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Carteret Local Food Network Offers Cooking Classes
Carteret Local Food Network’s Cooking Classes Carteret Local Food Network is offering cooking classes again, offering a variety of lessons emphasizing knife skills, creative meal ideas, healthy cooking options, local ingredients, and much more. These will be handson experiences in small groups, nutritional information about the foods and you even get eat what you helped create at the end of class! Gather, participate, and have lots of fun! Discover how to keep our local farmers and fishermen in business! Classes are filling up quickly! Jan. 14............................................................................Microgreens w/Ryan - 6-8 p.m. Feb. 11 ...............................................................................................Chocolate - 6-8 p.m. Mar. 10.................................................................................... Herbs & Spices - 6-8 p.m. Apr. 14......................................High School Meal Prep - 6-8 p.m. (ages 14 and up) May 12 .................................Pre-Teen Healthy Snacks - 6-8 p.m. (ages 12 and up) Jun. 09................................................................ Preserves & Quick Pickle - 6-8 p.m. Jul. 14.................................................................................................Topic TBD - 6-8 p.m. Aug. 11 ..............................................................................................Topic TBD - 6-8 p.m. Sep. 08 .....................................................................................Sushi/Ceviche - 6-8 p.m. Oct. 13 ...............................................................................................Topic TBD - 6-8 p.m. Nov. 10...............................................................................................Topic TBD - 6-8 p.m. Individual classes are $25 per person. You can purchase tickets to all 11 classes at a discounted rate of $220 per person. Class size is limited so please purchase tickets in advance. Check our website frequently for updates and confirmations of locations at www. carteretlocalfoodnetwork.org. Please direct any questions to Chef Caroline Dominguez at caroline.clfn@gmail.com. Carteret Local Food Network was formed to help spread the word about locally farmed foods and help people make choices that support our local farming families. Fresh and Local are great words to remember when buying groceries for your families. Our local farming families work extremely hard to bring you nutritious, seasonal produce picked at the peak of ripeness in additional to well-cared for poultry, pork, and other meats. Support their work by choosing to shop locally. €
BY REBECCA JONES AUTHOR OF ‘LOVE BRINGS YOU HOME’ & OTHER BOOKS
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The advertisements in the newspaper flyers and on the radio tells us that February is the month for love. One must get their sweetheart flowers and chocolate. The restaurants tells us to be sure to make reservations for that special meal; the television commercials tells the men “if you really love her, you will buy her a diamond tennis bracelet.” There is so much pressure to perform. You do not want to disappoint your lover do you?
In 1982 Valentines Day came the next month after our first child was born. I had waited too late to get a babysitter. My husband had waited too late to make those reservations. We had both been so consumed with a newborn and work that we had not gotten to the store to buy gifts. When we finally decided to make the time to shop it began to snow.
Oh well, so much for the month of love. We put the baby in her carrier and we played a card game. We shared stories and then we watched a movie on TV. When I put her to bed for the night he and I enjoyed the glow of candlelight; the taste of a pot roast with potatoes with carrots that I had put in the crockpot earlier. Homemade brownies with vanilla ice cream for dessert.
Then we went to bed, holding each other and drifted off to sleep with hopes she would sleep all night.
The next morning we were going to apologize and say we would make it up to each other. But we realized we had given each other gifts that cost us nothing- our undivided attention. Communication. Laughter. Enthusiasm. Thoughtfulness. Tenderness. The day of unhurried togetherness was all the sweeter because of what we thought was poor planning turned out more wonderful.
The question that lingered was “could this happen more often?” What if we focused on simplicity and let the flurry of conforming to the advertisers in favor of a few quiet restful hours? If we could pull that off, it would be Valentine’s Day every week or month of the year. Think on these things. It is the month of love! Happy Valentine’s Day! €
