Memories & Recipes
Others’ toys more fun than your own

Cindy Garrick

This time of year makes me think of Christmases past. The other day I was racking my brain, which Dean says is impossible, thinking of what I could get my 7- year-old grandson, Seth Newton. This made me think of the two boy cousins of the famous five, Mike and Ronnie.

When Ronnie and I were 7 years old, Santa brought Mike an electric football game. I knew absolutely nothing about football, but I couldn’t wait to play with the new toy. As soon as Mike left to see what his friends from the neighborhood got from Santa, Ronnie and I pulled the new toy out from under Mike’s bed.

Ronnie plugged it up and we soon had tiny toy football players running all over the board. (Some even ran off the board.) At least we did until Mike came back home. We were both punished from our own new toys for the rest of that Christmas day. Mostly because we didn’t ask Aunt Chris to plug the toy in for us and also because we had locked the door so we wouldn’t get caught.

Toys have changed but kids really haven’t. I hear Seth and Bethany telling on each other all of the time. Isn’t it ironic that the other person’s toys are always more fun than your own!

Here are some of Seth’s favorite recipes. I like them as well as I like my own favorites.
  Beef Roast with Gravy
          1 medium roast
(chuck is good but any cut will
                  do)
            1 pod garlic
          salt and pepper
Place roast into a black iron skillet
  and cut deep slits into various
sections of the roast. Stuff each slit with a generous amount of salt and pepper, don’t be worried about overdoing the seasonings either, these will go deep into the meat. Place one slice of peeled garlic in each slit.

Cover with foil and place in a 300 degree oven for about three hours. This roast will make its own gravy.

To serve more people you may need to add one can of beef gravy but the gravy made naturally by slow cooking the roast will cover about 6 normal servings of rice.
  Meringue Kisses
        3 egg whites
  1/2 tsp creme of tartar
      1 c brown sugar
1 c finely chopped pecans

Beat egg whites until stiff, add creme of tartar while beating. Slowly beat in sugar. Fold in nuts then spoon onto greased cookie sheet and bake at 200 degrees for 1 1/2 or 2 hours. These are like angel cookies.
Grandma Wilson’s
  Oatmeal Cookies
          1 c butter
          1 tsp. salt
  1 3/4 c brown sugar
      3/4 c sour milk
(1 c milk + 1 T vinegar;
  let stand 5 minutes)
  2 c all purpose flour
      2 c rolled oats
    2 tsp. cinnamon
        1 tsp. soda
      1 tsp. vanilla
        1/2 c raisins
      1/4 c coconut
          1/4 c nuts

Cream butter and sugar, mix remaining ingredients and drop by spoon onto greased cookie sheet. Bake 375 degrees for 12 - 18 minutes.

This recipe is from my wonderful real estate agent in Gulf Shores, Tami Roberts. This is her grandmother’s recipe and just in time for Christmas.

Thanks, Tami.

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