Lexington Leader (Lexington, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 458, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 2007 Page: 4 of 16
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Page 4A- Thursday, January IK. 2007
LEXINGTON LEADER
, From the Chef’s
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se by Chef Deedle
After-The-Holidays
Snack
Sometimes snacks are just the right food to satisfy our hunger
pains instead of a piece of cake or a slice of pie, and not quite as
many calories. This is a way of getting back to our normal way of
eating after the holidays.
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cup white baking chocolate pieces
cup powdered sugar
tsp. ground nutmeg
cups bite-size corn or rice square cereal
cup cashew butter or smooth peanut butter
cup butter, cut up
tsp. vanilla
cups lightly salted cashews
cups dried cherries, cranberries and/or chopped apri-
cots (about 6 oz)
1. In a very large plastic bag, combine powdered sugar and
nutmeg: set aside.
2. In a medium saucepan, combine cashew butter, butter, and
white baking pieces until melted. Remove from heat. Stir in
vanilla.
3. Pour butter mixture over cereal mixture; carefully stir until
cereal is evenly coated. Cool slightly. Add cereal mixture, half at
a time, to powdered sugar mixture in bag and shake to coat. Add
nuts and fruit. Shake just until combined. Pour into shallow
baking pan lined with wax paper to cool. Store in an air-tight
container. Very tasty!
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January Gardening Tips
Recent rains and cooler weather This is a great time to get your instead of gypsum to improve clay
have created perfect conditions soil tested. Contact your local ex- soils. Gypsum should be consid-
for planting trees and getting the tension office and get the infor- ered a short-term solution for clay
Jim Gober
The Big
Lump
Gardener
garden in shape for spring. If you mation you need to get your soil soil improvement and not a sub- them with a cover crop such as
seeded annual wildflowers like in great shape for warmer weather stitute for organic matter because rye grass in the winter or field
cornflower, larkspur, or bluebon- ahead. This is true even if you are it can change the Ph of the soil, peas in the summer so the topsoil
nets, you should see them begin only growing a lawn. The best Remember that adding sand to won't blow away.
tocome to life about now. Be able reason for a soil test is so you clay will make cement, as many
to identify the small plants so you won't add things, especially gardeners find out. Improved Jim Gober is a Florist. Master
won’t confuse them with winter chemicals, to your soil if you don't sandy soils can be a dream to work Gardener, and a Texas Certified
weeds. If you are buying instead need them. Never add sulphur or in, but don’t leave them exposed Nursery Professional. You can
of seeding native perennial wild- lime to your soil unless recom- for long. If you have sandy loam reach Jim © 512-446-LUMP or
flowers such as Coreopsis, Gail- mended by a soil test. You can do beds you are not using, cover emailjimgober@isp.com
lardia. Cutleaf Daisy or Winecup, long term damage to your soil. The
buy them when they are small, not soils in our part of the state can
when they are in bloom, so you change dramatically over a very
will get the most for your dollar, short distance. Just because your
The moisture we now have in the neighbor adds something to their
soil should allow you to easily ere soil doesn’t mean you should. Our
ate a new bed or two to accommo- soils are so diversified that you
date some native Texas perenni- may find that the reddest clay is
als. actually very alkaline. Adding too
Herbs such as Lamb’s ear, much lime to an already alkaline
Lemon Balm, Mint, Society Garlic, soil will even kill Bermuda grass.
Rosemary, and Lavender can all It never hurts to add organic
be planted now along with Pars- matter like decomposed leaves to
ley. Thyme, Dill, Cilantro and any soil whether sand or clay. If
Oregano. Vegetable plants to plant you have a compost pile that
now are asparagus, beets, broc- you've been working on for the
coli, cabbage, carrots, Swiss past year, now is the time to spread
chard, collards, kohlrabi, lettuce, 1-2 inches of compost over your
English peas, and radish. It’s ok planting beds. Lots of organic
to plant potatoes now. but I prefer matter will help your soil hold
to wait a few more weeks. All of moisture and protect the structure
these plants will survive the deep of the soil. If you have established
freeze that is sure to come before beds, don’t till them every year,
our last average frost around Microbes that live in the top of
March 25. Moving shrubs and the soil won’t survive being bur-
perennials can still be done and ied 6 inches below the surface, so
tree pruning, especially on oaks, gently work in any amendments,
can be done now. Only live oaks Also, if you turn clay in which
need pruning paint applied to their you’ve added organic matter over
wounds. All fruit trees can also the last several years, you will
be pruned now. New plantings of hasten the decomposition of the
shade trees should be trimmed the organic matter and the clay will
second year unless they are pur- begin to bind together again. It’s
chased as bare root. always best to add organic matter
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Terrell, Cindy. Lexington Leader (Lexington, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 458, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 2007, newspaper, January 18, 2007; Lexington, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1665796/m1/4/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.