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A Winning Snack WARM SKILLET BREAD & ARTICHOKE DIP TOOK TOP “PARTY” PRIZE IN DAIRY FOODS CONTEST
Taste Arkansas I
Twelve-year-old Emma Keller of Little Rock smiled and held up a small plate of her cheesy snack to the smartphone camera.
It was a charming end to the video that helped seal
her win in the recent, “virtual” version of the annual
Arkansas Farm Bureau Dairy Foods Contest.
Keller’s dish, Warm Skillet Bread and Artichoke
Dip, won first place in the “Party Ideas” category of
This year’s contest winners were announced July 27,
after contestants submitted a video introduction and
description of their dish to a panel of judges.
Though the contestants were not able to travel to
Little Rock for the final competition, the judges were
hopeful that each participant was able to use the contest
as a unique opportunity to learn other skills.
“This is more than just a recipe contest; it is a growth
opportunity for the contestants to practice gathering
their thoughts and preparing for a presentation,” said
Bruce Tencleve, director of the Dairy Foods Contest.
The eight finalists were selected from dairy
foods contests conducted by 45 county Farm Bureau
organizations. Though the contest was completed in
July due to COVID-19, June was National Dairy Month
and it is the 63rd year for Arkansas Farm Bureau to
promote the state dairy industry through this contest.
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Warm Skillet Bread & Artichoke Spinach
From Emma Keller - Age 12 Bread Dough:
• 2 ¾ - 3 cups all-purpose flour • 2 ½ tsp active dry or instant yeast • 1 tsp fine salt • 1 cup milk warmed, but not hot • 2 Tbsp vegetable oil or melted butter
Artichoke Spinach Dip:
• 4 cups loosely packed fresh baby spinach • ⅔ cup marinated artichoke hearts drained and coarsely chopped • 4 oz. cream cheese at room temperature (1/2 a typical brick) • ½ cup sour cream • ¼ cup we used Miracle Whip, but you could use mayonnaise • 1 clove garlic minced • ½ tsp your favorite hot sauce, I used Louisiana Hot Sauce • ¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese • 1 stick of butter, coat pan and top bread • ¼ cup mozzarella, shredded plus more for topping • Salt and pepper • A garnish if you like. We used 3 black olives
Make the bread dough:
Add two cups of the flour to a large bowl or of the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a kneading hook. Add salt and combine. Warm milk to lukewarm. Stir in yeast and let stand a few minutes. Add yeast mixture to bowl, along with the vegetable oil or melted butter. Mix and add additional flour in 1/4 cup increments until a smooth dough forms. Knead until smooth. Transfer dough to an oiled bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise until doubled, about l hour.
Make Dip:
Meanwhile, place fresh spinach in a bowl with 1 Tbsp. of water. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and microwave on high for l minute. Remove from microwave, leave covered and let stand 15 minutes to cool. Drain spinach well and add to a medium bowl.
Add the remaining dip ingredients and mix until well combined. Cover and refrigerate until needed.
Cutting/shaping dough:
Turn dough out onto a lightly floured dough mat. Using a sharp knife or bench scraper, cut the dough into 16 equal pieces. (I cut in half, then each piece in half, then repeat cutting each piece into equal parts until I have 16 pieces). Shape each piece into a ball by pinching the edges together underneath.
Generously butter a 12-inch cast-iron skillet. Find a bowl that is a least 6-inches across the top, spray the outside with cooking spray and place it, top side down, in the center of the skillet.
Arrange the dough balls around the outside of the bowl, inside lip of skillet, pushing them together as needed until they all fit. Brush dough balls generously with melted butter. Cover the skillet with plastic wrap and let rise until puffy, about 30 minutes.
Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees with rack in center of oven. Remove bowl from center of skillet. Spoon prepared dip into the center space, pushing it right up to the edge of the dough. Sprinkle top of dip with additional mozzarella/parmesan. Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 30 minutes, until rolls are golden and sound hollow when tapped and the dip is bubbly.
Remove from oven. Raise oven rack to the top third and switch oven to broil. Sprinkle the dip with additional mozzarella cheese and return skillet to oven under the broiler, until the cheese and dip is browned.
Let skillet stand at least 5-10 minutes, or until just warm (not hot). Add a bit of freshly ground pepper on top, if you like. Do watch the hot skillet handle and wrap in a towel if it is still too hot to hold. Serve with a dip “knife,” garnish if you like and let everyone serve themselves. •
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In Delta Child, author Talya Tate Boerner draws on her Mississippi County childhood to deliver readers back to a simpler time when screen doors slammed, kids tromped cotton, and Momma baked cornbread for supper every night. Boerner, a fourth-generation Arkansas farm girl, has been published in Arkansas Review, Ponder Review, and Writer’s Digest. Her award-winning debut novel, The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee, is also set in northeast Arkansas. Follow her blog Grace Grits and Gardening (www.gracegritsgarden.com) for more tales of Arkansas farming, gardening and comfort food. Her second book, Gene, Everywhere, is now available.
What Would Daddy Do?
Ioften wonder what Daddy would think about our world today. You better believe he’d have a firm opinion on farming and politics and the price of ground beef at Walmart. Daddy died twenty-five years ago. Walmart didn’t sell ground beef back then. It was a different time, for sure, and in our household, roles were as firmly rooted as Johnson grass.
When I was a kid (and until the time of his sickness), Daddy took care of most everything that happened beyond the walls of our home. If the pump house or septic tank needed work, Daddy was on it. He was in charge of trees that got struck by lightning in the middle of the night. Daddy dumped a new load of gravel on the driveway when the dandelions began poking through to daylight. Of course, his chief responsibility, and the thing that kept him from us most of the time, was farming.
Momma’s domain encompassed the inside of our house. Her responsibilities were those traditionally and stereotypically considered female — fluffing and dusting and mopping and cooking and shopping for anything that eventually made its way indoors. Even Daddy’s clothes fell into Momma’s department, from work shirts to the somber black suit he wore at the occasional funeral. Daddy may have been paying for the clothes on our backs, but Momma went to Blytheville and picked out every single thing.
Perhaps most importantly, Momma was in charge of child-rearing. I suspect this must have taken up a large part of her time, whether she was overseeing our church-learning or teaching us the art of starching Levis. One thing I know for sure, my parents’ primary responsibilities of farming and child-rearing rarely overlapped. What we Tate girls learned about farming came about mostly by osmosis, from by Talya Tate Boerner
overhearing conversations on Friday nights while Momma did the payroll, by catching a snippet of the Farm Report while waiting for the school bus, by the very nature of the place we lived. As to child-rearing? I believe Daddy gladly conceded the bulk of that duty to Momma.
Our yard, however, was a unique borderland area where duties sometimes crossed and roles reversed. Take, for example, grilling and snake-killing. Daddy never cooked a single meal in Momma’s kitchen. (Opening a can of Vienna sausages didn’t count.) But I would put Daddy’s pork ribs, barbecued on his oil drum grill, up against any Memphis restaurant. If a rattler dared slither across the back patio, Momma didn’t think twice about chopping off its head. She kept a hoe handy for that very reason. And by the way, our patio? Momma hinted and hinted at needing a new, larger patio until it became Daddy’s brilliant idea. Funny how that often happened.
If Daddy were alive today, he would be 82 years old and retired. Both things are hard for me to envision. While I can’t speak for him (and never could), I believe he would still be watching the weather and driving the turnrows twice a day. He would regularly check his rain gauge, shake his head over the dicamba decision, and probably say to Momma, “Stop watching so much news, Barbara.”
What I know for sure — Daddy would NOT wear a mask — and not because of any stubborn-headed, freedom-ofchoice, anti-science sentiment. Put simply, there would be no reason for him to do so.
Why?
Because while Daddy waited in his truck, Momma would run in the store and fetch whatever he needed. Momma would wear a mask for both of them. •
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