Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 133, Number 15, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 10 April 2014 — Page 4

Advance News • Thursday, April 10, 2014

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Looking for a way to conquer conflict? Try love

One U-Haul trip, four SUV loads and a car with a dead battery filled with clothes later, we finally have the majority of our possessions safely stashed into our new apartment in a matter of two days. I have no idea where we'll put it all; the transition from two 2,800 square foot homes into a 1,200 square foot apartment is a difficult one, but it will be all worth it in the end, after all the debris is finally cleared out! Last night after my daughter fell asleep, we spent two hours hanging shirts and folding jeans while watching a show we'd never seen before called "Crisis" (we don't have cable; our options are limited). My boyfriend made the comment, "Geez, this show," he shook his head and I responded with a quizzical face. "It just seems to me," he continued, "that shows like this are what make people anxious about their own lives; like, something terrible is always going to happen to them but it never does... so they create conflict themselves until it does."

I am not even going to mention the weather as I know we are all ready for warm weather and not the rain. So food-wise it s a good time to start healthier and lighter mating. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about ?ggs. Eggs, spring and Easter go together. Ims is a great time of the year for cooking ind enjoying great tasting food, but come to Junk of it, every season is. I remember from childhood that my famJy always had pickled red beet eggs for Easter. Since I have some special younger oeople in my life who really enjoy pickled aeets and the eggs, I have been making them year round for the past five years. I wonder now many dozen pickled eggs I have made n a year. For some strange reason every year I say I am going to keep track on my citchen calendar and then I get busy makng them and I don't do it; I'll remember iext year. So before you can pickle the eggs you nave to hard cook them. Hard cooked eggs ire a most economical source of protein, not ust for spring, eggs are a good sources of nutrition all the time. I know for a fact that nne of the most frustrating cooking experiences is eggs that don't peel. So that the eggs

Ponds owners beware of die off As the ice melts away, pond owners are likely to find something they did not want to see: dead fish. The problem was not the cold winter temperatures; the die off was from a lack of dissojved oxygen in the water. The saddest «art of all isjliat the largest fish in the pond are jie most liHly to be afj§eted. Larger fish require more oxygen per pound of body weight, and are the most likely to starve for oxygen. Why does this happen? Most of the oxygen in pond water is produced through photosynthesis by aquatic plants. When the surface freezes, photosynthesis continues if the ice is clear enough to let light through. But when snow covers the ice and blocks the sunlight, photosynthesis stops. If light is blocked long enough, aquatic plants begirv to die and, instead of producing oxygen, the plants use oxygen as they decompose. Gradually, the oxygen in the water is depleted and fish, bacteria, and other aquatic creatures suffocate. In some ponds, especially shallow ponds with high nutrient levels, this can happen in just a few days, but kills occur even in large, deep ponds when nutrient levels are too high. Even if only some of the fish die, a winterkill can permanently upset the balance of fish species in a pond. Large fish eat a lot of small fish. Losing just a few large fish in a small pond can affect the pond for years. Sometimes the only way to return a pond to a balance of species that will provide good fishing is to kill off all the fish and re-stock the pond. If your pond experienced a severe winter die off, there are a few things you can do to reduce the chances of it happening again. Aerating the pond through the winter can help. So can controlling excessive aquatic vegetation dur-

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Pickled red beet eggs

peel easiest, plan to use eggs that are at least one week old or older for hard cooking. It is also a good idea if you let the eggs come to room temperature before cooking. To hard cook the eggs, place unshelled eggs in a saucepan, and cover the eggs with cold water. Add one tablespoon of salt per quart of water. Cover the pan and place it over medium heat and bring the water to a boil. When the water reaches a boil, remove the pan from the heat, set the timer for 16 minutes, and let it sit. Once the time is up, pour off the hot water and plunge the eggs into ice cubes with a little water; the colder this is the better. This ice cold water stops further cooking and prevents the yolk from making the green ring. Now for the sometimes frustrating part: shelling or peeling. Tap the bottom'and top

Prepare your property for spring

Opinion

To be honest, this is an item that has been weighing on my mind for a while. Now, I know, as people (and women particularly), we tend to wire ourselves to

embrace gossip and drama, all the while stating that we "hate" it. Yet we sit here and listen, consult, converse and consort against each other without knowing any real truths until things get so out of control that the conflicts in the television shows do, in fact, become our lives. Maybe it's because of the shows we watch, maybe it's because of how we were raised or who we choose to associate with. In what-

Food and Nutrition By Mary Ann Lienhart Cross

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of thin ice. If a pond seems especially prone to winterkill, it might need to be drained and deepened. If excessive nutrients are causing too much vegetative growth, try to find and eliminate the nutrient source. Another alternative for very shallow ponds is to let the fish die off and manage the pond as wetland habitat for wildlife other than fish. Remove dead ash trees with great care By now, most Elkhart County people are familiar with the damage caused by the Emerald Ash Borer. There are very few untreated trees left in our community that are worthy of any effort to control the pest. Thousands of these damaged trees, however, remain

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of the egg, then crack the shell and roll it between the palms of your hands to free the thin, tough skin from the egg. If you are having trouble peeling the eggs, it sometimes helps to peel them under running water but it usually is a sign that the eggs were too fresh. The bottom line is there is nothing you can do once they are cooked and not peeling easily. So less make some pickled red beet eggs. The further ahead that you plan to make them, the better the flavor as the eggs absorb more of the beet and pickling flavor and color. Many of us enjoy the pickled red beets just as they are, but they are also a nice addition sliced on a spinach salad or later this spring on wilted dandelion greens. Plan ahead so you have one dozen hard boiled eggs peeled and a can of sliced beets ready. Drain the beets into a measuring cup and add water to make 2 cups, then measure 2 cups white vinegar, 2 cups sugar, and 1 teaspoon of salt and heat all together. If you have pickling spices tie up one tablespoon in a small piece of cheesecloth or something similar. Once all the ingredients are heated together I place the sliced beets and eggs in the pickling brine and heat till simmering.

ever case, the gossip and drama never ceases to end. As a teenager, I believed this type of socializing would disappear as I got older. I believed adults were beyond that. This weekend as with every other weekend, I was reminded that conflict doesn't end just because you're an adult and, to quote one of the greatest punk bands of the 21st century Bowling for Soup (just kidding, seriously), "high school never ends." Everyone around us is concerned with who's got the best job, who's doing drugs, who's dating who and now their relationship is going. Behavioral psychologist Laurent Begue states that 60 percent of conversations amongst adults are regarding an individual who is not present The reason for this is simple: two people who don't really know each other can develop a bond through simply knowing the same individual, thus Continued on page 5

standing. These dead and dying trees become amazingly brittle, often falling apart or tipping over in just a year or two after the first symptoms were noticed. A tree on my own property serves as a good example. I first noticed visible symptoms of ash borer in the tree last spring By tree had.deteriorated remarkably, percentdefoliation injust a few months. In mid-August, my family came home to find the tree lying on the driveway. Amy Stone, of Ohio State University Extension Service, refers to this phenomenon as the "ash snaps" and has seen it can occur under the soil-line where roots become exposed as the tree fails, or on the main trunk at the ground level or higher. Her assessment is that removing these trees in a timely mariner is very important, especially where they pose a hazard, because we cannot predict when the trees will fail, but we do know that they become brittle and snap. I have to agree with her, and would caution people about taking down these trees without proper equipment or training. I watched a video recently of an ash tree being cut down with a chainsaw. The vibrations from the chainsaw shook the limbs off the tree, severely injuring the chainsaw operator below. The tree literally looked as if a bomb went off inside it. The chainsaw operator had no chance to escape. In many cases, it is best to hire a tree removal specialist. You do not want to risk your life to save a few dollars removing a rotting tree. Unfortunately, there is no public fund to help defray the cost of tree removal. Unless a tree is growing in a right of way or public property, the homeowner must bear the expense of the removal.

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Spoon the beets and eggs into 2 jars and pour the pickling brine over them. Place the lids on and refrigerate. The eggs are best if they are in the mixture for at least 3 or 4 days; good luck with this if you have pickled egg lovers in your family! The last several years I have gotten into using sliced beets verses whole baby beets. They are easier to place in a wide mouth canning jar with the eggs and for sure easier to eat. I like mixing the eggs and beets together in the jar and I am sure the eggs take on more color versus when I just place the eggs in the jar with the beet pickling mixture. I know you can pickle eggs without the beet juice, and they are very popular in Europe this way, but my taste buds say that pickled eggs are pickled red beet eggs. A pretty way to prepare these is to use them for deviled eggs for Easter. You can also cut the eggs so they look like tulips using a small paring knife to cut small saw tooth cuts all the way around the egg. When you finish cutting, pull the egg apart and you have two eggs that look like tulips. Here is to you making time to make some pickled red beet eggs. You will be so glad you did.