FAMILY TIES

Our weekday meeting will be held this Tuesday (21st) at 6:30 p.m. in the Relief Society room. For June we will be focusing on "Family Ties". We will be having a really fun class learning how to keep families together and closer by sharing ideas of family traditions, family reunions, and free activities for the families along with stay-cations. It should be a really fun night with a delicious treat to top it off! We really hope you can come. For the sisters with young children, if you are interested, Kit G. has offered to do a children's class in the nursery. We hope this will make it possible for you to come. If you plan on bringing your children, please let me know by email how many kids and their ages. Kit wanted to make sure she had something fun planned for all ages. Our meeting should go no longer than 8 p.m.

We hope to see lots of you there!

Food Storage Night

Tonight, (Tues. the 17th) will be our monthly Weekday Relief Society Meeting.  We will be having a food storage night.  I think it's going to be lots of fun and we'll learn a lot at the same time.  There has been a slight increase in food prices and it may continue to go up.  So with that, we thought we'd get creative and figure out a way to share ideas and recipes of food within our own food storage.  We're asking each sister if you'd like, to bring something made from what's in your food storage, pantries, or freezers right now.  This means NO going out to the store to buy something.  Let's be creative. What could you make with what you have now?  It could be anything from a dinner entree to a dessert.  It can be from a box or it can be homemade. The whole idea is for us to get ideas from each other of things we should be stocking up on or ideas of ways to use food we already have.  We would love for each sister in the ward to build up a three month food storage supply.  We will also talk this night on how to do that.  If you have ideas, please come ready to share them.  Hopefully this will be a fun, insightful night and a great turn out!

February Relief Society Meeting

This month our weekday Relief Society Meeting will be put on by the Stake Relief Society.  We will be meeting on February 19th (Saturday) in the Annex at 5 p.m. for dinner.  Following dinner will be speaker, Heidi Swinton.
Heidi S. Swinton is an award-winning author and screenwriter whose works include PBS documentaries American Prophet; Sacred Stone; Sweetwater Rescue; Trail of Hope; and America’s Choir. She has served on the Relief Society general board and as a member of Church writing committees. She served with her husband, Jeffrey C. Swinton, as he presided over the England London South Mission (2006-2009); they are the parents of five sons, four living, and have four daughters-in-law and six grandchildren.

It should be a wonderful evening.  We hope to see you there!

January Weekday Relief Society Meeting

Come Join Us!
for our Week Day Relief Society Meeting
Tuesday, January 18th
6:30 p.m. @ the church.

We will be making homemade cards.  (example: birthday, thank you, get well, just because..) If you would like to bring any of the following items for yourself or to share with others, that would be great!
*** decorative paper, ribbon, brads, glue sticks, scissors, stickers, or anything else you can think of that would make a card cute!
We will provide the card stock for the base of the cards and also stamps.

We will also be taking turns registering for LDS.ORG
come prepared with your:
membership #.  This can be found on your temple recommend or your end of the year tithing statement. If you can't find it, please ask a member of the bishopric.
You will need it to create an account.

Light refreshments will be served.

We hope to see you there!!!

MAZURKA BARS

(I doubled this recipe to fit in my large 11 x 15 pan)
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
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2 c. oats
1 c. whole wheat flour
1 c. dark brown sugar (or light brown - whatever you have)
1/2 c. coconut
1/2 c. chopped walnuts (I used pecans)
1/2 t. baking soda
1/4 t. salt
1 1/2 sticks butter, melted
1 t. vanilla

Mix all ingredients together and press into a greased square pan. Top with fresh sliced peaches, berries, or whatever you like. Press the fruit lightly into the crumb mixture.

Bake at 325 degrees for 40-50 minutes. They should look dry on top.

**For Fall flavors, add some cinnamon and nutmeg and use thinly sliced apples instead of berries. It would also be fun to add mini chocolate chips to the mixture, too!

For Sale

Leisa McMurdie has a girl twin bed for sale.  It comes with a headboard, rails, and a new mattress.  If anyone is interested, contact her for further information.  Thanks.

Apricot Roasted Pork

Submitted by Wendy R.

Ingredients:
½ c apricot preserves (I've also used plum, apple, and berry and they were good too!)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp dried oregano
¾ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp pepper
1 (3#) boneless pork loin, trimmed
cooking spray
*****Preheat oven to 425.  place preserves in small saucepan over med heat and cook 10 min or till melted.  Keep warm over low heat.  Combine spices and rub evenly over pork.  Place pork on a rack coated with cooking spray and place in shallow pan.  Bake at 425 for 30 min.  Brush evenly with ¼ c preserves.  Bake additional 10 min.  Brush with remaining preserves, and bake 10 more min or till thermometer reads 155 (slightly pink).  Let stand 10 minutes before slicing

Nat's "YUMMY" Syrup

Submitted by Cheryl R.


Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter
2 Tbl Karo syrup
3/4 cup buttermilk (or 3/4 cup milk with 1 Tbl lemon juice. mix and let sit for a few minutes)
1 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. vanilla (added at the end)
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Mix everything (but vanilla) and bring to a boil.
Simmer for 7 minutes on med/med low heat
Add the vanilla while it is cooling
(can store in fridge up to one month to reheat)

Pumpkin Gingerbread

Ingredients

2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
2/3 cup water
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans.

In a mixer, combine sugar, oil and eggs; beat until smooth. Add water and beat until well blended. Stir in pumpkin, ginger, allspice cinnamon, and cloves.

In medium bowl, combine flour, soda, salt, and baking powder. Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and blend just until all ingredients are mixed. Divide batter between prepared pans.

Bake in preheated oven until toothpick comes out clean, about 1 hour.

Technology Class

Join us on October 19th at 6:30 p.m. at the church for a class on the latest technology.  We will be discussing things such as Social Networking, (blogs, twitter, facebook), how to access the ward website, our own Relief Society blog, how to use cell phones for texting and camera phones, etc.  This should be an informative night for everyone.  If you are technology savvy, please come and give your input and ideas of how to best use the technology out there.  If you are afraid of  the technology that's out there, please come with your questions and concerns.  Hopefully this will be a night of insight and learning for all of us!  We hope to see you there!
Refreshments will be served.