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TGIFYGDF…Thank Goodness It’s Feed Your Good Dog Friday!

January 7, 2011 by Rose Caplan

Micki, a Feed Your Good Dog friend, suggested this segment of the Today Show for great winter soup recipes…Roasted Vegetable Soup, Turkey Pozole Soup with Green Chilies and Curried Carrot Ginger Soup. Below the video clip is the recipe for the Turkey Pozole Soup…sounds like just the right recipe for a cold winter weekend! Thanks for sharing Micki!

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TURKEY POZOLE SOUP WITH GREEN CHILIES
from Michael Lomonaco, executive chef at Porter House New York

INGREDIENTS
2 pounds turkey meat cut into 1 inch cubes
1/4 cup olive oil
2 large onions, peeled and chopped
2 red peppers, seeded and chopped
1 small jalapeño pepper, seeded and chopped
2 tablespoons ground cumin
2 tablespoons Ancho chili powder
2 tablespoons peeled, chopped garlic
1 15 ounce can chopped green chilies
1 cup crushed tomatoes
2 quarts chicken broth
1 28 ounce can golden or white hominy
1/4 cup roughly chopped cilantro leaves
1/2 cup chopped scallions
Sour cream
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

PREPARATION
Pour the oil into a large, heavy-bottomed pot and heat over medium heat.

Season the turkey with salt and pepper. Add to the pot and sauté in until well-browned. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the turkey to a bowl and set aside.

Add the onions, red pepper and jalapeño to the pot and brown until golden, which takes approximately seven minutes.

When the onion begins to caramelize, return the turkey to the pot, sprinkle with the cumin and Ancho chili powder, stir in the garlic, green chilies and tomatoes.

Add the chicken broth plus 2 cups of water, stir and bring it to a boil over high heat. Lower then heat and let the chili simmer, partially covered, for one hour.

Add the hominy. Continue to cook until the turkey is tender, which takes approximately 15 minutes.

Taste and adjust the seasoning and serve with cilantro, scallions and sour cream as a topping.

Serving Size
Yields 3 to 4 quarts

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TGIFYGDF…Thank Goodness It’s Feed Your Good Dog Friday!

December 31, 2010 by Rose Caplan

Wishing you many days of inspiration in the new year!

TAKE TIME OUT
By Laurie Sue Brockway and Victor Fuhrman

There are so many ways to find inspiration in daily life. It does not require a lot of money or time. The only requirement is to open your spiritual eyes and choose to see life, and life’s natural wonders, in a new light.

Here’s a list of ways to take time out and become inspired:

Watch the Sun Rise	Observe Birds in Flight
Words Can Make You Happy	Express Gratitude
Connect To Nature	Let the Children Play
Let Music Move You	Enjoy Hopeful Art
Pet A Furry Friend	Let Water Clear Your Mind
Have a Good Laugh	Smile Often
Soak Your Cares Away	Acts of Kindness
Light A Candle	Say I Love You
Remember Good Times	Open Your Heart
Let Good People and Places Abound	Dream About the Life You Desire
Make a Wish for World Peace

More specifically, you can take a few minutes just for you to click through this gallery for easy ways to observe nature, meditate, pray, clear your head, have a good laugh or simply relax.

Source:belief.net

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December 17, 2010 by Rose Caplan

Y’ALL PUT SOME HEE HAW BACK IN YOUR HOLIDAYS!

billboard image of Country Christmas Carol production

This is the last weekend for Center Stage North’s production of A Country Christmas Carol!

Seasons greetings from Marley County, U.S.A., where folks don’t have a whole lot, but where everybody’s doing what they can to make the Christmas holiday crackle. Except for one mean and miserly old coot who somehow misses the whole point. Ring a bell? It’s Dickens’ classic, dusted off and gussied up in a new country-western musical version. A Country Christmas Carol is ideal family holiday fare—fresh, engaging, often hilarious, and genuinely moving. It’s a timeless tale of redemption and reunion, community and family, the kind of story that was made for country music. The score would make Patsy Cline proud, with show stopping ballads to snappy two-steps, sung by a feisty bunch who deal head-on with life’s joys and heartaches. All the characters are here—with some nifty variations: Banker Scrooge, the man with the worst case of Christmas blues ever; his secretary Bobbie Jo Cratchit, a young widow with two small children, Jane and Tim; his lovable ne’er-do-well nephew Dwight; Lavinia, a good-ol’-girl with big hair and an even bigger heart; plus some decidedly Country Christmas spirits. This is a down-home pleasure from start to finish. Source: Dramatic Publishing

A Country Christmas Carol is a musical based on a book by Ron Kaehler; music by Albert Evans; and, lyrics by Albert Evans and Ron Kaehler. The production is directed by Sarah Mitchell.

Performances are this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, December 17, 18 and 19.

Performance times are Friday at 8pm; Saturday at 2pm and 8pm and Sunday at 2pm. Tickets are $12 for all performances except Saturday’s 2pm performance. Tickets for the Saturday afternoon performance are $10 and benefit 11Q Research and Resource Group.

Reserve tickets at Center Stage North or by calling (770) 516-3330.

Performances are held at The Art Place Mountainview, 3330 Sandy Plains Road, Marietta, GA 30066.

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December 3, 2010 by Rose Caplan

Micki and Frank, good friends of Feed Your Good Dog, suggested this tasty soup for a crisp Fall, or cold Winter, day! The Feed Your Good Dog Council tried it this week and is so happy they did!

ROASTED BUTTERNUT CHOWDER WITH APPLES AND BACON
Source: Mark Bittman, New York Times columnist and author of “The Food Matters Cookbook”

INGREDIENTS

1 butternut squash, about 1 1/2 pounds, peeled, seeded and cut into cubes
1 large onion, chopped
2 large apples, peeled, cored and chopped
4 bacon slices, or one 1/2-inch-thick strip slab bacon, chopped
2 tablespoons minced garlic
Salt and black pepper
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage or 1 teaspoon dried
1/2 cup dry white wine or water
6 cups vegetable or chicken stock or water

PREPARATION

Heat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Spread the squash, onion, apples, bacon and garlic in a deep roasting pan or on a baking sheet. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and drizzle with the oil.

Roast, stirring every now and then, until the squash, onion and apples are tender and browned and the bacon is crisp, which takes about 45 minutes.

Remove the roasting pan from the oven.

Stir in the sage and white wine and scrape up all the browned bits from the bottom.

If you’re using a roasting pan that can be used on the stovetop, position the pan over 2 burners and put both on medium heat. Otherwise, transfer the contents of the pan to a large pot or Dutch oven and set it over medium heat.

Add the stock and cook until the squash, onion and apples break apart and thicken and flavor the broth, which takes about 25 minutes. You can help the process along by breaking the mixture up a bit with a spoon.

Makes four servings

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November 26, 2010 by Rose Caplan

ITADAKIMASU

A single Japanese word captures this sense of indebtness to everyone and everything that makes a meal possible: itadakimasu ( pronounced EE ta da kee mas). Saying it at the beginning of a meal honors the sun, the rain, the earthworms, the farmers, the merchants, the cook — everyone and everything that collaborate to bring the meal together. In a word— itadakimasu– you are honoring the Source of Life behind it all….there is no English equivalent. ____ Charles Garfield, Wisdom Circles

Source: Facebook post @Tina Jansson Michel @Marianne Wysocki

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November 12, 2010 by Rose Caplan

ARTISTS AT TANNERY ROW ARTIST COLONY ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO IMPROVE ON THEIR TALENTS AND PUT OUT SOME PRETTY FASCINATING PIECES OF ART IN THE PROCESS!

Tannery Row Artist Colony is a visual arts center housing over 18 artists with galleries and studios. The historic Tannery building was renovated in 2003 and is located on West Main Street in Buford, Georgia.

Judy Isaak… Artist, Potter, Maker…joined the ranks of artists at Tannery Row Artist Colony in 2004 and made art her full time job. She is largely self-taught. She will tell you that although it takes a long time to learn that way, it means that she is always learning. She is surrounded by other artists and as a result she continues to learn more about herself, other art forms, and how they relate to her own work.

Judy is pictured here holding one of her Horsehair Pottery vases. Horsehair Pottery is absolutely beautiful non-functional pottery made from white clay that has been bisque fired. Find some time this weekend to treat yourself to the creative atmosphere that is Tannery Row Artist Colony, and ask Judy about the rest of the work that goes into making Horsehair Pottery…you will be inspired.

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