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Staff's Favorite Recipes

 

 

Christmas is the time to gather around the tables with family and friends to enjoy traditional holiday dishes. The library staff was asked to submit their favorite recipes. Round up your loved ones and try one of these dishes. Maybe one of these traditional recipes will become your own!

 

 

Chex-Mix Buddies

 

Prep Time: 15 min

Start to Finish: 15 min

Makes 18 servings (1/2 cup each) 

 

9             Cups Rice Chex, Corn Chex or Chocolate Chex cereal (or combination)

1             cup semisweet chocolate chips

�            cup peanut butter

�            cup butter or margarine

1             teaspoon vanilla

1 �         cups powdered sugar

 

Preparations:

 

1. Into large bowl, measure cereal, set aside

In 1 quart microwaveable bowl, microwave chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter uncovered on high 1 minute; stir.

2. Microwave about 30 seconds longer or until mixture can be stirred smooth. Stir in vanilla. Pour mixture over cereal, stirring until evenly coated. Pour into 2-gallon resealable food-storage plastic bag.

3. Add powdered sugar. Seal bag; shake until well coated. Spread on waxed paper to cool. Store in airtight container in refrigerator.

 

Provided by Tina Perez, Adult Services

 

Sweet Potato Casserole with Marshmallows and Pecans

 

Ingredients:

 

2 �         pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes

�            cup packed brown sugar

�            cup butter, softened

1 �         teaspoons salt

�            teaspoon vanilla extract

�            cup finely chopped pecans, divided

               Cooking spray

2             cups miniature marshmallows

 

Preparations:

 

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

Place the sweet potatoes in a Dutch oven, and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil.

Reduce heat, and simmer for 15 minutes or until very tender. Drain; cool slightly.

Place potatoes in a large bowl. Add sugar and next 3 ingredients (through vanilla). Mash sweet potato mixture with a potato masher. Fold in � cup pecans. Scrape potato mixture into an even layer in an 11 x 7- inch baking dish coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle with remaining � cup pecans; top with marshmallows. Bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes or until golden.

 

Provided by Laura Zavala, Circulation Services 

Book Club Banter

 

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for the second time is to meet an old one."

-Chinese Saying-

 

 

 

December is here with its shopping, holiday music, decorations galore and FOOD, FOOD, FOOD! And most of it requires a contribution from your fast-emptying wallet. When the holiday "madness" becomes too much (or too expensive) for you, just come by the nearest branch of your Pasadena Public Library to enjoy plenty of FREE fun. Check out the two "Photos With Santa" programs the first two Saturdays in December and the new film showings (complete with free popcorn and drinks). We also have the new Movie Boxes at both branches where you can check out three (3) new release DVDs for three (3) days (available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!). We also encourage you to come by and check out the library's many Christmas trees. For even more festive fun, don't miss outon the City's Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on Friday, December 6 at 6 p.m., which features great free live entertainment, free refreshments, free crafts, Santa and Mrs. Claus and more gorgeous Christmas trees than you would believe possible. On Saturday, Dec. 7, the City will also host another fun Christmas event: the annual Holiday Lighted Parade, which will start at 7 p.m. at Fairmont & Burke.

 

The Fairmont Branch Library's First Monday Book Club will discuss Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini, and will meet in the Conference Room at the Fairmont Branch Library on at 6:00 p.m. Come join the group as they discuss this compelling historical novel that shows the privates lives of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln as seen through the eyes of Mrs. Lincoln's personal dressmaker (and freed slave) Elizabeth Keckley.

 

The Central Library's Tea-Time Mystery Book Club will discuss The Dark Room by Minette Walters, and will meet on Monday, December 16 in the Board Room at the Central Library at 3:30 p.m. Coffee, spiced tea, chocolate chip cake and other Christmas holiday treats will be served as the group delves into a deep psychological mystery where a millionaire's daughter wakes up in a hospital suffering from amnesia and not remembering that her impending wedding had been called off and that her former fianc� (and his new girlfriend) had been brutally murdered in the same way that her first husband had been ten years earlier.

 

Contact William Simpson (First Monday) at the Fairmont Library 291-998-1095 X 15 or Mark Anderson (Tea-Time Mystery) at the Central Library 713-475-4993 for more information regarding these two excellent book clubs. 

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person."

-Stephenie Meyer 

 

• Stephanie Meyer (December 24, 1973 - present)
• Born Stephanie Morgan in Hartford, Connecticut, with five other siblings
• Her Twilight series has sold over 100 million copies and translated into over 37 languages
• Ranked #5 on Forbes list of "Hollywood's Top Earning Women," included in Time Magazine's 2008 list of "100 Most Influential People"
• Has published eight novels to date
• Met her husband, Christian Meyer, when she was 4 years old and married him when at 21
• Has three sons; lives in Cave Creek, Arizona and also in Marrowstone Island, Washington
• Inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

Photo Attribution: This is a file from Wikimedia Commons taken by Gage Skidmore