half noninstant powdered milk (fortified) Heat to almost boiling- but do not boil. Cool to slightly hotter than room temperature. (Milk will be hot on your wrist). Add yogurt culture- either commercial or from a friend who already had some made. Stir yogurt and milk, then put it where it will grow the best. If you have an earthen crock- that's fine. Just wrap it in a blanket and it will grow from its own heat in about 4-5 hours. If no crock, pour it into a glass quart container, then place it in a large pan of hot water, then wrap it up. Pilot lights or warmed ovens or summer sunlight will do the trick. Everything is variable- that's why I don't include temperatures. Success probably won't come the first time, but don't give up. Remember how long it took to make good bread? DIETITION SERVICES 2418 1/2 Towncrest Drive 351-6600 Marilyn Bukoff, Dietition 10:30 to 4:00 weekdays Instruction given on special diets and recipes, and diets in general. The fees are flexible with a $5 charge for the first visit, and $3 for the others. SPECIAL BUYS AT LOCAL STORES Eggs: Littrell's Hatchery 1509 Jackson St. (bring your own cartons) John's Market Gilbert and Market St. (prices variable--sometimes as low as 3 dozen large eggs for a dollar. Longhorn Cheese: Whiteway's Clinton and College. about 70c a pound for the square kind behind the meat section. Meat: Pecina's Market 700 block of Iowa Ave. not especially cheap, but high quality FORAGING There's a lot of food growing wild around Iowa City. Mints (spearmint, peppermint, beebalm), dandelions and red clover grow all spring and summer, all over the place and make good tea. Ginseng is harder to find, but does grow in the woods around here, and is worth searching for--it is a healthful, legal euphoric, once worth more than it's weight in gold, still selling at about $18 a pound. Blackberries, raspberries and mulberries are ripe in June and July. You can find raspberries in Rose Hill Park, blackberries around the Reservoir, and mulberries on trees throughout town. Elderberries and wild and concord grapes are ripe late August and September, and you can find sumac on the road to the reservoir (off of Dubuque) in late August. There are a lot of summer apple trees ripe in July on the Dubuque St. Exit of Interstate 80, and usually people will let you pick fruit from their trees or off the ground. Plums are ready in September, about when the grapes are. Plum Grove has millions of plums every year which just fall to the ground. Nuts (walnuts, hickory nuts, butternuts, acorns (especially acorns from the white oak tree---they're sweeter) , and also, wild rose hips, after the frost. (The fruit of wild rose bushes--one cup of the right type of hip has more vitamin C than 12 dozen oranges.) Good books on how to use and find these and other wild foods is Stalking the Wild Asparagus and Stalking the Healthful Herbs by Euell Gibbons. PAGE 23 foodfoodfoodfoodfoodfood
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AMANA COLONIES The restaurants in the Amana Colonies are the nicest places to eat around, and pretty low cost. All of them have family style eating (big, refillable bowls of saurkraut, freshly made cottage cheese, salad, corn, potatoes, etc. are passed around the table). The Ox Yoke Inn and Ronnenburg's are two good places in Amana. Dinners may cost from $2.50 to about $5, but you can get a "vegetable plate," pay 50c about a dollar for an empty plate and eat all the general food on the table and split a main course with a friend. Old Homestead Inn in Homestead, and the Colony Inn in Amana are less expensive and more informal. A woman once came to Mahatma Gandhi with her little boy. She asked, "Mahatma-ji, tell my little boy to stop eating sugar." "Come back in three days," said Gandhi. In three days the woman and the little boy returned and Mahatma Gandhi said, "Stop eating sugar." The woman asked, "Why was it necessary to return after three days for you to tell my little boy that?" The Mahatma replied, "Three days ago I had not stopped eating sugar." ROWE'S SOMBRERO Grandview Iowa (near Des Moines) Cheap Mexican food. Converted storefront serving Mexican specialties on weekends. Ethnically decorated family basement and country store combined. Has a juke box with Mexican music, frosted pitchers of beer, and an old parachute serving as ceiling in main room. Very informal. "Four adults ate to satiation for $9." BAILEY'S WEST SIDE SQUARE Fairfield, Iowa (70 minutes from Iowa City) Located on the second floor of a building in the town square: candlelit, romantic blue decor, excellent service, run by a former chef of Persons College who was trained in the Cordon Bleu French Cooking School. Three people report they had two drinks a piece and a complete dinner from soup to beef bouginoune to desert with brandied coffee for $25.00. YOGURT RECIPE Yogurt made from whole milk is more custardy & less gluey-rubbery than evaporated milk to I like it better. But both ways are worth a try. See Let's Cook It Right by Adelle Davis for evaporated milk recipe. 1 quart whole milk. 3 T to one-half noninstant powdered milk (fortified) Heat to almost boiling- but do not boil. Cool to slightly hotter than room temperature. (Milk will be hot on your wrist). Add yogurt culture- either commercial or from a friend who already had some made. Stir yogurt and milk, then put it where it will grow the best. If you have an earthen crock- that's fine. Just wrap it in a blanket and it will grow from its own heat in about 4-5 hours. If no crock, pour it into a glass quart container, then place it in a large pan of hot water, then wrap it up. Pilot lights or warmed ovens or summer sunlight will do the trick. Everything is variable- that's why I don't include temperatures. Success probably won't come the first time, but don't give up. Remember how long it took to make good bread? DIETITION SERVICES 2418 1/2 Towncrest Drive 351-6600 Marilyn Bukoff, Dietition 10:30 to 4:00 weekdays Instruction given on special diets and recipes, and diets in general. The fees are flexible with a $5 charge for the first visit, and $3 for the others. SPECIAL BUYS AT LOCAL STORES Eggs: Littrell's Hatchery 1509 Jackson St. (bring your own cartons) John's Market Gilbert and Market St. (prices variable--sometimes as low as 3 dozen large eggs for a dollar. Longhorn Cheese: Whiteway's Clinton and College. about 70c a pound for the square kind behind the meat section. Meat: Pecina's Market 700 block of Iowa Ave. not especially cheap, but high quality FORAGING There's a lot of food growing wild around Iowa City. Mints (spearmint, peppermint, beebalm), dandelions and red clover grow all spring and summer, all over the place and make good tea. Ginseng is harder to find, but does grow in the woods around here, and is worth searching for--it is a healthful, legal euphoric, once worth more than it's weight in gold, still selling at about $18 a pound. Blackberries, raspberries and mulberries are ripe in June and July. You can find raspberries in Rose Hill Park, blackberries around the Reservoir, and mulberries on trees throughout town. Elderberries and wild and concord grapes are ripe late August and September, and you can find sumac on the road to the reservoir (off of Dubuque) in late August. There are a lot of summer apple trees ripe in July on the Dubuque St. Exit of Interstate 80, and usually people will let you pick fruit from their trees or off the ground. Plums are ready in September, about when the grapes are. Plum Grove has millions of plums every year which just fall to the ground. Nuts (walnuts, hickory nuts, butternuts, acorns (especially acorns from the white oak tree---they're sweeter) , and also, wild rose hips, after the frost. (The fruit of wild rose bushes--one cup of the right type of hip has more vitamin C than 12 dozen oranges.) Good books on how to use and find these and other wild foods is Stalking the Wild Asparagus and Stalking the Healthful Herbs by Euell Gibbons. PAGE 23 foodfoodfoodfoodfoodfood
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