Page 12. Freeruely, 1982.Cassiar Courier Dining by "Since nouveau cuisine chee such force, European chefs have found they have more in common with their eastern neighbors than was ever before envisioned. Not since Marco Polo returned to his native Genoa after his visit with Kublai Khan, bringing with him seasonings and rare spices unheard of in the west - Corriander, Cardamon, Saffron, green peppercoms and of course a recipe for pasta that was later to become the mainstay of Italian cuisine, have we been so willing to appreciate the finer points of Asian culinary expertize. : The move towards less overpowering lighter sauces and season- ing agents used to enhance the natural flavor of the dish rather than mask it, is a lesson that has been learned, as too is the cooking of vegetables a la dente - something the Chinese have been doing for time immemorial in their stir frys, out of pure necessity as good food and fuel were often in poor supply. They developed a method of getting the maximum nourishment out of their food in limited cooking time. The move towards small portions again, could very Wel have taken. a page out of Japanese cuisine where it is considered, that the visual affect is of as much importance as the nourish- ment. It is also their opinion that provided the food is as fresh as you can possibly get it, the least you do to it the better, and if you must cook it use only the freshest and most natural _ ingredients. This if anything is the common creed of finer chefs everywhere. It was on this theme of east meets west that a recent buffet was based. Here are a few recipes from it. SCAMPI GARAM MASALA Take I Ib. of peeled scampi with tails left on, Gently saute them in a little clarified butter to which a few drops of garlic oil has been added. Add to this 2 teaspoons of chopped shallots cook for a further 2 minutes. Then add 4 a cup of plain yogurt and 4% a cup of fresh cream. Reduce by half. At the last moment add I teaspoon of Garam Masala made by mixing equal This is the world speaking. So you want to see me. Before you do, see a travel agent. Southern Cross. atime. But first see your travel agent. ALL SEASONS TRAVEL. So you want to see me. ASTA craps Your travel agent knows more about me than anyone else on me. Marvel Travel Service Lid, 164 ELLIOT STREET CASSIAR 778-7220 (Trailer next to Curling Rink) DOMESTIC & INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL BY AIR — SEA CRUISES — RAIL — BUS -- HOTEL RESERVATINN -— CAR HIRE AMD RENTAL — PASSPORT —- \/ISAS -- TRAVEL INSURAMCE AN OTHER TRAVEL SERVICES. BIINGET CHARTERS AVAILABLE FAR OFFICE HOURS: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m, WEEKDAYS, 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. SATURDAYS ‘(OPEN DURING LIINCH HOURS) CLOSED ALL DAY SUNDAY Candleli Ig ht. by Terry Farrell quantities of ground black pepper, cumin, coriander, cloves, ginger and cinnamon. This dish of Persian origin was introduced to northern India by the Mongols from there. It was introduced to Africa by Asian merchants and is now most commonly seen at Afro-Indian restaurants. QUAIL WITH OYSTER MUSHROOMS Season 8 birds lightly with salt and fresh ground pepper. Rub them inside and out with a slice of ginger. Saute. the birds in a little sesame oil. Throw in 2 cups of whole oyster, mushroom and 2 tablespoons of chopped green onions. Sprinkle with 4 a cup of sake. Add 2 cups of sauce made with half light soya sauce, half white chicken stock, thickened with a little tapioca starch. Cook in the oven for 10 minutes. This is a good example Of east meets west, combining the ingredients and cooking Style of both continents which is starting to gain popularity on the Ameria continent and has been established for some time in the restaurants of Saigon, the French influence staying long after the legion had left. In the words of Ho Chi Minh who was himself an apprentice under Exscoffier in his youth, “Tt was not their fare we objected to, just their taxes”. MEDALLION DEBOEF AU: DOUX PIMENTS Cut eight 3 oz. tomados and taking one lobster tail, remove from the shell and cut into 8 thin slices. Finely chop 2 oz. of shallots, 4 oz. sweet red peppers and 2 oz, hot jalapeno peppers. Sautee the steaks in a little clarified butter. When they are lightly browned, remove to the side of the pan. Seal the lobster slices on both sides and place on top of each steak. Add the shallots and peppers and sweat these for afew minutes. Flambee the dish with a good shot of Armagnac, the brandy of Gascony, or Blood of D’Artanian as it is sometimes called. Finally de- glace the pan with a cup of sour cream. This dish is at once hot and cool sweet and sharp and guaranteed to wakeup the most. subdued palates. Because a travel agent knows more about me than anyone else on me. About my business life and my nightlight. My fun cities and my sun countries. My changing nature. My different times. See my Bermudas. My Canaries. My Jamaica. See me in June or January. See my Red Square, my Orange Bowl. My Northern lights, my See the whole, wide me. A week here...a weekend there. Or weeks at ° CBC RADIO IN CASSIAR . On .Anuary 12th a one hour segment of CBC’s Morning Edition was broadcast from Cassiar (the hot spot of the North on that particular day). Neil Ford, one of the co-hosts of the show was in town. to interview four of the local residents - _J ohn Slana, Peter J ones, Paul Sevierand John Wong The interviews were interesting and informative. It would have been nice to hear more from the local scene but unfortunately Mr Ford had to pack up to continue his tour of the broad- casting area, Minor Booka, On the weekend of Jan. 15th the Cassiz» Midget Juvenile Hockey tear participated in a tournament in Fort Nelson. They lost all three games with scores of 11-7, 9-2 and 16-2 These three games were the first games this season the Cassiar team played against their own age group as in Cassiar their only competition is the Bantam team or the Senior tearns. No individual trophies were being awarded at this tourna- ment but because of Arun Lekhi’s exceptional play as goalie, he was awarded a trophy for “Most Valuable Goalie”. The Atoms have been invitied to a tournament in Fort Nelson on Feb, 12-14. We would like to wish the boys Good Luck. Don’t forget to attend our Cash Bingo on Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 8:00.p.m. in the Community Centre. Also, we are still in need of volunteers for the beer bottle drive and if you can help us out please call Stella Radford at 778-7334. SOCOOoOCOOC OSC OCOOOCOC OOOO OCOOCCOOC COCO OO OOOOCOOSs LIONS CLUB LOTO PROVINCIAL WESTERN EXPRESS THE CASSIAR, LIONS CLUB IS NOW SELLING THESE TICKETS AND THEY CAN BE PURCHASED FROM ANY LIONS CLUB MEMBER. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CALL DEREK WALKER AT 778-7693. Lose weight. Eat 5 times A Day! Now you can lose weight -- without sacrificing your enjoyment of food. The Shaklee Slim-Plan lets you enjoy a variety of delicious, easysto-pre- pare meals, plus snacks to see you ‘through the morning and the afternoon. Best of all, the Slim- Plan helps provide you with all of the essential nutrients, so that you lose weight and feel great, too. For more information contact: Independent Distributor Beverly Evans - 778-7254 Pat Borsato - 778-7496 Phyllis Hardy - 778-7251 Bev Storie - 778-7648 SUL DUSTER by John Sturrock. CHAPTER FIVE Cisein Ernie Awkins loved to become exhausted. The only way that he could feel good was to be totally exhausted. He ~ wouldn’t comb his hait or change his clothes when becoming ex- hausted because it showed that the enormous strain of becoming exhausted left him little time. for secondary enjoyments. like food and primal urges! Those things that he longed for but could not have because of his loyalty and work, work, work! He loved to demonstrate devotion and so in view of devotion his appearance and mannerisms did not matter as long as there were long hours of nerve shattering responsibility to soothe the supporating agony of not having done enough! So, psychologically he was clutzed, To sleep for five minutes made him uneasy, guilty, conscience smoten, because he couldn't lie to himself and say to himself that his stint of duty was near en- ough. He wanted to single do and double do and triple do and over do. so that he could, in an exhausted fashion, enjoy his single do without the feeling that others did do double do’s more than his triple do. In short, disasters made him happy. Therefore, this day, the 425th day of this 8 hour shift, he felt that he could relax un- happily. The record would show that he could no longer physical- ly carry on taking all of the blitz. He felt that the record would show glowingly and bleepingly on the readout, that unable to car- ry on after 3200 consecutive days of continuous duty he deserved rest, clean laundry with his payroll number on it, a hearty meal and a weekend in downtown Cassiar, which is well known for busy hums, things to do and hearty jokes and it beats a weekend in. Cleveland! So, wearing his mental, bloodied bandage around his pressure torn forehead he spent another 8 hours talking, talking, talking, in the control room after Herbie had assumed command. And so, he was in no shape to a deal with Basil Boris Illyitch Ostakovitch, the Russian ine ea oh fiver! Basil Boris was a male socialist revolutionary Space Fairy who carried little round black ‘bombs with burning wicks, Which : was why he was now a ‘Space Fairy male revolutionary socialist ex- soviet bad ‘bomber. One of his wicks. slipped ‘and dipped into ‘the powder when he was hiding in the garbage" receptacle of finn _Oomsk Siberian railway station! Even now mothers in Oomsk date their relatives’ ages from the moment of Basil Boris’ big blast, and indeed several pregnancies were claimed as having result- ed from the trauma! A Lack of control, | suppose! Only natural in those parlous times of unsupervised washrooms! Russia i is full of them! Now then, having finished the shift Captain Ernie visited the Male Bodily Relief station, which was a subdivided type of deal that offered facilities for standing up male bodily relief and also the seated position male bodily relief. There was plenty of toilet tissue because they had about thirty tons of it destined for “Granite Hawg’, of which we will hear more about later. The toilet tissue was in thirty long tons of iodized double ply shrink wrapped, deep compressed, sun cured, kiln dried, two plied rolls. Each square of tissue had printed on it various bon mots, puns, naughty jokes, epigrams, limericks, pictures of famous peo- ple, wise sayings, recipes, comics, anecdotes, puzzles, bridge problems, lonely heart letters, messages from friends, chess boards, the socialist creed, the communist manifesto, the minutes of the camp committee and selections from the golden treasury of liter- ature, and finally, a complete rerun of CBC news from 1921 on! Situated on the other side of the washroom was a female situ- ation which was now the female space fairies evenescent relief station which provided two sit down types of apparatus. However, Alice and Mirabelle were in the furnace room playing three handed crib with Rowl. Which was excellent for Captain Ernie because _ Captain Ernie couldn’t go when someone was staring at him. Now Basil Boris IIlyich Ostakovich materialized directly in front of Captain Ernie as he was halfway through the second movement of his Oratorio in C Minor bliss! Well sir Captain Ernie could have lifted cracker crumbs off a wagon tongue with his bare lips he was so surprised. “Well! said Captain Ernie, ‘I'll be a cactus fed new moon mule with a hide full of ring nails and hooves for eyelids if it ain't a male type space fairy materidizing in front of me.” Cap- tain Ernie was worried but he sure didn’t show it except he kept wadding the tissue and throwing it on the floor! Also, he began to sing his ‘college war song — Yay Saskatoo U! This is the home of the torrid tiger @ ie Take care! i Every claw is a ee ae Beware! Cassiar Couriér February 1982 Page 13 You should never-never never excite me It’s totally foolish to carelessly slight me For it merely means you will have to fight re So there! Yay Saskatoon U! - Captain Ernie then majestically rose from the apparatus. “Allow me to introduce myself, sir’, said Captain Ernie to Basil Boris. “I am the’ Captain of this ship. | am nice and solid and sane and sorry to have met you. You do not exist! So go.and visit some other area! Preferably NDP or Liberal. Give Ottawa a crock, may- be those bombs might work! If nothing else, like laxatives, enemas or other pointed suggestions.” “Aha” roared Big Basil Boris, who by now had fully material- ized with only half a sword and one or two black round smoking ~ bombs. “Aha” roared he laughingly. To tell the truth, that’s all Big Basil Boris could think of to say. He was used to people being scared! “Aha” he roared again. “Do | not frighten you; you western imperialistic finklet? Do | not cause your solid imperialistic blood to curdle in your solid imperialistic veins.’”” : But Big Basil Boris did not frighten Captain Ernie. Any spook Wearing half a sword, a tattered tuxedo coat, Tahiti hot pants and — rubber boots could not cause alarm in anyone. Captain Ernie was merely mildly consternated. He was constipated too but this was of no value to him at this moment. He had a spook of doubtful political reliability, probably a republican anti establishmentarian who could materialize or dematerialize at will. Like most politi- cians do! And this worried him! At last he had a real going shoot- ing off duty paralyzing worry to content him! “Ah” he sighed. “I'm a very lucky person. | now have good stout solid 24 hours of worries. Some ‘people don’t even have one hour. But me! Deservedly me has 24 hours! Now | must go and tell Earth all about the space fairies on my ship. They'll be glad to know all about it. Science goes forward other giant leap. Court- esy of Ernie Awkins. That most beloved and realiable Captain! _ Maybe I'll finally get that job in the Employment Office!” In a pig’s blooming ear they will. Space Fairies on my ship. I'll become the dipsy doodle of the year! The man from ha ha! The CBC will do adocumentary on me! Man Alive! TO BE CONTINUED. 'B EVENT--S: Hickman, V:Stefanishion, MElhorn, J Ween SOME PEOPLE EVEN CURLED Bonspiel Scenes by S. Weeping Willie Over half of the Curling season is over now and so is the Family Bonspiel which was held in December, Winners were: ‘A EVENT - Adolf, Marie and Shawn Penno and Judy Walters B EVENT -- John Gwilliam, Judy, Eliz and Eliza Joseph: Also the Interdepartmental Bonspiel is over and the Tramline , people emerged as winners in the A Event. Joe P. remarked before going on the ice that he did not like ? to play on ice number one as it was too kinky. He was right - Kinky wonl! The Hospital was also “‘in the eiew as winners of the » B Event. : The Mill showed us that besides running a Mill they knowhow - to curl as they won the C Event. Watch for our Men’s and Ladies Bonspiel in February and of i course the Cassiar Annual Bonspiel! in March.. It promises to be a 4 ‘iggy. | hear words floating around like “medieval’’ and “court Jesters”. Why don’t you phone the club and find out what it is all about. : af C EVENT ~ C.Habjan, N.MeGouan, S.Smith, J.Colak WAS VONNIE BOTTING: A HEX ON THE Os ? AVR RE gnasre® RRA LYE