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UK “TIMES- PRIZE-WINNING COLUMN From ALMAR FARM In Transylvania BY CAL CARPENTER i-— Marge, my bride of 31 yean, ia a good cook, although she doesn’t particularly like to cook. Nobody can beat her when It conies to putting a dinner of roast prime rib of beef “an Jus,” mushrooms, mashed potatoes, vegetables and tossed salad with Roque fort dressing, and a glass of dry, red, “vin ordinaire” on the table. That, and many oth er more or less regular meals she’s good at. But when she goofs, she really goofs. The other evening she came into the “TV Room” where Haole, my big German Shepherd dog, and Klig, my battle - scarred old tomcat and I were watching the news. “Whattre we having for sup per?” I asked brightly. “1 don’t think I’U tell you,” replied my bride. “If 1 do, you might make up your mind you don’t like it and be pre judiced before I get it on the table.” “Very well," I said. “I’ll wait In anticipation.” “Don’t be expecting too much,” Marge warned, and then went on to establish her excus es beforehand. “I’m trying something different tonight, something I’ve been wanting to try for a long time.” Now, I’ve had long ex perience with Marge’s experi ments, and I know they sel dom turn out well. Good as she is with her established cooking, she’s a slap-dash ex perimenter. She’s what you might call an optimistic cook. She uses a written recipe on ly as a last resort and when she does she feels perfectly free to improvise in both in gredients and amounts; op timistically hoping everything will turn out for the best. “Don’t tell me,” I begged with trepidation. “I’d rather be surprised.” “Well, all right,” said Marge. “But I’ve read about a new way to make chili in a magazine and I thought I’d try it tonight.” “Ouch,” I groaned. For chi li, even though I like it, is Whew you think of preoertp Hons, think of VARNER’S, adv. Rayfbr3... 4*ooejite Get beautiful KODAK Color Prints from your favorite color si ides during our Prints from-Sltdss special You buy three and gel the fourth one free. No limit to the number of slides. Offer expiree November 9.1973. Hurry in todey and eek us for details AUSTIN ART SHOP DIAL 683-2! 25 H E. MAIN ST. MEVARD —--. A" .. something 1 have to bt very careful about as to how much and when I eat It. You see, I have a mild problem with what the Air Force doctors diagnosed as diverticulosis; and, to put it crudely, chiH can cause me a heck of1 a bellyache if I eat it in any large amount or in the eve ning and go to bed on it. Marge knows this, of course. “Oh, my,” I groaned again. “But this is kind of differ ent,” said Marge. “You see it’s a kind of cornbread and chili mixture . . . You put the chili in a casserole, mix some thin cornbread batter, then pour it on top of the chili . . . then you bake it ...” “Oh, My . . . .” “ . . . And this isn’t ex actly chili the way I’m going to make it,” my helpmeet went on. “You see, I had some left over beans and some left over spaghetti sauce. 1’U put a little chill powder in the spaghetti sauce, mix in the beans, then the cornbread batter Well, we had the spaghetti chili - cornbread casserole for supper. We had it on the table, that is. One taste of the con coction was sufficient for me. “It’s not very good, is it?" asked Marge sorrowfully. I managed a sickley grin. “Oh, it’s not too bad,” I said, slipping a small dish of the stuff onto the floor beside my chair where Haole sat; wait ing his tidbits from the table. My tomcat Was on the floor on the other side of my chair but I didn’t offer him any. I knew Klig would never touch it, but Haole will eat anything. He did. He loves beans any way, form or fashion. He ate all I gave him and looked at me with pleading eyes, begging for more. “Do you want any more?" asked Marge hopefully, picking at most of her helping still in her plate. 1 felt like the little doll at the wrestling matches in the TV commercial. I felt like saying: “1 wanna Alka Selt zer,” but I didn’t. “Well, we might as well give it to Haole,” said Marge. “He seems to like it.” . “A1 right,” said I, wondering how you get an Alka Seltzer down a big, 125-lb. German Shepherd dog. Marge gave what was left on both our plates and the rest of the casserole to Haole. He ate it with gusto. I sat and wondered if this meant 1 ought to resign my member ship in the Humane Society. I didn’t eat enough of the experiment to cause trouble with my diverticulae that night, even though I was awake several times expecting it. I don’t know about Haole; but in the warm weather he sleeps out on the porch under our bedroom window, and when I was awake 1 heard him mak ing noises like he was having nightmares. As I said, Marge is a good cook as long as she stays away from experiments. So I think I’ll cancel all the homemaker magazine sub scriptions at ALMAK Farm— just to be on the safe side. 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